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Box Score 2 NEW HAVEN, Conn. --
Grant Kipp pitched six effective innings and
Jake Gehri homered for the second straight game as the Bulldogs split a doubleheader with Penn at George H.W. Bush '48 Field on Saturday afternoon.
Yale won game one 9-3 and dropped the second 4-0. The Bulldogs finished the day 18-17 overall and 8-10 in Ivy League play.
Kipp (4-3) allowed three runs and struck out three to earn the victory.
Reid Easterly came on to toss three scoreless innings and picked up his third save of the season.
The Bulldogs scored the first three runs of the game.
Colton Shaw blasted a three-run homer in the fourth to open the scoring.
Yale added four runs in the fifth.
Jimmy Chatfield and
Carson Swank hit back-to-back doubles to plate the first run of the inning. Yale added three more runs on wild pitches.
Gehri had two hits in game one and scored twice, including a homer to left in the seventh to give Yale an insurance run.
In game two, Penn scored a run in three of the first four innings.
Gehri singled and walked in game two, while
Mason LaPlante had a single and two stolen bases. Swank doubled and
Alec Atkinson also singled.
Shaw started game two and allowed four runs over six innings.
Carter Kessinger tossed a scoreless seventh and
Mark Capell did not allow a run over the final two innings.
Up next, the Bulldogs host Harvard on Saturday, May 14.
