HANOVER, N.H. — Penn scored 13 runs over the first three innings on its way to completing a series sweep of host Dartmouth on Monday afternoon with a 17-3 victory at Red Rolfe Field at Biondi Park. Jackson Appel led the 18-hit attack for the Quakers (13-10, 4-2 Ivy) by going 4-for-6 with four runs and six RBIs.
Senior
Peter O'Toole provided two of the five hits for the Big Green (1-19, 0-6 Ivy) and reached base three times, as did senior
James House on a base hit and a pair of walks.
Penn put two runs on the board in the first before breaking the game wide open with a seven-run second on just three hits as three Dartmouth pitchers walked six batters in the inning. In the third, Davis Baker stroked a three-run triple and scored on a Wyatt Henseler grounder to give the Quakers a 13-0 lead.
The Big Green dented the scoreboard in the fourth thanks to a wild pitch with a man on third base, then added another tally in the following frame when sophomore
Elliot Krewson sprinted home as O'Toole was caught stealing second.
The final big blow for Penn came in the eighth on Appel's three-run blast into the netting above the left-field fence, his second round-tripper of the year.
The final Dartmouth run came in the bottom half after O'Toole singled, took second on a grounder, stole third as senior
James House walked and crossed the plate on a fielder's choice off the bat of sophomore
Jackson Hower.
Ryan Dromboski (3-2) earned the victory on the mound, surrendering two runs on three hits and four walks while striking out seven in six innings of work.
Baker and Seth Werchan each had three hits for the Quakers with the former driving in four runs, and Cole Palis scored four times from the leadoff spot in the order.
Freshman
Eddie Albert (0-3) suffered the defeat after allowing five runs over 1.1 innings.
Dartmouth continues its 11-game home stand with a non-conference matchup with UMass Lowell (4-20) on Tuesday afternoon at 3 p.m. The game will be streamed live on ESPN+ with Wayne Young '72 and Justin McIsaac calling the action, and live stats will be available on DartmouthSports.com, the official website of Dartmouth Athletics.
Notes: Dartmouth has lost a dozen consecutive games, its longest skid since a 14-game skid in 1992 … Penn is the only team to sweep a three-game series on the Big Green's home field since the renovation in 2009, and it has done it each of its last two trips to Hanover (the last coming in 2019) … the Quakers improved to 94-90-2 in the all-time series.