- Kansas Game Notes(.PDF)
| Seth Whitehill will start for Penn State against Kansas on Tuesday night. |
LAWRENCE, Kan.; March 12, 2007 - The Penn State baseball team will continue its spring break trip to the Midwest with a single game on Tuesday night at Kansas. First pitch will be at 6:00 p.m. (ET) and the game can be heard on GoPSUsports.com.
The Jayhawks will be the second team from the Big 12 Conference that the Nittany Lions will face this year and will be the third team from Kansas that the Nittany Lions will face this year, joining Kansas State and Wichita State. Prior to this year, the only team that Penn State had faced from the Big 12 was Texas A&M. This will be the Nittany Lions' first-ever meeting with Kansas, which follows their first-ever games against Wichita State this past weekend.
The Penn State bats struggled this past weekend in the three-game series with the Shockers but the pitching was outstanding. The Nittany Lion pitching staff compiled a 2.96 ERA in the three games. Ryan Stobart (Barrington, Ill.) gave up just two earned runs in five innings of work in his first Penn State start on Friday, Craig Clark (Phoenixville, Pa.) gave up just three earned runs in seven innings of work on Saturday, and Scott Gaffney (Westbury, N.Y.) was superb with a career high seven innings pitched and no earned runs and just four hits allowed on Sunday.
Seth Whitehill (Bellefonte, Pa.) will look to continue the string of strong starting pitching of late for the Nittany Lions as he takes the hill on Tuesday against the Jayhawks. Whitehill has started two games so far this year, throwing eight innings and allowing just three earned runs in his first start of the year against Kansas State.
Kansas enters Tuesday's game with an 11-8 record and like the Nittany Lions, they were also swept this past weekend in a three-game series at Arkansas.