9.May.2010 at 9 | UncleLar
Baseball Falls to Iowa in Series Finale, 13-9
Steranka blasts seventh homer of the season while Glantz hits his first of 2010.
UNIVERSITY PARK, Pa. – Despite a game-tying two-run home run from sophomore Jordan Steranka (Pittsburgh, Pa.) in the bottom of the fifth inning, Iowa’s red-hot bats rattled off 10 runs over the sixth, seventh and eighth en route to a 13-9 victory over the Nittany Lions on a cold Sunday afternoon at Medlar Field at Lubrano Park. Still very much in the hunt for a Big Ten Tournament berth, Penn State (21-25, 8-10 Big Ten) next heads to the Metrodome in Minneapolis for the penultimate Big Ten series of the season against Minnesota.
Steranka’s two-run blast to right field knotted the score at 3-3 heading into the top of the sixth. However, Iowa (21-25, 8-10) stormed back with three runs in the sixth, two in the seventh and five more in the eighth to build a 10-run advantage. Junior Michael Glantz (Marietta, Ga.) fueled a two-run eighth inning with his first home run of the season. A four-run ninth from the Lions trimmed the Iowa lead to 13-9, but that was as close as they would get.
via Baseball Falls to Iowa in Series Finale, 13-9 – PENN STATE OFFICIAL ATHLETIC SITE.
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