INDIANAPOLIS – Three Jaguars were voted as Second Team All-Horizon League by the league's coaches, the Horizon League announced on Tuesday (May 8).
Senior #
Delilah Wright# and sophomore #
Mandy Dallas# were honored as Second Team All-League position players and sophomore #
Megan Overton# was a named a Second Team All-League pitcher.
Wright lead the Jags on the season with a .339 batting average and 42 hits. In Horizon League play, Wright hit a team-high .375 and led the team with 27 hits and a .392 on base percentage. In the conference season, Wright's batting average was seventh in the league and her 27 hits were tied for sixth.
Dallas showed her power in conference play, leading the league with eight home runs in 23 games. The sophomore's 24 hits were third in the league and her slugging percentage of .704 was the fourth-highest. For the season, Dallas finished second on the team with a .312 batting average and was the team leader in runs scored (20), home runs (10) and RBI (33). Dallas' seven doubles was tied for the team lead.
Overton proved to be the ace of the staff and was counted on to be the leader in the circle after becoming the only healthy pitcher on the IUPUI staff halfway through the conference season. The sophomore finished the conference season leading the Horizon with 10 wins. Overton finished second in the league in opposing batting average (.219), innings pitched (105.2) and strike outs (95). Overton finished conference play with a 2.72 ERA in 18 appearances and 16 starts, throwing 15 complete games and three shutouts. Her complete game shutout against Evansville on Feb. 23 was the first since 2016 for the Jags.
IUPUI will be in action in the Horizon League Tournament on Wednesday, May 9, as the No. 6 seed in Chicago. The Jags will take on the No. 3 seed Youngstown State at 3:30 ET and the game can be seen on ESPN+.