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 [...]

By Jake Kaplan Collegian Staff Writer Matt Curry stepped to the plate with the bases loaded and two out in the bottom of the seventh, with a chance to break the game open. The State College Spikes first baseman ended the inning, however, sending a groundball that was flipped to second for the force out. [...]

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 [...]

By Jake Kaplan Collegian Staff Writer The State College Spikes’ bullpen did nearly everything it could to give its team a chance to win Sunday night. After left-hander Zac Fuesser had a rough start, allowing three runs in his 3.2 inning start, the right-handed duo of Ryan Beckman and Mitch Fienemann held the Tri-City ValleyCats [...]

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, N.Y. — The timing of the State College Spikes’ league-leading 50th double play couldn’t have been better. Ryan Beckman induced a 6-4-3 double play with the bases loaded in the ninth as the Spikes snapped a three-game losing streak with a 2-1 victory at Auburn on Saturday. Shortstop Gift Ngoepe, second baseman Kelson Brown [...]

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 [...]

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STATE COLLEGE – Bolstered by another strong offensive effort, Tyler Waldron earned his second win of the season with six shutout innings as the State College Spikes defeated the Auburn Doubledays, 7-0, to earn another series victory at Medlar Field at Lubrano Park. Waldron (2-2) allowed just five hits as he ran his scoreless innings [...]

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 [...]

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 [...]

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 [...]

By Jake Kaplan Collegian Staff Writer Entering Monday night, Vermont Lake Monsters starting pitcher Matt Swynenberg had given up just one run in 2010, and had the best ERA in the New York-Penn League. His team had yet to lose two games in a row all season. If it looked as if the odds were [...]

STATE COLLEGE – The State College Spikes tied a team record with 20 hits, including the first career home run for Matt Curry, and jumped on Vermont Lake Monsters pitching early and often to produce a 13-2 victory on Monday night at Medlar Field at Lubrano Park. A crowd of 4,194 joined 414 dogs for [...]

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Guy Cipriano UNIVERSITY PARK — Homefield advantage can’t exist in the early stages of a short-season baseball season. Or can it? On the day they never lose, the State College Spikes faced an opponent forced to play at 1 p.m. after traveling 250 miles following a 3-hour, 7- minute game the night before. Advantage Spikes. Still, [...]

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 [...]