Craig Clark has a 5-0 record and a 1.41 ERA at the midway point of the Coastal Plains League season and was named a CPL All-Star, becoming the third member of the Nittany Lion baseball team to be named to a summer league All-Star team this summer.

RALEIGH, N.C.; July 18, 2006 - Craig Clark (Phoenixville, Pa.), who will be a senior on the Penn State baseball team next year, became the third different Penn Stater to be named to an All-Star team in a summer league, when he was named to the National League All-Star Team for the Coastal Plains League All-Star game, which will be held tonight in Fayetteville, N.C. at J.P. Riddle Stadium. Penn State teammates Matt Cavagnaro (Brightwaters, N.Y.) and Mark Wyner (Norwalk, Conn.) participated in the Texas Collegiate League All-Star game last week.

Much like his Nittany Lion teammates in Texas, Clark is putting up impressive numbers in the wooden bat league that has teams based in North Carolina, South Carolina, and Virginia. On the season, Clark has compiled a 5-0 record in eight appearances, all of them starts, to go along with a 1.41 earned run average. Clark is second on his team, the Peninsula Pilots, and tied for third in the CPL in wins and is also seventh in the league in ERA. He is also tied for fourth in strikeouts and has pitched the third-most innings in the league. He is holding opposing hitters to a .169 batting average in 51 innings of work and has allowed just eight earned runs. Clark also has 45 strikeouts and has walked 16 on the year. At the All-Star break, Peninsula is in second place in the North Division of the CPL with a 22-15 record.