CAMBRIDGE, Mass. – Freshman left-hander Ben Moulin guided the Quakers to a clean weekend sweep over Harvard on Sunday by tossing five scoreless innings and posting a career-high six strikeouts in the narrow 7-6 win. Both sides notched 11 hits in the contest, but Penn's offensive efficiency proved to be the difference maker.

The Red and Blue advanced to a 12-6 mark in Ancient Eight play and the hosts dropped to 6-12.
 
Quaker Notemeal
*Eight Quakers logged a hit on Sunday at O'Donnell Field, and the offense was led by Gavin Degnan's two hits, three RBI, and a run scored. The junior finished the three-game set in Cambridge with seven hits, seven RBI, and three runs scored.
 
*Ryan Taylor and Nick Guachione both recorded two hits in the victory and Taylor made more program history along the way. The Elmer, N.J. native ripped the 13^th triple of his career down the right-field line in the second inning, which tied the program record previously set by Steve Flacco (1980-83).

*Nick O'Brien, Gavin Collins, Jarrett Pokrovsky, Nick Spaventa, and Jay Secretarski all tallied a base knock to account for Penn's 11 hits.
 
*The star of Sunday's matchup with the Crimson was Moulin, who delivered a career day on the bump. The first-year southpaw allowed only three hits and didn't surrender a run in five innings of work.

*Fellow classmate Nick Newburn earned his second save of the season by securing the final two outs before the hosts could complete their ninth-frame rally.
 
How It Happened
The QuakeShow took early leads in both games on Saturday and that carried over to Sunday's game as they scored three times during the first inning. Taylor and Secretarski led off with a pair of singles and Degnan drove in the leadoff man with a base knock to left field. Spaventa's RBI groundout made it a 2-0 ballgame and the third run made its way home courtesy of Pokrovsky's single up the middle.

Moulin rang up back-to-back strikeouts in the bottom of the frame to pick up momentum and then retired Max Lane.
 
Penn's fourth run of the outing was scored in chaotic fashion. Guachione began the at-bat with a single through the left side and Ernie Echevarria's groundout to shortstop advanced him to second base. The junior proceeded to take third on a wild pitch, but a poor throw from the Crimson's catcher gave allowed him to stroll home. Through two frames, the Quakers led 4-0.

Both pitchers left the third inning unscathed, but the visitors found their offensive rhythm in the fourth. O'Brien's RBI single through the left side scored Collins following his leadoff double, and the Red and Blue weren't done there. Degnan later got in on the action with a two-RBI single up the middle that drove in O'Brien and Echevarria to extend Penn's lead to 7-0.

Harvard reliever Luca Alagheband shut down the visitors' offense in the fifth, sixth, and seventh frames, but the combination of Moulin and Josh Katz kept the hosts off the board as well.

The Crimson scored their first run on a wild pitch in the eighth inning, which gave them just enough momentum to spark a rally in the ninth. Harvard exploded for five runs on five hits that brought the series finale down to the wire. Lane (1), Tyler Shulman (2), and Gavin Smith (1) combined for four RBIs to bring the hosts within two runs of tying the game (7-5), before the Quakers looked to their bullpen.

Newburn was tasked with securing the final two outs, despite facing two runners in scoring position. The freshman managed to get Zach Khozozian to ground out to third base, but that gave Gio Colasante plenty of time to score, having been only 90 feet from home plate. Newburn faced Cullen Stone next and earned his second save of the year when the second baseman hit a grounder to third base that was calmly fielded and thrown out by O'Brien.

Up Next
The Red and Blue are back in action on Friday as Brown makes the trip to University City for a pivotal three-game set that will decide their playoff fate. Penn plays a single game with the Bears on Friday at 2 p.m. and Saturday's doubleheader is slated for an 11:30 a.m. start.
 
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