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Redshirt freshman Rachel Garcia was honored with NFCA awards on Tuesday and Wednesday.
Garcia Earns Second Team All-American Honors
May 31, 2017 | Softball
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OKLAHOMA CITY, Okla. - A day after she was recognized as the NFCA National Freshman of the Year, Rachel Garcia was named an NFCA Second Team All-American on Wednesday.
Garcia, the Pac-12 Conference Freshman of the Year, NFCA All-West Region Second Team, All-Pac-12 First Team and All-Pac-12 Freshman Team, leads the Bruins with a 22-7 record, three saves, a 1.92 earned run average and a team-best 196 strikeouts in 182 2/3 innings. She has 12 complete games and has been a part of 13 shutouts, including five solo blankings.
At the plate, Garcia is third on the team with 18 walks, adding a .327 batting average, seven home runs, 27 runs batted in and 11 doubles. The redshirt freshman earned both wins at the Los Angeles Super Regional against #12-seed Ole Miss last weekend. She had career highs in innings (11), strikeouts (12) and pitches thrown (232) in game one (May 25), while tossing four hitless frames of relief in game two (May 26), striking out five and walking one. Garcia also had two hits in game one, including a solo homer.
Garcia tossed the first no-hitter of her career in her postseason opener against Lehigh on May 19, facing just one over the minimum in five innings with eight strikeouts. She won twice and allowed just one run, one walk and seven hits in 13 innings with 18 strikeouts in three games at the Los Angeles Regional. A four-time Pac-12 Freshman of the Week, a three-time Pac-12 Pitcher of the Week and the USA Softball National Player of the Week (April 11), Garcia has given up zero or one earned run in 28 of her 42 appearances this season, including four of five in the postseason.
The fifth-seeded Bruins open up the Women's College World Series on Thursday against #13-seed LSU at 11:30 a.m. PT/1:30 p.m. CT. The game will be broadcast on ESPN.
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