Spikes Finally Beat Scrappers
By: Mike Fink
Updated: August 7, 2007
UNIVERSITY PARK, PA (CENTRE COUNTY) - On a day when Pirates 1st round selection Daniel Moskos made his Spikes debut, it was a pair of lesser known prospects who took center stage in the Spikes 6-2 win over the Mahoning Valley Scrappers. The win snapped the Scrappers eight game winning streak. Matt Foust (2-3), the Pirates 6th round selection in 2007, made the start and tossed five shutout innings to get the win. Offensively, it was Marcus Davis, an 18th round selection from Alcorn State, who lead the charge. Davis went 2-for-3 with two runs scored, two RBI and his sixth home run of the season.
State College and Mahoning Valley matched zeroes in the first and second innings before the Spikes took the lead in the bottom of the third. Davis and Bobby Spain started the threat with back-to-back singles and the pair moved into scoring position after a perfectly executed sacrifice bunt from Austin McClune. Keanon Simon then followed with an RBI double that opened the scoring and gave the Spikes a 2-0 advantage.
It would remain that way until the sixth inning when Foust left and Moskos took the Medlar Field at Lubrano Park mound for the first time. The former Clemson Tiger allowed one run on three hits over his two innings of work, but the Spikes made up that run pretty quickly as Marcus Davis’s seventh inning home run gave the Spikes a 3-1 lead after seven.
In the eighth the Scrappers scored once and had two more runners in scoring position with two outs, but Ronald Uviedo wiggled out of the jam and kept the Spikes in front 3-2. In the bottom half of the frame State College answered in a big way, scoring three more runs to put the game out of reach. Three straight singles from Andrew Walker, Erik Huber and Smelin Perez resulted in a pair of runs and Davis capped the inning with a sacrifice fly that made the final 6-2 in favor of the Spikes.
The Spikes will look to build on Monday afternoon’s win when they welcome the Lowell Spinners to Medlar Field at Lubrano for the first of three on Tuesday evening at 7:05 p.m. RHP Nicolas Suero (1-3) will make the start for State College.
For more information about the Spikes visit their website at statecollegespikes.com .
State College and Mahoning Valley matched zeroes in the first and second innings before the Spikes took the lead in the bottom of the third. Davis and Bobby Spain started the threat with back-to-back singles and the pair moved into scoring position after a perfectly executed sacrifice bunt from Austin McClune. Keanon Simon then followed with an RBI double that opened the scoring and gave the Spikes a 2-0 advantage.
It would remain that way until the sixth inning when Foust left and Moskos took the Medlar Field at Lubrano Park mound for the first time. The former Clemson Tiger allowed one run on three hits over his two innings of work, but the Spikes made up that run pretty quickly as Marcus Davis’s seventh inning home run gave the Spikes a 3-1 lead after seven.
In the eighth the Scrappers scored once and had two more runners in scoring position with two outs, but Ronald Uviedo wiggled out of the jam and kept the Spikes in front 3-2. In the bottom half of the frame State College answered in a big way, scoring three more runs to put the game out of reach. Three straight singles from Andrew Walker, Erik Huber and Smelin Perez resulted in a pair of runs and Davis capped the inning with a sacrifice fly that made the final 6-2 in favor of the Spikes.
The Spikes will look to build on Monday afternoon’s win when they welcome the Lowell Spinners to Medlar Field at Lubrano for the first of three on Tuesday evening at 7:05 p.m. RHP Nicolas Suero (1-3) will make the start for State College.
For more information about the Spikes visit their website at statecollegespikes.com .
