Dartmouth Falters in Both Ends of Doubleheader Versus Penn

Sunday, April 2

Hanover, N.H.

11:30 AM

Dartmouth College

1-17, 0-4

Penn

11-10, 2-2

Penn

Dartmouth

Trystan Sarcone baseball action versus Brown

Trystan Sarcone pitched a season-long seven innings

Photo by: Doug Austin

Dartmouth Falters in Both Ends of Doubleheader Versus Penn

4/2/2023 6:40:00 PM | Baseball

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Quakers Send Big Green to their 11th straight defeat

By: Rick Bender

HANOVER, N.H. — Dartmouth finally got a chance to play at its home venue on Red Rolfe Field at Biondi Park on Sunday after 17 contests on the road, but the results were familiar as the Big Green came up short in both ends of a doubleheader against Penn by scores of 10-6 and 9-4. Dartmouth saw its record drop to 1-18 on the season and 0-5 in Ivy League play, while the Quakers improved to 12-10 overall and 3-2 in the conference.

In the opener, Penn jumped out to a 4-0 lead through five innings against senior right-hander Jack Metzger (0-4). Davis Baker singled home Jackson Appel in the first inning after his one-out triple, Seth Werchan belted a two-run homer — his third of the year — in the second stanza, and a dropped popup in the fifth allowed another run to cross the plate.

The Quakers broke the game open in the sixth on a Ryan Taylor RBI double, a Jarrett Pokrovsky two-run single, a Cole Palis RBI triple and a passed ball to open up a 9-0 lead.

Penn left-hander Owen Coady, meanwhile, was working his way in and out of trouble with some effective wildness. The Big Green loaded the bases in the first on three walks, but Coady got all three outs on strikes as well. In the sixth, senior Peter O'Toole led off with a double for Dartmouth's first hit, and a hit batter and walk loaded the bases again with one out. After Coady's 110th pitch of the afternoon got the second out on strikes, his 11th whiff of the day, Penn summoned Will Tobin to the mound, and he caught another Big Green batter looking to escape the jam and preserve the 9-0 lead.

Max Zajec gets us on the board with a big 3-run double in the 8th! Watch the game on @ESPNPlus here: https://t.co/kGYSBKdOhQ pic.twitter.com/m8O6ISBSk7
— Dartmouth Baseball (@BigGreenBasebal) April 2, 2023

Dartmouth broke through against Tobin in the eighth, though, when junior Max Zajec cleared the bases with a three-run double and sophomore Jackson Hower doubled home another run to knock Tobin from the mound. O'Toole smacked his second double of the game to drive in two more, suddenly closing the gap to three runs at 9-6 thanks to the team's highest-scoring inning all year.

But that was as close as the Green would come as Tommy Delaney recorded the final five outs to close out the Quaker victory.

Coady (2-2) earned the win with 5.2 scoreless inning, allowing just one hit and walking six to go with his 11 punchouts. The bottom two hitters in the Penn order, Pokrovsky and Werchan, both were 3-for-4 with two RBIs with the former scoring three runs.

Both starters in the nightcap zipped through the first three innings, each facing the minimum. Penn broke through against lefty Trystan Sarcone in the fourth thanks another Appel triple, a hit batter, an RBI single by Baker and a tapper to the mound that allowed a second run to score for a 2-0 lead.

Things appeared to be going the Big Green's way, however, when they scored three unearned runs in the fifth for a 3-2 advantage. Hower and Zajec pulled of a double steal to put the tying runs in scoring position with one out when freshman Milo Suarez hit a ball down the third-base line that was stopped by the diving third baseman. The throw eluded the first baseman as both runners came around to score and Suarez scampered all the way to third. Junior Tyler Robinson delivered the go-ahead blow with a line drive into the right-field corner for a triple.

But Penn shrugged off the misplays and immediately reclaimed the lead in the sixth after loading the bases with nobody out. Wyatt Henseler tied the game with a sacrifice fly, and a wild pitch brought home another to make it a 4-3 ball game.

That's a #webgem for Peter O'Toole with the diving play behind second base to save a run and end the 4th! We're trailing 2-0, watch on @ESPNPlus: https://t.co/yquTDNPfUM @D1Baseball @NCAA Baseball #SCTop10 @ESPNAssignDesk #GoBigGreen | #TheWoods pic.twitter.com/4jeJlL2duc
— Dartmouth Baseball (@BigGreenBasebal) April 2, 2023

The Quakers put three insurance runs on the board in the eighth against the Dartmouth bullpen, starting with Appel's third three-bagger of the day that drove in one, a sacrifice fly and a long solo blast by Henseler, his fifth of the year, to build a 7-3 lead.

Senior James House got one back in the bottom half with a two-out, RBI single that brought the tying run to the plate. But reliever David Shoemaker induced a grounder to third to end the threat. Penn responded by tallying two more in the ninth before Carson Ozmer recorded the final three outs to complete the twinbill sweep.

Cole Zaffiro (3-1) picked up the win for the Quakers, yielding three unearned runs on three hits and four walks over 5.2 innings, striking out a pair along the way. Appel led the Penn offense with his two triples, three runs and two RBIs, and Henseler drove in three.

Robinson had two of Dartmouth's five hits, scoring once and driving in another.

"I think both of our starting pitchers did a good job against one of the better lineups in the Ivy League," Dartmouth head coach Bob Whalen said after the game. "They gave us a chance and got us deeper into the game, but we need to be more consistent on the mound. At the plate, we did a better job of recognizing pitches and got into favorable counts. But I don't think we were aggressive enough on fastballs in the zone early in the count."

The two teams will complete their three-game series on Monday at noon. The game will be streamed live on ESPN+ with Wayne Young '72 and Pat McBride calling the action, and live stats will be available on DartmouthSports.com, the official website of Dartmouth Athletics, to keep up with the action as well.

Notes: Dartmouth has lost 11 straight games, its longest skid since a 14-game streak in 1992 … seven of Robinson's 10 career extra-base hits have been triples … Penn leads the all-time series 93-90-2 and has gone 15-5-1 in the last 21 meetings.

A few thoughts from head coach Bob Whalen after today's doubleheader with Penn.#GoBigGreen | #TheWoods pic.twitter.com/PG8TG0fF1j
— Dartmouth Baseball (@BigGreenBasebal) April 2, 2023