Youngstown State senior pitcher Jon Snyder was named a National Player of the Week by Collegiate Baseball Newspaper on Monday for his performance at Purdue Fort Wayne on Friday.
The senior right-hander allowed just one hit and had a season-high 10 strikeouts over 6.1 innings to lead the Penguins to a 4-0 victory in its Horizon League opener against Purdue Fort Wayne on Friday.
Snyder did not allow a hit until a one-out single in the bottom of the sixth inning. He retired the first six batters he faced and he faced the minimum in each of the first five frames. He retired the side in order in the first, second and fifth innings. The Springboro, Ohio, native recorded a strikeout in six different innings, and he had multiple punch outs in four different frames as he earned his first victory of the season.
Snyder was also recognized nationally by D1Baseball.com, as he was included among the website's Top-30 Pitchers for March 18.
Snyder has a 2.96 ERA, 34 strikeouts and a .179 opponent batting average in 27.1 innings over five starts through the first five weeks of the 2022 season. He was named the Horizon League Preseason Pitcher of the Year by Perfect Game before the season after earning Second-Team All-Horizon League honors in 2021.
Youngstown State will play at Penn State on Tuesday at 6 p.m. before opening a three-game series at West Virginia on Friday at 6:30 p.m. All four of YSU's games this week will be broadcast live on YSNLive.com.
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