ABERDEEN, Md. — Austin Rauch’s single in the bottom of the 11th inning brought home the game-winning run as the Aberdeen Ironbirds handed the State College Spikes another road loss, 3-2 Friday night at Ripken Stadium. The setback was the Spikes’ third in four games on this road trip and fifth in their last six [...]

Written by Daniel Gallen Another tight pitcher’s duel spilled over into extra innings Friday night as it took 11 innings for the Aberdeen IronBirds to beat the State College Spikes 3-2 in yet another thriller in front of a record 6,897 at Ripken Stadium. With Cal Ripken, Jr. and Orioles Director of Scouting Joe Jordan [...]

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From CDT staff reports LOWELL, Mass. — State College made an abrupt ninth-inning rally Wednesday but couldn’t score enough runs to end a four-game losing streak as the Spikes fell 6-5 to the Lowell Spinners at LeLacheur Park. The Spikes (25-28) trailed 6-2 with two outs in the ninth inning before Andy Vasquez crunched a [...]

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 [...]

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From CDT staff reports JAMESTOWN, N.Y. — No stunning upset was in order this time for the State College Spikes. The Jamestown Jammers roughed up starter Colton Cain early and put the finishing touches on their 11-3 victory with another offensive outburst against two Spikes’ relievers on Monday at Russell Diethrick Park. Marcell Ozuna hit [...]

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 UNIVERSITY PARK — Maybe it was the 1-hour, 18-minute rain delay before the first pitch. Or it could have been the presence of Reggy, a disproportioned, purple mascot known as one of baseball’s top touring acts. Or it just might have been a case of two teams hunting and barreling fastballs. Whatever it [...]

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 [...]

AUBURN, N.Y. — The State College Spikes rallied for three runs in the eighth inning to score a wild 11-10 victory over Auburn on Saturday night. Walker Gourley, Adalberto Santos and Matt Curry each produced three hits for the Spikes, who had 18 as a team. Santos hit a tworun double in the eighth and [...]

AUBURN, NY – The State College Spikes produced 18 hits on Saturday night, but needed to withstand a big second inning by the Auburn Doubledays and rescue themselves from a deficit two times to win, 11-10, at Falcon Park. Adalberto Santos’s eighth-inning double brought State College (15-14) to a tie, with Chase Lyles’s two-out base [...]

From CDT staff reports NORWICH, Conn. — The State College Spikes and Connecticut Tigers brought their three-game series to a quick conclusion on Friday night at Dodd Stadium, with a pair of first-inning runs proving the difference in the Tigers’ 2-1 victory. State College (14-14) and Connecticut (15-13) needed just one hour and 39 minutes [...]

State College Spikes – Pittsburgh Pirates (8-7) @ Williamsport Crosscutters – Philadelphia Phillies (7-8) Game #16 / Road Game #8 RHP Zack Von Rosenberg (0-3, 7.50) vs. RHP Julio Rodriguez (1-1, 2.93) -SPIKES LOCK HORNS WITH ‘CUTTERS: Phase two of the 2010 SawBuck Series finishes up tonight with the final game of a three-game set [...]

Guy Cipriano UNIVERSITY PARK — State College Spikes second baseman Walker Gourley slammed his bat, thinking he made the final out of the ninth inning. Considering the first 8 2/ 3 innings, something predictable happened on Gourley’s way to first base. Somebody botched another play. This time, it was Williamsport Crosscutters first baseman Jeff Cusick [...]

July 2, 2010 – New York-Penn League (NYPL) State College Spikes STATE COLLEGE – Gift Ngoepe and Gerlis Rodriguez each provided clutch home runs, and the State College Spikes came from behind to defeat the Williamsport Crosscutters, 5-4, on Friday night at Medlar Field at Lubrano Park thanks to an error in the bottom of [...]

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From CDT staff reports JAMESTOWN, N.Y. — State College took advantage of nine hits, 13 walks and two errors to set a season-high for runs in an 11-7 New York-Penn League triumph against Jamestown on Tuesday. The Spikes (6-6) scored all of their runs in their first four at-bats. Chase Lyles got State College off [...]

Team’s first two homers of the year help comeback win BATAVIA, NY – Adalberto Santos and Chase Lyles smashed the first two home runs of the 2010 for the State College Spikes, with Lyles’s powering a seven-run sixth inning that led the Spikes past the Batavia Muckdogs, 9-8, on Saturday night at Dwyer Stadium. Santos’s [...]