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Third-base coach Jonathan Anderson congratulates Steffen Torgersen on his home run at Holy Cross on Wednesday.
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Dartmouth averages 11.3 runs per league game, Penn is at 10.5
DARTMOUTH (9-14, 3-3)
vs. PENN (14-8, 3-3)
Saturday, April 6 (DH) 11:30 a.m. | Sunday, April 7 12:00 p.m. | ESPN+
Red Rolfe Field at Biondi Park | Hanover, N.H.
Dartmouth finally will play the role of host after playing its first 23 games outside of Hanover with the Penn Quakers in town for a three-game series this weekend. The two teams are ranked first and second in scoring in Ivy League games with the Big Green averaging 11.3 runs a game and Penn 10.5, but both teams are 3-3 and tied for fourth in the standings, one game behind Columbia, Harvard and Yale.
Overall Record vs. Penn
• The Big Green have a slim lead in the all-time series against Penn with an 89-86-2 record.
• It figured that the two squads would find a way to split a three-game series last year after splitting 50 games in the 25 years of the divisional format. Dartmouth won the first game at Penn last year, but the Quakers took game two and the finale ended as a 4-4 tie.
• Coach Whalen is 30-26-1 against Penn during his tenure, including a 4-4-1 mark in extra innings. Three of the last four games have gone 11 innings with the Quakers winning two and tying the other.
• No Ivy team has had more success (or played fewer games) at Red Rolfe Field at Biondi Park than Penn, which is 4-4 here since the renovation in 2009. Since the Red Rolfe Field dedication before the 1970 season, Dartmouth holds a slim 18-17-1 advantage, and it is 37-28-1 since 1923 in Hanover.
Scouting the Quakers
• Since losing its first three games of the year, Penn has won 14 of 19 contests, including a pair of victories at then-22nd-ranked Duke.
• Offense has been the name of the Quakers' game as they rank second nationally in average (.346), OBP (.445) and scoring (10.0 runs per game), while sitting third in slugging (.521).
• The top five hitters by average in league play all come from Penn, and all five have an average of .450 or better.
• First baseman Sean Phelan is hitting .402 on the season with 10 doubles, four homers and 25 RBIs, while Craig Larsen (.389, 11 2B, 4 HR, 30 RBIs), Josh Hood (.375, 11 2B, 3 HR, 21 RBIs) and Matt O'Neill (.363, 3 HR, 21 RBIs) have all been productive at the plate as well.
• Andrew Hernandez is the reigning Ivy Rookie of the Week and is 10-for-18 (.556) with two homers in five league games.
• The pitching staff has generated an ERA of 4.76 overall, but 7.23 against teams in the Ancient Eight.
• The two best ERAs belong to relievers Kevin Eaise (2.66 in 20.1 IP) and Robby Cerulle (3.52 in 15.2 IP).
• With 31 errors in 22 games, Penn's .963 fielding percentage ranks around the bottom third nationally, and the catchers have thrown out 7-of-39 base stealers (17.9 percent).
Last Time Against the Quakers
• Last year, Dartmouth was close to a series sweep but had to settle for a three-game split when Penn rallied in the ninth and 10th innings to win game two in 11, then scored three in the ninth of the finale that ended up as a 4-4 tie.
• Cole O'Connor picked up the win in the first game with seven innings of three-run ball, striking out six along the way, and Austen Michel got the final six outs for the save in the 5-4 victory. Every starter had at least one hit for the Big Green, and Justin Fowler drove in Kyle Holbrook for the fifth and final run in the eighth.
• In game two, Dartmouth had a 6-3 lead in the eighth, but the Quakers scored twice in their half and once more in the ninth to send the game into extras. Holbrook belted a two-out, solo home run in the 10th, only to have Daniel Halevy do the same in the bottom half. Penn won it in the 11th on a Sean Phelan sacrifice fly.
