SACRAMENTO -- With Western Athletic Conference Freshman of the Year and Collegiate Baseball Freshman All-America awards already under his belt, Sacramento State's Wehiwa Aloy added his name to two more award lists this week.
Aloy was named a first-team Freshman All-American by the National Collegiate Baseball Writers Association — one of 17 on the first team and one of 34 student-athletes selected nationwide — and was a second-team All-West Region selection by the American Baseball Coaches Association.
The Wailuku, Hawai'i, native was one of only four West Coast selections to the NCBWA list, joining UC Irvine's Anthony Martinez and UC Santa Barbara's Hudson Barrett on the first team, while Stanford's Malcolm Moore was a second-team selection.
Aloy becomes the fourth Hornet to be named to the NCBWA's freshman all-america list, joining first-team selections Rhys Hoskins in 2012 and Sutter McLoughlin in 2013, as well as second-team honoree Chris Lewis in 2013. He is also the sixth Sacramento State player to earn all-region honors in the program's Division I era along with Tim Wheeler (2009), Andrew Ayers (2012), Hoskins (2014), Austin Root (2018), and Scott Randall (2021).
A WAC all-conference second-team selection in addition to his multitude of honors, Aloy was one of the most prolific hitters in the league, batting .376 in all 56 games for the Hornets, scoring 69 runs and rapping 88 hits to go along with 15 doubles, five triples, and 14 home runs. He also drove in 46 runs, slugged .662 and posted a 1.089 OPS for the season.
At the end of the season, Aloy ranked among the top 10 in the conference in batting average (6th), slugging percentage (6th), runs scored (t2nd), hits (t3rd), triples (t2nd), home runs (t8th), and total bases (4th). He also stood fourth in the conference in hits per game (1.57), third in runs per game (1.23), and 10th in home runs per game (0.25).
The freshman also hit a blistering .415 in conference play (good for fifth in the league) and led the WAC with 56 hits and three triples. Aloy also ranked fourth in slugging (.756), second in runs scored (41), tied for seventh in doubles (10), sixth in home runs (10), and second in total bases (102). His 1.87 hits per game trailed only Grand Canyon's Jacob Wilson while his 1.37 runs per game were second behind the 'Lopes Homer Bush, Jr.
The owner of 30 multi-hit games this season, Aloy set the school record for most home runs by a freshman with his 12th of the year on April 29 at New Mexico State and stands tied for that record with teammate JP Smith, who was also a Collegiate Baseball Freshman All-American. His 69 runs scored ranked second on the program's single-season list behind only Brandon Marshall's 70 in 1998, and he is the first Hornet to collect 80 hits in a season since Ian Dawkins (89) in 2018 — ranking tied for sixth on the school's single-season chart. His 14 home runs are also tied for 10th on the single-season list.
SACRAMENTO STATE NCBWA FRESHMAN ALL-AMERICANS
2012 - Rhys Hoskins (1st Team)
2013 - Sutter McLoughlin (1st Team), Chris Lewis (2nd Team)
2023 - Wehiwa Aloy (1st Team)
SACRAMENTO STATE ABCA DIVISION I ALL-WEST REGION SELECTIONS
2009 - Tim Wheeler (1st Team)
2012 - Andrew Ayers (2nd Team)
2014 - Rhys Hoskins (2nd Team)
2018 - Austin Root (2nd Team)
2021 - Scott Randall (2nd Team)
2023 - Wehiwa Aloy (2nd Team)
