Alicia Blake
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| Washington Huskies – No. 12 | |||
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Alicia Diane Blake (born in Olympia, Washington) was a rare left-handed catcher on the University of Washington softball team from 2006 to 2009. She was a member of the team that won the 2009 Women's College World Series in Oklahoma City.
Personal
Prior to being known as Alicia Blake, she was known as Alicia Matthews. She married Andy Blake in 2007. Alicia is the daughter of Patricia and Rod Matthews and has three brothers, Jarod, Travis, and Daylon, and one sister, Tessa.
Yelm High School (2002-2005)
Alicia was a four-year letter winner in high school. She was a three-time All-League selection and a three-time selection to the All-Area Team. She was a member of the all-state team her senior year. Blake earned team MVP awards as both a junior and a senior. In addition to winning team MVP her senior year, Alicia also received league MVP honors. She was honored with the Silver Slugger award in 2002 and 2003. Alicia served as team captain from her sophomore year to her senior year in high school. Blake was named Nisqually Athlete of the Year twice and Olympian Athlete of the Month twice. Throughout her four years in high school, she held the highest batting average on her team and currently holds the record for the highest batting average in school history. Along with her athletic accomplishments, Blake was named to the All-League Academic team all four years of high school.
Freshman (2006)
Alicia appeared in 51 games. She started 47 of those games as catcher. Blake had a batting average of .233 with eight doubles and 15 RBIs. Alicia led the conference with three pickoffs.
Sophomore (2007)
Blake started 59 of the 60 games she appeared in. She started 58 games at catcher and one at first base. Her batting average was .249. Alicia finished the season with 42 hits, six doubles, one triple, and one home run. She had 29 RBIs and scored 16 of Washington's runs. Blake had a .991 fielding percentage her sophomore season and caught 15 baserunners stealing, ranking third in the Pac-10. She tied for the conference lead in sacrifice flyouts, ranking fifth on Washington's single-season charts. Alicia had eight multi-hit games and seven multi-RBI games. Blake helped lead her team to the 2007 Women's College World Series.
Junior (2008)
Alicia was selected for the second team All-Pac-10. She led the team with a batting average of .345, a slugging percentage of .552, and 13 doubles. Blake tied for the team lead in home runs with seven. With 57 hits, 34 RBIs, and an on-base percentage of .410, she ranked second on the team in all categories. She started in every game played by the Washington Huskies softball team, starting 42 at catcher and 14 at first base. Blake led the team with a .328 batting average and 21 hits in Pac-10 play. She led the Pac-10 with 16 baserunners caught stealing. Alicia finished the year with 15 multi-hit games and went 3-for-3 three times. She had seven multi-RBI games, including two games with four RBIs each. Blake hit safely in the team's first four games of the season and finished the year hitting safely in 39 games, tying for the team lead.
Senior (2009)
Alicia was named Honorable Mention All-Pac-10. She finished the year with the sixth-best batting average on the team, which was .271. Blake was honored as the team's Defensive MVP due to her conference-leading statistics. She led the Pac-10 in baserunners caught stealing (15), pickoffs (3), and chances/putouts (583/549). Alicia is the current UW leader in career putouts with 1,970. She also holds the UW single-game record for putouts with 24 in one game. Blake finished the season with six sacrifices, tying for the team lead. She was ranked fifth on the team in doubles (7) and sixth in RBIs (25). Alicia played in 61 of 63 games played by the Huskies. She started in 59 of those 61 games.
2009 Women's College World Series
Blake had one of Washington's three doubles and a sacrifice bunt in an extra-inning game against Arizona State to help them advance in the winner's bracket. Alicia went 2-for-3 with 2 sacrifice hits in Washington's loss to Georgia in the first game of the semi-finals.
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