May 5, 2010
Complete List | Snyder & Lutz Sweep Big Ten Weekly Baseball Awards |
UNIVERSITY PARK, Pa. - Just two days after garnering Big Ten Player of the Week laurels, freshman Steve Snyder (West Chester, Pa.) is one of 16 players named to the weekly National All-Star Lineup, as announced by the College Baseball Foundation on Wednesday. The week 10 lineup includes some of the nation's top players from nationally ranked teams including Virginia, Louisville, Texas Christian, Oregon and more. Snyder batted .632 in four games last week, including a .667 clip in the Lions' series sweep of Michigan State.
This marks Penn State's first national honor of the season and fourth overall. Along with Snyder's two awards this week, senior David Lutz (West Chester, Pa.) was named Big Ten Pitcher of the Week while junior Ben Heath (Huntersville, N.C.) has also won Big Ten Player of the Week.
Since being slotted second in the order, Snyder has been on fire, going 18-for-30 (.600) over six games to improve his season average by 76 points. The hot hitting continued last week when he went 12-for-19 in four games to up his average to .354. In total, Snyder scored six runs, drove in six, tripled and stole three bases in four games.
The true freshman has recorded multiple hits in each of his last six games with a total of 18 in that span. After going 2-for-4 on Tuesday against La Salle, he went 3-for-6 with three RBI and a run scored in Friday's series opener vs. Michigan State. Snyder followed with a career-high tying four hits (in five at-bats) with a walk, stolen base, triple, three RBI and career-high four runs scored. It was his second four-hit game in the span of a week after having four on Sunday, Apr. 25 at Ohio State. He finished the week with yet another multi-hit game and his third consecutive game of three or more hits.
Snyder's Big Ten honor marked the Lions' second in as many weeks after not having one in over three years.
Penn State returns to Medlar Field at Lubrano Park on Friday in the series opener against the Iowa Hawkeyes. First pitch is slated for 7 p.m. The Big Ten Network will broadcast the weekend action, along with Saturday (4 p.m.) and Sunday (11 a.m.). Purchase your tickets today!
Season and individual game tickets are now available can be purchased online or over the phone. Please call 1-877-997-7453 or (814) 272-1711, Monday through Friday from 10 a.m. - 4 p.m. for more information. Fans can also direct any additional questions or comments via phone, or by email (psubaseball@athletics.psu.edu).
Baseball camp information is now available. Call the Sports Camp Office at (814) 865-0561 or email them at SportCampInfo@outreach.psu.edu for more information.
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Complete List
Matt Szczur - Villanova
Nick Baligod - Oral Roberts
Andrew Clark - Louisville
Clint Dempster - Nicholls State
Bobby Doran - Texas Tech
Aaron Hilt - Ashland University
Bryan Holaday - TCU
Danny Hultzen - Virginia
Justin LaTempa - Oregon
Jacob Perales - Texas A&M Corpus Christi
Douglas Porras - Cal State Stanislaus
Brent Seifert - Iowa Western
Steve Snyder - Penn State
Preston Springer - Wichita State
Martin Viramontes - Loyola Marymount
T.J. Walz - Kansas