Nic Manuppelli Biography

2013 (Junior) | Game-By-Game Stats: Was rated the Horizon League's third-best professional prospect by Baseball America prior to the season... Pitched in 25 games out of the bullpen, 23 of which he finished... Was 0-3 with a 3.38 ERA in 29.1 innings... Led the team with seven saves, which ranks as the third-most for a single season in school history... Allowed 20 runs, only 11 of which were earned, on 31 hits and 15 walks... Struck out 19 batters, and opponents hit .267 off him... Had five saves and a 2.03 ERA in 11 Horizon League outings... Of his 25 appearances, he did not allow an earned run in 16 of them... Did not allow an earned run in each of his final six appearances... Pitched two innings six times... Earned the save in five of those outings... Picked up six-out saves at Samford (2/17), versus Morehead State (3/5), at Wright State (3/30), against Milwaukee (4/7) and versus Wright State (5/5)... Earned one-inning saves at UIC (3/16) and against Valparaiso (4/14)... His three losses came against Wake Forest, West Virginia and Kent State... Struck out a season-high three batters in the two-inning save against Milwaukee (4/7)... Stuck out two batters five times... Allowed just one home run during the season, a two-run homer at Pittsburgh on March 9... Did not surrender an extra-base hit in his final 12 outings... Did not allow an extra-base hit in league play.

2012 Summer: Named to the all-star team in the New England League while pitching for the Laconia Muskrats... Struck out all three batters he faced in the ninth inning of the all-star game.

2012 (Sophomore) | Game-By-Game Stats: Pitched in 24 games, one of which he started... Finished 22 games, which ranked fourth in the conference... Was 1-4 with a save and a 5.79 ERA in 37 1/3 innings... Struck out 36 batters while walking 15... His rate of 8.7 strikeouts per nine innings led the team... Posted a 6.51 ERA in league games... Pitched in three of YSU's four games in the Horizon League Tournament and did not allow a run in 2 2/3 innings... Earned his save by retiring conference player of the year Tristan Moore with the tying run on second base against Wright State in the tournament (5/25)... Picked up the victory at VMI by throwing three scoreless innings... That matched his longest outing of the year... Manuppelli also threw three innings of relief at Valparaiso on May 18 and three innings against Valpo on April 14 in his lone start... Allowed one earned run in his last six outings and four in his final 15 1/3 innings... Surrendered just one earned run in his first 9 2/3 innings of the season... Of the 24 earned runs he allowed, 18 came in a 10-inning stretch in five games from April 1 to April 14... Aside from those five appearances, he had a 1.98 ERA.

2011 (Freshman): Game-By-Game Stats: Pitched in 14 games, three of which he started... Missed most of April and pitched just twice in May due to a shoulder injury... Was 1-3 with a 5.83 ERA in 29.1 innings... Struck out 16 while walking 26... Went 1-0 with a 2.57 ERA in seven innings against league foes... Opposing batters hit just .208 against him in conference play... Allowed one earned run over his final five appearances, which spanned 10 innings... Held Milwaukee scoreless on one hit in 3.1 innings of relief to earn his win (5/7)... Allowed one earned run in four innings in his last start at Akron (4/5)... His ERA went down after each of his final nine appearances.

High School: Earned three letters... Named all-section at pitcher... Struck out 55 batters in 49-1/3 innings as a senior... Played for the Allegheny Pirates, an elite fall team, in 2009... Went 3-2 with 38 strikeouts in 40.1 innings as a junior... Helped lead Plum to a second place finish in the WPIAL as a sophomore.

Personal: Son of Jim and Kim Manuppelli... Has a brother (Zac)... Major is civil engineering... Recipient of the 2011-12 Lester F. Donnell Scholarship.

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