GREENSBORO, N.C. – Arkansas ace Hagen Smith and infielder Peyton Stovall have been named All-Americans by the American Baseball Coaches Association/Rawlings.
Smith earned first-team recognition as a starting pitcher, his third first-team All-America honor, from ABCA/Rawlings, while Stovall garnered third-team praise at second base to become the 34th All-American in program history.
Smith made his case as the best pitcher in all of college baseball, completing the 2024 campaign with a 9-2 record, 2.04 ERA and 161 strikeouts in 84.0 innings over 16 starts. The junior left-hander, named the Southeastern Conference Pitcher of the Year after going 7-0 with a 1.35 ERA and 110 strikeouts in 60.0 innings over 10 SEC starts on the mound, led the country with an NCAA-record 17.3 strikeouts per nine innings on the season and finished ranked first nationally in hits allowed per nine innings (4.4), second in strikeouts (161), fourth in ERA (2.04) and seventh in WHIP (0.89).
The Bullard, Texas, native posted a team-leading 11 quality starts and logged a program-record 11 double-digit strikeout games on the year, becoming the program’s all-time career strikeout king and single-season strikeout leader during his historic 2024 campaign. Smith, who raised his career strikeout total to 360, overtook Razorback great Nick Schmidt (345) for sole possession of Arkansas’ career strikeout mark in addition to surpassing Razorback great David Walling’s single-season strikeout record of 155 set in 1999 to move atop the program’s single-season strikeout leaderboard (161).
In one of the greatest pitching performances in program history, Smith tied Arkansas’ single-game record with his 17-strikeout gem on 78 pitches over six shutout innings against Oregon State on Feb. 23 in the Kubota College Baseball Series at Globe Life Field in Arlington, Texas. Smith matched Razorback great Jess Todd’s single-game strikeout record (17), doing so in 40 fewer pitches than Todd threw against South Carolina on May 24, 2007, in the SEC Tournament.
Smith, who was named the Perfect Game Pitcher of the Year and is a finalist for the Golden Spikes Award, Dick Howser Trophy and National Pitcher of the Year Award, is the sixth two-time All-American in program history. He has received first-team All-America honors from ABCA/Rawlings, National Collegiate Baseball Writers Association and Perfect Game.
Stovall, meanwhile, earned his All-America praise after turning in the best season of his collegiate career. The Razorback junior second baseman, who missed the first 12 games of the year due to a preseason injury, slashed a team-leading .340/.409/.535 with nine homers and 38 RBI over 48 games, recording a team-high 68 hits and team-best 12 doubles.
In SEC play, Stovall slashed .315/.390/.512 with six home runs and 20 runs batted in over 30 games. The Haughton, La., native, who earned second-team All-SEC praise and picked up ABCA/Rawlings South All-Region first-team honors at second base, led the Razorbacks in base hits (39) and doubles (9) in conference play.