• Jack Fossand's stellar start in the finale in which he struck out a career-high 11 batters went for naught when Matt McGeagh hit a game-tying two-run blast to cap a three-run ninth that erased a 4-1 lead. Both teams put the tying run in scoring position in the 10th without scoring, and after the side was set down in order on each side in the 11th, the game was called due to darkness, giving Dartmouth its first tie in league play in 31 years.
Probable Starting Pitchers
• For the series opener, senior RHP Cole O'Connor (2-2, 6.23) will look to right his ship after suffering the worst of 33 career starts. He defeated Penn in his start last year, striking out six in seven innings of a 5-4 triumph. Penn will counter with LHP John Alan Kendrick (0-1, 3.58), who has had two quality starts in his two Ivy League assignments, including a strong 7.2-inning outing last week against Brown in which he surrendered just one earned run.
• Freshman RHP Justin Murray (1-1, 5.01) gets the nod for game two for the Big Green. Last week the rookie held Columbia to one run over six innings in a 23-1 blowout for his first career victory. Toeing the slab for the Quakers will be junior RHP Mitchell Holcomb (4-0, 4.66) who has won his last four starts and held opponents to a .265 average.
• Wrapping up the series will be freshman RHP Nathan Skinner (1-3, 5.47) against RHP Christian Scafidi (2-1, 5.40), who has yielded no more than three earned runs in four of his five starts. Skinner struggled a bit at Columbia, surrendering six runs, five earned, over 4.2 innings, but also no-hit USF for 5.1 innings in his previous start.
What's Up Next
The Big Green will host UMass Lowell for a mid-week matchup on Tuesday before traveling to Providence, Rhode Island, to take on Brown for their final Ivy League road series.
Offensive Display
When Dartmouth returned from its southern trips to start play in the Northeast, the bats had yet to thaw out. The Big Green were hitting .215 after 15 games, but they warmed up since then, boosting the average 47 points by hitting .332 as a team. Let's take a look at the differences in the stats:
Holy Cross-ing the Plate
While host Holy Cross scored a season-high 16 runs against Dartmouth, the Big Green were also reaching into double digits in the 16-10 defeat. It was the fourth outburst of 10 or more runs in the last eight games, with two other contests of nine runs as well. It was Dartmouth's first defeat when scoring in double figures since the game that shall not be named to end the 2018 season at Harvard.
Lopez Continues His Onslaught
Sophomore Ubaldo Lopez started hitting against Bradly on March 19 and he simply has not stopped since. Since being named a Collegiate Baseball National Player of the Week on March 25, all he has done is go 10-for-19 (.526) with three doubles and a homer for an .842 slugging percentage. Lopez is now hitting .375 on the season, which would rank fourth in the league, but he is two plate appearances shy of qualifying. His .679 slugging percentage would place him third as well. Quite the turnaround for a player that started the season 2-for-15 and was 5-for-50 in his career before exploding at the plate two and a half weeks ago.
Sullivan Shows Off to Brother
When Dartmouth and Holy Cross met on the diamond on April 3, it was a brotherly reunion for the Sullivan family with Dartmouth's Sean Sullivan going up against his little brother, Liam. While the younger brother did not see any action, Sean matched a career high with four hits and set another with three RBIs. What a role model!
Rice Soaking It In
Freshman Ben Rice opened the season as the third-string catcher, but he is making a push for more playing time. The rookie has started four games in the last two weeks, going 6-for-14 (.429) with a double, triple, four walks, four runs and six RBIs. In the 16-10 loss at Holy Cross, he went 1-for-2 with two walks and drove in three runs.
Series Loss at Columbia
Until the Lions took two of three from Dartmouth on March 30-31, the Big Green had not lost a regular-season series to Columbia since 2003, splitting seven doubleheaders, sweeping seven others and taking two of three last year. On the other hand, the Lions have won four of five Ivy League Championship Series against Dartmouth since 2008, so don't feel bad for them …
3,900 Games
Dartmouth celebrated playing the 3,900th game in program history in style, pummeling Columbia by a final of 23-1 on March 30. The Big Green first started playing varsity baseball in 1866 and has an all-time record of 1949-1927-26 (.503) entering the weekend.
