Big Green Split Doubleheader at Penn

Monday, April 3

Philadelphia, Pa.

12:00 PM

Dartmouth College

13-6, 3-0

Penn

11-10, 2-1

Dartmouth

Penn

4/3/2017 6:28:00 PM | Baseball

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By: Dartmouth

PHILADELPHIA, Pa. — Dartmouth freshman Trevor Johnson had three hits, scored three runs and belted a two-run homer in the first game of a doubleheader to help the Big Green end Penn's nine-game winning streak in a 9-5 triumph at Meiklejohn Stadium on Monday afternoon. But Sean Phelan lined an RBI single in the 11th inning of the nightcap to help the Quakers (12-10, 3-1 Ivy) walk off with a twinbill split in the 7-6 victory over Dartmouth (13-7, 3-1 Ivy).

Penn had won each of its first seven home games this season when the day started, but the Big Green jumped on left-hander Mike Reitcheck in the first as Johnson led off the first game with a double, went to third on an infield hit by sophomore Matt Feinstein and scored on junior Dustin Shirley's fly to left. It was the first of six sacrifice flies in the game, four by Dartmouth.

Making his first start in a month, senior Beau Sulser was a bit rusty as the Quakers answered quickly in their half of the first. Andrew Murnane copied Johnson with a leadoff double, went to third on a sacrifice bunt and scored on a single by Tim Graul, who had five hits in the two games.

A Matt McGeagh solo blast to left in the second, his team-leading third of the year, gave Penn a brief 2-1 advantage. Johnson singled to start the third, Shirley stroked a one-out double and senior Michael Ketchmark hit a foul fly down the right-field line that was caught for a sacrifice fly, knotting the game at two.

Dartmouth took the lead for good in the fourth, starting with another sacrifice fly, this time courtesy of sophomore Nate Ostmo. Senior Adam Gauthier added an RBI single before Johnson ripped into a 2-2 pitch and sent it over the fence down the line in left for a two-run blast, his third of the year, and a 6-2 lead.

Penn chipped away at the four-run deficit with solitary runs in the fourth and fifth on sacrifice flies against Sulser before the right-hander gave way to senior reliever Chris Burkholder to start the sixth. The Quakers touched him for a run as well, making it a one-run game going into the seventh and final frame.

The Big Green bats gave Burkholder some breathing room with three insurance runs on a sacrifice fly, an error with the bases loaded followed by a walk to force in the final run. The runs proved to be moot as Penn went down in order in the seventh for just the second time.

Sulser (3-0) picked up his third win in as many starts after surrendering four runs, three earned, on seven hits over five frames, fanning five. Burkholder earned his league-leading sixth save with his two innings of work, striking out three.

Feinstein joined Johnson with three hits as the Big Green collected nine in the game, while Johnson and Gauthier each drove in two runs.

Reitcheck (2-2) took the loss for allowed six runs on eight hits and a pair of walks in five innings.

Nearly half of the scoring in the second game took place in the first inning. Johnson got things started with a walk, took second on a wild pitch and scored on a Feinstein single, his first of three RBIs in the game. After a double play, Ketchmark singled, stole second and scored on a Holbrook seeing-eye single up the middle for a 2-0 lead.

Penn doubled that total in the bottom half as the first six batters reached base on a double, three singles, a hit by pitch and an infield error.

In the fourth, the Quakers tacked on a run as Chris Adams stroked an RBI double — one of his three hits in the game — to score Matt Tola who had led off with a base hit.

But Dartmouth erupted for four runs in the fifth on a two-run single by Feinstein and a two-run double off the bat of Holbrook for a 6-5 lead.

A two-out RBI single by Graul in the sixth tied the game up, and it remained that way until the 11th. Adams hit another double off of reliever Jackson Bubala (0-3), went to third on a grounder to second and came home when Phelan served an 0-2 pitch into left for the walk-off winner.

Jake Nelson (1-1) picked up the win with three one-hit innings of relief, after Billy Lescher had done the same for Penn. The Quakers banged out 14 hits at the plate, three by Adams and Graul, and Adams drove in two, as did Phelan.

Feinstein and Holbrook each drove in three runs on two hits apiece to account for all six Big Green runs.

Dartmouth returns to the diamond on Wednesday for a non-conference game at Holy Cross (7-17) with first pitch at 4 p.m.

Notes: Holbrook had his 10-game hit streak end in the opener as he went 0-for-2 with an RBI ... Dartmouth was the last team in the Ivy League to lose a conference game.