- Indiana Series Notes(.PDF)
| Rick Marlin has 13 RBI in his last seven games. |
UNIVERSITY PARK, Pa.; April 26, 2007 - Winners of five consecutive games, its longest winning streak since the 2005 season, the Penn State baseball team will look for its third straight Big Ten series win this weekend as the Nittany Lions travel to Bloomington, Ind. for a four-game series with Indiana. Quite the opposite of the Nittany Lions right now, the Hoosiers enter this weekend's series on an eight-game losing streak.
Penn State will be looking for three straight Big Ten series wins for the first time since the 2000 season. However, one of those series were rain-shortened. Therefore, assuming all four games are played this weekend, the Nittany Lions will be looking for three straight series wins in four-game series since the 1996 season.
Several Penn State hitters enter this weekend on hot streaks. Joe Blackburn has risen to third in the Big Ten in hits with 55 and seventh in the conference in hitting at .387. He is hitting .682 in his last six games. Matt Cavagnaro became the first player, college or pro, to have five hits in a game at Medlar Field at Lubrano Park on Wednesday night with a 5-for-6 performance vs. Duquesne. He has hit in eight straight games, just one short of his season high hitting streak. Rick Marlin has driven in 13 runs in his last seven games.
The Nittany Lions and Hoosiers have split series in their last two meetings - last year and in 2003 - as the teams did not meet in 2004 and 2005. This will be Penn State's first trip to Bloomington since the 2002 season. Penn State leads the all-time series 27-22. Following this weekend's series, Penn State will play nine of its final 13 games at home, with a trip to Michigan in two weeks the only remaining regular season road games.
Game times this weekend are set for 3:00 on Friday and 1:00 on both Saturday and Sunday.