Hendershot's Unconventional Journey

By Mandy Bell, GoPSUSports.com student staff writer

UNIVERSITY PARK, Pa. - Last spring Penn State freshman Parker Hendershot was just a few months away from starting his collegiate baseball career at the University at Buffalo when he found out on social media that his future was about to change.

Hendershot scrolled through Twitter early one morning to find out baseball was one of the four programs Buffalo would cut at the conclusion of the 2017 season.

"I kind of panicked because it was late in the recruiting process," Hendershot said. "I didn't know who was going to give me another opportunity or where I was going to go."

Committed to Buffalo since the spring of his junior year in high school,…