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Dodson’s career outing leads Spikes to series victory Guy Cipriano UNIVERSITY PARK — Introduce older competition to young pitchers. Watch them struggle, learn, adjust and eventually help a team win. Perhaps this was part of what the men who invest serious money into young arms want. One night after Zack Von Rosenberg propelled the State [...]

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 Joe Kurtek For the Collegian Starting off the game with back-to-back strikeouts, Zack Von Rosenberg looked poised for a strong performance. Von Rosenberg, a 2009 sixth-round pick of the Pittsburgh Pirates, used strong command of his fastball to keep hitters guessing throughout the game. In a six-inning performance, Von Rosenberg allowed only two hits [...]

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 [...]

AUBURN, NY – The State College Spikeswere held to just two hits in the game, but took advantage of two eighth-inning errors by the Auburn Doubledays to plate a pair of runs and come from behind to earn a 2-1 victory at Falcon Park on Saturday night. State College (21-21) mustered two doubles in the [...]

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 [...]

State College’s late rally not enough as 5,807 pack ballpark STATE COLLEGE – The State College Spikes received a record standing-room-only sellout crowd of 5,807 at Medlar Field at Lubrano Park on Friday night, and the second record-smashing crowd of the year at the ballpark saw the Spikes fall to the Williamsport Crosscutters, 7-6. The [...]

By Jake Kaplan Collegian Staff Writer In Monday night’s seventh inning, the Mahoning Valley Scrappers did something no team had done against the State College Spikes since Friday. They scored a run. The four runs the Scrappers scored were still not enough, however, as the Spikes pounded out ten hits on the way to a [...]

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 [...]

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 [...]

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 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 [...]

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AUBURN, NY – The State College Spikes used a seven-run second inning to power another tremendous offensive effort, completing a six-game road trip with a 14-5 win over the Auburn Doubledays at Falcon Park on Monday night. Coming into the second inning with a 2-0 lead, State College (16-15) scored all sevent runs in the [...]

AUBURN, N.Y. — A huge second inning was all the State College Spikes really needed Monday night. A seven-run frame propelled State College past the Auburn Doubledays 14-5 at Falcon Park in the New York-Penn League. The Spikes (16-15), who took 2 of 3 in the series with double digits in runs in both wins, [...]

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 [...]

Grant Burkhardt There’s been so much talk about the Pirates’ 2010 draft – Jameson Taillon and Stetson Allie, in particular – that the young arms of the 2009 draft crop have been largely forgotten. Mike Steele, the pitching coach of the State College Spikes (short-season single-A affiliate of the Pirates), joined the “Seibel and Starkey Show” to talk [...]

State College Spikes – Pittsburgh Pirates (14-12) @ Connecticut Tigers – Detroit Tigers (13-13) Game #27 / Road Game #13 LHP Zack Dodson (0-1, 5.09) vs. RHP Clemente Mendoza (1-3, 7.88) -SPIKES HIT THE ROAD FOR SIX: The State College Spikes start their longest road trip of the season to this point tonight as they [...]