Happy Valley Hardball with a sabermetrics twist

Heath was also named to the Big Ten/BIG EAST Challenge All-Tournament Team on Monday. WICHITA, Kan. – Penn State junior Ben Heath (Huntersville, N.C.) was one of 53 Division I catchers named to the Watch List for the Coleman Company Johnny Bench Award delivered by Papa John's Pizza, as announced by the Greater Wichita Area [...]

Ben was named to the All Big Ten/Big East Challenge second team as a catcher/DH.   For the weekend, Ben batted .333 (6-for-18, 4 RBI, 6 R, 3 HR, 2 2B, 4K) to pull down the honors. With a 2-1 record, one would have thought that PSU could have gotten more than one guy named [...]

By Alex Angert Collegian Staff Writer In his 26 years of coaching and playing baseball at the collegiate and professional level, Robbie Wine has never seen a season begin the way this one did. After snow canceled Penn State’s opening series last week, the baseball team traveled to Florida for the second annual Big Ten/Big [...]

Team W-L Pct RPI 1 Ohio State 5 – 1 – 0 0.833 90 2 Michigan State 4 – 2 – 0 0.667 94 3 Iowa 3 – 2 – 0 0.600 96 4 Illinois 1 – 2 – 0 0.333 109 5 Michigan 3 – 4 – 0 0.429 115 6 Penn State 2 [...]

Louisville 3-0 Saint John’s 3-0 Penn State 2-1 Ohio State 2-1 Northwestern 2-1 Villanova 2-1 Michigan State 2-1 Iowa 2-1 Connecticut 2-1 Cincinnati 2-1 Indiana 1-2 Illinois 1-2 South Florida 1-2 West Virginia 1-2 Michigan 1-2 Notre Dame 1-2 Rutgers 1-2 Seton Hall 1-2 Purdue 0-3 Minnesota 0-3

Big East 17 Big Ten 13 Connecticut 9 Indiana 5 Louisville 5 Minnesota 4 Seton Hall 3 Northwestern 0 Notre Dame 9 Penn State 8 (10) Rutgers 6 Purdue 5 St. John’s 6 Illinois 4 Iowa 11 Villanova 2 Michigan 4 South Florida 2 Michigan State 17 West Virginia 5 Cincinnati 12 Ohio State 4