Box Score 1 | Box Score 2 PHILADELPHIA – Sophomore Jordan Winawer had a four-hit day, but the baseball team was swept by Penn on Sunday, 4-2 and 9-2, at Meiklejohn Stadium.
 
Cornell (15-14, 6-6 Ivy) is now five games behind Penn (19-12, 11-1) in the Ivy League Lou Gehrig Division standings with eight games to play for both teams. The Big Red is scheduled to play host to Siena for a non-league doubleheader at 2 p.m. Tuesday before returning to league play next Saturday and Sunday with two doubleheaders against Columbia at Hoy Field.
 
Game 1: PENN 4, CORNELL 2 | Box Score
The Big Red outhit the Quakers, but four errors hindered the visitors. Penn plated a run in each of the first three innings, countered by a single Cornell run in the top of the third. Junior Kevin Tatum led off with a double down the line in right, then came around to score on senior Ben Swinford's one-out double to left-center.
 
Junior Ryan Karl then led off the fourth with his team-leading sixth home run of the season, bringing the Big Red back to within one. Cornell then threatened again in the fifth. Winawer led off with a single and moved up to second on a sacrifice bunt. Junior JD Whetsel then stroked a single to center, but Winawer was thrown out on the play while trying to score the tying run.
 
Penn tacked on an insurance run in the sixth. Sophomore Matt Horton came on in relief and got out of a bases-loaded jam with a pair of strikeouts to keep the Big Red within striking distance. Winawer then hit a two-out single in the seventh to bring the tying run to the plate, but a groundout ended the game.
 
Junior Brent Jones took the loss to fall to 2-2 on the season. He worked 5.1 innings, yielding four runs (two earned) on four hits with four strikeouts and two walks.
 
Game 2: PENN 9, CORNELL 2 | Box Score
The Big Red scraped together 10 hits, but couldn't get on the board until the ninth inning. The Quakers had already built a nine-run lead by the fourth inning.
 
Winawer was 2-for-3 and drove in the final run of the game, hitting a single to right with the bases loaded to plate junior Spencer Scorza. Swinford drove in the first run one batter earlier when, with the bases loaded, he became the seventh Cornell batter to be hit by a pitch.
 
Freshman Jamie Smith was 2-for-4, joining Winawer as the only Big Red batter with multiple hits. Senior Connor Kaufmann, and juniors Roberto Suppa and Kellen Urbon worked a combined 4.1 innings of scoreless relief.