Baseball | April 29, 2021

• Game 1: Fri., 3 p.m. – Colin Scanlon (5-2) vs. TBA
• Game 2: Sat., 11 a.m. – Frank Elissalt (5-1) vs. TBA
• Game 3: Sat., 2 p.m. – Jordan Morales (1-3) vs. TBA

• The Explorers piled on 16 runs in a high-scoring, 16-11 victory at Towson on Tuesday for their 11th win over the last 13 games.
• Junior Tatem Levins hit two home runs and senior Jack Cucinotta went yard as well to lead the La Salle offense.
• The Explorers jumped out to a 9-0 lead, thanks to Cucinotta's three-run shot and Levins' first three-run bomb of the game, and held off a late Towson surge.
• Once the Tigers got close at 9-7, Levins crushed his second long ball of the day high over the right field wall to make it a five-run game.
• Levins finished 3-for-6 with a career-high six RBI and three runs scored while also surpassing 100 career RBI.
• Sophomore Connor Coolahan went 2-for-4 with two RBI and two runs, while classmate Elijah Dickerson was 2-for-5 with a run. Senior Colin Kennedy improved to 3-0 as he earned the win in relief, and redshirt freshman Colin Yablonski had a career-high five strikeouts.

• After a 3-1 series win over St. Bonaventure last weekend, La Salle is now off to its best Atlantic 10 start ever at 9-3 in league play, which has the Explorers first in the conference standings.
• Tuesday's win put La Salle at 25-13 overall, extending its best start in school history. The Explorers became just the fifth team in program history to reach the 25-win plateau. The school record is 31 wins set by the 1985 team that made the NCAA tournament.
• The Explorers have been very impressive on the road at 14-6 as the away team, including 12-3 over the last 15 away games. On the flip side, La Salle has been heating up at home, winning six of their last seven games at Hank DeVincent Field.

• Ryan Guckin has 43 career doubles, which ranks eighth in program history. He needs only one more to move into seventh place all-time. He also has five triples this season, which is tied for fifth in the program, and one more would put him in a tie for second. Guckin has 107 career RBI as well, just 12 shy of 10th on the program's career list. He has 15 doubles this season, just two away from a tie for seventh on that list too.
• Jack Cucinotta has 39 career stolen bases, which ranks seventh in school history. He needs just one more to move into sixth place all-time. Cucinotta also has 21 stolen bases this season, which puts him in a tie for eighth on the single-season list. He needs just one more to move into seventh.
• Frank Elissalt has 72 strikeouts this season, good for ninth on the program's single-season ranks. He needs only three more to move into a tie for seventh. Five more would put him in a tie for fourth place all-time. Elissalt (5-1) also only needs one more win to move into sixth place in single-season wins.
• Colin Scanlon has 147 career strikeouts, which ranks 10th in school history. He is 35 strikeouts away from Jeff La Porta in ninth place. Scanlon (5-2) is also just one win away from sixth place in single-season victories.
• Colin Kennedy has five saves this season, needing only one more to tie for 10th on the program's single-season saves list.
• Tatem Levins has 40 RBI this season, needing only 10 more to tie himself (2019) and two others for 10th place in single-season history. Levins also has 103 career RBIs, needing 16 more to reach 10th all-time.

• The Quakers and Explorers have already met six times this season, with the two teams at an even 3-3 split so far. Penn is 4-7 overall and just 0-2 on the road this season, playing a limited local schedule due to Ivy League restrictions.
• Penn's last two games were against La Salle, with the Quakers walking off with an 8-7 win in 10 innings last on April 20. La Salle won the previous meeting at Hank DeVincent Field, 6-4, on April 14.
• Tommy Courtney leads the team with a .326 batting average, while Wyatt Henseler is batting .308 with a team-high nine RBI. As a team, Penn is batting .246 over its 11 games.
• La Salle will most likely see Penn's top starter Joe Miller on the mound Friday. He's struggled with an 0-3 record and a 9.00 ERA over four starts. Kevin Eaise (2-0, 1.74 ERA) has been the Quakers' most consistent arm and is likely to make a start this weekend as well.