Arizona softball standout Allie Skaggs wins the Pac-12 Defensive Player of the Year award after not committing a single error during the regular season as the Wildcats' starting second baseman.
PJ Brown Arizona got a big boost heading into the inaugural Pac-12 Softball Tournament as five Wildcats received all-league honors Wednesday.
Most think of Skaggs’ abilities with the bat first. After all, she followed her 24-homer season last year with 59 RBIs this season, tops in the league and sixth in the nation. She also crushed 13 home runs and has a slash line of .324/.467/.669. “I struggled mentally on defense a lot last year. I was very anxious and nervous out there sometimes, and ... I wasn't comfortable at all,” Skaggs said Tuesday. “One thing I vividly remember telling my dad after we got eliminated : I want to make the All-Pac-12 Defensive Team next year.”
“I will tell you one thing: It is way harder as a second baseman to do that than it is as a center fielder,” said Lowe, whose team was set to face ASU in the Pac-12 play-in game Wednesday night. “ Alicia Hollowell struck out a whole lot of people so didn't have to touch the ball a lot. As a second baseman, as a middle infielder, as an infielder in general, that is rock-star status right there. I'm not even sure the last time that's happened.
Kennedy, the left fielder, was a first-teamer and a member of the All-Freshman Team. She hit 10 homers, drove in 35 runs and hit .394 in Pac-12 play. Netz, who not only has pitched but played first base while Carlie Scupin was out with a broken forearm, earned second-team all-conference. In the circle, she struck out 123 batters in 160⅓ innings. At the plate, she crushed at team-high-tying 13 home runs.
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