Scoring Binges
• None of the three games at Columbia was close as the two teams combined for some historic offensive performances in the series. And by saying "some,"' I mean a whole lot.
• The two sides combined for 68 runs and all three contests were decided by at least 10 runs.
• The 23 runs allowed in the opener matched the second most in a league game (beginning in 1930) surrendered by Dartmouth, and tied for third most in any game since 1900.
• The 23 runs the Big Green scored in the second game tied the second most they had ever scored in a league game (which it had done the previous week against Princeton as well), and tied for the eighth most in any game since 1900.
• The 32 combined runs in the opener tied for the third most scored in a Dartmouth league game ever.
• The 22-run margin from game two (23-1) was the second largest ever for the Big Green in a league game and tied for the third largest in any game since 1900.
• The Big Green allowed 35 runs, the most in a three-game stretch since the beginning of the 2010 season.
Countdown to 600 Wins
Head coach Bob Whalen needs just six more wins to reach 600 in his career as Dartmouth's head coach, now in his 30th season in Hanover. Only four coaches in Ivy League history — in any sport — have won 600 or more games at one school, led by Bob Sneddon with 634 as Penn's head baseball coach for 35 seasons (1971-2005). Two of the other three are current Harvard coaches (Jenny Allard in softball with 620, Kathy Delaney-Smith in women's basketball with 602), while former Cornell softball coach Dick Blood is currently second on the list with 623.
Vaules Providing Value
A walk-on who had thrown just 2.2 innings over the first two seasons of his Big Green career, junior Alec Vaules has made the most his opportunities this year. The right-hander has not given up a run over his last 10 innings while allowing a mere three hits and striking out 11. He also picked up his first career win in a five-inning start at Quinnipiac on March 27 in which he surrendered two hits and one walk while fanning four. Three days later, he earned his first save at Columbia. Only Max Hunter has a better ERA at 1.93 than Vaules' 3.38.
Eleven Heaven
Three players in the Dartmouth lineup have reached base in each of the last 11 games, which dates back to the start of the Bradley series on March 19. Those three are Ubaldo Lopez, Steffen Torgersen and Blake Crossing, while Matt Feinstein is closed behind with 10 straight and Nate Ostmo nine (he did not play in two of the last 11).
Avoiding the Shutout
Not much went well for the Big Green in the series finale at Columbia, but they did keep the Lions from accomplishing something they had not done in 30 years — throwing a shutout against Dartmouth. All it took was four walks to force in a run in the ninth, but that run counts!
Bustabad So Good
Sophomore walk-on Jordan Bustabad got a chance to see some action in both games of the doubleheader at Columbia on March 30. In the opener, the outfielder was thrust into an emergency pitching role in the sixth with the bases loaded and the Lions already owning a 17-3 lead. He promptly got the third out to escape the jam. In the nightcap, he entered as a pinch runner in the eighth and scored, then crushed a three-run homer — his first collegiate hit — in the ninth to cap the 23-1 win.
Bombs Away
Bustabad wasn't the only Big Green hitter to go yard in the 23-1 win at Columbia. Senior Matt Feinstein belted a three-run shot in the second (part of a career-high five RBI game), and senior Nate Ostmo added an eighth-inning grand slam (capping a career-high six RBIs) to the onslaught. Bustabad's blast gave Dartmouth three four-baggers in a contest for the first time since April 5, 2014 against … Columbia. But the Green lost that game, 5-4.
Murray, Vaules Calm the Storm
While the bats were the story in the Columbia series, freshman Justin Murray and junior Alec Vaules provided a respite from the offense. Murray allowed a first-inning run and nothing more through the sixth to earn his first collegiate victory. Vaules then took the mound and retired all nine Lions he faced to earn his first collegiate save. Yes, he saved the 23-1 win. That's part of the save rule …
vs. PENN (14-8, 3-3)
Saturday, April 6 (DH) 11:30 a.m. | Sunday, April 7 12:00 p.m. | ESPN+
Red Rolfe Field at Biondi Park | Hanover, N.H.
