Youngstown State senior Elle Buffenbarger has been named the Nike Horizon League Softball Pitcher of the Week, the league announced on Tuesday.

This is the second weekly award of Buffenbarger's career. She was also named pitcher of the week on Feb. 24, 2020.

Buffenbarger went 3-0 with a 1.65 ERA and helped the Penguins to a 5-1 record last week as they moved into first place. She struck out 27 batters in just 17 innings pitched, gave up nine hits and just four earned runs.

She struck out 10 in a complete-game three hitter against Northern Kentucky on March 23, and followed that up with a two-hit shutout with nine strikeouts in a five-inning 8-0 win over Purdue Fort Wayne on March 26.

The Mason, Ohio, native won for the third time going five innings and striking out eight against the Mastodons on March 27.

Buffenbarger also moved into second place on the YSU career strikeout list and has 397. She leads the Horizon League with 89 strikeouts, ranks tied for second with six wins, and third with an opponents' batting average of .207.