Happy Valley Hardball with a sabermetrics twist

Penn State enters conference play with a 10-13 record, winners of four of the last five. UNIVERSITY PARK, Pa. – Following a 9-8 loss at Kent State on Tuesday, the Penn State baseball team bounced back 24 hours later with an impressive 10-8 victory over the Golden Flashes on Wednesday evening at Medlar Field at [...]

Nittany Lions and Golden Flashes reconvene in Happy Valley on Wednesday to conclude the home-and-home. KENT, Ohio – Despite battling back from an early deficit, the Penn State baseball team couldn’t hold on as it dropped a 9-8 final to Kent State on Tuesday afternoon. Seven different Nittany Lions posted a hit, led by junior [...]

Nittany Lions look to extend three-game winning streak on Tuesday. • The Penn State baseball team looks to ride the momentum from three-straight wins into a home-and-home series with Kent State beginning Tuesday. Following Tuesday’s 3:00 p.m. road tilt at Kent State, the teams reconvene at Medlar Field at Lubrano Park on Wednesday evening at [...]

By Paul Casella Collegian Staff Writer As the Penn State baseball team walked off the field after Friday’s game, it carried a four-game losing streak in which it gave up 38 runs. But by the time the weekend was over, the Nittany Lions had won three-straight games over Hofstra, including Sunday’s 8-4 win. After sweeping [...]

By Ryan Loy Collegian Staff Writer With one out in the seventh inning and the Penn State baseball team up by five runs, first baseman Joey DeBernardis was lying face down on the pitchers’ mound. Moments earlier, with runners on first and second base, Hofstra’s Ethan Paquette hit a high pop-up that DeBernardis tried to [...]

Despite going 3-2 for the week, Penn State’s RPI took a significant drop because, as is typical once the team gets north, the quality of the competition goes figuratively south.

Team W-L Pct RPI 1 Michigan State 16 – 4 – 0 0.800 45 2 Ohio State 13 – 5 – 0 0.722 94 3 Michigan 12 – 9 – 0 0.571 117 4 Indiana 10 – 10 – 0 0.500 121 5 Illinois 7 – 8 – 0 0.467 133 6 Iowa 8 – [...]

UNIVERSITY PARK, Pa. – The Penn State baseball team jumped out to an early lead and wouldn’t look back as it closed out the home-opening series against Hofstra with a convincing 8-4 win on Sunday afternoon at Medlar Field at Lubrano Park. The Nittany Lions led 7-1 after three innings of play and used seven [...]

UNIVERSITY PARK, Pa. – The Penn State baseball rallied late in game one and rode the momentum into game two on its way to a doubleheader sweep over Hofstra at Medlar Field at Lubrano Park on Saturday. In a pair of seven-inning contests, the Nittany Lions tied the score in the sixth inning of game [...]

Jordan Steranka provides solo home run for the Lions as three-run first and four consecutive one-run innings propel Hofstra to victory. UNIVERSITY PARK, Pa. – The Penn State baseball team dropped a tough 7-1 final to Hofstra in the home opener at Medlar Field at Lubrano Park on Friday. Sophomore Jordan Steranka Pittsburgh, Pa. provided [...]

By Ryan Loy Collegian Staff Writer Hofstra jumped out to an early lead and didn’t look back as the Pride defeated the Penn State baseball team, 7-1, Friday at Medlar Field at Lubrano Park. The Pride scored three runs on four hits in the first inning against Penn State starter Mike Wanamaker. Wanamaker settled down [...]

By Alex Angert Collegian Staff Writer One month into the 2010 season, the Penn State baseball team has played at a lot of different fields, but there’s one notable venue missing. After traveling to Florida, Texas and South Carolina, the Nittany Lions will be playing somewhere this weekend that has been anything but familiar to [...]