Photo by: All Pro Photography/Dale Sparks
Hill Named Big 12 Player of the Week
May 20, 2019 05:42 PM | Baseball
MORGANTOWN, W.Va. – Senior right fielder Darius Hill of the No. 17 West Virginia University baseball team has been named the Big 12 Player of the Week, the conference announced on Monday, as WVU remains in the nation rankings for a sixth consecutive week.
The accolade is the first of Hill's career and the sixth for the Mountaineers this season, tied for their second-most Big 12 weekly honors in a single season.
Additionally, WVU is ranked for the sixth consecutive week and comes in as high as No. 17 in this week's Perfect Game top-25. West Virginia also is ranked No. 18 in the NCBWA poll, No. 19 by Baseball America and D1Baseball, No. 20 in the Coaches Poll and No. 24 in the Collegiate Baseball rankings.
Hill had a record-setting final regular-season week and led the Big 12 with a .692 batting average, eight RBIs, five doubles, 17 total bases, a .750 on-base percentage and finished second with nine hits and a 1.308 slugging percentage. Hill's week was capped by a career-high-tying four hits and five RBIs in Saturday's Senior Day win over George Washington, with a home run and a pair of doubles to extend his school-record career mark to 76.
On the season, Hill leads the Big 12 with 22 doubles and a 1.000 fielding percentage and is fifth with 109 total bases and seventh with 65 hits. While starting every game in right field, he also paces the Mountaineers with a .308 batting average, 38 RBIs, 42 runs scored and a .517 slugging percentage.
Along with a school-record 76 career doubles, Hill holds the WVU record for games played and starts, with 227, and at-bats, with 914, while he is second in program history with 294 hits, third with 439 total bases and 102 extra-base hits, sixth with 171 runs, nine triples and 13 sacrifice flies and seventh with 160 RBIs and a .991 fielding percentage.
In the national statistical rankings, the Mountaineers are No. 6 nationally in hits allowed per nine innings (7.28), No. 9 in strikeouts per nine innings (10.1), No. 18 in ERA (3.54) and WHIP (1.26), No. 19 in shutouts (5) and No. 37 in strikeout-to-walk ratio (2.50). Additionally, WVU's 87 stolen bases, which is fourth-most in a single season in program history, leads the Big 12 and is No. 34 in the NCAA, while West Virginia's 103 doubles ranks No. 3 in the conference.
Individually, junior right-hander Alek Manoah's 125 strikeouts, a school record, ranks No. 8 in the country. He is No. 11 in WHIP (0.90), No. 17 in ERA (1.91), No. 24 in hits allowed per nine innings (6.01), No. 28 in strikeout-to-walk ratio (5.68), No. 31 in strikeouts per nine innings (11.93) and No. 35 in complete games (2).
Junior left-hander Nick Snyder is No. 4 in the NCAA in hits allowed per nine innings (4.88), No. 6 in strikeouts per nine innings (13.99), No. 21 in ERA (1.95) and No. 38 in WHIP (0.99). Snyder and Manoah also are No. 33 nationally with eight wins.
Junior center fielder Brandon White has 23 stolen bases, sixth-most in a single season in WVU history and second-most in the Big 12 this season, while junior right-hander Sam Kessler has eight saves, which ranks No. 2 in program history and is third in the conference. Additionally, sophomore second baseman Tyler Doanes is third in the Big 12 with 19 doubles and freshman shortstop Tevin Tucker ranks third in both sacrifice bunts (8) and stolen bases (19).
The Mountaineers begin postseason play this week at the Big 12 Championship at Chickasaw Bricktown Ballpark in Oklahoma City. Seeded No. 4 in the eight-team tournament, West Virginia plays No. 5-seeded Kansas on Wednesday, May 22, at 10 a.m. ET. The winner of Wednesday's WVU-KU game will play the winner between No. 1 Texas Tech, the regular-season champions, and No. 8 Kansas State on Thursday, May 23, at 5 p.m. ET. In the double-elimination tournament, the losers of the two games on Wednesday will face off on Thursday at 10 a.m. ET.
For more information on the Mountaineers, follow WVU Baseball on Twitter, Facebook and Instagram.
