PHILADELPHIA - The University of Pennsylvania baseball team swept Cornell 7-3 and 14-5 on Saturday at Tommy Lasorda Field at Meiklejohn Stadium to advance to 7-4 in Ivy League play. Upperclassmen Marty Coyne and Jake Moss had a pair of quality performances on the bump against the Big Red, combining for 14 strikeouts.

The Red and Blue now hold a 13-15 overall record and the visitors fell to 6-19.

Quaker Notemeal
*Ernie Echevarria (2-for-4) and Gavin Collins (2-for-4) paced Penn on offense in Game 1, recording two hits, two RBIs and a run scored apiece.

*Collins highlighted the first contest of the day with a two-run home run in the seventh inning that handed the hosts some breathing room.
 
*Ryan Taylor, Jay Secretarski, Jarrett Pokrovsky, Nick Spaventa, Jack Warner and Michael Powell all logged a base knock in Game 1 to account for the Quakers' remaining hits.

*Coyne took over on the mound in the third inning and finished his day with seven strikeouts, two walks, three hits and one run allowed.

*The Red and Blue exploded for 14 runs in Game 2, fueled by a three-hit performance from Pokrovsky. Taylor, Secretarski, and Degnan each registered two base knocks in the 14-hit triumph.

*Secretarski notched his second home run of the year in the first frame, which gave Penn a 2-1 lead that it never lost.

*Nine Quakers tallied a hit in the second contest of the afternoon, while Secretarski and Echevarria led with three RBIs apiece.

*Moss was Penn's standout performer on the hill in Game 2, notching seven strikeouts in 6.0 frames of work en route to his third win of the campaign.

How It Happened (Game 1)
Cornell was first to put runs on the board, via a sac fly from Luke Johnson. Penn starter Connor Darling made his way out of the inning when Mason Barela popped up to right field.

Huxley Holcombe earned the starting nod on the bump for the visitors and left the first frame unscathed.
 
The Big Red made it a 2-0 ballgame in the second inning on two hits. Darling retired the first two batters he faced, but Tyler Beaulieu doubled down the left-field line to provide the offense some juice. The left fielder eventually scored thanks to an RBI single from Johnson.

Innings three and four went scoreless as both Coyne and Holcombe began to find their rhythm; however, the hosts took the lead in the fifth.

After Coyne sent the visitors back to the dugout in order, a pair of walks and a hit by pitch loaded the bases for Penn. The Quakers' first run of the day crossed home plate on a wild pitch, followed by a fielder's choice from Spaventa that sent Pokrovsky home. Holcombe continued to struggle as the hosts' third run scored on a walk and the fourth came in via Echevarria's RBI single through the left side.

Neither side surrendered a run in the sixth frame, but Penn's bats caught fire in the seventh. Prior to the hosts' at-bat, Cornell scored on an error to cut its deficit to one run (4-3).

The Red and Blue capped off a Game 1 victory with a three-run seventh frame on four hits. Following Pokrovsky's leadoff single, Echevarria lined one to left field, which drove in the senior. Collins extended the Quakers' lead in the next at-bat with his second homer of the season, which was a two-run shot that granted the hosts a 7-3 lead.

Coyne continued to dominate in the final two innings, earning his fourth win of the season by retiring Cornell in back-to-back 1-2-3 frames.

How It Happened (Game 2)
Caden Wildman drove in the first run of the second matchup with an RBI double to left-center field, but the Big Red's early lead was short-lived.

Penn picked up right where it left off in Game 2, by taking a 6-1 advantage in the first inning on five hits and two errors. The Quakers' first two runs of the game were quickly batted in after Secretarski's two-run home run allowed him and Taylor to waltz across the dish. The hosts' next two runs were scored on a pair of errors at shortstop and Echevarria rang up two more via a two-RBI double to left center.

Freshman starter Ben Moulin responded in the second frame by keeping the visitors off the board, while leaving Penn's bats with a chance to create more havoc at the plate.

Pokrovsky got the offense's wheels turning with a leadoff single and made his way home courtesy of Degnan's RBI double to left-center field. The Red and Blue's eighth and ninth runs of the contest came home following an error at third base. Through two innings, Penn led 9-1.

Both teams failed to record a base knock in the third inning, but the Quakers bounced back in the fourth with three runs on two hits. The bases were loaded as Echevarria stepped to the plate, but reliever Andrew Houghton walked the sophomore and hit Powell during the next at-bat to gift the hosts two runs. Taylor then proceeded to ground into a double play, but heads-up baserunning from Collins on third base made it a 12-1 ballgame.

Pitchers Moss and Houghton silenced one another's offense in the fifth frame, until they combined for a six-run sixth inning.

Cornell outscored Penn 4-2 in the frame, which was highlighted by RBIs from Ryan Dillon (1), Johnson (1), and Kevin Hager (1). The Red and Blue retaliated with their final two runs of the day in the bottom half of the inning, featuring a pair of RBIs for Secretarski and Pokrovsky.

Moss was exceptional down the stretch for Penn, retiring eight of Cornell's final 12 batters to secure the series victory and his third win on the mound.

Up Next
Penn now looks to complete the series sweep on Sunday, as the Big Red return to Tommy Lasorda Field at Meiklejohn Stadium at 1 p.m. to close out the weekend slate. Live coverage can be viewed on ESPN+ and live stats will also be available for fans throughout the afternoon.
 
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