Reece Fields of North Greenville Named 2021-22 Herff Jones Conference Carolinas Male Athlete of the Year
GREENVILLE, S.C. – Reece Fields of North Greenville has been selected as the Herff Jones Conference Carolinas Male Athlete of the Year for the 2021-22 academic year.
Fields is the second straight and the third North Greenville baseball player in the last four academic years to be chosen as the Herff Jones Conference Carolinas Male Athlete of the Year. Utah Jones was named the recipient of the prestigious honor in the 2018-19 academic year, while Fields’ teammate John Michael Faile collected the honor in the 2020-21 academic year.
The 6-foot-2 redshirt sophomore right-handed pitcher from West Columbia, South Carolina finished the regular season 9-1 with a 3.52 ERA in 14 starts with two complete games en route to earning Conference Carolinas Pitcher of the Year honors. He struck out 76 batters in 69 innings during the regular season with just 19 walks and a .237 batting average against. His nine wins topped the conference during the regular season in 2022.
In North Greenville’s run to its first-ever national championship, Fields would go on to close out his 2022 campaign with an 11-2 record in 20 starts. Opponents hit just .244 against him in his 102.0 innings on the hill. Fields was also chosen first-team all-conference and first-team all-region.
Fields saved one of his best performances for last with the righty picking up the victory in North Greenville’s 5-3 national championship game win over Point Loma on June 10. Fields struck out eight in his five innings on the mound in the biggest win in program history.
The win in the national championship game followed up a strong performance in his first start of the NCAA Division II Baseball Championship in Cary, North Carolina against West Chester. In North Greenville’s 3-1 win over West Chester on June 5, Fields pitched the first seven innings, striking out six.
Fields was selected as the 2022 NCAA Division II Baseball Championship Most Valuable Player.
Herff Jones Conference Carolinas Male Athlete of the Year Winners
2021-22 Reece Fields, North Greenville
2020-21 John Michael Faile, North Greenville
2019-20 Jordan Floyd, King
2018-19 Utah Jones, North Greenville
2017-18 Adam Craig, Mount Olive
2016-17 Kevin Reisman, Limestone
2015-16 Mike Messenger, Limestone
2014-15 Kevin Reisman, Limestone
2013-14 Bradon Reitano, Mount Olive
2012-13 Riley Loewen, Limestone
2011-12 Jake Ternosky, Limestone
2010-11 Carter Capps, Mount Olive
2009-10 Bryan Fogle, Erskine
2008-09 Michael Crouch, Queens
2007-08 Jason Sherrer, Mount Olive
2006-07 Anthony Atkinson, Barton
2005-06 Brock Godwin, Barton
2004-05 Casey Smith, Erskine
2003-04 Spencer Ross, Queens
2002-03 Andrew McArthur, Pfeiffer
2001-02 Ben Case, Pfeiffer
2000-01 Colin Ducharme, Longwood
1999-00 Nem Sovic, Pfeiffer
1998-99 Todd Bailess, Barton
1997-98 Soce Faye, Queens
1996-97 Dan Shanks, Coker
1995-96 Brett Speight, High Point