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23 Kyle Benyo

23 Kyle Benyo

  • Height:
    6-5
  • Weight:
    215
  • Bats/Throws:
    R/R
  • Year:
    Junior
  • Hometown:
    Austintown, Ohio
  • High School:
    IMG Academy
  • Position:
    OF
  • Major:
    Business Management

Summary

Biography

2018 (Junior) | Game-By-Game Stats: Redshirted after missing a majority of the season due to injury… Appeared in one game off the bench… Walked and struck out in two plate appearances against Notre Dame (3/2).

2017 (Sophomore) | Game-By-Game StatsPlayed in 49 games, 43 of which he started – 27 as the designated hitter, 11 in right field and five at first base… Tied for second on the team with eight home runs and was third with 28 RBIs… His eight home runs tied for the 14th-most by a Penguin in program history... Joined an exclusive list of YSU sophomores who hit at least eight homers in a season... Erich Diedrich is the only Penguins sophomore to hit more than eight home runs – he had nine in 2006... Drew Dosch, Andrew Clough and Jeff Stofko are the only other YSU sophomores with eight homers in a season... Recorded the third-highest slugging percentage at .448… Registered 21 runs scored, seven doubles and one triple… Had two errors in 81 chances in the field… Hit .235 in Horizon League play with 20 hits in 27 games… Had multiple hits in 11 different games and multiple RBIs in six contests… Had three-hit games against Illinois State (2/19) and Northern Kentucky (3/31)… Hit two home runs against NKU on March 31… Drove in a season-high four runs and hit a walk-off two-run home run in the bottom of the ninth inning to beat Bowling Green 6-5 on April 19... Had a hit in four straight games from April 25-30.

2016 (Freshman) | Game-By-Game Stats: Named to the Horizon League All-Freshman team... Played in 37 games, 30 of which he started in right field... Batted .189 with six doubles, a triple, a home run and 13 RBIs... Batted .283 and slugged .383 against Horizon League opponents... Hit his home run in the eighth inning at Ohio (3/22)... Went 4-for-4 in game one of a doubleheader against Milwaukee (3/26)... Drove in three runs in game two of a doubleheader against Valparaiso (5/13).

High School: Played locally at Austintown Fitch for three years and at the IMG Academy in Bradenton, Fla. as a senior… Batted .404 with seven home runs, five doubles and 22 RBIs as a junior for the Falcons… Named First-Team All-American Conference honors as a junior… Hit 10 homers in his career… Received all-tournament team honors at the 2014 World Wood Bat Association Florida Qualifier when he went 8-for-16 with four doubles and two triples... Hit .361 with nine extra-base hits, 15 runs and 15 RBIs in 25 games at IMG Academy.

Personal: Parents are Alex and Victoria... Has two sisters (Alexis and Kara) and a brother (Blake)... Blake is a freshman on the YSU baseball team... Major is business.

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Historical Player Information

  • 23

    2016Freshman

    OF
    6'4" 195 lbs
    23
  • 23

    2017Sophomore

    OF
    6'4" 195 lbs
    23
  • 23

    2018Junior

    OF
    6'5" 215 lbs
    23