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Baseball – Penn State University Official Athletic Site via kwout

Baseball – Penn State University Official Athletic Site via kwout

Baseball – Penn State University Official Athletic Site via kwout

Baseball – Penn State University Official Athletic Site via kwout UncleLar Take: Last week the SID took a little shortcut by combining the game notes for Lasalle and Youngstown State. It appears the shortcut this week is to just not produce a game notes for Villanova at all. Unfortunately, the Villanova SID doesn’t produce game [...]

Baseball – Penn State University Official Athletic Site via kwout

Baseball – Penn State University Official Athletic Site via kwout UncleLar Take: Huge series. PSU can unofficially dig themselves out of that whole they created for themselves at the beginning of the season with a series win in Champaign. Reportedly, TJ Macy’s performance on Wednesday has earned him a Saturday start with Mike Lorentson replacing [...]

Pitchers contribute to win – The Daily Collegian Online via kwout

Baseball – Penn State University Official Athletic Site via kwout UncleLar Take: This is the way the team should perform during the mid-week games. This was a 180 turnaround fromt he Akron game last week. The team came out focused, scoring in five of the first six innings and the pitching staff was literally, not [...]

PSU practicing light – The Daily Collegian Online via kwout UncleLar Take: I hope something works because to date little has. I suppose the good news is that the Lions first three series have been against the three top clubs in the conference. Then again maybe those squads are only atop the conference because they’ve [...]

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Baseball – Penn State University Official Athletic Site via kwout

Lions escape sweep – The Daily Collegian Online via kwout

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Pitching let us down this game. Purdue got runners on board in every inning and busted loose with a big eighth. Baseball – Penn State University Official Athletic Site via kwout

Ryan Stobart gets the start. Robbie Wine is shaking up the rotation a little. Stobart moves from his normal Sunday slot to Fridays. Lorentson and Wanamaker remain in their Saturdays role. Sunday looks to be a shared responsibility with Seth Whiltehill, TJ Macy, and John Karr all probable candidates for time and the start.. Baseball [...]