2019 Softball
Jersey Number 18
Sarah Higgins
- Height:
- 5-7
- Class:
- Senior
- Hometown:
- Murfreesboro, Tenn.
2018 (Junior):
- Voted to the ASUN All-Conference First Team
- Played in and started all 50 games at third base and catcher
- Led the team in hitting with a .335 average collecting 54 hits, 13 doubles and 6 home runs
- Drove in 25 RBI and scored 23 runs
- Led the Bisons in slugging percentage at .528 and total bases with 85
- Finished top 10 during conference play in eight categories: average, doubles, home runs, total bases, slugging, hits, OBP and RBI’s
- Recorded a .965 fielding percentage with 46 putouts
- Had a walk-off double in the first game of the year to defeat Georgia Tech 1-0 in eight innings
- Notched a alk-off double to defeat USC Upstate in a 12-11 eight innings
2017 (Sophomore):
- Named the ASUN Player of the Week after posting two three-hit games and batting .545 in a three-game series against Stetson
- Played in and started all 56 games for the Lady Bisons
- Batted .236 with 23 runs, 38 hits, five doubles, four home runs, 19 RBI, and 55 total bases
- Posted a .342 slugging percentage and a .298 on-base percentage
- Drew 27 walks and stole four bases
- Earned a .977 fielding percentage
- Hit a walk-off 3-run home run to defeat Furman 5-2 in eight innings
2016:
- ASUN All-Conference Second Team
- ASUN All-Freshman Team
- Third in ASUN overall with .620 slugging percentage
- Seventh in ASUN with a .343 overall batting average
- 24th in ASUN games only with .288 batting average
- Tied for seventh overall in home runs in ASUN with 7
- Tied for 13th in ASUN with 32 RBI
- 21st in ASUN games only with 7 RBI
- Tied for 18th in ASUN overall in hits with 47
- Tied for 23rd overall in ASUN in doubles with 7
- Missed all or part of 10 games with injuries
- 14-game hitting streak, second longest on team
- Season game high 3 hits (3/5 vs. Troy)
- Season game high 4 RBI (3/16 at Western Kentucky
- Four consecutive games with 2 or more RBI (3/13 through 3/19)
- 12 multi-hit games, tied for third on the team
- Second on team in multiple-RBI games with 9
- Team high reaching base safely in 19 straight games.
High School:
- Played for Riverdale High School in Murfreesboro
- All-District 2013 and 2014
- 2014 Riverdale Softball Warrior Award
- Team MVP (2013)
- Murfreesboro Daily News Journal Most Valuable Position Player (2014 and 2013)
- 2013 AAA All-Mid-Tenn Second Team
- 2013 Daily News Journal Player of the YearLettered
- five years in softball
- Riverdale Academic Banquet Honoree (2014)
- National Honor Society (2014)
- Mu Alpha Theta (2014)
Personal:
- Parents are Cindy and Kris Higgins
- One brother, Bryan Craig
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