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State College Spikes Game Notes - July 22 vs. Mahoning Valley

Published on July 22, 2014 under New York-Penn League (NYPL)
State College Spikes News Release


Tuesday, July 22 - 7:05 p.m.

Medlar Field at Lubrano Park - State College, PA

MAHONING VALLEY SCRAPPERS - Cleveland Indians (15-22) at

STATE COLLEGE SPIKES - St. Louis Cardinals (26-11)

Game #38 / Home Game #19

Starting Pitchers:

State College - RHP Trey Nielsen (3-0, 1 SV, 1.25)

Mahoning Valley - RHP Cameron Hill (0-1, 1.29)

TONIGHT (7:05 vs. Mahoning Valley): T-Shirt Tuesday Giveaway (First 500 Fans, All Ages) presented by T&B Medical...Chick-fil-A Spikes Student All-Stars Night...Super Hero Night

TOMORROW NIGHT (7:05 vs. Mahoning Valley): Half-Price Wednesday presented by BIG Froggy 101...Acoustic Night with Sgt. Bob

SATURDAY, JULY 26 (7:05 vs. Auburn): Duck Dynasty Night featuring Cast Member Mountain Man presented by Service Master by Holobinko & Merry Maids and BIG Froggy 101

-SPIKES START FIVE-GAME HOMESTAND TONIGHT: The State College Spikes hold a 7 1/2-game lead in the New York-Penn League Pinckney Division as they restart division play tonight against the Mahoning Valley Scrappers at Medlar Field at Lubrano Park. Tonight marks the first of ten meetings of the season between the two teams, and starts a five-game homestand for the Spikes. State College will also welcome Auburn to the ballpark for a three-game series starting on Thursday. The Spikes are 38-42 all-time against the Scrappers, with a 25-15 mark in games played at Medlar Field at Lubrano Park.

-LAST GAME: Rowan Wick went 2-for-4 with a double and a triple to increase his New York-Penn League-leading extra-base hit total to 23, but the State College Spikes dropped a rubber match to the Tri-City ValleyCats, 4-1, on Monday night at Joseph L. Bruno Stadium.

Wick's sixth-inning double extended his franchise-record on-base streak to 26 games, and his road hitting streak to 11. The North Vancouver, BC native then delivered a one-out triple in the ninth inning and scored the only State College run on Jake Stone's RBI groundout.

Tri-City took the lead in the third inning when Mott Hyde led off with a double and scored on Bobby Boyd's single two batters later. The ValleyCats added three runs in the fifth thanks to RBI singles from Derek Fisher and Boyd, as well as a run-scoring double by Jamie Ritchie.

State College starter Daniel Poncedeleon took the loss despite allowing just one run on four hits and two walks over four innings of work. Poncedeleon also recorded a career-high five strikeouts in the effort.

-NIELSEN LOOKS FOR ANOTHER STRONG START: Right-hander Trey Nielsen makes his second start and ninth overall appearance of the year for the Spikes tonight. Nielsen's first career start as a professional resulted in four hitless, scoreless innings of work for the Cardinals' 2013 30th-round draft choice. The University of Utah product struck out three and yielded just one walk on the night against Vermont this past Wednesday. Nielsen began the year as a reliever, and has twice gone four innings in a single outing. The righty is allowing just a .083 batting average to left-handers this year.

-HILL GOES TO MOUND FOR SCRAPPERS: Right-hander Cameron Hill makes the start for Mahoning Valley this evening. Hill, the Indians' 17th-round draft choice in 2014 out of Redlands Community College in Oklahoma, allowed one run over four hitless innings in his last start on Thursday against Connecticut. The El Reno, OK native gave up four walks and a hit batsman while recording three strikeouts. Hill has not gone longer than four innings in one outing this year, and makes his seventh appearance of the season for the Scrappers tonight. Hill has given up just 10 hits over 21 innings, or less than 4.3 per nine innings.

-WICK IT...WICK IT REAL GOOD : Rowan Wick continues to smash Spikes records, as he extended his own club record with his 14th home run of the season on Friday at Vermont. The North Vancouver, BC native is currently bidding for the NYPL's Triple Crown, as he is leading the loop in homers and RBI, and his .378 average has overtaken Tri- City's Bobby Boyd for the league lead. The NYPL's last Triple Crown winner was Vito Chiaravalloti of Auburn in 2003. Wick's 38 RBI also put him just 12 RBI shy of the Spikes' club record in that category, set by David Washington in 2013.

-SPIKE MARKS: Jake Stone saw his 14-game hitting streak come to an end on Sunday after going 0-for-2 and being walked on four pitches in his last appearances...The streak was the longest since Brian Friday's club record 18-game string in 2007...The Spikes and Scrappers will next play a three-game series at Eastwood Field in Niles, OH next Sunday through Tuesday once this two-game set concludes...State College is also set to play Auburn eight more times this season, starting on Thursday with their three-game home set against the Doubledays

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