Smith, Stovall Earn ABCA/Rawlings All-Region Honors
FAYETTEVILLE, Ark. – Arkansas ace Hagen Smith and second baseman Peyton Stovall have been named to the American Baseball Coaches Association/Rawlings South All-Region First Team.
Smith made his case as the best pitcher in all of college baseball, completing the 2024 campaign with a 9-2 record, 2.04 ERA and 161 strikeouts in 84.0 innings over 16 starts. The junior left-hander, named the Southeastern Conference Pitcher of the Year after going 7-0 with a 1.35 ERA and 110 strikeouts in 60.0 innings over 10 SEC starts on the mound, led the country with an NCAA-record 17.3 strikeouts per nine innings on the season and finished ranked first nationally in hits allowed per nine innings (4.4), second in strikeouts (161), fourth in ERA (2.04) and seventh in WHIP (0.89).
The Bullard, Texas, native posted a team-leading 11 quality starts and logged a program-record 11 double-digit strikeout games on the year, becoming the program’s all-time career strikeout king and single-season strikeout leader during his historic 2024 campaign. Smith, who raised his career strikeout total to 360, overtook Razorback great Nick Schmidt (345) for sole possession of Arkansas’ career strikeout mark in addition to surpassing Razorback great David Walling’s single-season strikeout record of 155 set in 1999 to move atop the program’s single-season strikeout leaderboard (161).
Stovall, meanwhile, turned in the best season of his collegiate career after the missing the first 12 games of the campaign due to a preseason injury. The Razorback second baseman slashed a team-leading .340/.409/.535 with nine home runs and 38 RBI over 48 games on the year, racking up a team-high 68 hits with a team-best 12 doubles.
In SEC play, Stovall slashed .315/.390/.512 with six home runs and 20 RBI over 30 games. The Haughton, La., native, who earned second-team All-SEC praise at second base, led the Hogs in base hits (39) and doubles (9) in conference play.
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