2021 Softball Roster
Fincher, Lacey
Jersey Number 44
Lacey Fincher
- Position:
- Infield
- Height:
- 5-11
- Class:
- Junior
- High School:
- Faith Academy
- Hometown:
- Tanner Williams, Ala.
- Shop:
- R/R
Bio
2022 // Senior
Named NFCA Second Team All-America, NFCA All-Southeast Region Second Team, and All-SEC First Team… Appeared in 60 games, making 59 starts, 51 as the designated player and eight at first base… Hit .340 on the season with 53 hits, 28 going for extra bases… Led the team with 19 home runs with a .776 slugging percentage and .472 on-base clip with 35 walks… 0.58 walks per game ranked ninth in the SEC… 19 home runs ranked sixth in the SEC and 19th nationally… Drove in 51 runs and scored 45… Co-led the team with 18 multi-hit games and led the program with 17 multi-RBI games… Strung together a 20-game on-base streak and a seven-game hitting streak… Recorded three two-home run games including a couple against UMBC (5/21) in the NCAA Regional… Hit three home runs with seven RBI in two games March 5 versus UMass and Ohio… Hit two home runs in the 12-4 run-rule victory over #12 Tennessee (4/10)… Named SEC Player of the Week after hitting .571 against #12 Tennessee, hitting three home runs and driving in nine runs in three games… Slugged 1.857, totaling 13 bases, and recorded a .750 on-base clip while drawing four walks against the Lady Vols... Her nine home runs in SEC play finished third while she finished top 10 in RBI (22), runs scored (20), batting average (.362), and slugging (.826)… Led Georgia with 10 multi-hit SEC games and seven multi-RBI performances… Hit .264 (4-for-15) in the NCAA Regional with three home runs and five RBI with five walks… Ranked 58th on D1 Softball’s 150 Top Players of 2022… Recipient of the Beatrice F. Cole & Ronnie M. Cole Softball Scholarship.
2021 // Junior
Started 56 games, 46 at first base in 2021… Led the team with a .345 hitting clip… Earned NFCA All-Southeast Region Third Team honors… .734 slugging and .511 on base percentages ranked sixth in the SEC… Co-led the team with 15 home runs, ranking 10th in the league… Hit .429 with a pair of home runs and six RBI in the NCAA Tournament… Concluded the team with 12 multi-hit games and was one of only two Bulldogs to record a four-hit game when she did it against Longwood (2/19)… Fincher led the team with 12 multi-RBI contests including a career-best five RBI against Western Kentucky (5/21) in the Athens Regional… She also had three two-home run games with Western Kentucky being the final of the three… Went 2-for-3 against No. 1 Oklahoma in the final game of the season at the Women’s College World Series… Recorded a team-best 16-game on base streak in 2021 and strung together a six-game hitting streak… Concluded the season with 47 walks, third-best in the conference… Recipient of the Beatrice F. Cole & Ronnie M. Cole Softball Scholarship.
2020 // Sophomore
Started and appeared in 27 games at first base… Finished the season with a .417 hitting clip, the 10th-best in the SEC, scattering 30 hits including four doubles, a triple, and six home runs… Drove in 26 runs, 13thmost in the league… Concluded with a .750 slugging percentage, ranking 10th in the SEC… Co-led the team with 17 walks… Led the team with 10 multi-hit games and recorded eight multi-RBI performances… Hit a game-ending solo home run to run rule Austin Peay (2/23)… Recorded second-career multi-home run game with two against Furman (3/11).
2019 // Freshman
Earned a spot on the SEC All-Freshman Team… Was named to the Schutts/NFCA Freshman of the Year Top 25 list… Appeared in all but one game and made 59 starts as a true freshman… 49 starts came at first base, 16 as the DP, and one start at each shortstop and right field and also saw time behind that plate as a sub… Finished with a second-best .318 batting average… Knocked nine home runs and drove in 32 RBI… Scored 46 runs and scattered 47 hits… Also had seven doubles and a triple… Slugged .561 with a .483 on-base clip… Drew 49 walks, the second-most on the team… Had a two-home run game and drove in a season-best four runs against UAB (3/3)… Named SEC Co-Freshman of the Week on March 4… Concluded the season with 12 multi-hit games, all two-hit performances, and six multi-RBI games… Strung together a season-best nine-game hitting streak with a 12-game on-base streak… Her .483 on-base percentage finished 64th nationally and 11th in the SEC… Had four sacrifice flies, the third most in the SEC… 0.82 walks per game finished the season 12th in the country and sixth in the league… Named to J. Reid Parker Director of Athletics Honor Roll.
