LOUISVILLE - Carson-Newman sophomore third baseman Shannon Smith (Channahon, Ill.) has been named to the NFCA All-Region First Team, the organization announced Wednesday.
A hit machine for the Carson-Newman softball program. Shannon Smith tallied a .405 batting average for the year with 15 doubles, 45 runs batted in and 95 total bases.
Smith's .785 slugging percentage goes down as the eighth highest single-season tally in school history, while her 45 RBI are tied for the 14th most in single-season history.
Smith ranks ninth in the country with .44 doubles per game and 18th overall with her 15 two-baggers on the year. Smith finished the year 23rd in the country in the country in RBI per game with 1.18. Her 1.18 runs per game are also 23rd.
Her 16-game hitting streak tied for the fifth-longest in program history. Additionally, she is the first third baseman in the history of the program to play error free for an entire season.
Smith was named a TSWA Player of the Week in back-to-back weeks on March 16 and 23.
