Youngerman and Bodendorf Pick Up Big 12 Honors Out of K-State Sweep

(The Big 12 Conference contributed to this story.)

STILLWATER – When you win there is always plenty of glory and success to share and Monday the Big 12 honored two of Oklahoma State pitchers that has something to do with the turnaround weekend of conference baseball as Oklahoma State swept Kansas State. OSU garnered two of the three weekly awards as the duo of Harrison Bodendorf (pitcher) and Sean Youngerman (newcomer) were named the Big 12 Baseball weekly award recipients for games ending April 6. Kansas slugger Brady Ballinger was named the player of the week. 

Bodendorf earned the series-opening win against then-No. 22 Kansas State with a career-high 12 strikeouts. The 7.0 innings pitched by the junior lefty set a career-high, besting his previous high of 5 2/3 innings. He allowed just two hits and one unearned run against the Wildcats, who entered the series with an average of 8.5 runs per game. The win was his sixth this year, tying him for the most by a Big 12 pitcher this season.

Youngerman pitched 8.0 scoreless innings in Oklahoma State’s series-clinching win over Kansas State in his second start this season. The right-handed junior racked up a career-high 11 strikeouts against the Wildcats, an offense that ranked in the top 25 nationally in slugging percentage entering the series. He surpassed his previous career-high of five innings as he threw 133 pitches and retired the first 17 batters he faced before surrendering his first hit with two outs in the fifth inning. He finished by giving up just three hits and didn’t issue a walk in OSU’s 7-0 win.

Oklahoma State outscored the conference leading Wildcats 21-5 over the weekend and struckout the K-State hitters 38 times.