PHILADELPHIA – The University of Pennsylvania baseball team put up 20 runs, including a nine spot in the seventh inning, to outlast Rider, 20-16, in a marathon contest Wednesday afternoon at Tommy Lasorda Field at Meiklejohn Stadium.

Penn improved to 18-14 overall after a seven-RBI performance from Jarrett Pokrovsky and a game-tying grand slam for Cole McGonigal, while the Broncs fell to 25-11 on the year, seeing their four-game winning streak come to an end.

Quaker Notemeal
*Penn's 20 runs is a season-high total, surpassing the team's 19 at Lehigh on March 19.
 
*The 36 aggregate runs are the most involving the Quakers since the team also combined for 36 at Dartmouth April 6 in a 21-inning victory on April 6, 2019.
 
*The nine runs Penn put up in the seventh inning are the most scored in a single inning this season.
 
*Jarrett Pokrovsky led the Quakers' offense with a 3-for-3 afternoon, slugging three doubles with a career-high seven RBIs, adding a pair of walks.
 
*Pokrovsky increases his single-season doubles total to 18 on the year, tied for the fourth-most in a season in program history. He's four from tying, five from passing Tom Grandieri's single-season record of 22 from 2010.
 
*Cole McGonigal hit his second homer of the year, a grand slam, as a pinch hitter. He and Gavin Collins each drove in four runs.
 
*Davis Baker also went 3-for-3 at the plate with three RBIs while scoring five runs.
 
*Penn's offense walked 12 times and was hit six times.
 
*Tommy Delany (2-1) earned the win despite allowing four runs on five hits in an inning of work.

How It Happened
Rider took the first lead of the game with two runs on two hits, up 2-0 against Penn starter Aidan von Zuben.

The Quakers drew three walks in the bottom of the first inning against Rider starter Frank Papeo. However, the freshman lefty left the bases juiced to get out of the frame without a tally.

The bottom of the second started a lot like the way the first began when Papeo walked both Spaventa and O'Brien, extending his walk total to five before being lifted for Chris Montone. With Baker at the plate, the sixth walk of the afternoon brought home Spaventa to put the Quakers on the board, now 2-1 with one out. Pokrovsky ripped a liner over the head of the center fielder, scoring a pair to allow Penn to take a 3-2 lead. Baker scored on a groundout, extending the advantage to 4-2. Rider added a third run on an error in the top of the third, cutting into Penn's 4-3 lead.

It was an eventful bottom of the third inning for the Quakers, adding four more runs for the second straight frame to go up, 8-3, courtesy of RBI knocks for Chavez (double), Baker (single), and Collins (single). The Broncs scored four runs on three hits in the top of the fourth with one out against Miehe, before Marshall Mott took over. Rider tacked on a fifth to tie the game up at 8-8.

Penn scored three runs on three hits, by way of Pokrovsky's two-run double and Collins' groundout, with an error in the fifth to take an 11-8 lead. A double for Tiroly and two-run shot to left for Shuhet knotted the game up at 11-all in the top of the sixth. A fourth run came across to score with Rider leading 12-11.

For the second consecutive half inning, the Broncs pushed four runs across to surge ahead, 16-11.

But Penn responded immediately in the bottom of the seventh when Collins walked in a run with the bases loaded and then McGonigal launched a 116mph grand slam down the right-field line to tie the game up at 16-all. Baker was hit by a pitch to score the go-ahead run and then a three-run double to left center field for Pokrovsky capped a nine-run stanza and a 20-16 lead for the Quakers. Connor Darling and Thomas Shurtleff shut the door out of the bullpen in the eighth and ninth innings with one hit allowed and two strikeouts to put an end to the three-hour, 50-minute affair and a four-run victory for Penn.
 
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