Just two weeks into the season, the Penn State baseball team has seen it all and done it all. All, that is, except win.

At 0-6 on the season, the Nittany Lions have been routed, and they've also given away games in the final innings. But throughout those first two weekends, they have shown a steady stream of improvement.

That stream leads directly to Clearwater, Fla., where Penn State coach Robbie Wine said he expects his club to go undefeated in its eight-game road trip lasting from tomorrow to March 11 at Jack Russell Memorial Field, which was home of the Philadelphia Phillies' spring training camps until 2003.

"My expectation is to win every game," Wine said. "The sense of not winning now is over. Now is the time to win. We should go down there and beat all these teams."

Against the likes of Lehigh, Central Michigan, Jacksonville, Sacred Heart, Toledo, Bowling Green and two games against Bethune-Cookman, Wine feels his club can compete, especially following games against traditional powerhouses to start the schedule.

Wine had a contact in Clearwater and set helped set up the event which will host between five and 10 teams against mostly northern schools, a welcome relief for all of them to get down south and play outdoors for the week.

"We set up a deal at Jack Russell Field," Wine said. "We told them what we wanted ... we wanted to play every day with one day off in the middle."

Ask and ye shall receive. Thursday is the lone off day, but to keep with the eight games in eight days goal, the Lions have a doubleheader March 11. First is a game against Bethune-Cookman followed by an afternoon affair in which they will face Toledo.

Such a packed schedule could easily tax the one area that saw the most improvement from opening weekend to last weekend: the pitching staff.

Rather than force senior Alan Stidfole, junior Craig Clark and sophomore Mark Wyner to the hill on short rest, two hurlers normally in the bullpen will get their first starts of the season and their careers.

Redshirt Aaron Markowitz and freshman David Burmstead debut as the fourth and fifth members of the abnormal rotation, although their order remains to be seen.

Burmstead is 0-1 with a 3.00 ERA in four appearances, and Markowitz has not recorded a decision in two appearances, but holds a 4.76 ERA.