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State College Spikes Game Notes - July 5 vs. Jamestown

Published on July 5, 2014 under New York-Penn League (NYPL)
State College Spikes News Release


Saturday, July 5 - 7:05 p.m.

Medlar Field at Lubrano Park - State College, PA

JAMESTOWN JAMMERS - Pittsburgh Pirates (8-13) at

STATE COLLEGE SPIKES - St. Louis Cardinals (14-7)

Game #22 / Home Game #11

Starting Pitchers:

State College - LHP Austin Gomber (0-1, 2.25)

Jamestown - RHP Marek Minarik (0-2, 3.50)

TONIGHT (7:05 vs. Jamestown): Spikes Hat Giveaway (First 1,000 Fans, All Ages) presented by Lion Country Kia...Lion Country Kia Dice Roll...Scratch n' Win Saturday...National Penn Bank Books & Baseball Night...Post-Game Kids Run the Bases presented by Clinical Outcomes Group, Inc....Penn State Credit Card Ticket Discount Night

TOMORROW NIGHT (6:05 vs. Jamestown): FIREWORKS presented by PA Lottery and ESPN Radio 1450...Military Appreciation Night presented by Beer Belly's...Kids Day presented by First National Bank...Kids Eat & Play Free presented by Dairy Queen Grill & Chill...Kids Run the Bases presented by Clinical Outcomes Group, Inc....Patriotic Hat-off-the-Head Auction...Penn State Credit Card Ticket Discount Night

-SPIKES LOOK TO KEEP MOMENTUM GOING AGAINST JAMMERS: The State College Spikes return to Medlar Field at Lubrano Park tonight for the middle game of a three-game series against the Jamestown Jammers. The Spikes have now won three straight games, including a pair of wins on the road in Batavia. Jamestown, meanwhile, has lost four straight games coming into this evening's contest. The Spikes are 3-2 against the Jammers so far this year, with the road team winning every game until yesterday. All-time, State College is 42-43 against Jamestown, with a 20-22 home record.

-LAST NIGHT: Jake Stone hit the tenth grand slam in State College Spikes history to key the Spikes' comeback from a four-run deficit to defeat the Jamestown Jammers, 11-9, in a Fourth of July afternoon contest on Friday at Medlar Field at Lubrano Park.

Stone's seventh-inning slam capped a six-run frame for the Spikes, who trailed the Jammersw, 5-1, going into the sixth inning. Stone, a native of Wilmington, NC, became the ninth State College player to hit a grand slam. David Washington smashed two last year, including a slam on the Fourth of July.

Andrew Sohn also delivered a two-run single for the Spikes in the sixth inning, and Nick Thompson's two-run double gave State College its first lead of the game in the seventh. Thompson finished the game 3-for-5 with three runs batted in. Alex De Leon collected four hits to help the Spikes' offensive cause as well, and started the game 4-for-4. De Leon came a flyout in the eighth shy of tying the State College single-game hits record.

Sohn and Darren Seferina both tripled for State College, with Seferina scoring an insurance run for the Spikes in the eighth inning.

-GOMBER GOES TO HILL FOR SPIKES: Left-hander Austin Gomber gets his third start as a professional for the Spikes today. In his previous start, Gomber alloweed five runs, but only one earned, in two innings at Williamsport last Saturday. The fourth-round draft choice of the Cardinals in 2014, Gomber has tossed a total of four innings, and has loaded the bases in three of them. In two of those frames, Gomber escaped without allowing a run. The Winter Garden, FL native was named First Team All-Sun Belt Conference in 2014 after posting a 2.80 conference ERA for Florida Atlantic.

-MINARIK THE MOUNDSMAN FOR JAMMERS: Czech right-hander Marek Minarik makes the start for Jamestown tonight, his third of the season. Minarik pitched five shutout innings in a decision against the Spikes on June 24 in State College, but lost his last outing after giving up six runs, five earned, over five innings at Mahoning Valley. The native of Louny in the Czech Republic signed with the Pirates organization in the offseason after last seeing action with the Gulf Coast League Phillies in 2012. Minarik went 1-0 with a save and a 2.65 ERA for the GCL Phils that year, and appeared in World Baseball Classic qualifying play with the Czech Republic in September 2012.

-WICK IT...WICK IT REAL GOOD : Rowan Wick grabbed more laurels to begin the 2014 season as he earned the St. Louis Cardinals Player of the Month award on Wednesday and set the Spikes' single-season home run record with his 11th homer later that night. Wick has continued his torrid start the 2014 season, with at least one homer in every Spikes series this season. The North Vancouver, BC native is currently bidding for the NYPL's Triple Crown, as he is leading the league with 27 RBI, and his .391 batting average is second only to Connecticut's Michael Gerber.

-SPIKE MARKS: State College is now 6-0 when playing at home on the Fourth of July, and 8-1 all-time on the holiday...The Spikes will have played only three teams - Williamsport, Batavia and Jamestown - over the first 23 games of the season...Will Anderson, tomorrow's Spikes starter, is sixth in the New York-Penn League with a 1.06 ERA...Wick is homering once every 5.91 at-bats, while teammate Alex De Leon has a long ball once every 12.2 at-bats...The Spikes lead the league with 122 runs scored as a team...State College's +38 run differential is the largest in the league, followed by Connecticut's +17 mark...The Spikes have only been outhit three times this year, all on the road

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