Happy Valley Hardball with a sabermetrics twist

Rescheduled to tomorrow as part of a doubleheader beginning at noon. The two games will be nine inning affairs. I believe the Big Ten is the only major conference who actually plays those seven game doubleheaders. Wanamaker and Lorentson will get the starts for PSU. Read more

Lions are picked anywhere from 2nd to 4th in the Big Ten. University Park, Pa. – After a preseason filled with more national recognition that any in recent memory, the Penn State baseball team will finally lace up the spikes for real this weekend as the Nittany Lions open their 134th season of intercollegiate baseball [...]

Brendan Shorts files this report for the Collegian Penn State had five players selected in last year’s MLB Draft. Naturally, finding replacements for those players would seem to be a problem during the first couple of weeks of the new season. But when the Nittany Lions open their season against the High Point Panthers at [...]

Jeff Rice files this report for the CDT The start of the college baseball season is later than usual this year, a move designed by the NCAA to help level the playing field for northern schools.For at least one of those northern schools, the season can’t get here soon enough. “I felt like we were [...]

Nittany Lions looking forward to taking next step via kwout

NCBWA > News > Stopper of the Year via kwout Drew joins Ohio State’s Jake Hale and Minnesota’s Kyle Carr as the Big Ten representatives on the National Collegiate Baseball Writers Association watch list for the nation’s top reliever.

University Park, Pa. — Just a few days after being named to the preseason watch list for the NCBWA Stopper of the Year award that is given to the top relief pitcher in the country, Penn State relief pitcher Drew O’Neil was named to another preseason watch list on Monday as he was named to [...]

The Big Ten Network talks about the conference’s opening weekend. Penn State is receiving votes in the Collegiate Baseball and NCBWA Preseason Division I polls. The Nittany Lions open this year’s campaign with a three-game series at High Point.

High Point University Athletics via kwout

The Big Ten Network announced that the Penn State at Ohio State game on Friday March 28th would kickoff the networks coverage of Big Ten baseball. Five Penn State games are slated to air on the network including a doubleheader at the Med when the Nits host Michigan State on Saturday May 3rd. Here’s the [...]

PSU’s Drew O’Neil joined eight other Big Ten players on the 2008 Brooks Wallace Player of the Year Award watch list. Joining O’Neil were Michigan’s Zach Putnam and Derek VanBusKirk, Minnesota’s Nate Hanson and Matt Nohelty, Purdue’s Matt Bischoff and Ryne White, Northwestern’s Jake Owens, Ohio State’s Justin Miller. The Wallace award goes to the [...]