Happy Valley Hardball with a sabermetrics twist

By Ryan Loy Collegian Staff Writer Sunday was the wrong day to play Kent State. Two days after defeating the Golden Flashes, the Penn State baseball team lost, 10-5, to Kent State in the championship game of the Coca-Cola Classic in Rock Hill, S.C. The Nittany Lions (6-10) held Kent State to six hits Friday [...]

What started out as a promising weekend turned south as PSU dropped their last two games in the Coca Cola Classic in Rock Hill SC. Basically, our RPI remained flat for the week but the good news is that because the fourth week was such a disaster the last couple of years we are in [...]

Team W-L Pct RPI 1 Michigan State 11 – 4 – 0 0.733 30 2 Ohio State 12 – 4 – 0 0.750 88 3 Michigan 9 – 9 – 0 0.500 100 4 Penn State 6 – 9 – 0 0.400 114 5 Indiana 9 – 9 – 0 0.500 121 6 Minnesota 5 [...]

By Ryan Loy Collegian Staff Writer Kent State hit a home run and six doubles to fuel a 10-5 victory over the Penn State baseball team (6-10) in Sunday’s championship game of the Coca-Cola Classic. The Golden Flashes jumped out to a 4-0 lead after four innings. After Penn State cut the lead to 4-2, [...]

Penn State will face Kent State in a home-and-home in less than two weeks. ROCK HILL, S.C. – Playing its third game in the span of 24 hours, the Penn State baseball team didn’t have enough as it dropped a 10-5 final to Kent State in the Coca-Cola Classic Championship Game on Sunday. Junior Ben [...]