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 zeroes when Matt Curry batted to begin the seventh.

But baseball isn’t designed for never-ending zeroes. Maybe that’s why the Spikes’ tidy performance turned ugly during the final three innings.

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Guy Cipriano

UNIVERSITY — PARK Chances to sweep a team like Vermont only emerge once a season for the State College Spikes.

OK, part of that statement is deceiving.

The Spikes play the four Stedler Division teams just once.

So during a rare afternoon game Tuesday, the Spikes received a chance to make a splash around the New York-Penn League.

When the temporary water-park known as Medlar Field at Lubrano Park dried, the Spikes discovered the precision needed to pull a trifecta during a 3-1 loss.

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Collegian Staff Writer

Taking an aggressive approach at the plate paid off Monday night, when the State College Spikes scored a season-high 13 runs on a franchise-record tying 20 hits.

The Spikes may have been a little too aggressive from the batter’s box Tuesday, however, as they lost to the Vermont Lake Monsters 3-1 at Medlar Field at Lubrano Park.

“We swung at a lot of first pitches that weren’t our pitch,” first baseman Matt Curry said. “On first pitches you’ve got to be looking for one pitch and if you get it than you hit it. We put ourselves in a lot of holes. We weren’t able to get up in the count too much and they threw strikes. You’ve got to give them credit.”

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UNIVERSITY PARK — With one of the New York-Penn League’s top early-season performers already icing his arm, State College Spikes No. 9 hitter Kyle Saukko lined a third-inning fastball toward the second of five pitchers Vermont used Monday.

All Cameron Selik could do was jump. By the time he turned around, another ball had violently rolled into the outfield.

No matter what pitch the Lake Monsters threw, no matter who they threw it to, they couldn’t stall the Spikes, who pounded 20 hits during a 13-2 victory.

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By Paul Stanfield / Vermont Lake Monsters07/12/2010 10:33 PM ET

STATE COLLEGE, PA — The Lake Monsters lost their second straight game for the first time this season as the State College Spikes pounded out 20 hits and scored nine runs over the first three innings to beat Vermont 13-2 in New York-Penn League action Monday night at Medlar Field.

Vermont (17-7), which came into the game having allowed the fewest hits (161) in the New York-Penn League this season, gave up the most hits by a Lake Monsters team since Jamestown had 21 hits on August 19, 2009 at Centennial Field in a 13-0 Jammers win.

The Spikes used a walk and four hits in the bottom of the first inning to score four runs off Vermont starter Matt Swynenberg (2-1), who had allowed just one run on 11 hits over 22 innings in his first four starts of the season. State College scored two more runs on five hits in the second inning to chase Swynenberg, who gave up six runs on nine hits in just two innings on Monday.

via Vermont Loses 13-2 At State College | Vermont Lake Monsters News.

Brooklyn pounded 13 hits, including four home runs, as the Cyclones completed a three-game sweep of the Spikes with a 9-3 rout on Saturday.

Cory Vaughn belted a pair of home runs, while Ryan Sandoval and Kurt Steinhauer added longballs as 10 of Brooklyn’s 13 hits went for extra bases.

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Collegian Staff Writer

When Gift Ngoepe stepped to the plate in the bottom of the tenth inning, neither the State College Spikes nor the Hudson Valley Renegades had scored since the fifth.

That was about to change.

With the bases loaded and just one out, Ngoepe took the first two pitches for balls. On the third pitch of the at-bat, however, he took a pitch from Steve Hiscock and singled to right field, propelling the Spikes to a 5-4 extra-inning win against the Renegades Tuesday night.

The Spikes (11-8) bench cleared after right fielder Justin Bencsko crossed home plate for the winning run, and mobbed Ngoepe near first base to congratulate him on the walk-off single.

via Spikes walk-off in tenth – The Daily Collegian Online.

“I don’t back down in those kind of situations,” said Decker, who went 8-0 this past spring at College of Charleston. “They kind of test who you are and what you are going to do.”

Decker’s teammates showed similar mettle.

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Collegian Staff Writer

Brooks Pounders’ shortest outing of the season foreshadowed how the State College Spikes’ pitching staff would fare the remainder of Monday night’s game.

The Hudson Valley Renegades tallied 18 hits off five State College Spikes pitchers — including a ballpark-record seven hits in the sixth inning — as the Hudson Valley Renegades beat the Spikes 12-7 at Medlar Field at Lubrano Park.

via Pitching woes doom Spikes – The Daily Collegian Online.

Game #18 / Home Game #10 RHP Brooks Pounders (1-2, 4.15) vs. RHP Wilmer Almonte (0-2, 4.40)

-SPIKES WELCOME RENEGADES BACK: The State College Spikes remain in a tie for first place in the New York-Penn League’s Pinckney Division as they face the Hudson Valley Renegades in the second game of a three-game series. With the win yesterday, the Spikes are now in a 6-6 tie in the all-time series with the Renegades. State College nearly took sole possession of the Pinckney lead, but Jamestown came back from down 12-2 in the sixth inning to beat Brooklyn last night, 13-12.

via State College Spikes Game Notes – July 5 Vs. Hudson Valley – OurSports Central – Independent and Minor League Sports News.