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Princeton University Athletics
Princeton University
Penn (Game 2)
Princeton and Penn Split Doubleheader
April 24, 2006 | Baseball
April 24, 2006
Box Score
PRINCETON - After dropping the first of two games on Monday to Penn, the Princeton baseball team used 20 hits to pick up a 14-2 win in the second game, and force a split of the day's Ivy League doubleheader at Clarke Field. Senior Zach Wendkos homered in each game, including a two-run shot to give Princeton its first lead of the game in the nightcap.
GAME 1
Wendkos hit a longball and drove in three in the opener, but the Quakers used a four-run sixth inning to erase a 7-5 deficit and pull out the 9-7 win. Princeton jumped out to a 4-0 lead in the third inning of the game thanks to a pair of two-run home runs.
With two outs, freshman Dan Degeorge reached base when Penn shortstop Scott Graham dropped an infield popup. Princeton took advantage as junior Aaron Prince came to the plate and pulled a 2-2 pitch over the wall in right field. Princeton continued to take advantage of the error as senior Andrew Salini hit an infield single and scored when Wendkos hit his sixth home run of the season to left field.
Penn cut the lead in half on the fourth inning with two runs. Josh Corn singled, then went to third on a failed pickoff attempt. The error would not matter, as singles by Kyle Armeny, Andy Console and Graham would eventually plate two runs in the inning.
Penn took its first lead an inning later with three runs to make the score 5-4. After a Ken-Ichi Honi single and a Michael Gatti walk, Alex Nwaka hit Penn's first home run of the day to left field to put the Quakers ahead. Princeton quickly responded with three runs of its own in the bottom of the fifth. DeGeorge hit an infield single and, after Salini walked, would later score on a Wendkos single. Salini then scored from second on a single up the middle by junior Sal Iacono, and Wendkos scored on an RBI-single by freshman Adrian Turnham as Princeton led 7-5 through five full innings.
The see-saw battle saw another lead change in the sixth inning as Penn went ahead for good with four runs, all coming with two outs. A walk to Hino and a pinch-hit single by Tony Moses put a pair on and the bases were loaded when Nwaka walked. That brought up Corn, who singled up the middle, scoring two runs. Tim May then singled to center scoring another two runs and giving Penn the 9-7 lead.
Penn closer Doug Brown shut down Princeton for there as he improved to 5-2 with the win as he allowed two hits in two and a-third innings of work. Princeton sophomore reliever Steven Miller took the loss.
GAME 2
The second game was never in doubt as Princeton sophomore starter Christian Staehely worked a 1-2-3 first inning and the Tigers scored three in the bottom half, picking up an early lead they would never relinquish.
Prince started things in the first inning with a one-out single to center field and scored when Wendkos hit a line drive homer on the first pitch he faced that cleared the left field wall. Iacono made it back-to-back home runs as he knocked his first of the season to left field.
Princeton plated three more runs in the bottom of the second to make the score 6-0. A leadoff walk and a single by sophomore Spencer Lucian put two on for DeGeorge who tripled to the gap in left center. He then scored on a groundout.
The Tigers stretched the lead with single runs in the third and fourth innings. A DeGeorge single scored senior Stephen Wendell in the third inning, while a leadoff double by Salini and an RBI-single by Iacono scored Princeton's run in the fourth.
Meanwhile Staehely cruised through the Penn lineup, allowing just two hits through eight innings of work, before allowing two hits and two runs in the ninth inning. He improved to 3-1 with the win.
Princeton went ahead 13-0 in the sixth inning with three runs, the big hit coming for Lucian, who hit a three-run homer to left center. Salini started the inning with a single, then scored on a Wendkos double. A fielding error and a single by Wendell loaded the bases for Lucian, but his chance for a grand slam went away when the first run scored on a passed ball. A pitch later, Lucian hit his third home run of the season.
Princeton added its final run of the game in the seventh when Salini hit a leadoff double and scored on a single by sophomore Micah Kaplan.
Penn's Tim May hit a two-run homer in the ninth for Penn.
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With the split, Princeton is now 12-21-9 overall and 7-9 in the Ivy League. Penn fell to 12-27 and 7-13. Princeton remains a game up on Cornell, which split with Columbia today, as the teams meet next weekend in a home-and-home series. Princeton plays one midweek game before facing Cornell, and that game is tomorrow night against St. John's at 7 p.m.