Lehigh University
11-9
University of Pennsylvania
9-7
Lehigh Falls to Penn in Non-League Play
3/22/2023 7:39:00 PM | Baseball
Both squads got a run across the plate in the first inning and were tied after the second inning, 1-1. Penn's Nate Polo plated the go-ahead run with a single up the middle in the third but fifth-year Casey Rother drove in first-year Ryan Cochran with a single to the shortstop to even the game at 2-2 after the third.
Rother ties it at 2-2!
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An RBI single for Rother makes it a 2-2 game in the third.
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Fifth-year Joe Gorla put the Mountain Hawks ahead 3-2 when he singled up the middle to score sophomore Andrew Kohl from second base after he led off the fourth inning with a double down the left-field line.
Gorla gives Lehigh the lead!
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Gorla singles up the middle to score Kohl from 2nd to give the Mountain Hawks a 3-2 lead over Penn.
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After a couple of scoreless innings, Penn tied the game with a Cole Palis RBI double and went back in front with a Jarrett Pokrovsky single to score Palis to give the Quakers a 4-3 advantage in the top half of the seventh. Lehigh found the equalizer on a bases-loaded wild pitch that scored sophomore Jake Whitlinger to tie the game at 4-4 through seven innings of play.
Both squads were tied after nine innings, which took the game into the 10th frame where Ryan Taylor tripled to right-center field to score the go-ahead run. Penn added two insurance runs for a 7-4 lead and retired Lehigh in order to hand the Mountain Hawks a 7-4 non-league loss.
Rother and sophomore Rafe Perich both recorded three-hit performances, with Rother going 3-for-4 with an RBI and a walk while Perich scored a run. Gorla went 2-for-5 with an RBI while Cochran also had two hits with a run scored. Kohl had a double and scored a run.
Lehigh used seven pitchers on Wednesday with sophomore left-hander Najir Glenn getting the start and recording a strikeout with one run in one inning of work. Right-handed junior Tyler Thompson faced two batters with two walks before sophomore Cole Leaman entered the game and threw two innings with two Ks and one unearned run on one hit and two walks.
Sophomore Val Taddei tossed three scoreless innings with three strikeouts while first-year Shane O'Neill followed out of the bullpen with an inning pitched, giving up two runs on three hits. Senior Will Grisack was called upon and threw two innings with two strikeouts and Rother (L, 0-1) entered the game in the 10th inning and gave up three runs on four hits with one strikeout.
The Mountain Hawks are set to open Patriot League play when they travel to Navy for a Saturday doubleheader before taking on Bucknell in Lewisburg on Sunday for a pair of games. All four games will be broadcast live on ESPN+ and first pitch of Saturday's twin bill is scheduled for 1 p.m.
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Team Stats
Pitching:
W: Tobin, Will (1-0)
L: Rother, Casey (0-1)
S: Ozmer, Carson (1)
Batting:
2B: Appel, Jackson 1 ; Miller, Ben 1 ; Palis, Cole 1
3B: Taylor, Ryan 1
RBI: Miller, Ben 1 ; Palis, Cole 1 ; Pokrovsky, Jarrett 1 ; Polo, Nate 1 ; Taylor, Ryan 1 ; Werchan, Seth 1
SF: Werchan, Seth 1
Base Running:
RUNS: Appel, Jackson 1 ; Miller, Ben 2 ; Palis, Cole 1 ; Baker, Davis 1 ; Rogers, Drew 1 ; Taylor, Ryan 1
SB: Taylor, Ryan 1
HBP: Miller, Ben 1
Batting:
2B: Kohl, Andrew 1
RBI: Rother, Casey 1 ; Sweeney, Gerard 1 ; Gorla, Joe 1
SF: Sweeney, Gerard 1
Base Running:
RUNS: Whitlinger, Jake 1 ; Perich, Rafe 1 ; Kohl, Andrew 1 ; Cochran, Ryan 1
CS: Young, Tyler 1
HBP: Whitlinger, Jake 1
