After 4 hours and 21 minutes of baseball on a beautiful night, the State College Spikes defeated the West Virginia Black Bears, 5-2 in 15 innings before 2,692 fans at Monongalia County Ballpark.
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| Monongalia County Ballpark, Granville, WV |
It was a frustrating loss for Black Bears' fans, as the Black Bears stranded 18 runners on base and struck out 19 times. The Black Bears led 2-1 until
Joshua Lopez homered off of reliever
Yoandy Fernandez in the 8th.
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| NY-Penn League News Photo |
Sandy Santos went 2 for 5 and drove in both Black Bears' runs. He is batting .333 in his last ten games with 1 home run and 5 RBI. On the down side, he dropped a routine fly ball in the 12th and has a sub-par fielding percentage of .911 this season.
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State College Spikes'
Scott Hurst homered in the 15th to give the Spikes the 5-2 win. Hurst was a third round pick this year by the Cardinals out of California-Fullerton.
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With the loss, the Black Bears (33-23) lead the Mahoning Valley Scrappers (30-24) by two games in the Pinckney Division. State College (30-26) is three games back.
West Virginia continues their home stand with a three game series against the Mahoning Valley Scrappers beginning tonight at 7:05pm. It is Superhero night. Black Bears jerseys will be auctioned off to benefit the New York-Penn League Charitable Foundation. Get ticket information
here.
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