2016 Baseball Roster
Roster
Dylan Nelson
- Position:
- Right-handed Pitcher
- Height:
- 6-2
- Weight:
- 175
- Class:
- Senior
- Hometown:
- Stuart, Va.
- High School:
- Patrick County
2016 Highlights
Finished season with a 0-7 record in 11 games, earning 10 starts…Tossed 51.2 innings, tallying 42 strikeouts…Struckout a career-high eight batters at Longwood (March 25)…Punched out five or more batters 12 different times during career…Made last collegiate start vs. George Mason (April 24), before missing rest of season with an elbow injury…Finished career ranked among the best in RU baseball history: 48 games started (fourth), 18 wins (fifth), 260.2 innings pitched (sixth) and 170 strikeouts (eighth).
2015 Highlights
Started 16 games on the mound going 6-3 with a 3.98 ERA and striking out 53 ... Struck out 6 in 7.2 innings with the win over Liberty ... Threw 7.1 innings allowing 3 hits with a season high 7 strikeouts at Campbell, earning the win ... Allowed 1 run and struck out 4 in 7.0 innings to get the win vs. JMU.
2013 Highlights
Was 6-3 with a 7.63 ERA ... 23 strikeouts, season-high was four against ETSU (4/23) ... At Liberty (5/16), he pitched 4.2 scoreless innings, while only allowing 5 hits.
High School
Coached by Terry Harris at Patrick County … 2012 VHSCA All-Star Game selection for the West team ... Roanoke Times Second Team All-Timesland selection in 2012 ... 4.0 student … First Team All-Piedmont District selection … Honorable Mention All-Region … Team’s leading hitter in 2011 ... Played for West Team in 2010 and 2011 Coventry Commonwealth Games … Selected to play in Area Code Games in Long Beach, Calif … Played for Dirtbags summer/fall team
