ABERDEEN, Md. – In their first meeting in 10 years, the State College Spikes set a new franchise record with 10 stolen bases and outpointed the Aberdeen IronBirds, 7-6, on Tuesday night at Union Field at Ripken Stadium.

CJ Richmond and Dominic Pellegrin each swiped three bases, while Kolt Myers and Tyree Reed took two apiece to enable the Spikes (3-4) to surpass their previous record of nine steals in a game, set on August 29, 2024 at home against West Virginia.

State College took the lead in the first when Reed walked, stole his two bases and scored on Andrew Wiggins’s groundout. The Spikes then flashed power in the second with back-to-back ground-rule doubles from Myers and Richmond, followed by a walk to Pellegrin, a double steal, and Jacob Croxford’s sacrifice fly.

Aberdeen (2-5) responded with a pair of runs in the third before Alex Mendoza Jr. and Wiggins each produced RBI singles in the fourth. Pellegrin then knocked in a run with a single in the fifth and, after Kan Taguchi triple and scored on Dalton Bargo’s sacrifice fly for Aberdeen in the fifth, was hit by a pitch with the bases loaded in the seventh.

Spikes pitching then had to hang tough late, but Parker Burgess escaped a bases-loaded, no-outs situation with three straight strikeouts in the eighth and Gavin Killion (1) withstood a two-run, two-hit, one-walk inning in the ninth to lock down the save.

In addition to being a big part of the historic base-stealing effort, Richmond preserved the win with a diving play to snare a Nelson Zapata groundball for the final out.

It was the first meeting between the Spikes and IronBirds, two old New York-Penn League mates, since August 31, 2016, and the Spikes’ first visit to Union Field at Ripken Stadium since July 23, 2015.

Zach Kilby (1-1) earned the win with 2 1/3 innings of one-run relief, allowing two hits while striking out four batters.

IronBirds starter Pierce Quinn (0-2) took the loss after yielding five runs over four innings of work.

Bargo led the Aberdeen offense with three runs batted in.