2024: CSC Academic All-District® selection … Opening day starter and veteran of the rotation … Had a 3-5 record in 11 starts, recording one complete game shutout … Tossed a team-leading 54 2/3 innings with a 6.91 ERA … Team-high 38 strikeouts … Allowed 48 runs (42 earned) on 77 hits … Complete game shutout came against Marywood (March 11), going the distance in the seven-inning game only allowing three hits and striking out a season-best nine batters … Won back-to-back starts vs. Oberlin (March 30) and at Wittenberg (April 6) … Did not allow a run in 6 2/3 innings of work vs. Oberlin … Struck out two in a scoreless inning during Mount Union bullpen game (April 24) … Member of the NCAC Academic Honor Roll … Member of the fall and spring semester AD Honor Roll.
2023: CSC Academic All-District® honoree … Ace of the staff … Went 3-2 with a 4.11 ERA over a team-leading 57 innings … Worked in 12 games, eight of which were starts … Struck out 32 and allowed 34 runs (26 earned) on 66 hits … Opened year with seven innings of two-hit shutout baseball against Grove City (Feb. 25) … Fired a dandy against Oberlin (April 2), allowing two runs on seven hits in a complete-game effort … Kept DePauw (April 22) quiet despite plenty of traffic, holding Tigers to just three runs in seven innings, despite giving up 11 hits … Allowed a run on four hits in 5 2/3 innings against Keystone (March 20) … Member of the NCAC Academic Honor Roll for second time.
2022: One of the team’s top arms … Went 4-2 with a save over 59 1/3 innings, a total second on the team … Made 19 appearances, two of which were starts … Sported a 5.92 ERA … Allowed 46 runs (39 earned) on 56 hits with 52 strikeouts … NCAC Pitcher of the Week following Williams (March 25) outing … Struck out 15 Williams batters in complete-game effort, with strikeout total marking third-highest in single-game program history and Wooster’s highest individual mark since 1944 … Carried a no-hitter into the seventh inning against Hiram (April 6) en route to a complete-game, one-hit shutout … Struck out five Terriers … Earned save against Wabash (April 16), recording final two outs of opening game … Allowed one run on six hits in six innings against Oberlin (April 20) … Allowed one run on two hits in four innings of work against fifth-ranked Webster (May 22) in Alton Regional Elimination game … Member of the NCAC Academic Honor Roll … 2021: Earned a spot in the rotation right away … Overcome an early-season injury to factor heavily into the bullpen down the stretch … Overall, went 1-1 with two saves and a team-best 2.04 ERA in 17 2/3 innings of work … Made 10 appearances, three of which were starts … Allowed nine runs on 19 hits and struck out nine … Allowed three runs (two earned) on five hits in five innings at Ohio Wesleyan (March 21) in first collegiate start … Returned from injury to work a one-two-three seventh inning, collecting the save in the process versus Hiram (April 25), and took over on the bump in game two with 1 1/3 scoreless innings … Other save came at Wittenberg (May 7) with 2 1/3 innings of scoreless relief.
Prior to Wooster: Prepped for Kyle Padgett at Bishop O’Connell High School … Member of the baseball and swimming & diving teams.
Personal: Parents are Duane and Carleen Knauf … Environmental geoscience major … Geotechnical consulting internship … Co-captain of the gameday statistics crew for basketball and football.
