Daily News | Penn baseball powers past Auburn, 6-3, in extra innings and into the winner’s bracket in NCAA regional
baseball just added its name to the Philly underdog column with a massive 6-3 win in extra innings over host No. 13 Auburn in its regional opener of the NCAA Division I baseball championship on Friday night.
A trio of smart bunts following an RBI double in the top of the 11th from freshman Ryan Taylor put the Quakers up by three, breaking open a game that had been tied, 3-3, since the bottom of the eighth. Auburn had a tough time figuring out the small-ball approach, but more importantly for Penn, it resulted in a lead the Tigers weren’t able to come back from.
Penn will now play Samford on Saturday , which produced an upset of its own against Southern Miss in the earlier game of the regional. The Golden Eagles will play Auburn in the loser’s bracket of the double-elimination tournament . Penn was paced by an eighth-inning two-run home run from catcher Jackson Appel, who went 3-for-4 with two RBIs. His blast that put the Quakers up, 3-2, before Auburn tied it on pinch hitter Brody Moss’ two-out bases-loaded walk in the bottom of the frame. It was the second time the Tigers scored on a bases-loaded walk, as Cooper McMurray worked a free pass ahead of Kason Howell’s RBI single that gave Auburn a 2-1 lead in the sixth.
The win marked the ninth in a row for the Quakers, who, despite entering the regional as the Ivy League champions, were 150000/1 odds to
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