Princeton University Athletics
Erin Snyder Wins Ivy League Softball Pitcher of the Week Honors
March 14, 2006 | Softball
March 14, 2006
PRINCETON, N.J. - After winning six of the eight Ivy League Pitcher of the Week awards last year, Erin Snyder of the Princeton softball team is at it again. Striking out 29 batters in 17 innings at the UNC Tar Heel Invitational in North Carolina Mar. 3-4, Snyder upped her career total to 590, just six behind head coach Maureen Barron for the school's overall record. She also allowed only one earned run in 17 innings and carries an 0.41 ERA into the spring trip to California, which features 14 games in 10 days.
Snyder, the 2005 Ivy League Pitcher of the Year, has a strikeouts-per-seven-innings average of 11.9. This year's NCAA statistics won't be released for a few more weeks, but that total would have placed Snyder fourth in the nation in that category. Last year, Snyder finished 17th in Division I strikeouts-per-seven, averaging 9.9.
Mar. 3 against North Carolina, Snyder struck out 15 batters, allowing an unearned run, a hit and a walk in nine innings of work as Princeton claimed a 2-1 extra-inning win. The next day, Snyder was on the losing end of another 2-1 outcome to Memphis in eight innings. She fanned 14, giving up six hits and two runs, one earned.
Princeton's spring trip begins Friday in Sacramento, Calif., against Utah State and Minnesota.