Guy Cipriano UNIVERSITY PARK — It’s a place the State College Spikes have been 14 times. It’s a place they just might end this season unless all three phases begin clicking at once. The Spikes will arrive at work today as a .500 team, a middling sensation they haven’t shaken 50 games into the New [...]

Spikes get over hump with defense, bunting Guy Cipriano UNIVERSITY PARK — Get two teams together with National League ties and there’s a chance a game can turn small. That’s fine with the State College Spikes. Some clever shifting of runners and crisp execution helped the Spikes move past .500 with a 2-1 victory over [...]

Guy Cipriano – gciprian@centredaily.com UNIVERSITY PARK — Walker Gourley stuck his bat out and pushed toward first base. Everybody else waited as Gourley sprinted. Would his bunt stay fair? Would it go foul? Some might have been pondering deeper questions. Would the State College Spikes eliminate memories of recent sloppy play? Would their season continue [...]

By Jake Kaplan Collegian Staff Writer Gerlis Rodriguez laid down a sacrifice bunt, attempting to put two runners in scoring position in the bottom of the ninth. But the bunt by the State College Spikes designated hitter ended up doing more than that. Staten Island Yankees catcher Nick McCoy overthrew first base, and Spikes left [...]

STATE COLLEGE, Pa. — That didn’t last very long. A day after snapping a five-game losing streak, the Staten Island Yankees suffered another setback as an error in the bottom of the ninth inning gave the State College Spikes a 3-2 New York-Penn League victory Thursday night at Medlar Field. The loss dropped the Baby [...]

By Jake Kaplan Collegian Staff Writer Once Kelson Brown and Gift Ngoepe, two of the best fielders on the State College Spikes roster, committed back-to-back errors in the third inning, the Spikes were in for a rough night. The Spikes committed five errors, including three in the third inning, en route to a 10-0 loss [...]

STATE COLLEGE, Pa. — The Staten Island Yankees snapped a five-game losing streak in style last night, taking advantage of five errors in a 10-0 New York-Penn League victory over the host State College Spikes. Eduardo Sosa fell a home run short of the cycle, driving in three runs on three hits, and the pitching [...]

From CDT staff reports JAMESTOWN, N.Y. — The State College Spikes will be happy to leave Diethrick Park. Especially the pitchers. The Jamestown Jammers put double- digit runs on the board for the second straight night, defeating the Spikes 10-6 on Tuesday to sweep the twogame series. Marcell Ozuna hit two home runs — a [...]

AUBURN, NY – Trailing 6-0 entering the eighth inning, the State College Spikes made the largest comeback in team history, with Matt Curry driving in the game-winning run with an infield single in the tenth inning in a 7-6 win over the Auburn Doubledays on Sunday night at Falcon Park. State College (22-21) started its [...]

From CDT staff reports AUBURN, N.Y. — The State College Spikes have mastered the art of winning one-run games against the Auburn Doubledays. The Spikes rallied from a 6-0 deficit to defeat the Doubledays 7-6 in 10 innings Sunday at Falcon Park. The victory improved the Spikes to 6-2 against the last-place Doubledays. Three of [...]

Four relievers combine to allow seven runs By Tim Heiman / Auburn Doubledays AUBURN, NY – The Auburn Doubledays watched a six-run lead vanish over the final three innings tonight at Falcon Park as they lost to the State College Spikes 7-6 in 10 innings. The State College Spikes scored seven runs in the final [...]

Cutters’ series domination has Spikes reeling to begin second half Guy Cipriano UNIVERSITY PARK — Begin the new season with three losses to the Williamsport Crosscutters. Okay, not ideal. But the sweep produced no lingering effects as the State College Spikes ended the first half 20-18, two games behind the Crosscutters. Begin the second half [...]

Guy Cipriano – gciprian@centredaily.com WILLIAMSPORT — The Bowman Field scoreboard depicted emptiness. Neither the State College Spikes nor the Williamsport Crosscutters scored through six innings. Move over another column, and neither team had a hit. If Crosscutters first baseman Jeff Cusick didn’t bobble Kyle Saukko’s groundball in the third, the scoreboard would have flashed 21 [...]

By Bill Albright, Sentinel correspondent WILLIAMSPORT – If you like a lot of offense in your game of baseball, Bowman Field wasn’t the place to be Friday night. With neither team showing a base hit through 6-plus innings, Williamsport eventually grinded out a 1-0 win over the State College Spikes before 3,397 fans. “It was [...]

NILES, Ohio — The State College pitchers had their team record streak of 28 scoreless innings snapped, but the Spikes’ hurlers still threw well in a 6-4 triumph against Mahoning Valley in New York-Penn League action on Monday. Cole White had three hits and drove in three runs and Matt Curry had three singles as [...]

State College Spikes – Pittsburgh Pirates (18-18) @ Mahoning Valley Scrappers – Cleveland Indians (14-22) Game #37 / Road Game #18 RHP Casey Sadler (2-0, 3.60) vs. RHP Alex Kaminsky (4-1, 2.04) Wednesday, July 28: Half-Price Wednesday presented by Froggy 101, Golf Umbrella Giveaway presented by Boyles Insurance Agency (First 1,000 Fans, All Ages), Mystery [...]

UNIVERSITY PARK — The fifth inning started and both mounds in the State College Spikes bullpen remained unoccupied. This was a rare sight considering the team’s 2010 pitching history: none of the 19 pitchers used in the first 35 games lasted six innings. On a muggy Saturday night, Tyler Waldron ensured the Spikes would reach [...]

By Eric Sion For the Collegian On a night when offense was hard to come by for the Spikes, starting pitcher Quinton Miller was at the top of his game against the Mahoning Valley Scrappers. The 6-foot-1, 185-pound righty had one of his best starts thus far out of his four rehab starts for the [...]

Guy Cipriano – gciprian@centredaily.com UNIVERSITY PARK — Mahoning Valley pitcher Nick Kirk tried gripping the first batch of baseballs sent his way. He then requested new ones. Plate umpire Dane Ratajski could have brought out rubber cement around 9:15 p.m. Wednesday and it wouldn‘t have mattered. Finally, after Kirk’s second pitch to State College’s Chase [...]

STATE COLLEGE – The State College Spikes withstood a 28-minute rain delay and a two-run deficit in the top of the ninth inning to tie the game, but the Mahoning Valley Scrappers scored two runs in the eleventh inning to take a 6-4 victory at Medlar Field at Lubrano Park on Wednesday night. State College [...]