PHILADELPHIA, Pa. - The Lafayette baseball team was defeated in a high-scoring contest, 22-8, against Penn on Sunday at Meiklejohn Stadium.

The Leopards' bats continued to stay hot after their 5-0 win in the second game of Saturday's doubleheader against the Quakers. Lafayette loaded the bases with one out in the first. Senior Blaze Fadio was hit by a pitch, that forced in junior Easton Brenner and gave the Leopards a 1-0 lead. The next batter, freshman Teddy Cashman, hit a sacrifice fly to center field, that scored sophomore Ethan Swidler. The Leopards continued to score when freshman Ryan Grace reached base on a error by Penn's first baseman, driving in junior Ben Petrone and allowing Fadio to advance to third. Senior Michael Mallas lined an RBI-single to left field, scoring Fadio and giving the Leopards a 4-0 lead.

Penn responded in the bottom of the frame on a two-run double by Ryan Taylor. In the second, the Quakers knotted the game up, 4-4, scoring on a sacrifice fly by Connor Chavez and an RBI-groundout by Davis Baker. 

In the third, Mallas continued to swing a hot bat, ripping a 2-2 pitch into left field and ending on second base with an RBI-double that gave the lead back to the Leopards, 5-4. Lafayette extended its lead in the fourth on an RBI-single to center field by Fadio, which plated Brenner and increased the Leopards' advantage to 6-4.

In the bottom of the fourth, the Quakers hit their stride, scoring eight runs, including home runs by Jarrett Pokrovsky and Carson Ozmer. Penn added two more in the fifth, making the score 14-6 after five innings of play.

Lafayette fought back in the sixth. Swidler blasted his fourth home run of the season off of the batter's eye in center field. Swidler was followed by Petrone, who ripped a home run into the stands in right center field. The home run was Petrone's team-leading fifth of the year and cut the Penn lead to 14-8.

In the seventh, the Quakers scored eight more runs to stretch the final to 22-8.

Jake Moss collected the win for the Quakers, pitching 2.1 innings, giving up three hits, one run and striking out two. Senior Adam Bogosian took the loss, tossing 2.0 innings in which he gave up five runs on three hits with four strikeouts.  

The Leopards are next in action when they travel to face Big Ten foe Rutgers on Wednesday at 3 p.m.