PLYMOUTH MEETING, Pa. – Ivy League career home run record? Check. Ivy League career RBI record? Check. Wyatt Henseler set his second Ivy record on Wednesday afternoon, setting the all-time RBI mark with Nos. 165 and 166 on a two-run home run as the University of Pennsylvania baseball team fell to Villanova, 5-3.
 
The Quakers fall to 13-15 overall and end the road trip with a 2-5 record. The Wildcats snap their seven-game losing streak and improve to 8-21 overall.
 
Quaker Notemeal
*Wyatt Henseler went 2-for-3 with a home run and two runs driven in, becoming the Ivy League's all-time leader in RBIs (166), passing Brown's Matt Kutler '05 for first all time.
 
*Henseler tied the record on a three-run homer over the weekend at Yale and broke the record on a two-run shot.
 
*The homer—Henseler's 14th of the 2024 season—is the 46th of his career.
 
*Henseler was the only Penn batter with a multi-hit game. Davis Baker, Asa Wilson, and Carson Ozmer each had one knock.
 
*Starting pitcher Noah Millikan pitched two scoreless innings with four strikeouts in his first start in two years. He picked up the no decision as Anthoni Kiafoulis (0-2) was charged with the loss, allowing the game's first run with two walks and a strikeout.
 
How It Happened
Penn got the day off to a fast start with Davis Baker lacing a one-out double to center field. Wyatt Henseler was hit by a pitch to put runners on first and second, but Gavin Collins grounded into a 6-4-3 double play.
 
Noah Millikan took the rubber as the starter for the first time this season and first time since 2022. He allowed a hit to lead off the inning, but that runner was retired on a caught stealing, thrown out by catcher Asa Wilson. Millikan retired the final Nova batter on a strikeout.
 
The Quakers were set down in order to begin the second and Millikan worked through danger in the bottom half, leaving the bases loaded to conclude the frame.
 
A two-out walk to Ryan Taylor was all Penn was able to muster in the top of the third inning, as Villanova got back to work again. With Anthoni Kiafoulis inserted into the game in relief of Millikan, he walked two of the first three batters he faced in the inning and hit a third to load the bases. Josue Valdez flied out to right field, recording an RBI on the sacrifice fly to give the Wildcats a 1-0 lead.
 
The Wildcats scored twice in the bottom of the fourth inning—by way of a fielder's choice and an RBI double—to take a 3-0 lead.
 
Asa Wilson's single to lead off the fifth represented the Quakers' first baserunner since the third inning, but was quickly retired after Villanova recorded the next three outs. Jake Moss relieved Will Tobin in the bottom of the fifth, striking out a pair to leave it at 3-0 heading to the sixth.
 
Baker reached first base on an error with one away when Henseler launched a towering moonshot over the left-field fence to drive in two runs and cut the Villanova lead to 3-2. The 165th and 166th RBIs in the career of Henseler, he set the new Ivy League record for career RBIs on one swing.
 
Marshall Mott pitched a brilliant sixth frame for Moss, striking out a pair including the final hitter swinging to get out of the inning with one left.
 
The Wildcats added some insurance runs in the bottom of the seventh inning, scoring a pair on a fielder's choice and a wild pitch to add to a 5-2 cushion.
 
Penn threatened to trim the Villanova lead in the eighth, starting the inning with back-to-back baserunners as Baker reached on an error and Henseler singled down the right-field line. Gavin Collins grounded out to the second baseman to drive home Baker and make it a 5-3 ballgame.
 
Edward Sarti entered the game in relief in the eighth inning, recording a pair of strikeouts to send the team to the ninth.
 
Ozmer got on base in the ninth after the Quakers recorded a strikeout, but Villanova set down the final two batters to come away with a 5-3 victory.
 
Up Next
The Quakers return home to Tommy Lasorda Field at Meiklejohn Stadium this weekend to begin a four-game homestand starting with a three-game Ivy series with second-place Cornell. Saturday's Alumni Day doubleheader is scheduled to begin at 11:30 a.m. Penn's Vs. Cancer Game on Sunday is set for noon.
 
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