6/21 – Williamsport 3 State College 2

June 21, 2007
	Final 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9   R H E State College 2 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0   2 7 2 Williamsport 0 0 0 0 0 2 0 0 1   3 5 0 wrap | box | log W: L. Wertz (1-0, 0.00); L: J. Charry (0-1, 6.75) HR: None.

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Suero trims Crosscutters

June 21, 2007

Reliever Nicolas Suero tossed five shutout innings as visiting State College defeated Williamsport, 5-2, on Thursday in the completion of a suspended game.

Suero (1-0) surrendered three hits and struck out five without issuing a walk. Starter Basilio Alvarez allowed two runs on four hits and a walk with two strikeouts in two innings on Tuesday before rain halted play.

Erik Huber went 4-for-4 with two doubles and two runs scored for the Spikes (1-1). Smelin Perez cranked a solo homer in the ninth and Michael Ambrose, Justin Byler and Austin McClune each drove in a run.

D’Arby Myers went 3-for-5 with a two-run single in the second for the CrossCutters (1-1).

Williamsport reliever Walter Tejeda (0-1) yielded four runs — three earned — on six hits while striking out two without a walk in five innings. Starter Sergio Escalona allowed a hit and three walks while fanning three in two scoreless innings. –Ryan McConnell/MLB.com

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Crosscutters edge Spikes

Derrick Mitchell scored on a balk in the bottom of the ninth inning as Williamsport edged State College, 3-2, on Thursday.

Mitchell started the decisive frame with a walk, went to second on Herman Demmink’s bunt single and advanced to third on Adam Sorgi’s sacrifice. With Caleb Mangum batting, Spikes reliever Jorge Charry (0-1) balked to force in Mitchell.

Reliever Luke Wertz (1-0) gave up three hits and struck out two in two scoreless innings for the win. Starter Joseph Rocchio yielded two runs on three hits and a walk while fanning five in four innings.

State College starter Anthony Watson, the Pirates’ ninth-round selection in the 2007
First-Year Player draft, struck out nine and walked one over five no-hit innings in his professional debut. The 22-year-old left-hander went 6-4 with a 4.09 ERA in 15 starts for the University of Nebraska this season.

Michael Taylor belted a game-tying RBI single in the sixth for the Crosscutters (2-1). Philip Cuevas scored on first baseman Justin Byler’s throwing error earlier in the frame.

Victor Igsema ripped a two-run triple in the first and Byler went 2-for-4 with a run scored for the Spikes (1-2). –Ryan McConnell/MLB.com

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Spikes Game Notes

TONIGHT’S STARTER: RHP NICOLAS SUERO returns to Historic Bowman Field tonight and will be making his first start of the 2007 season. Suero was obtained by the Pirates as an 18-year old free agent from the Dominican Republic in 2002. In 2003, he posted a 7-1 record, and allowed only six earned runs in 41.2 innings of work. In 2005, he was 10th in the GCL with a 3.28 ERA. Last year, he only walked two batters in 48.1 innings of work. Suero split last season between full season Hickory of the South Atlantic League and Williamsport. Suero also spent the latter half of the 2005 season in a ‘Cutters uniform.

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Arkansas’ Welker Signs With Pittsburgh

FAYETTEVILLE, Ark. (AP) — Former Arkansas pitcher Duke Welker has signed with the Pittsburgh Pirates organization. But it will take some time for ex-Razorback to join a team because of a foot injury.

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Eisenberg has a good pitching outing for Mahoning Valley

…Another player with an MC Pioneer baseball connection will be starting his pro season with the Pirates’ State College (Pa.) Spikes in the New-York-Penn League. Brian Tracy, son of ex-Pioneer and Pirates’ manager Jim Tracy, is a 6-foot-4, 220-pound righthanded pitcher who graduated from UC-Santa Barbara, a member of the Big West Conference, one of the nation’s toughest in collegiate baseball.

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Cutters earn split with State College

Williamsport Crosscutter outfielder Michael Taylor hit the game-tying single in the sixth inning.

And State College Spikes reliever Jorge Charrry balked in Derrick Mitchell from third three innings later to give the Cutters a 3-2 win and a split of Thursday night’s doubleheader.

But if you were looking for a hero or a goat, at Bowman Field, depending on your loyalties, you’d probably pin it on the guy who invented the pitch count.
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The Williamsport Crosscutters’ D’Arby Myers tries to sell
this catch to the umpires on Thursday night at Bowman Field.

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Cutters and Spikes Split a Pair

Cutters Maintain 2-1 SawBuck Series Advantage

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Crosscutters spoil party in game of inches

UNIVERSITY PARK — The ball seemed destined to land somewhere in the left-center field gap, the most spacious part of Medlar Field at Lubrano Park.

It hit the sweet spot. It started flying on the sharp, 45-degree trajectory that looks pleasant from every spot of the spacious stadium.

But the ball State College Spikes first baseman Justin Byler hit with two outs and the bases loaded in the eighth inning during Wednesday’s home opener never landed in one of the parallel patches of two-year-old grass.

Williamsport left fielder Jermaine Williams sprinted to his left, extended his glove and caught the ball two feet from the letters on his red jersey.

The bases were never cleared and the ideal ending never materialized.

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State College a long trip for Ambrose

UNIVERSITY PARK — Michael Ambrose’s week has included stops in the North Carolina cities of Asheville and Hickory, and an appearance on the infield at Williamsport’s Bowman Field.

The most recent stop evoked memories of the circuitous journey Ambrose took to become a professional recruit.

Ambrose, an infielder who joined the State College Spikes earlier this week, stepped on Medlar Field at Lubrano Park for the first time Wednesday and was greeted by a coach who tried to pluck him from Canada.

The same coach now works in a spacious office overlooking Medlar Field’s third-base line.

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Spikes’ second act still worth it

UNIVERSITY PARK — Chris Phillips, as usual, spent Wednesday in a state of perpetual motion.

The State College Spikes’ director of ticket sales strode briskly up and down the concourses at Medlar Field at Lubrano Park, pausing only to greet fans he wouldn’t have known this time last year but have become, in just one season plus one game, ballpark regulars.

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State College’s Nick Stillwagon is welcomed by Ike the Spike during
player introductions before the start of the home opener on Wednesday
June 20. CDT/Christopher Weddle

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