- Saturday Game Notes Supplement(.PDF)
| Mike Deese leads Penn State with six RBI in the Big Ten Tournament. |
ANN ARBOR, Mich.; May 26, 2007 ?C The elimination game between Penn State and Minnesota at the Big Ten Tournament on Saturday has been suspended and will resume on Sunday morning at 10:00 a.m. at Ray Fisher Stadium on the campus of the University of Michigan. Both the Penn State-Minnesota game and the first championship game between the winner of Penn State-Minnesota was also scheduled for Saturday at 7:05 p.m. and that game will now be played on Sunday at 12:05 p.m. If a second championship game is necessary, it is scheduled for 3:35 p.m.
Both championship games are still scheduled to be broadcast by CSTV on Sunday but on tape delay. Further information regarding the CSTV broadcasts will be announced at it becomes available. The game that was started tonight will resume with Penn State leading 3-2 entering the bottom of the seventh inning. Penn State scored two runs in the top of the seventh to take the lead before the rains came and the rain delay began at 6:08 p.m. After a 2-hour, 24-minute rain delay, the decision was made by tournament officials to suspend the game until Sunday.
SATURDAY'S PREVIEW
ANN ARBOR, Mich.; May 26, 2007 - Survivors of two elimination games on Friday, the Penn State baseball team will look to survive two more games on Saturday and advance to a winner-take-all game on Sunday for the Big Ten Championship. The third-seeded Nittany Lions will take on the second-seeded Minnesota Golden Gophers at 3:35 p.m. in an elimination game. The winner of that game moves onto the championship round beginning Saturday night at 7:05 p.m. against Ohio State.
Minnesota lost to Ohio State 10-9 in extra innings on Friday night, sending themselves to the losers bracket to meet up with the Nittany Lions, who have won three straight elimination games following their opening game loss to the Buckeyes on Wednesday. The Gophers are just 1-1 in this tournament, having topped Illinois in their first game Thursday before losing to the Buckeyes.
If the Nittany Lions are able to survive a fourth straight elimination game, then they will move on to take on Ohio State immediately following the first game. Saturday night's game will be televised live on CSTV beginning at 7 p.m. with Tom Hart and Buck Martinez calling all the action from Ray Fisher Stadium in Ann Arbor.