The Kent State baseball team made headlines this week as junior pitcher Andy Ravel and junior infielder Conner Simonetti both earned the Mid-American Conference player of the week awards for the first time each in the 2016 season.
During one of the three weekend games—in of Ravel’s seven innings—the junior tossed six scoreless innings that saw eight strikeouts and eight hits allowed. Only two runs were scored in his only bad inning.
Saturday’s start was Ravel’s second great start in a row, with the first of the two coming last weekend against the University of Toledo, where the junior flamethrower allowed two runs.