Darius Hill

Photo by: All Pro Photography/Dale Sparks

Photo by: All Pro Photography/Dale Sparks

Position:
Outfielder
Height:
6-1
Weight:
190
Class:
Senior
B/T:
L/L
Hometown:
Dallas, Texas
High School:
Dallas Jesuit

Career Highlights

Ranks No. 5 in WVU history with 12 career sacrifice flies
Ranks No. 7 in WVU history with 703 career at-bats
Ranks No. 7 in WVU history with 54 career doubles
Ranks No. 8 in WVU history with 229 career hits
Ranks No. 10 in WVU history with a .988 career fielding percentage

2018 (Junior)

Named to the ABCA East All-Region First Team
Named to the All-Big 12 Second Team
Named to the Big 12 All-Tournament Team
Named to the Academic All-Big 12 First Team
Started all 56 games in right field
Led the team with 79 hits and 20 doubles, was second with a .329 batting average, 41 hits and 115 total bases, third with 36 RBIs and two triples, fourth with a .479 slugging percentage and added four home runs, 12 walks, a .362 on-base percentage and two stolen bases in four attempts
Had five sacrifice flies, tied for No. 7 in a single season in team history at the time
Tied for the team lead with four game-winning hits
Tied for first on the team with 23 multi-hit games and was third with seven multi-RBI contests
Was second on the team with a 17-game hit streak, from April 3-April 29, with nine multi-hit games, RBIs in 11 games and runs scored in 12 games in the stretch, and led the squad with a 25-game reached-base streak
In four games at the Big 12 Championship, had eight hits, five RBIs and four runs scored, including two hits and two RBIs while driving in the eventual game-winning run against No. 20 Oklahoma State on May 23; and two hits, three RBIs and two runs scored on May 25 in a win over No. 6 Texas Tech
Drove in the game-winning run in the eighth inning and had a career-high-tying four hits with two RBIs at TCU on May 11
Tied career highs with four hits and four runs scored and added two RBIs and a pair of doubles on May 4 at Kansas
Homered as part of a three-hit, two-RBI day with a pair of runs scored and a walk in a win at Kansas State on April 20
Had a career-best five RBIs in WVU’s win over Pitt on April 11
Drove in the game’s only run with a sixth-inning single in a 1-0 win at No. 7 Texas Tech on March 29
Had two hits, including a home run, with two runs scored on March 11 at Middle Tennessee
Notched a career-high four hits with two doubles, a home run and two runs scored on March 2 at Western Kentucky

2017 (Sophomore)

Earned All-Big 12 Honorable Mention
Named to the Big 12 All-Tournament Team
Named to the Academic All-Big 12 Second Team
Played in and started in 61 games, all of them in right field, which at the time was tied for No. 2 in team history in a single season in starts and No. 3 in games played
Had 244 at-bats, which ranks No. 4 all-time in a single season in program history at the time
Led the team with 75 hits, tied for the team lead with 46 RBIs and 14 doubles, was fourth on the team with a .307 batting average and added four home runs and a triple, 18 walks and five stolen bases while posting a .422 slugging percentage and a .355 on-base percentage
Led the team with seven game-winning RBIs
Tied for the team lead with 13 multi-RBI games and tied for second with 20 multi-hit games
Had a 12-game hitting streak, tied for the longest on the team, and also reached base safely in 12 consecutive games
Had a hit in all eight of WVU’s postseason games, totaling 14 hits, five RBIs, five walks, four doubles and eight runs scored at the Big 12 Championship and NCAA Tournament, helping him earn Big 12 All-Tournament Team honors
Drove in the game-winning run on May 20 at Texas with an RBI double, totaling two RBIs and a walk
Had three hits, two RBIs, two runs scored with a pair of doubles on May 13 vs. Gardner Webb
Walked in the winning run in the bottom of the ninth inning to secure WVU’s series win over No. 3 TCU on April 16
Hit a two-run home run, driving in the eventual game-winning run, as part of a two-hit, two-RBI, two-run day against Kansas on April 8
Had two hits and drove in three runs, including the game-winner, on March 25 vs. Jacksonville
Hit a two-run home run in the eighth inning, driving in the winning run on Feb. 26 vs. Ball State
Had a career-best four hits, four RBIs and four runs scored with a home run in WVU’s win at No. 18 Coastal Carolina on Feb. 25
Had two hits and two RBIs in back-to-back games at Charlotte on Feb. 18-19, including the game-winning double in the seventh inning on Feb. 19

2016 (Freshman)

Named to five Freshman All-America teams: Baseball America Second Team, NCBWA Second Team, Louisville Slugger as selected by Collegiate Baseball newspaper, Perfect Game Second Team and D1Baseball.com Second Team
Named to the ABCA/Rawlings All-East Region Second Team
Named to the All-Big 12 Second Team
Named to the Big 12 All-Freshman Team
Started all 58 games, with all but one coming in right field, which at the time was tied for No. 3 in team history in a single season in starts and No. 4 in games played
Led the team with 75 hits, 20 doubles, four triples and 112 total bases, finished second with a .342 average, 32 walks, 49 runs scored, a .511 slugging percentage and a .420 on-base percentage and was third on the team with 40 RBIs
Had five sacrifice flies, tied for No. 7 in a single season in team history at the time
Led the team with six game-winning RBIs
Had a team-best 27 multi-hit games and was second with 10 multi-RBI games
Had a hitting streak of eight games and a reached-base streak of 12 games
Finished with three hits and a career-high-tying four RBIs and was a home run shy of the cycle in the Big 12 Championship game against TCU
Had two hits and three RBIs on May 7 against Texas, and followed it with three hits and two RBIs the following day to help complete the sweep of the Longhorns
Drove in the game-winning run in back-to-back games, against Virginia Tech on May 3 and vs. Texas on May 6
Homered, had two hits with two RBIs and a pair of runs scored against Youngstown State on April 19
Singled home the eventual game-winning run in the eighth inning in a 5-4 win over Kansas State on April 17
Homered in the seventh inning, driving in the eventual game-winning run in WVU’s series-clinching, upset win over No. 16 Oklahoma State on April 2, going 2-4 with two RBIs in the contest
Singled home the winning run in the second inning as part of a three-hit, three-RBI day on Feb. 27 at UNLV, a day after finish a double shy of the cycle, with his first career home run, with four RBIs in the series-opener

High School

Played for coach Brian Jones at Dallas Jesuit
Helped lead Dallas Jesuit to a 25-10 record and a District 9-5A Championship in 2014
Hit .534 with 45 runs, 63 hits, 18 doubles, 11 triples, five home runs, 45 RBIs and 12 stolen bases as a junior
Named a Louisville Slugger First Team All-American, a MaxPreps Second Team All-American and a Perfect Game Underclass Third Team All-American
Named to the Texas Sports Writers Association/Collin Street Bakery and Texas High School Baseball Coaches Association Class 5A All-State First Team
Named the Dallas Morning News Hitter of the Year and the District 9-5A Offensive Player of the Year