Dartmouth finally will play the role of host after playing its first 23 games outside of Hanover with the Penn Quakers in town for a three-game series this weekend. The two teams are ranked first and second in scoring in Ivy League games with the Big Green averaging 11.3 runs a game and Penn 10.5, but both teams are 3-3 and tied for fourth in the standings, one game behind Columbia, Harvard and Yale.
Overall Record vs. Penn
• The Big Green have a slim lead in the all-time series against Penn with an 89-86-2 record.
• It figured that the two squads would find a way to split a three-game series last year after splitting 50 games in the 25 years of the divisional format. Dartmouth won the first game at Penn last year, but the Quakers took game two and the finale ended as a 4-4 tie.
• Coach Whalen is 30-26-1 against Penn during his tenure, including a 4-4-1 mark in extra innings. Three of the last four games have gone 11 innings with the Quakers winning two and tying the other.
• No Ivy team has had more success (or played fewer games) at Red Rolfe Field at Biondi Park than Penn, which is 4-4 here since the renovation in 2009. Since the Red Rolfe Field dedication before the 1970 season, Dartmouth holds a slim 18-17-1 advantage, and it is 37-28-1 since 1923 in Hanover.
Scouting the Quakers
• Since losing its first three games of the year, Penn has won 14 of 19 contests, including a pair of victories at then-22nd-ranked Duke.
• Offense has been the name of the Quakers' game as they rank second nationally in average (.346), OBP (.445) and scoring (10.0 runs per game), while sitting third in slugging (.521).
• The top five hitters by average in league play all come from Penn, and all five have an average of .450 or better.
• First baseman Sean Phelan is hitting .402 on the season with 10 doubles, four homers and 25 RBIs, while Craig Larsen (.389, 11 2B, 4 HR, 30 RBIs), Josh Hood (.375, 11 2B, 3 HR, 21 RBIs) and Matt O'Neill (.363, 3 HR, 21 RBIs) have all been productive at the plate as well.
• Andrew Hernandez is the reigning Ivy Rookie of the Week and is 10-for-18 (.556) with two homers in five league games.
• The pitching staff has generated an ERA of 4.76 overall, but 7.23 against teams in the Ancient Eight.
• The two best ERAs belong to relievers Kevin Eaise (2.66 in 20.1 IP) and Robby Cerulle (3.52 in 15.2 IP).
• With 31 errors in 22 games, Penn's .963 fielding percentage ranks around the bottom third nationally, and the catchers have thrown out 7-of-39 base stealers (17.9 percent).
Last Time Against the Quakers
• Last year, Dartmouth was close to a series sweep but had to settle for a three-game split when Penn rallied in the ninth and 10th innings to win game two in 11, then scored three in the ninth of the finale that ended up as a 4-4 tie.
• Cole O'Connor picked up the win in the first game with seven innings of three-run ball, striking out six along the way, and Austen Michel got the final six outs for the save in the 5-4 victory. Every starter had at least one hit for the Big Green, and Justin Fowler drove in Kyle Holbrook for the fifth and final run in the eighth.
• In game two, Dartmouth had a 6-3 lead in the eighth, but the Quakers scored twice in their half and once more in the ninth to send the game into extras. Holbrook belted a two-out, solo home run in the 10th, only to have Daniel Halevy do the same in the bottom half. Penn won it in the 11th on a Sean Phelan sacrifice fly.
• Jack Fossand's stellar start in the finale in which he struck out a career-high 11 batters went for naught when Matt McGeagh hit a game-tying two-run blast to cap a three-run ninth that erased a 4-1 lead. Both teams put the tying run in scoring position in the 10th without scoring, and after the side was set down in order on each side in the 11th, the game was called due to darkness, giving Dartmouth its first tie in league play in 31 years.
