Pirates fifth-round pick pitches five near-perfect innings By Alex Raskin / Special to MLB.com Tyler Waldron tossed five nearly perfect innings the State College Spikes came within three outs of a no-hitter Saturday in a 1-0 blanking of the Aberdeen IronBirds. The Pirates’ fifth-round pick in the 2010 Draft, Waldron (3-5) threw only 57 pitches, [...]

Guy Cipriano – gciprian@centredaily.com UNIVERSITY PARK — A trip to Lowell, Mass., no matter how late they left Monday or how early they arrived today, could be what the State College Spikes need. First, it pits them against the Spinners, whose 13-37 record is easily the New York-Penn League’s worst. The trip also comes with [...]

By Jake Kaplan Collegian Staff Writer The State College Spikes’ bats haven’t been clicking the last two games. One day removed from scoring just one run, the Spikes fared even worse Monday night. State College mustered only three hits on their way to their second straight defeat at the hands of the Tri-City ValleyCats, a [...]

Guy Cipriano – gciprian@centredaily.com UNIVERSITY PARK — Staten Island is visiting State College. It must be time for the Spikes to play some of their worst baseball. Instead of guarding their home field against the Yankees, the Spikes produce performances such as Wednesday’s 10-0 defeat. The game would have been best played on the road, [...]

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 [...]

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 [...]

By Jake Kaplan Collegian Staff Writer The first two series between the State College Spikes and the Williamsport Crosscutters ended in sweeps — the first by the Cutters and the second by the Spikes. This week’s three-game set was no different. Williamsport completed its sweep behind 15 hits, beating State College 7-6 Friday night in [...]

Guy Cipriano – gciprian@centredaily.com A three-game winning streak entering a break, especially one that included victories over Mahoning Valley and Auburn, former Pinckney Division heavyweights with more non-drafted free agents than early-round picks, shouldn’t produce this kind of optimism. Even the worst New York-Penn League teams — see, 2008 State College Spikes — win three [...]

NILES, Ohio — Three State College pitchers helped the Spikes collect their second shutout in as many days. Good thing, too, because they needed it. Adalberto Santos produced the game’s only run with an RBI triple and the pitching trio of Casey Sadler, Brooks Pounders and Jhonathan Ramos survived eight Mahoning Valley hits to key [...]

The Mahoning Valley Scrappers dropped their fourth straight game with a 1-0 loss to the State College Spikes Sunday evening at Eastwood Field. Mahoning Valley starter Alex Kaminsky suffered the loss but pitched effectively.  He worked six innings, allowing just one run on four hits, walking one and striking out two. via Scrappers Edged by [...]

By JON MOFFETT jmoffett@vindy.com The Scrappers must have been bad, because they didn’t get any presents this Christmas. Instead, the team was given a lump of coal on the scoreboard in Sunday’s 1-0 loss to State College at Eastwood Field during the club’s “Christmas in July” promotion. Coincidentally enough, the game’s only run came off [...]

Team record shutout streak now at 22 innings NILES, OH – Adalberto Santos tripled in Gift Ngoepe with the game’s only run in the sixth inning, and a trio of State College Spikes pitchers combined for a historic shutout as the Spikes defeated the Mahoning Valley Scrappers, 1-0, on Sunday evening at Eastwood Field. The [...]

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Guy Cipriano – gciprian@centredaily.com UNIVERSITY PARK — Even a place with booming speakers and an endless library of sound effects can seem drab on the wrong night. Take Medlar Field at Lubrano Park for example. Plate umpire Roberto Ortiz’s strike calls, Mahoning Valley manager Travis Fryman’s instructions and players sliding into dirt could easily be [...]

By Zach Fleagle Collegian Staff Writer The State College Spikes bullpen did all it could to give its team a chance to win Tuesday night. The pitching duo of Brooks Pounders and Mitch Fienemann entered in relief and did their part to hold the Spikes in contention, allowing three hits and no runs in a [...]

By Jake Kaplan Collegian Staff Writer During the past four games, the State College Spikes have alternated a great hitting performance with a sub-par one. Tuesday night’s game continued that pattern. Behind a mere four hits, the Spikes were shutout by the Mahoning Valley Scrappers 4-0 at Medlar Field at Lubrano Park. Three Scrappers pitchers [...]

On the Pirates: Spikes’ class sticks together Sunday, July 18, 2010 By Chuck Finder, Pittsburgh Post-Gazette Peter Diana/Post-Gazette Pedro Alvarez strikes out Friday against Houston’s Brett Myers. Maybe it is fitting the fellows get to stick together, this draft class of 2009 commencing their professional baseball sojourn on a college campus. After all, from the [...]

- From CDT staff reports NORWICH, Conn. — One night after erupting for 11 runs and 13 hits against the Connecticut Tigers, the State College Spikes’ bats fell silent. Clemente Mendoza shut the Spikes down, surrendering just two hits during an eight-inning pitching performance in a 5-0 victory Thursday night at Dodd Stadium. The Spikes [...]

By Jake Kaplan Collegian Staff Writer Entering the game, Connecticut Tigers starting pitcher Clemente Mendoza had a robust 7.88 ERA. It didn’t show Thursday night. Mendoza threw eight shutout innings of two-hit baseball, and the Tigers beat the State College Spikes 5-0 Thursday night at Dodd Stadium in Norwich, Conn. It was just the second [...]

By Jake Kaplan Collegian Staff Writer The State College Spikes know when they have certain spectators watching their games from behind home plate at Medlar Field at Lubrano Park. Monday and Tuesday’s games were two of those times. Pittsburgh Pirates GM Neal Huntington was in attendance for the latter two games of the Spikes’ three-game [...]