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2010 SCHEDULE
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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. ET

Sat., Feb. 27
vs. Seton Hall
Clearwater, Fla.
10:00 a.m. ET

Sun., Feb. 28
vs. Notre Dame
St. Petersburg, Fla.
10:00 a.m. ET

YMBL Cardinal Classic

Fri., [...]

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, [...]

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 [...]

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 out [...]

Purdue did the Lions a favor by knocking off Illinois 11-2 in the second game of their doubleheader today, thus handing the Lions the third seed in the Big Ten Tournament.
Play starts in Ann Arbor on Wednesday. #3 PSU will meet $6 Indiana and #5 Ohio State matches up with #4 Illinois. The teams [...]

Coach Bell remarks following DH sweep of Iowa

Baseball – Penn State University Official Athletic Site via kwout

UncleLar Take:
It’s not every day that you see a runner thrown out at the plate on a wild pitch. Much less for the last out. And even much less when it would be the tying run.
Drew O’Neil really stepped up today. [...]

I’ve just witnessed two of the more dramatic finishes that I’ve ever seen in a college ball and they happened in both ends of PSU’s doubleheader against Iowa today.
The Lions had a comfortable 6-0 lead in the first game but Iowa fought their way back. PSU wound up bringing in their All-American closer Drew [...]