Baseball Suffers Sunday Setback at Penn

Sunday, March 31

Philadelphia, Pa.

2:15 PM

Brown University

4-17, 0

Penn

13-7, 0

Brown

Penn

3/31/2019 8:41:00 PM | Baseball

Box Score

PHILADELPHIA – Penn scored six runs in the first inning and led throughout the contest as the Brown baseball team fell to the Quakers, 17-4, in the middle game of a three-game series Sunday afternoon at Meiklejohn Stadium.

Brown (4-17, 1-4) and Penn (13-7, 3-2) will play the third and final game of the series Monday at 1 PM.

Willy Homza (Anchorage, Alaska) paced the lineup with a 2-for-3 showing at the plate to go along with two runs scored and a pair of RBIs. Peter Matt and Sean Phelan led the Quakers with four hits apiece. Brown drew seven walks as a team.

Collin Garner (St. Augustine, Fla.) was handed the loss as the starter with six earned runs over five innings of work. Mitchell Holcomb picked up the win with two earned runs over 5.2 frames and four strikeouts.

Penn set the tone with six runs on six hits and one Brown error in the first inning. After two scoreless frames, Peter Matt added a solo homer in the fourth for the seven-run lead.

Parke Phillips (Venice, Fla.) put the Bears on the board with an RBI single in the fifth, and Louis Gaitley (San Francisco, Calif.) scored on a walk in the next inning, but the Quakers scored nine runs over the three-inning span.

Homza added a two-run homer in the eighth inning for his team-high fourth home run of the season.

Brown and Penn will wrap up the series Monday at 1 PM.