Box Score (Game 1 - Cornell 10, Penn 9 - 9 innings)
Box Score (Game 2 - Cornell 11, Penn 6)

PHILADELPHIA, Pa. -- The Cornell baseball team responded after dropping a pair of games on Saturday by turning the series around with a sweep of Penn on Sunday in a doubleheader at Meiklejohn Stadium in Philadelphia. The Big Red needed extra innings to defeat the Quakers in game one, 10-9, but took care of business in game two for an 11-6 victory.

Mickey Brodsky and Brenton Peters led the offense on the day, with both players going 4-for-9 in the doubleheader. Peters drove in five runs and scored four times, with Brodsky scoring one run. Kyle Groth also had a good day at the plate, going 3-for-6 with a home run, two runs scored and three driven in. Brian Billigen was 3-for-9 with four runs scored and three driven in.

On the mound, David Rochefort got the win in game one, with Taylor Wood picking up the victory in the nightcap. Rochefort worked 3.1 innings of scoreless relief in the opener for the victory, striking out a pair. Tony Bertucci worked five innings in starting the opener, allowing two runs on five hits while striking out three. Wood started game two and went six innings, allowing three runs on eight hits with five strikeouts. Mickey Brodsky worked three innings of relief, allowing three runs on five hits.

Penn (16-16, 6-6 Ivy League) took a 2-0 lead in the third inning of game one, but a Brandon Lee two-run home run in the fourth inning knotted the score at two. Bertucci got the Big Red out of a two-on, one-out jam in the bottom half of the inning, and the offense took over, scoring five times in the fifth to take a 7-2 lead. Marshall Yanzick started the scoring by singling home Jadd Schmeltzer, who had walked, and Peters hit a two-run single to center to score Conor McCabe and Yanzick. Mickey Brodsky singled and Frank Hager reached on an error, allowing Peters to score, and Lee also reached on an error. Matt Langseth then walked to load the bases, and Schmeltzer, the 10th Cornell player to bat in the inning, was hit by a pitch to force in a run.

The Big Red (10-16, 4-8 Ivy League) then added a pair of runs in the sixth to extend the lead to 9-2. Brian Billigen hit a one-out triple, and was followed by a double from Peters. Peters then scored on Lee's single to center, and it appeared as though Cornell would ease to the game one victory.

Penn had other ideas, however. The Quakers scored seven times in the bottom half of the sxith, capped by a grand slam from catcher Will Davis. Penn sent 10 men to the plate against Mike Carroll, who relieved Bertucci at the start of the inning, and who allowed seven runs on four hits and one walk. David Rochefort came on to get the final out of the inning as the game ended the sixth tied at nine.

Rochefort retired the side in order in the seventh and got out of the eighth after allowing a two-out walk. In the top of the ninth, Kyle Groth, who had come on to replace Schmeltzer, hit a one-out double to the gap in left center and scored on McCabe's single to center to give Cornell a 10-9 lead. In the bottom half of the inning, Rochefort retired the first three batters he faced to pick up the victory.

In game two, Groth singled home Brodsky in the first inning as Cornell took a 1-0 lead, then the Big Red added to the lead with another pair of runs in the second. Billigen reached on an error with two out, and Peters walked to put a pair of runners on. A walk to Brodsky loaded the bases, and Hager delivered a two-run single to give Cornell a 3-0 lead.

In the third, Billigen hit a three-run home run with two out, scoring Langseth and Yanzick, as Cornell led, 6-0. The Quakers got a run back in the bottom half of the third, then added another pair in the fourth to cut the Cornell lead to 6-3.

Peters then delivered a two-run, two-out single in the fifth, but was caught stealing second to end the Cornell rally with the Big Red up, 8-3. In the sixth, Hager hit a one-out double to left and scored on Groth's home run, and Schmeltzer followed with a solo home run, to make the score 11-3. Davis hit his second home run of the day for the Quakers in the seventh to cut into the lead, and Penn scored another pair of runs in the bottom of the ninth, but Brodsky was able to finish off the inning as Cornell completed the daily sweep and split of the weekend.

The Big Red will return to action on Tuesday when it takes on Siena in a pair of games at Hoy Field. First pitch of game one will begin at 2 p.m.