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PHILADELPHIA, Pa. -- Penn hit big home runs in its final at bats in both games as the Quakers pulled even with Cornell in the Ivy League South Divison with a doubleheader sweep on Friday evening at Penn Park. The Quakers won game one 5-2, then held on in the nightcap for a 9-6 victory.

Game one's heroics came on a three-run slam by Jessica Melendez to snap a 2-2 tie, while game two saw Georgia Guttadauro hit a solo shot to give Penn the go-ahead run after entering the bottom of the sixth inning tied 5-5. Kayla Dahlerbruch then slammed a three-run shot with two outs in the inning to make it 9-5. Cornell scored a run and loaded the bases in the seventh, but couldn't deliver to send the game into extra innings.

With Penn's sweep, both teams will enter Saturday's doubleheader with identical 10-4 records with six total games remaining.

In game one, the Quakers managed just two hits off Cornell pitching, but both were home runs. Jessica Melendez's three-run shot in the bottom of the sixth inning snapped a 2-2 tie and sent Penn to the win. Brooke Coloma had given the Quakers a 2-1 lead with a two-run shot in the fourth inning after the Big Red had taken a 1-0. The visitors had scratched back to even in the fifth on a Kristen Towne RBI single up the middle.

Cornell had gotten on the board first when freshmen Clare Feely walked and Linda Laeufer doubled. Feely eventually scored on a passed ball. Morgan Cawley was 2-for-3 at the plate, while Jenna Stoller surrendered just one hit in 5.2 innings, though she did issue five walks, before handing the ball off to Lauren Marx.

Game two started as a pitcher's dual before the Big Red exploded for five runs in the fourth and fifth innings. Erin Keene slammed a leadoff home run in the fourth, and three batters later Sam Creamer got a hold of one and drove it out of the ballpark to make it 3-0. Jenny Edwards plated a fourth run in the innin on a single and Cawley added to it in the fifth with an RBI single of her own.

The Quakers clawed back with two runs in the fifth to get back within 5-2, then Kayla Dahlerbruch tied it with a two-out, three-run homer to even the contest at 5-5.

Once even, the home team seized the momentum. Georgia Guttadauro led off the sixth with a solo shot to take the lead, then watched Dahlerbruch go yard on a three-run shot to extend the Quakers' lead to 9-5.

Cornell threatened to come back in the seventh. Towne opened the inning with a solo shot, and the Big Red loaded the bases with two outs on a walk by Cawley and a single by Creamer. Pinch hitter Sophie Giaquinto was hit by a pitch to load the bases, but Alexis Borden, who started the game, re-entered and got Laeufer to pop up to short to end the contest.