The accolade is the first of Hill's career and the sixth for the Mountaineers this season, tied for their second-most Big 12 weekly honors in a single season.
Additionally, WVU is ranked for the sixth consecutive week and comes in as high as No. 17 in this week's Perfect Game top-25. West Virginia also is ranked No. 18 in the NCBWA poll, No. 19 by Baseball America and D1Baseball, No. 20 in the Coaches Poll and No. 24 in the Collegiate Baseball rankings.
Hill had a record-setting final regular-season week and led the Big 12 with a .692 batting average, eight RBIs, five doubles, 17 total bases, a .750 on-base percentage and finished second with nine hits and a 1.308 slugging percentage. Hill's week was capped by a career-high-tying four hits and five RBIs in Saturday's Senior Day win over George Washington, with a home run and a pair of doubles to extend his school-record career mark to 76.
On the season, Hill leads the Big 12 with 22 doubles and a 1.000 fielding percentage and is fifth with 109 total bases and seventh with 65 hits. While starting every game in right field, he also paces the Mountaineers with a .308 batting average, 38 RBIs, 42 runs scored and a .517 slugging percentage.
Along with a school-record 76 career doubles, Hill holds the WVU record for games played and starts, with 227, and at-bats, with 914, while he is second in program history with 294 hits, third with 439 total bases and 102 extra-base hits, sixth with 171 runs, nine triples and 13 sacrifice flies and seventh with 160 RBIs and a .991 fielding percentage.
In the national statistical rankings, the Mountaineers are No. 6 nationally in hits allowed per nine innings (7.28), No. 9 in strikeouts per nine innings (10.1), No. 18 in ERA (3.54) and WHIP (1.26), No. 19 in shutouts (5) and No. 37 in strikeout-to-walk ratio (2.50). Additionally, WVU's 87 stolen bases, which is fourth-most in a single season in program history, leads the Big 12 and is No. 34 in the NCAA, while West Virginia's 103 doubles ranks No. 3 in the conference.
Individually, junior right-hander Alek Manoah's 125 strikeouts, a school record, ranks No. 8 in the country. He is No. 11 in WHIP (0.90), No. 17 in ERA (1.91), No. 24 in hits allowed per nine innings (6.01), No. 28 in strikeout-to-walk ratio (5.68), No. 31 in strikeouts per nine innings (11.93) and No. 35 in complete games (2).
Junior left-hander Nick Snyder is No. 4 in the NCAA in hits allowed per nine innings (4.88), No. 6 in strikeouts per nine innings (13.99), No. 21 in ERA (1.95) and No. 38 in WHIP (0.99). Snyder and Manoah also are No. 33 nationally with eight wins.
Junior center fielder Brandon White has 23 stolen bases, sixth-most in a single season in WVU history and second-most in the Big 12 this season, while junior right-hander Sam Kessler has eight saves, which ranks No. 2 in program history and is third in the conference. Additionally, sophomore second baseman Tyler Doanes is third in the Big 12 with 19 doubles and freshman shortstop Tevin Tucker ranks third in both sacrifice bunts (8) and stolen bases (19).
The Mountaineers begin postseason play this week at the Big 12 Championship at Chickasaw Bricktown Ballpark in Oklahoma City. Seeded No. 4 in the eight-team tournament, West Virginia plays No. 5-seeded Kansas on Wednesday, May 22, at 10 a.m. ET. The winner of Wednesday's WVU-KU game will play the winner between No. 1 Texas Tech, the regular-season champions, and No. 8 Kansas State on Thursday, May 23, at 5 p.m. ET. In the double-elimination tournament, the losers of the two games on Wednesday will face off on Thursday at 10 a.m. ET.
For more information on the Mountaineers, follow WVU Baseball on Twitter, Facebook and Instagram.
Players Mentioned
INF
/ Baseball
OF
/ Baseball
RHP
/ Baseball
RHP/1B
/ Baseball
LHP
/ Baseball
INF
/ Baseball
OF/RHP
/ BaseballSteve Sabins | April 14
Tuesday, April 14
Coal Rush Baseball Uniform Reveal
Wednesday, March 11
Steve Sabins | Feb. 16
Monday, February 16
Matthew Graveline | Feb. 16
Monday, February 16
