Penn Baseball Sweeps Dartmouth

Sunday, April 1

Philadelphia, Pa.

12:00 PM

Dartmouth College

4-12-1, 0

Penn

9-11, 0

Dartmouth

Penn

Big Green Drops Third Straight To Florida Atlantic, 14-6

4/1/2007 12:00:00 AM | Baseball

Box Score 1 Box Score 2

By: Dartmouth

Game One Boxscore

Game Two Boxscore

PHILADELPHIA, PA. – The Big Green baseball team wrapped up their Ivy League opening weekend dropping two games to Penn, 4-2 and 6-2, in Philadelphia, Pa. on Sunday.

Dartmouth wasted no time marking up the scoreboard in Game One. Lead-off batter, Erik Bell (Sierra Madre, Calif.) singled to left field before advancing to second on a throwing error by the pitcher. The next batter, Jason Blydell (Nahant, Mass.) scored Bell on a double to right-center field to record his fourth RBI of the season, giving the Big Green the quick, 1-0, lead.

The Quakers hit back-to-back doubles to lead off the bottom of the second inning that evened the score at one apiece. Later in the inning, Penn took the outright lead on a couple of RBI singles, putting Dartmouth in the hole, 3-1.

Penn added to its lead in the bottom of the fifth recording three straight hits off Big Green pitcher Russell Young (Cleburne, Texas), to extend the Quakers advantage to 5-1.

Penn hurler, Todd Roth, retired the final few Big Green batters in the top of the seventh to record his third win of the season, while Young moves to 1-2 on the year. Young ended the game throwing a complete game six innings, giving up eight hits and four earned runs. He also struck out six batters and walked only two.

Game Two began as a battle of the big arms, pinning Penn's Doug Brown against the Big Green's junior right hander, Chase Carpenter. Both pitched a scoreless first two innings, before the Quakers broke Carpenter.

Steve Gable led off the inning with a free pass to first base after being hit by a Carpenter pitch. The next swinger, Jarron Smith, blasted a RBI-triple off the centerfield wall for the first run of the game. Two batters later, the Quakers added one more on a sacrifice fly to left field to take the, 2-0, lead at the end of three innings.

Dartmouth put some pressure on in the top of the fifth frame when Andrew Nacario (Carlsbad, Calif.), James Wren (Granbury, Texas) and Ray Allen (Longwood, Fla.) led off the inning with three straight singles, loading the bases with no outs. Brown retired the next three batters in consecutive order with two strikeouts and a pop up to second, to get out of the jam.

The Big Green made up for their lack of scoring in the sixth inning, as two doubles by Nacario and Nick Santomauro (North Caldwell, N.J.), a single by Blydell and a sacrifice fly to right field by Damon Wright (Dallas, Texas) evened the score at twos.

Dartmouth head coach Bob Whalen took out Carpenter in the bottom of the seventh after the junior loaded the bases with nobody out. Reliever Kyle Zeis (Solana Beach, Calif.) gave up back-to-back sacrifice flies and a single to centerfield, which put the Quakers up, 5-2, with two innings left to play.

Penn's William Gordon gave the Quakers another insurance run in the bottom of the eighth, after he took a Zeis pitch deep over the left field wall for his first homerun of the season.

Dartmouth's only hit of the ninth inning came from Wren who led off with a double, but was unable to advance from there, sealing the 6-2 victory for the Quakers.

With the two losses, the Big Green now fall to 4-13-1 overall, and 1-3 in the Ivy League. The squad is scheduled to have its home opener on Wednesday, April 4, when they play a two-game set with Siena College.