PHILADELPHIA – The University of Pennsylvania baseball team ended the series and the regular season on a high note, totaling 40 runs over the final two games against Dartmouth on Senior Day, taking Game 1 by a score of 16-4 before slugging its way to a dominant 24-5 Game 2 victory in eight innings.
 
The Quakers (20-22, 11-10 Ivy) end the 2024 regular season with an Ivy League record above .500 and are currently in third place in the standings, a half-game ahead of Cornell in fourth. Dartmouth falls to 12-26 overall and close Ancient Eight play with a record of 7-14.
 
Quaker Notemeal
*The 25 runs scored in Game 2 are the most scored by the Quakers in a game in 2024 and the most since notching 27 runs at Yale on April 29, 2022.

*Davis Baker put together a career performance in the twinbill, hitting .600 (6-for-10) with five runs scored and 12 RBIs, totaling 12 bases. He hit two grand slams, one in each game, and slugged 1.200. In Game 1, Baker went 4-for-6 with seven RBIs at the plate, while going 2-for-4 with five RBIs in Game 2.

*Only one Penn hitter finished with a better average than Baker on the afternoon, as Wyatt Henseler hit .700 with seven hits in 10 at bats, scoring eight runs with three RBIs. He was 2-for-5 at the plate in Game 1 and went 5-for-5 with two RBIs in Game 2.

*Gavin Collins hit .545 (6-for-11), Nick Spaventa .500 (5-for-10), Ryan Taylor .500 (4-for-8) and Connor Chavez hit .429 (3-for-7) over the two-game stretch.

*Ryan Dromboski (3-5) earned his third consecutive win after pitching a stellar outing in Game 1, tossing seven innings with one run allowed (none earned), scattering six hits with 11 strikeouts and zero walks. The 11 Ks are a season-high for the junior right-hander.

Prior to the start of Saturday's doubleheader, the Quakers honored nine members of the senior class—Calvin Brown, Danny Heintz, Henseler, Justin Neskie, Carson Ozmer, Drew Rogers, Edward Sarti, Eli Trop, and Cole Zaffiro—with a special pre-game ceremony.
 
How It Happened (Game 1)
Dartmouth scored the game's first run in the first inning on an RBI single to center field off Ryan Dromboski.
 
The Quakers went through the entire order in the bottom of the first inning, pushing four runs across on three hits—finished off by a two-run double to left field for Gavin Collins—to take a 4-1 lead.
 
Dromboski continued to cruise through the Big Green order with scoreless second, third, and fourth innings and set up an additional run in the fourth off a Wyatt Henseler RBI single to extend the lead to 5-1.
 
Penn scored five runs on five hits in the bottom of the fifth inning by way of an RBI double for Carson Ozmer, RBI double for Nick Spaventa, an RBI double for Calvin Brown and a two-run single to right center off the bat of Davis Baker to go out in front, 10-1.
 
Dromboski struck out the side in the sixth inning to keep Dartmouth out of the run column for the fifth straight frame and retired the side in the seventh, his final stanza on the mound.
 
Spaventa ripped a two-out single to right center in the bottom of the seventh inning to drive in the Quakers' 11th run of the day.
 
Facing Danny Heintz in the eighth inning, Dartmouth scored three runs on three hits to cut Penn's lead to 11-4.
 
With one out in the eighth, Baker hit a grand slam down the right-field line to make it a 15-4 ballgame, while Collins added a fifth run in the inning with two outs, leading 16-4.
 
Heintz retired the Big Green side in order to end the ninth and the game.
 
How It Happened (Game 2)
Will Tobin started Game 2 allowing just one hit in the first, while both Henseler and Baker singled in the home half of the first, only for Spaventa to drive all three runs in on a towering homer to center field, putting the Quakers up first at 3-0.
 
Tobin retired the Dartmouth side 1-2-3 in the second while Penn was set down on swinging strikes all three at bats.  
 
It was another strong 1-2-3 frame for Tobin in the third, highlighted by Spaventa's acrobatic web gem on a lineout to grab the second out.
 
Penn scored two more runs in the third inning on two singles—one from Spaventa and the other from Ozmer—to extend the lead to 5-0.
 
Thomas Shurtleff relieved Tobin in the fourth inning and allowed one run on a solo homer to right field.
 
Five runs scored in the fourth inning for the Quakers half of the fourth on a Baker SAC-fly to left field, an error that scored Connor Chavez, a single through the left side of the field for Collins, a second error that scored Ryan Taylor and then a double steal that brought home Collins as Penn made it a nine-run game at 10-1.
 
Dartmouth was able to score a second run in the fifth inning via an RBI single through the right side of the diamond, now 10-2.
 
It was a three-run fifth frame for the Quakers after Taylor's RBI single to left field and a bases loaded walk to Spaventa to take a 13-2 lead.
 
The Big Green tacked on a third run on a passed ball, an unearned run for Marshall Mott in the top of the sixth inning and then scored a fourth in the seventh inning on an RBI double to center field against reliever Eli Trop.
 
Henseler started an eventful, 11-run seventh inning for the Quakers with an RBI single to center field to score Chavez. Taylor made it a 15-4 game on an RBI double to right center field with no outs. After Spaventa struck out swinging, Collins doubled down the right-field line to drive in two runs and lead 17-4. Two straight walks loaded the bases and a third straight drawn by Justin Neskie brought in an 18th run. Alex Gabauer—pinch hitting for Chavez—was hit by a pitch to score a 19th run, and Henseler was hit by another pitch to score the 21st run of the game. Baker launched his second grand slam of the afternoon to blow the game open even more, the Quakers leading 24-4.
 
Facing Ozmer on the mound in the top of the eighth, the Big Green scored a fifth run on a sacrifice fly as the umpires called the game after eight innings with Penn prevailing, 24-5.
 
Up Next
The Quakers are waiting on results from the weekend and next weekend's Harvard-Yale series to await their Ivy League Tournament destiny. The ILT will occur May 17-19 at top-seeded Columbia in New York City.

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