Happy Valley Hardball with a sabermetrics twist

Zach Ell, a senior at Holy Redeemer High School, recently accepted an athletic scholarship to Penn State University to continue his baseball career. Recruited as an outfielder, Ell has been selected to the 2010 Under Armour All American Team, and last year he participated in the Commander Cup and the Under Armour Team Showcase and [...]

Bad news = we’re back in the basement. Good news = we’re only two games out of first Team W-L GB Pct 1 Michigan 10 – 8 – 0 – 0.556 1 Purdue 10 – 8 – 0 – 0.556 1 Northwestern 10 – 8 – 0 – 0.556 1 Minnesota 10 – 8 – [...]

UNIVERSITY PARK — Penn State scored three runs in the first inning on the way to its sixth consecutive Big Ten win as the Nittany Lions topped Iowa 6-2 Friday at Medlar Field at Lubrano Park. Steve Snyder went 4-for-5 to pace a 10-hit attack and Penn State (21-23 overall, 8-8 Big Ten) rode the [...]

By Paul Casella Collegian Staff Writer Despite holding the Purdue offense to six runs a day after giving up 18, the Penn State baseball team lost again to the Boilermakers Saturday, 6-4. Purdue started out the game much like it played Friday night, scoring four runs in the bottom of the first before the Nittany [...]

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2010 SCHEDULE ( Click on an event for complete event information ) Date Opponent / Event Location Time / Result Sat., Feb. 20 vs. Coppin State Farmville, Va. 12:00 p.m. ET Sun., Feb. 21 at Longwood Farmville, Va. 12:00 p.m. ET Big Ten/BIG EAST Challenge Fri., Feb. 26 vs. Cincinnati St. Petersburg, Fla. 1:00 p.m. [...]

Penn State Baseball Well-Represented in Collegiate Summer Leagues – PENN STATE OFFICIAL ATHLETIC SITE via kwout

Penn State Looks to Continue its Winning Ways as It Hosts Purdue this Weekend – PENN STATE OFFICIAL ATHLETIC SITE via kwout

psubaseball has been tweeting updates from the Penn State baseball games during their southern swing. From now on, I’ll be carrying his tweets in my sidebar so that you’ll be able to get the absolute most current Penn State baseball updates on my site. If you’d like to get psubaseball’s Twitter updates directly, click here [...]

Will Hoover to Happy Valley – The Sports Blog with The Patriot-News via kwout

Joe signs on with the independent Frontier League Traverse City (MI) Beach Bums. Blackburn will get a chance to showcase his skills and maybe sign a free agent contract with a major league program later. Complete story here.

It’s been over two weeks since Penn State’s season ended and the MLB draft seemed awfully disappointing with only one Nittany Lion drafted. The good news is that the start of the Spikes season is only a bit more than a week away. The even better news is that I’ve started a blog dedicated to [...]

He was the 120th pick overall.   Good luck to Drew in his baseball future.

Baseball – Penn State University Official Athletic Site via kwout UncleLar Take: Indiana topped Illinois so the Lions will get to face the Hoosiers for the second time in the tournament. Indiana will be playing their second game of the day which certainly works to PSU’s advantage but the Hoosiers did get a complete game [...]