WILLIAMSPORT, Pa. – In a game that featured three lead changes, the State College Spikes took advantage of Williamsport Crosscutters miscues, but fell victim to a Brodey Acres RBI single to the sixth for the eventual game-winning run as they took a 6-5 defeat on Wednesday night at Journey Bank Ballpark at Historic Bowman Field.

State College (10-10) jumped out in front in the first after Andrew Wiggins singled, Trent Turner doubled, and Mac Rose’s infield single along with an error brought them both in.

Following Chance Jennings’s three-run double for the Crosscutters (13-6) in the second, the Spikes seized on a Wiggins single and four Williamsport walks in the third to plate two runs and regain the lead, 4-3.

The Spikes would fight back one more time after Chris Stanfield’s bases-loaded walk and Amari Allen’s RBI groundout in the fifth to tie the game at 5-5 on another Williamsport error in the sixth. However, Acres produced a two-out single in the bottom of the frame to plate Kyle Schupmann for the deciding run.

State College starter Parker Detmers went a season-long three innings, bookending his outing with 1-2-3 frames. Detmers was charged with three runs on three hits and a walk, all in the second.

Spikes reliever Conner Griffin then produced two innings of two-run ball in his debut with the club before Kyle Emmons (1-1) took over in the sixth. Emmons recorded five strikeouts in his mound tenure, but allowed the go-ahead run on one hit, two walks and a hit batsman in taking the loss.

Williamsport reliever Cooper Dossett (1-0) picked up the win in his debut with the Crosscutters, allowing one unearned run while walking two batters and striking out one.