Probable Starting Pitchers
• For the series opener, senior RHP Cole O'Connor (2-2, 6.23) will look to right his ship after suffering the worst of 33 career starts. He defeated Penn in his start last year, striking out six in seven innings of a 5-4 triumph. Penn will counter with LHP John Alan Kendrick (0-1, 3.58), who has had two quality starts in his two Ivy League assignments, including a strong 7.2-inning outing last week against Brown in which he surrendered just one earned run.
• Freshman RHP Justin Murray (1-1, 5.01) gets the nod for game two for the Big Green. Last week the rookie held Columbia to one run over six innings in a 23-1 blowout for his first career victory. Toeing the slab for the Quakers will be junior RHP Mitchell Holcomb (4-0, 4.66) who has won his last four starts and held opponents to a .265 average.
• Wrapping up the series will be freshman RHP Nathan Skinner (1-3, 5.47) against RHP Christian Scafidi (2-1, 5.40), who has yielded no more than three earned runs in four of his five starts. Skinner struggled a bit at Columbia, surrendering six runs, five earned, over 4.2 innings, but also no-hit USF for 5.1 innings in his previous start.
What's Up Next
The Big Green will host UMass Lowell for a mid-week matchup on Tuesday before traveling to Providence, Rhode Island, to take on Brown for their final Ivy League road series.
Offensive Display
When Dartmouth returned from its southern trips to start play in the Northeast, the bats had yet to thaw out. The Big Green were hitting .215 after 15 games, but they warmed up since then, boosting the average 47 points by hitting .332 as a team. Let's take a look at the differences in the stats:
| Stat | First 15 Games | Last 8 Games |
|---|---|---|
| BA | .215 | .332 |
| OBP | .305 | .433 |
| SLG | .302 | .530 |
| Runs/game | 3.0 | 10.9 |
| Doubles | 21 | 28 |
| Homers | 4 | 8 |
Holy Cross-ing the Plate
While host Holy Cross scored a season-high 16 runs against Dartmouth, the Big Green were also reaching into double digits in the 16-10 defeat. It was the fourth outburst of 10 or more runs in the last eight games, with two other contests of nine runs as well. It was Dartmouth's first defeat when scoring in double figures since the game that shall not be named to end the 2018 season at Harvard.
Lopez Continues His Onslaught
Sophomore Ubaldo Lopez started hitting against Bradly on March 19 and he simply has not stopped since. Since being named a Collegiate Baseball National Player of the Week on March 25, all he has done is go 10-for-19 (.526) with three doubles and a homer for an .842 slugging percentage. Lopez is now hitting .375 on the season, which would rank fourth in the league, but he is two plate appearances shy of qualifying. His .679 slugging percentage would place him third as well. Quite the turnaround for a player that started the season 2-for-15 and was 5-for-50 in his career before exploding at the plate two and a half weeks ago.
Sullivan Shows Off to Brother
When Dartmouth and Holy Cross met on the diamond on April 3, it was a brotherly reunion for the Sullivan family with Dartmouth's Sean Sullivan going up against his little brother, Liam. While the younger brother did not see any action, Sean matched a career high with four hits and set another with three RBIs. What a role model!
Rice Soaking It In
Freshman Ben Rice opened the season as the third-string catcher, but he is making a push for more playing time. The rookie has started four games in the last two weeks, going 6-for-14 (.429) with a double, triple, four walks, four runs and six RBIs. In the 16-10 loss at Holy Cross, he went 1-for-2 with two walks and drove in three runs.
Series Loss at Columbia
Until the Lions took two of three from Dartmouth on March 30-31, the Big Green had not lost a regular-season series to Columbia since 2003, splitting seven doubleheaders, sweeping seven others and taking two of three last year. On the other hand, the Lions have won four of five Ivy League Championship Series against Dartmouth since 2008, so don't feel bad for them …
3,900 Games
Dartmouth celebrated playing the 3,900th game in program history in style, pummeling Columbia by a final of 23-1 on March 30. The Big Green first started playing varsity baseball in 1866 and has an all-time record of 1949-1927-26 (.503) entering the weekend.
