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West Chester East stars Steve Snyder and Neal Herring move on in PIAA action as WC East wins the District One title. W.C. East takes District 1 Class AAAA baseball title | Philadelphia Inquirer | 05/29/2009 via kwout

Freiman Collects First Team Academic All-America Honors – Duke University Blue Devils | Official Athletics Site – GoDuke.com via kwout

Rick O’Brien, columnist for the Philadelphia Inquirer, picks the Penn State bound senior Steve Snyder of West Chester East, as the number three shortstop in the Southeast Pennsylvania area. Rick O’Brien: Good shortstops not in short supply | Philadelphia Inquirer | 05/24/2009 via kwout

BY BOB HUNTER THE COLUMBUS DISPATCH After first-round games of the Big Ten baseball tournament attracted literally hundreds of spectators to Huntington Park on Wednesday, one of the lucky few in attendance offered a blunt assessment. “You have to be realistic,” he said. “It is what it is. It’s college baseball. It’s Big Ten college [...]

David Aardsma closing things in Seattle, Brandon Morrow will wait – ESPN via kwout

PSU 3B Jordan Steranka was a unanimous pick for the Big Ten’s first All Freshman team. He also received an additional honor when he joined RHP Ryan Ignas on the third team All Big Ten squad. Ignas was a unanimous third team selection. Ryan Boonie was designated as Penn State’s recipient of the Big Ten’s [...]

Very disappointing season as PSU finishes in eighth place, ten games out of first and 3.5 games out of the last playoff spot. Team Wins Losses Win % GB 1 Ohio State 18 6 .750 — 2 Minnesota 17 6 .739 0.5 3 Indiana 16 7 .696 1.5 4 Illinois 16 8 .667 2.0 5 [...]

One of the advantages of playing a top twenty program when you have a record as poor as ours is that your RPI won’t change much if you lose. Such was the case this week when despite going 1-4, our RPI went up three spots from 133 to 130. I’ll post a final update following [...]

PSU seniors go out on top – Sports | Centre Daily via kwout

The Carlisle Sentinel is report that RHP Renny Parthemore of Cedar Cliff HS in Harrisburg has signed to play ball with Penn State. Parthemore recorded a 3-2 record this year with an 3.05 ERA over 25.2 innings of work. In those 25+ innings Parthemore struck out 25 while walking 20.

Nittany Lion Baseball Upsets No. 21 Minnesota, 10-8, to Spoil Gophers’ Title Hopes – PENN STATE OFFICIAL ATHLETIC SITE via kwout

Big Ten Baseball Blog: Friday’s Conference Results via kwout