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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...
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...
Southpaw allows no hits in five innings as Spikes take it, 4-2
STATE COLLEGE – Zack Dodson fired five innings of shutout ball, allowing just one walk and no hits to pick up the win as the State College Spikes clinched their first-ever series victory...
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...
By Jake Kaplan
Collegian Staff Writers
Zack Dodson did something Friday night he hadn’t in any of his seven prior starts of the season, and was relieved to have finally done it.
Dodson pitched into the fifth inning for the first time in his young...
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...
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...
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...