Dan Slavik

Class:
Sophomore
Hometown:
St. Clairsville, Ohio
High School:
St. Clairsville

Kent State Awards & Honors

• Letterwinner: 2011

Career Game Highs

Innings Pitched: 4.0 (Cleveland State, 4/27/11)

Strikeouts: 3 (three times, last time: Cleveland State, 5/16/11)

2011 Freshman Season Highlights

• Made 12 appearances with three starts.

• Member of pitching staff that ranked sixth in the nation in team ERA with a 2.66 mark.

• Recorded a 2-1 pitching record with a 3.80 ERA and 21 strikeouts in 23.2 innings.

• Made first collegiate appearance of his career vs. Wagner (2/27) at the Johnny Gill Memorial Tournament in Winthrop, S.C., tossing the seventh and eighth innings and tallying one strikeout in relief as Kent State rolled to a 13-2 triumph.

• Pitched 1.2 relief frames at Penn State (4/5), fanning three and posting a zero on the scoreboard to earn his first career pitching win in a 7-6 victory for Kent State.

• Earned his first career start in a midweek game against Cleveland State (4/27), striking out two over four innings to help Kent State earn a 6-4 win.

• Struck out three over two frames in his second career start as Kent State beat Xavier (5/10), 3-2.

• Blanked Cleveland State (5/16) and tallied three strikeouts over the fifth and sixth innings in relief duty to earn his second mound triumph as Kent State posted a 6-2 win.

• Played summer ball for the Southern Ohio Copperheads of the Great Lakes Summer Collegiate League, recording a win and 10 strikeouts in six appearances -- including four starts -- to help the Copperheads clinch the GLSCL South Division title.

Prior to Kent State

• Named to the 2010 Mizuno All-Ohio Team as well as garnering First Team All-Eastern District and Ohio Valley Athletic Conference AAA Player of the Year honors at St. Clairsville High School under head coach Tom Sliva.

• Also named 2010 Tri-Captain of the All-Valley Team in addition to earning three letters in baseball for the Red Devils.

• Competed for the St. Clairsville American Legion team under head coach Joe Slavik.

• Also earned four letters in basketball.