ROSEMONT, Ill. – Penn State redshirt sophomore pitcher LHP Dante Biasi was named the Big Ten Pitcher of the Week Monday after a leading the Nittany Lions to shutout win over Indiana this past Friday.
Biasi struck out nine and allowed just two hits and a walk in 6.1 innings against the Hoosiers, the nation's top home run hitting team, earning his second combined shutout of the season. It was his seventh effort in eight starts on the year in which he allowed one or less earned run, and his fourth in which he struck out nine or more batters.
The lone hits allowed came in the first and second innings. He then worked a perfect third, faced the minimum after hitting a batter in the fourth, retired the side 1-2-3 in the fifth, worked around a two-out walk in the sixth and retired the first batter of the seventh before being lifted.
The shutout win was Penn State's first in a Big Ten game since defeating Maryland, 2-0, on April 30, 2016, and first shutout win over Indiana since April 30, 2006
Biasi leads the Big Ten and ranks 17th in the nation with 66 strikeouts for the season, and also leads the conference and ranks 23rd in the nation with a miniscule 5.24 hits allowed per nine innings. He boasts a 1.75 ERA for the season that ranks seventh in the conference, and he's been even better in conference play with a 0.49 ERA and 27 strikeouts in three starts and 18.1 innings pitched.
Biasi is Penn State's first Big Ten Pitcher of the Week since Steven Hill earned the honor on April 23, 2012 following a no-hitter against Iowa.
Penn State next opens a six-game homestand at Medlar Field at Lubrano Park Tuesday at 6:30 p.m. against Youngstown State.
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