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Ashley Diaz Season 2017-18

PosINF
Ht5-10
YrJunior
HometownSouth El Monte, Calif.
B/TR/R
Ashley Diaz
Ashley Diaz
2019 | Senior

NFCA All-South Region Second Team ... Started in 57 of 58 appearances all at first base ... Recorded season highs in hits (64), batting average (.372), on base percentage (. 434), slugging (.605) and doubles (10) ... Helped Arkansas win the series against South Carolina with a game-winning grand slam in game two (March 16) ... Hit her 200th career hit in a first-inning, go-ahead home run vs LSU (April 18) ... Became just the second Hog to hit a home run in three consecutive game (March 16-22) ... Scored 21 runs in 2019, 73 in her career ... Earned a season-best 48 RBI as a senior, her 139 career RBI is second all-time at Arkansas ... She also matched her freshman season with four sacrifice flies, her 10 career SF is the most in a career by any Razorback ... Achieved a season-best .991 fielding percentage with 321 putouts ... Finished her career with 1,380 total putouts - third all-time at Arkansas and the only first baseman to have more than 1,200 ... Turned 41 career double plays, good for second in program history ...

2018 | Junior

NFCA All-South Region Second Team ... Started in 57 of 58 appearances all at first base ... Made 314 putouts for a .988 fielding percentage ...  Scored 18 runs on 52 hits, 12 of which went for extra bases ... Tallied seven multiple-RBI efforts, including a 3-for-4 performance that drove in five runs against Saint Francis (March 16) ...  Hit her 100th career hit against Grand Canyon (Feb. 17) ... Hit the game-winning two-run home run against Central Connecticut on March 4 ... Finished the season on a seven game hitting streak and 11 game on base streak.

2017 | Sophomore

Second on the team with 13 multi-hit games … tied career high with three hits against UMass Lowell (Feb. 12) and IUPUI (March 4) ... game-winning RBI single in seventh inning of a 4-3 win over No. 5 Texas A&M (April 16) … opened the scoring in a 5-2 win at Saint Louis (March 22) with a two-run shot in the fourth inning … tied career high with three RBIs in game two of doubleheader against UMKC (March 7) … went 2-for-3 in first round of the SEC Tournament against No. 16 Alabama … started all 55 games of the season at first base … third in the SEC with 454 putouts.

2016 | Freshman

NFCA All-South Region Second Team … Schutt Sport/NFCA Division I National Freshman of the Year Top 25 watch list…led team with .331 batting average, 12 home runs, 41 RBI, 17 multi-hit games and 13 multi-RBI games … tied for 14th in SEC in home runs … second freshman in program history (with Devon Wallace) to hit 10+ home runs…first Razorback freshman to reach 40 RBI in a single season … hit five of 12 home runs against ranked opponents (No. 12 Texas A&M, No. 23 Nebraska and three against No. 16 Tennessee) ... tied school record with an 18-game hitting streak … carried a .980 fielding percentage at first base … had a hand in 17 of Arkansas’ 25 double plays … finished 13th in the SEC with 291 putouts.

Before Arkansas

Diaz was a three-time Mission Valley Mission League MVP for South El Monte High School in California and helped the Eagles to league titles in 2012 and 2013. Individually, she had a pair of All-CIF and all-area honors to her credit. Diaz had 27 home runs and 127 RBI with a .551 batting average and 1.126 slugging percentage in the first three year of her prep career. She broke the South El Monte school records in home runs, RBI and multi-hit games and tied the school mark for runs scored in a single season. Diaz played travel ball for Corona Angels-Howard and Team Mizuno-Stith.
Ashley Diaz

Senior
2018-19

INF
5-10 / -
Ashley Diaz

Soph
2016-17

INF
5-10 / -
Ashley Diaz

Fr
2015-16

INF
5-10 / -