ITHACA, N.Y. – The University of Pennsylvania baseball team put up a seven spot in the second inning and never looked back in a 16-1 runaway victory over Cornell Monday afternoon at Booth Field.
The Quakers extend their now season-long win streak to eight consecutive games, improving to 16-12 overall with a 10-2 record in Ivy play. The win puts Penn two games ahead of both Yale and Columbia for first place. Meanwhile, the Big Red have dropped four straight games, falling to 10-13, 5-7.
Quaker Notemeal
*Penn has now surpassed its longest winning streak of the year at eight games, winners of 15 of its last 18 games dating back to March 14, exactly a month. It's the longest such streak since the Quakers won 10 straight from April 29-June 3, 2023.
*The Quakers have swept their third Ivy series of the 2025 campaign—doing so against Harvard, Princeton, and Cornell. It's the first time the team has done that since that magical 2023 season as well. Penn hasn't done it four times in the same season since 2014.
*At 10-2, Penn continues its best start to Ivy play since 2015 when the Quakers began the conference slate with a 15-2 record.
*Penn scored its most runs in Ivy play this season with a 16-run outburst on Monday. It's tied for the second-most runs the Quakers have scored in 2025 with a 16-11 victory over Lafayette on April 1. The most remains the 19-run effort in a win at Lehigh on March 19.
*Six of seven Quakers—
Davis Baker (2-for-6),
Jarrett Pokrovsky (2-for-4),
Ernie Echevarria (2-for-5),
Nick Spaventa (2-for-5),
Gavin Degnan (2-for-3), and
Ryan Taylor (2-for-4)—registered multi-hit games against the Big Red while
Gavin Collins went 3-for-4 with two runs and two RBIs at the plate.
*Collins capped what was a terrific weekend at the dish. He batted .667 (6-for-9) with five runs scored, six RBIs, a homer, a double, four walks, and two hit-by-pitches. He slugged an impressive 1.111 and reached base at a .750 clip for an OPS of 1.861.
*Spaventa (5 RBIs) and Echevarria (4) drove in nine of the Quakers' 16 runs on the afternoon. Both homered with Echevarria's being the first of his young career.
*Penn hitters walked seven times with a team-high three for
Gavin Degnan.
*The Quakers' five doubles tied a season-high against Ivy opponents with Harvard (3/23) and Princeton (4/5).
*Senior lefty
Will Tobin (2-1) dazzled in his start with one run allowed over six innings of work, striking out six with five hits while issuing three walks.
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Connor Darling and
Thomas Shurtleff picked up where they left off from last weekend with three shutout innings of relief. Both punched out a pair while Shurtleff lowered his ERA to 0.51 on the year.
How It Happened
Penn got two quick baserunners to open the contest by way of a walk to Collins and a Pokrovsky hit by pitch, but both were left aboard.
Cornell struck first in the bottom of the inning on Musser's solo home run to center field, taking an early 1-0 lead. Tobin allowed two more baserunners with two outs but got Hager to strike out swinging to end the threat.
Degnan drew a leadoff walk in the second, the third free pass issued by Cornell pitching thus far. From there, it was a big inning for the Quakers as Chavez's single—advancing to second on the throw—put runners on second and third and O'Brien got hit by a pitch to load the bases. Taylor came through with a bases-clearing triple and scored on a wild pitch to make it a 4-1 game. Collins and Pokrovsky both singled with one away to bring up Echevarria, who launched the first homer of his career to deep left field to cap a seven-run inning. Penn officially batted around in the second when Degnan singled up the middle.
Tobin allowed a pair of baserunners in the Cornell half of the second inning, but struck out two including getting Musser to look, holding firm to a 7-1 lead.
Penn added another run in a wacky third inning after O'Brien reached on a fielding error, but was erased on the next play when Taylor struck out swinging and O'Brien was called out on interference. Collins doubled in Baker to give the Quakers an 8-1 edge and Pokrovsky struck out to end the inning.
Tobin allowed two hits, but left both runners on base in the third to give the Penn bats another chance to do damage in the fourth. Degnan drew a two-out walk and advanced to second base on a passed ball, but was stranded after O'Brien popped out to the second baseman to end the stanza. Tobin then went on to record another 1-2-3 inning.
The Quakers tacked on their ninth run of the afternoon in the top of the fifth on Collins' sacrifice fly, extending the lead to 9-1.
Tobin once again retired the Big Red side in the bottom of the fifth inning and Penn took advantage again on offense with another run in the sixth, by way of Degnan's double to left center field as the Quakers continued to pour it on with a 10-1 lead.
After Tobin tossed another unblemished inning in the sixth, Penn added three more runs on four hits—on back-to-back doubles from Echevarria and Spaventa (two runs)—to take a commanding 13-1 lead in the seventh.
Connor Darling took over for Tobin in the seventh and quickly set down the Big Red in order to send the game to the eighth.
Cornell tossed a scoreless eighth and
Thomas Shurtleff did the same in the eighth after taking the rosin from Darling.
Penn began its half of the ninth inning with a single from pinch hitter
Connor McCabe and a four-pitch walk to Echevarria. Spaventa added to his RBI total with three more on a homer to left-center field, blowing the game open at 16-1.
Shurtleff was untouchable in the bottom of the ninth, striking out two to end the game and secure the Quakers' eighth consecutive win.
Up Next
Penn will look for its fourth Ivy League series victory of the season when Yale comes to Philadelphia over Easter weekend, beginning with a doubleheader Saturday. First pitch from Tommy Lasorda Field at Meiklejohn Stadium is scheduled for 11:30 a.m.
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