Scoring Binges
• None of the three games at Columbia was close as the two teams combined for some historic offensive performances in the series. And by saying "some,"' I mean a whole lot.
• The two sides combined for 68 runs and all three contests were decided by at least 10 runs.
• The 23 runs allowed in the opener matched the second most in a league game (beginning in 1930) surrendered by Dartmouth, and tied for third most in any game since 1900.
• The 23 runs the Big Green scored in the second game tied the second most they had ever scored in a league game (which it had done the previous week against Princeton as well), and tied for the eighth most in any game since 1900.
• The 32 combined runs in the opener tied for the third most scored in a Dartmouth league game ever.
• The 22-run margin from game two (23-1) was the second largest ever for the Big Green in a league game and tied for the third largest in any game since 1900.
• The Big Green allowed 35 runs, the most in a three-game stretch since the beginning of the 2010 season.
Countdown to 600 Wins
Head coach Bob Whalen needs just six more wins to reach 600 in his career as Dartmouth's head coach, now in his 30th season in Hanover. Only four coaches in Ivy League history — in any sport — have won 600 or more games at one school, led by Bob Sneddon with 634 as Penn's head baseball coach for 35 seasons (1971-2005). Two of the other three are current Harvard coaches (Jenny Allard in softball with 620, Kathy Delaney-Smith in women's basketball with 602), while former Cornell softball coach Dick Blood is currently second on the list with 623.
Vaules Providing Value
A walk-on who had thrown just 2.2 innings over the first two seasons of his Big Green career, junior Alec Vaules has made the most his opportunities this year. The right-hander has not given up a run over his last 10 innings while allowing a mere three hits and striking out 11. He also picked up his first career win in a five-inning start at Quinnipiac on March 27 in which he surrendered two hits and one walk while fanning four. Three days later, he earned his first save at Columbia. Only Max Hunter has a better ERA at 1.93 than Vaules' 3.38.
Eleven Heaven
Three players in the Dartmouth lineup have reached base in each of the last 11 games, which dates back to the start of the Bradley series on March 19. Those three are Ubaldo Lopez, Steffen Torgersen and Blake Crossing, while Matt Feinstein is closed behind with 10 straight and Nate Ostmo nine (he did not play in two of the last 11).
Avoiding the Shutout
Not much went well for the Big Green in the series finale at Columbia, but they did keep the Lions from accomplishing something they had not done in 30 years — throwing a shutout against Dartmouth. All it took was four walks to force in a run in the ninth, but that run counts!
Bustabad So Good
Sophomore walk-on Jordan Bustabad got a chance to see some action in both games of the doubleheader at Columbia on March 30. In the opener, the outfielder was thrust into an emergency pitching role in the sixth with the bases loaded and the Lions already owning a 17-3 lead. He promptly got the third out to escape the jam. In the nightcap, he entered as a pinch runner in the eighth and scored, then crushed a three-run homer — his first collegiate hit — in the ninth to cap the 23-1 win.
Bombs Away
Bustabad wasn't the only Big Green hitter to go yard in the 23-1 win at Columbia. Senior Matt Feinstein belted a three-run shot in the second (part of a career-high five RBI game), and senior Nate Ostmo added an eighth-inning grand slam (capping a career-high six RBIs) to the onslaught. Bustabad's blast gave Dartmouth three four-baggers in a contest for the first time since April 5, 2014 against … Columbia. But the Green lost that game, 5-4.
Murray, Vaules Calm the Storm
While the bats were the story in the Columbia series, freshman Justin Murray and junior Alec Vaules provided a respite from the offense. Murray allowed a first-inning run and nothing more through the sixth to earn his first collegiate victory. Vaules then took the mound and retired all nine Lions he faced to earn his first collegiate save. Yes, he saved the 23-1 win. That's part of the save rule …
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