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 [...]

By Jake Kaplan Collegian Staff Writer With the bases loaded and two out in the tenth inning, Matt Curry stepped to the plate with a chance to give the State College Spikes their first lead of the game. The Spikes first baseman delivered, singling to the shortstop to score third baseman Andy Vazquez from third. [...]

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 [...]

By Joe Kurtek For the Collegian After a 75 minute rain delay, the State college Spikes finally took the field in a grueling game that would last well over three hours Friday night at Medlar Field at Lubrano Park. Despite rallying within one run in the fourth inning, the Spikes eventually fell 10-7. Spikes pitcher [...]

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 [...]

Guy Cipriano UNIVERSITY PARK — The way Jhonathan Ramos pitched Monday during the sixth inning showed how the Hudson Valley Renegades forced the State College Spikes into playing their longest New York- Penn League game of 2010. Before a pitch during a bases-loaded at-bat, Ramos stepped behind the mound, dropped his hat, wiped sweat from [...]

From CDT staff reports JAMESTOWN, N.Y. — State College mustered only two hits against Jamestown pitching Wednesday in a 6-0 loss to the Jammers at Diethrick Park. State College lost two of three to the Jammers after entering the series on a three-game winning streak. Adalberto Santos and Kyle Saukko had the lone hits for [...]

Patient Jammers rally for four runs in ninth to edge Spikes Guy Cipriano UNIVERSITY PARK — Brent Keys watched Zack Dodson’s first two fastballs miss the strike zone. He watched three more fastballs. Two hit the zone. One missed it. The sixth pitch of the at-bat was predictable. Dodson was throwing a fastball. Keys wasn’t [...]

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Guy Cipriano – gciprian@centredaily.com UNIVERSITY PARK — Adalberto Santos donned his No. 50 jersey Sunday at Williamsport, where he stood by the Bowman Field dugout and watched his new team prepare to play the Crosscutters. Santos stood by the dugout for batting practice. He sat there once the game started. It wasn’t an ideal roadtrip. [...]

By Jake Kaplan Collegian Staff Writer Three different times the State College Spikes faced a deficit, and all three times they battled back. Behind a season-high 10 hits, the Spikes defeated the Batavia Muckdogs Monday night, 8-7 at Medlar Field at Lubrano Park. The win was the first of the year for State College, which [...]

STATE COLLEGE -Adalberto Santos smashed two wall-ball doubles in his first game as a State College Spike, and Matt Skirving’s RBI single in the eighth pushed across the eventual game-winning run as the Spikes earned their first win, 8-7, over the Batavia Muckdogs on Monday night at Medlar Field at Lubrano Park. Santos, the 35th-round [...]

Youth, international flavor highlight new State College players STATE COLLEGE – The 2010 State College Spikes will come together for the first time this week at Medlar Field at Lubrano Park, as several high picks from the 2009 Major League Baseball Draft and an array of players from across the globe are part of the [...]

Guy Cipriano – gciprian@centredaily.com One look at the list of professional baseball players arriving in State College today produces a telling conclusion about their parent club. Like the Pittsburgh Pirates themselves, the State College Spikes are relying on some of their level’s youngest players this summer. The average age of the first 25 players on [...]