KNOXVILLE, Tenn. — Junior right-handed pitcher McKenna Young threw Penn State softball's 16th no-hitter on March 1 at the Tennessee Invitational.
Young led the Nittany Lions to a 14-0 victory over the North Carolina Central Eagles in five innings of play at Sherri Park Lee Stadium in Knoxville, Tennessee.
Young, a native of Brodhead, Wisconsin, turned in the most dominant individual performance of her collegiate career on Sunday in the Smokey Mountains, mustering her first no-hitter at the collegiate level in addition to the 16th such performance in Penn State softball history.
Young faced the minimum 15 batters across her five innings pitched, falling a passed ball short of a perfect game. The first-year Nittany Lion and third-year collegian allowed zeroes in the hit, run, earned run and walk columns, struck out five batters and tossed 58 total pitches in the complete-game shutout victory.
It is the first no-hitter by a Penn State softball pitcher since Feb. 18, 2023, a 3-0 shutout in seven innings of play against Bethune-Cookman.
The performance marked the third no-hitter of the Clarisa Crowell era in addition to just the third no-hitter by any Nittany Lion since 2008.