BLUFFTON, Ohio - Sophomore Bobbi Adams (Delaware/Rutherford B. Hayes) was named Third Team All-Central Region by the National Fastpitch Coaches Association (NFCA) following the 2021 softball season. Adams spent time behind the plate, at third base and at first as she was DP/UT honoree on the third team. It marks the second time in three years that a graduate of Rutherford B. Hayes in Delaware has been honored by the NFCA as Adams followed in the footsteps of 2020 graduate Caylin Morstadt who was named 3rd team all-region as a junior.
The National Fastpitch Coaches Association revealed its 2021 NFCA Division III All-Region teams today. This year's eight squads are comprised of a total of 308 student-athletes from 134 programs.
The awards salute student-athletes from the Association's eight NCAA regions with first, second and third-team honors. NFCA member coaches voted on the teams in their respective regions, and all honorees are eligible for selection to the 2021 NFCA Division III All-America squads.
New in 2021, conference players and pitchers of the year from member institutions, who were nominated by their member head coach, are added to the third team if they were not already voted to an All-Region squad. Where there were ties in the balloting, all players involved in the tie were awarded honors. If there were not enough nominees for a position, all three teams for that position in that region were not filled.
Adams hit a team-high .416 which is 11th all-time for a single season at Bluffton. Her four homers were tied for 6th in the Heartland Conference. She led the team with 24 RBI, 42 hits, a .594 slugging percentage and a .459 on-base percentage. Adams started all 33 games for the Beavers with 15 behind the plate, 13 at 3rd base and four at 1st base. She had six doubles, scored 12 runs and struck out just nine times in 101 at bats.
The swiss army knife put her name all over the single-game record book with nine RBI, three more than the previous school mark, and two homers which equaled the Bluffton record for dingers in a game when the Beavers traveled to Manchester University in March. She went 3-of-4 with two runs scored to go along with her nine RBI.
The 2021 Heartland Conference post-season awards are slated to be unveiled on Tuesday, May 18.
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