By Bobby Mathews, Sports Editor
TRUSSVILLE — Hewitt-Trussville senior pitcher Riley Quick is The Trussville Tribune’s Player of the Year for the 2022 baseball season.
Riley Quick is The Tribune’s baseball player of the year. (File photo)
Quick won 13 games and lost one, posting a microscopic 0.92 ERA, struck out 130 batters overall and pitched back-to-back no-hitters at one point during the season. He threw eight shutouts and allowed only 11 earned runs all season.
“With Riley pitching, we always have a chance to win,” Hewitt-Trussville head coach Jeff Mauldin said during the 2022 regular season. The Huskies won the Class 7A Area 6 title and finished runner-up in the state championship series to Central-Phenix City.
Quick won the opener in that series, pitching well against a talented hitting team and earned a shutout despite giving up a single and a double in the top of the seventh inning in a 6-0 victory.
Quick was also dangerous at the plate, batting .267 with three home runs, eight doubles and 20 RBI. His on-base percentage was .425. His last at-bat in high school was a single in the final game of the 7A championship series.
Quick has signed a scholarship to play collegiate baseball at The University of Alabama.
Other finalists from the The Tribune’s coverage area: Zach Johnson (Moody), Will Landers (Leeds), Javen Hunter (Clay-Chalkville), Isaiah Sims (Pinson Valley); Matt Miller (Hewitt-Trussville), Alex Bradford (Leeds) and Asa Morrison (Springville).
The Andrews Sports Medicine All-Tribune baseball team will be released later today, May 29, 2022.
