Former walk-on Kingery could make UA baseball history
Arizona junior second baseman Scott Kingery was a walk-on from Phoenix two years ago. Through Saturday, he led the NCAA in hitting at .477. The school record is .484, set in 1952 by Lloyd Jenney, which seems like a fantasy. For someone to challenge Jenney’s record 63 years later is intriguing. Kingery had 60 hits through Saturday. If he can get to 100 it would surely mean he’d finish well above .400. Dave Stegman had 111 hits in 1976, an Arizona record. Baseball America does not project Arizona in its NCAA tournament field of 64 teams, which, if true, would almost eliminate Kingery from getting to 100, requiring 40 hits in just 24 remaining regular-season games.
