LITTLE ROCK – With the 2016 college baseball season coming to a close on Thursday, Little Rock baseball's
Ryan Scott officially came away with the NCAA Division I batting title after hitting .435 for the year.
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Scott's average was .011 points higher than the nation's second-best average carried by Southeastern Louisiana's Jameson Fisher at .424.
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Scott is just the second Little Rock player to be an NCAA statistical leader at the conclusion of a season after former Trojan Casey Crume led the nation with 0.55 doubles per game in 1999.
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Not only did Scott's .435 batting average lead the nation, it also set a new program record at Little Rock. Before this season, former Trojan Greg Taylor held the 20-year old program record of .415 set in 1996.
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In other nationally ranked categories, Scott ranked fifth in slugging (.713), seventh in RBIs per game (1.22), ninth in on-base percentage (.516), 13th in hits (94) and 15th in RBIs (66).
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Scott's amazing 2016 season was one for the record books at Little Rock. On his way to six different All-American honors, he broke program single-season records for hits (94), RBIs (66), and total bases (154). He also broke the program's all-time record for doubles (44).
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Scott was also named the Sun Belt Conference's Student-Athlete of the Year and took All-Sun Belt First Team honors after leading the conference in seven different offensive categories during the regular season and earned Sun Belt Student-Athlete of the Week on three different occasions.
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Scott was a finalist for the 2016 Gregg Olson Award, presented annually to college baseball's breakout player of the year. He was also in the running for several other national awards as he was named a semifinalist for the Dick Howser Trophy and was placed on USA Baseball's Golden Spikes Award Midseason Watch List in April.
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Scott was drafted by the Boston Red Sox with the 218th overall pick in the seventh round of the 2016 MLB Draft, and he is now playing with the Lowell Spinners in the Single-A short season.
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