Three Buckeyes Garner Big Ten Weekly Honors – Ohio State Buckeyes
4/14/2003 12:00:00 AM | Baseball
April 14, 2003
COLUMBUS, Ohio – Fresh off a banner week in which the Ohio State baseball team won all six games, three Buckeyes have earned weekly honors, the Big Ten office announced Monday. Greg Prenger (Sr., Harpster, Ohio/Upper Sandusky) and Scott Lewis (So., Washington Court House, Ohio/Washington) split Big Ten Pitcher of the Week honors, while Christian Snavely (Jr., Defiance, Ohio/Defiance) was named Co-Big Ten Player of the Week with Minnesota’s Sam Steidl.
Prenger threw the first perfect game in Ohio State’s 120-year history. The senior right-hander retired all 21 batters he faced to post a 2-0 win over Oakland on Wednesday for the first no-hitter by a Buckeyes’ hurler since Eric Thompson no-hit Michigan State on May 10, 1998. It was also the first perfect game coached by Ohio State mentor Bob Todd, who is in his 20th year as a collegiate head coach.
Lewis equaled a school record by striking out 20 batters in nine innings as OSU topped Iowa in the series opener on April 11. The sophomore left-handed pitcher allowed no earned runs and only two hits in the 4-1 triumph, walking only one batter in the process. His 20 K’s tied the Buckeyes school record held by Steve Arlin, who struck out 20 batters in a 15-inning victory in the 1965 College World Series. Lewis is now 5-0 on the year with a 1.59 ERA and an impressive 78 strikeouts in 51 innings.
Snavely shares Big Ten Player of the Week accolades after hitting .538 with six RBI in a four-game sweep of Iowa, as the Buckeyes climbed into sole possession of second place in the conference race. The junior outfielder boasted a slugging percentage of .688 for the week with seven RBI in six games. He finished the week going 8-for-16 (.500) and was 7-for-13 (.538) in the four Big Ten games vs. Iowa. He touched 11 total bases after a two-run home run in the second game vs. the Hawekeyes. Snavely upped his average from .206 at the start of the week to .262 after the six games.
Ohio State will take on the College of Wooster Wednesday at 6:35 p.m. at Bill Davis Stadium before beginning a four-game Big Ten series against third-place Indiana Friday at 6:35 p.m. The teams will play a doubleheader Saturday at 4:05 p.m. before concluding the series Sunday at 1:05 p.m.
