- Temple Game Notes(.PDF)
| Ryan Stobart will start Wednesday's contest against Temple. |
UNIVERSITY PARK, Pa.; April 10, 2007 - In-between two straight weekends of Big Ten road series, the Penn State baseball team will host a midweek game on Wednesday night against Temple. First pitch at Medlar Field at Lubrano Park is at 6:35 p.m.
The Penn State-Temple series is the fourth most played in Penn State program history, behind only Bucknell, Pittsburgh and West Virginia. This will be the 84th meeting between the Nittany Lions and Owls, but the first since the 1999 season. Temple enters a Tuesday night home game against Villanova with a 10-17 overall record and a 4-5 mark in Atlantic 10 play.
The Nittany Lions are coming off a week in which they went 3-2 in a pair of midweek games and a weather-shortened three-game series at Iowa. The Lions topped both Bucknell and Kent State at home last week and won one out of three games at Iowa. Penn State and Iowa were the only two teams to play in the Big Ten on Friday and Saturday last weekend. All but one Big Ten series was shortened this past weekend due to the weather, and one was entirely wiped out.
Penn State (8-17, 2-4 Big Ten) enters Wednesday night's game having stolen 10 straight bases without being caught. By contrast, Nittany Lion catchers have thrown out seven of their last 13 attempted basestealers.
Relief pitcher Matt Ogrodnik (Saltsburg, Pa.) picked up his first career Big Ten Pitcher of the Week award this week after picking up a win and a save in his two appearances last week. The save was Penn State's fourth of the year, tying the save total from all of last year in just the 23rd game of the year.
After Wednesday's game, the Nittany Lions will hit the road once again to face Michigan State this coming weekend.