State College 10
Cyclones 4
June 30 at State College
Brooklyn was beaten 10-4 on Thursday night as Joel Huertas gave up eight runs on 12 hits in five-and-one-third innings.
The Spikes got on the board in the first as Dylan Tice singled, moved to second on a Vincent Jackson single and scored on Ryan McCarvel’s single.
The Cyclones came back to take the lead in the fourth. Gene Cone led off with a single and Nick Sergakis followed with a walk. With one out, Colby Woodmansee drove in Cone with a single to left and took second on the throw as Sergakis moved to third. Brandon Brosher’s single scored Sergakis and gave Brooklyn a 2–1 lead. Two batters later, Arnaldo Berrios’ scored Woodmansee and put Brooklyn up 3–1.
The State College bats exploded in the fifth. Jose Martinez led off with a single. Then a fielding error by Cone in center scored Martinez and put Tice on third. Huertas recovered to strike out Jackson, but his control didn’t last long as McCarvel tripled to center to tie the game at three. Bladimil Franco’s double to left gave the Spikes a lead the squad would never surrender. Elier Rodriguez’s two-out single to right scored Franco and padded that lead.
Cyclones’ pitcher Nabil Crismatt came into the game in the bottom of the sixth and promptly surrendered a two-run double to McCarvel as State College took an 8–3 lead.
The Spikes extended the lead in the seventh as Rodriguez doubled, advanced to third on a wild pitch and scored on a groundout.
The exclamation point was McCarvel’s home run in the eighth.
The Cyclones got one back in the ninth as Berrios singled in Brosher, but it was too little too late.
The 6–8 Cyclones return home on Friday for a 7 pm game against the Connecticut Tigers.
UPS AND DOWNS
Joel Huertas is now 0-2 with an earned-run average of 10.43
Arnaldo Berrios had a team-high three hits on Thursday.
Colby Woodmansee had two hits and now has a .405 batting average
