2009: Played in 31 games and started 30 –29 in the outfield and one at DH... Also started a game on themound and made nine relief appearances... Named Second-TeamAll-Horizon League as a utility player for the second straight yeardespite missing more than a month with an injury to his glovehand... Prior to his injury, he was an everyday outfielder,starting 15 times in right because of his arm strength and 14 gamesin center because of his range... Hit third or fourth in the orderin 27 of his starts... Batted .289 with six home runs, 27 RBIs and22 runs scored... Led the team in slugging at .547... Was leadingthe team in triples and homers before the injury... Hit in 10straight games from March 21 to April 11 and hit safely in 21 ofthe first 24 games... Went 4-for-5 with a double, two steals andtwo RBIs at Wright State (3/20)... That was in the middle of asix-game span in which he drove in nine runs and had 11 hits... Wasa single from hitting for the cycle against Butler (4/4)... Scoredthree times and drove in a season-best four runs in the game...Homered in back-to-back games twice – in both games of adoubleheader at Towson on March 7 and against Pittsburgh and Akronon March 17-18... Went 2-for-4 with a home run and three RBIs inthe Horizon League Tournament in his first game back from theinjury... ON THE MOUND - did not pitch after April 18 because ofthe injury... Had a 2.40 ERA with two saves in 15.0 reliefinnings... Walked six and struck out 20 in 17 innings for 10.6strikeouts per nine innings... Fanned at least two batters in sevenof his 10 appearances... Picked up saves against Butler (4/5) andCleveland State (4/12)... Struck out three and retired all sixbatters he faced against Cleveland State... Three of the sixextra-base hits he allowed came in his lone start, which was hisfirst appearance of the season... Showed the ability to go longerin relief, striking out a season-high five in 3.1 innings at WrightState (3/21).
2008: Named Second-Team All-Horizon League as autility player... Appeared in 45 games and made 43 starts - 36 inright field and seven at designated hitter... Also made 12appearances out of the bullpen. AT THE PLATE - Batted .304 with ateam-high five home runs... Also scored 32 runs, drove in 29 andwas 6-for-6 on stolen base attempts... Ranked tied for sixth in theHorizon League in triples (3)... Upped his average 84 points fromhis freshman year... Had 13 multi-hit games and six multi-RBIgames... Tied the school record (Jim Lipinski) for home runs in agame with three against West Virginia on May 12... Went 4-for-5with four runs scored, six RBIs and a steal against theMountaineers to also set the YSU’s single game total basesrecord (13)... Hit a walk-off home run in the bottom of the 10thinning to give the Penguins a 6-5 victory over UIC (April 11)...Had another walk-off hit in YSU’s 8-7 victory in 14 inningsover Duquesne (April 2)... Also homered at Cleveland State (April25)... Batted .375 in April with 21 runs, 18 RBIs, eight doublesand two homers in 22 games... Was hitting .114 on March 30 beforehitting .353 the rest of the way... Had four assists in theoutfield, two of which came on gunning runners at home at GeorgiaTech (Feb. 22) and versus Tiffin (April 3). ON THE MOUND -Made 12 appearances, eight of which came after he played in thefield... Was 2-1 with a 2.82 ERA, two saves and 18 strikeouts in22.1 innings... Did not allow a run in eight of his outings... Heldhitters to a .198 average... 12 of his 17 walks came in fouroutings... Did not yield a run in seven straight innings from April1 to April 8... held Xavier scoreless and struck out six in fiveinnings to pick up his first win (March 15)... Grabbed his firstsave against Bowling Green, tossing 1.2 scoreless frames (April1)... Threw three scoreless innings the night after againstDuquesne... Earned his second save against UIC, yielding one run intwo innings (April12)... Also beat Milwaukee by throwing twoscoreless innings (April 20)... Did not pitch after April 23 atPenn State.
2007: Played in 45 games and started 26 inright field and one as the designated hitter... Hit .220, scoredseven runs and drove in six... Had five multi-hit games, includingthree in his first six games... Doubled twice and scored atMissouri (3/2)... Also had back-to-back two-hit games against Akron(5/15) and Cleveland State (5/18). ON THE MOUND - Started fourgames and made one relief appearance... Struck out 20 batters in 18innings... Allowed only one run in his first five innings... Earnedhis first win at Ohio despite allowing five runs in five innings(3/27)... Allowed one run on two hits in four innings at Marshall(3/14)... Struck out a career-high seven batters in four inningsagainst Duquesne (4/3).
High School: Was a three-year letterwinner andteam captain one year... Named Ohio Division III Player of the Yearby the Ohio High School Baseball Coaches Association as a senior...Also named First-Team All-Ohio... Went 10-1 as a senior at CentralCatholic... Won his first 10 decisions in 10 complete games beforelosing to Youngstown Ursuline in the State seminal game... Allowed16 earned runs in 70 innings his senior year and just eight earnedruns in his first 68 innings... Also hit .371 with four home runsand 30 RBIs as a senior... Went 6-1 with an ERA of 1.28 as ajunior... Set the school record for strikeouts in a game with18.
Personal: Awarded the Dover Club Scholarshipfor the 2009-10 academic year... Son of William and Diane Marzec...Has a brother (Michael)... Major is finance... born Jan. 13,1988.
