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By Jimmy Carlton Second baseman Zach Morton scored the winning run in the 11th inning Saturday. The sophomore also pitched three scoreless innings, picking up his first win of the season. (Mackenzie McCluer/The Daily Northwestern) Sophomore Paul Snieder and his teammates had just dropped the finale of their three-game series at Penn State, a 6-5 [...]

Heath ties a career-high with three hits to help snap the Lions’ four-game losing skid. UNIVERSITY PARK, Pa. – The Penn State baseball team used a four-run third inning to erase a 3-0 deficit, on its way to a 6-5 win over Northwestern in Sunday’s series finale at Medlar Field at Lubrano Park. Junior catcher [...]

By Paul Casella Collegian Staff Writer After giving up late-game leads in the first two games of the series, the Penn State baseball team avoided a sweep at the hands of Northwestern (9-21, 3-3 Big Ten) Sunday with a 6-5 win. The Nittany Lions (13-17, 2-4) overcame two separate deficits and broke a 5-5 tie [...]

Jeff Rice UNIVERSITY PARK — The pitching was better — much better. But the same little mistakes caught Penn State again. The Nittany Lions couldn’t hold a late two-run lead Saturday and lost their second game in as many days to Northwestern, this one a 3-2 affair in 11 innings. Geoff Rowan’s double just inside [...]

Penn State plays its fifth extra-inning game of the season. UNIVERSITY PARK, Pa. – Despite a solid pitching performance from sophomore Ryan Ignas (North Wales, Pa.), the Nittany Lion baseball team fell to Northwestern, 3-2 in 11 innings on a sun-splashed Saturday afternoon at Medlar Field at Lubrano Park. Ignas only allowed one earned run [...]

Steranka goes deep for Penn State, but Wildcats’ six-run eighth inning too much to handle. UNIVERSITY PARK, Pa. – Despite holding a 5-3 lead after six full innings, Northwestern exploded for two runs in the seventh and six more in the eighth to spoil Penn State’s Big Ten home opener, 11-5, on Friday evening at [...]

Jeff Rice Defensive mistakes seem to grow in magnitude as the inning goes on. An errant throw here or a dropped ball doesn’t kill you, but if you allow your opponent to build momentum on those mistakes, as the Penn State baseball team did Friday night against Northwestern, you could be in for a long [...]

By Paul Casella Collegian Staff Writer A disastrous eighth inning, in which the Penn State baseball team used three pitchers and faced 11 Northwestern hitters, was too much for the Nittany Lions (12-16, 1-3 Big Ten) to overcome in Friday night’s 11-5 loss. Entering the inning tied at 5, Penn State gave up six runs [...]

Lighter Lashmet steps up glove game at hot corner By Christine Todd While his defense is much-impoved from last year, Chris Lashmet committed his 10th error of the season against Ohio State. In total, NU made four miscues Sunday. (Mackenzie McCluer/The Daily Northwestern) After Northwestern’s series opener against Ohio State, coach Paul Stevens looked over [...]

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Nittany Lions look to bounce back from two straight Big Ten losses. • The Penn State baseball team looks to build off its fifth walk-off win of the season when it hosts Northwestern this weekend in the Big Ten home opener. The Nittany Lions are coming off a walk-off 7-6 victory over Bucknell on Tuesday. [...]

Friday 4/3 Iowa 15 Purdue 7 Penn State Michigan (cancelled) Indiana 14 Illinois 4 Ohio State 5 Minnesota 7 Northwestern 4 Michigan St 9 Saturday 4/4 Iowa 8 Purdue 10 Iowa 3 Purdue 5 Penn State 6 Michigan 4 (10) Penn State 4 Michigan 9 Northwestern 0 Michigan St 2 (10) Indiana 2 Illinois 1 [...]

CENTRAL CONNECTICUT STATE 6, ILLINOIS 4 IOWA 11, WESTERN ILLINOIS 1 MICHIGAN 9, IPFW 2 MICHIGAN STATE 7, OAKLAND 5 NEW MEXICO 13, NORTHWESTERN 4 OHIO STATE 9, HARTFORD 8 PENN STATE 9, NEW YORK TECH 2