Posted: May 13, 2026
Four Lions Named To All-United East Baseball Teams
MEDIA, Pa. -- Four Penn State Brandywine baseball student-athletes were named to the United East Conference Baseball Teams that were revealed on Wednesday. Senior Ryan Snyder (Aston, Pa./Sun Valley) and sophomores Ivano Romaniello (Aston, Pa./Sun Valley) and Nate Romberger (Collegeville, Pa./Perkiomen School) were named to the second team, while senior Ryan Brown (Bensalem, Pa./Bensalem) was a third team honoree.
Snyder collected the second all-conference award of his career during his final season at Brandywine after hitting .355 out of the leadoff spot in the lineup. Snyder produced team highs with 44 hits, 38 runs scored and 26 stolen bases. His 26 steals tied for third in the United East and he was the only player to rank among the league's top 20 base stealers who was not caught swiping a base.
Snyder tied for 12th in the league with a team-best 25 walks as he produced a .461 on-base percentage. He added 27 RBI, while collecting nine extra-base hits.
From Mar. 28-Apr. 28, Snyder hit safely in 17-straight games, including all 13 conference contests, to set a new team record. Snyder tallied four three-hit games and scored at least three runs in a game on eight occasions.
Snyder wrapped up his four-year, 144-game career with 152 hits, the fourth-highest total in program history. Snyder also owns the team record for games played and stolen bases (67).
Romaniello took over full-time starting first baseman duties on Mar. 28 and started the 20 games for the Lions, while playing in 31 contests overall.
A .359 hitter, Romaniello produced 33 hits, 23 runs scored and 19 RBI, while stealing 14 bases in 15 tries. Romaniello ended the season with a hit in 11-straight games, including five two-hit contests and a pair of three-hit efforts. He tallied 11 multi-hit performances overall.
Romaniello, who also scored a run in nine-straight games to end the 2026 campaign, registered a trio of three RBI games.
He made just four errors in 172 total chances at first base for a .977 fielding percentage.
Romberger made a team-high seven starts on the mound and appeared in 10 games on the bump overall this spring. He posted a 2-2 record with a team-leading 42 strikeouts and a 3.70 earned run average. Romberger also contributed offensively, posting a .357 batting average with one home run, six RBI and 10 runs scored in 28 at-bats.
Romberger finished fourth in the conference in ERA and posted the United East's sixth-most strikeouts, while tossing 48.2 innings. Both of Romberger's victories came in conference games. In five UE starts overall, Romberger limited hitters to a .226 batting average and pitched to a 3.38 ERA.
Romberger held Lancaster Bible, the conference's top scoring offense, to one run on four hits over 6.0 innings in a win on Apr. 18 and carried a no-hitter into the eighth inning against top-seeded Keystone during the United East Tournament on May 1.
Brown collected a career-high 42 hits, batting .333 during his final season with the Lions. He scored 32 runs, while driving in 20 and stealing 19 bases.
Brown ranked second on the team in hits, runs scored and stolen bases. He hit safely in 12-straight games from Apr. 11-May 1, including a season-high, four-hit game at Ursinus on Apr. 22 when he homered, knocked in five runs and scored four times.
Brown completed his four-year career with 143 hits, good for fifth in program history. He joined Snyder as the only two players to ever appear in at least 140 games for the Lions and ranks second in career stolen bases (54) and third in runs scored (106).
Brandywine earned its first-ever United East Conference Tournament bid and victory, a 7-6 triumph over Wilson College on Apr. 28. The Lions finished the season with a record of 15-19-2.