High School
Started 264 games during her career at Faith Academy where she was a six-year (7th-12th grade) varsity player… Was a four-time First Team All-County, All-Regional, and 5A All-State selection… Also earned First Team All-Super State (classes 1A-7A) honors… During her freshman campaign, she was named First Team Coastal Alabama and Class 5A All-State after hitting .491 with 12 home runs… She hit .462 with a school record 18 home runs as a sophomore… As a junior, she matched her 18 home runs from the season before with a .500 batting clip… Capped her career with a .514 average and 21 homers… Concluded her career with a .431 batting average, .513 on base percentage, .882 slugging percentage, driving in 262 runs and sending 75 balls over the fence… Selected to play for the East squad in the PGF High School All-American game in Irvine, California as a senior… Selected for Louisville Slugger Hit Club, honoring the top 10 players in the nation in 2018… Runner-up for Mobile County Female Athlete of the Year in 2018… Class 5A Hitter of the Year as a junior… Selected to the Alabama North-South All-Star Team as a junior… Also a Maxpreps First Team Underclass All-American as a junior… High School records include single-season (21) and career home runs (75)… Ranks third in career home runs and seventh in single season home runs in the state Alabama… Ranks seventh in career RBI (262) and fifth in career walks (124) in the state of Alabama.
Personal
Daughter of Jennifer and Frank “Bo” Fincher… Has an older brother, Luke… Born March 29, 2000 Majoring in Human Development and Family Science.
Named NFCA Second Team All-America, NFCA All-Southeast Region Second Team, and All-SEC First Team… Appeared in 60 games, making 59 starts, 51 as the designated player and eight at first base… Hit .340 on the season with 53 hits, 28 going for extra bases… Led the team with 19 home runs with a .776 slugging percentage and .472 on-base clip with 35 walks… 0.58 walks per game ranked ninth in the SEC… 19 home runs ranked sixth in the SEC and 19th nationally… Drove in 51 runs and scored 45… Co-led the team with 18 multi-hit games and led the program with 17 multi-RBI games… Strung together a 20-game on-base streak and a seven-game hitting streak… Recorded three two-home run games including a couple against UMBC (5/21) in the NCAA Regional… Hit three home runs with seven RBI in two games March 5 versus UMass and Ohio… Hit two home runs in the 12-4 run-rule victory over #12 Tennessee (4/10)… Named SEC Player of the Week after hitting .571 against #12 Tennessee, hitting three home runs and driving in nine runs in three games… Slugged 1.857, totaling 13 bases, and recorded a .750 on-base clip while drawing four walks against the Lady Vols... Her nine home runs in SEC play finished third while she finished top 10 in RBI (22), runs scored (20), batting average (.362), and slugging (.826)… Led Georgia with 10 multi-hit SEC games and seven multi-RBI performances… Hit .264 (4-for-15) in the NCAA Regional with three home runs and five RBI with five walks… Ranked 58th on D1 Softball’s 150 Top Players of 2022… Recipient of the Beatrice F. Cole & Ronnie M. Cole Softball Scholarship.
2021 // Junior
Started 56 games, 46 at first base in 2021… Led the team with a .345 hitting clip… Earned NFCA All-Southeast Region Third Team honors… .734 slugging and .511 on base percentages ranked sixth in the SEC… Co-led the team with 15 home runs, ranking 10th in the league… Hit .429 with a pair of home runs and six RBI in the NCAA Tournament… Concluded the team with 12 multi-hit games and was one of only two Bulldogs to record a four-hit game when she did it against Longwood (2/19)… Fincher led the team with 12 multi-RBI contests including a career-best five RBI against Western Kentucky (5/21) in the Athens Regional… She also had three two-home run games with Western Kentucky being the final of the three… Went 2-for-3 against No. 1 Oklahoma in the final game of the season at the Women’s College World Series… Recorded a team-best 16-game on base streak in 2021 and strung together a six-game hitting streak… Concluded the season with 47 walks, third-best in the conference… Recipient of the Beatrice F. Cole & Ronnie M. Cole Softball Scholarship.
2020 // Sophomore
Started and appeared in 27 games at first base… Finished the season with a .417 hitting clip, the 10th-best in the SEC, scattering 30 hits including four doubles, a triple, and six home runs… Drove in 26 runs, 13thmost in the league… Concluded with a .750 slugging percentage, ranking 10th in the SEC… Co-led the team with 17 walks… Led the team with 10 multi-hit games and recorded eight multi-RBI performances… Hit a game-ending solo home run to run rule Austin Peay (2/23)… Recorded second-career multi-home run game with two against Furman (3/11).
2019 // Freshman
Earned a spot on the SEC All-Freshman Team… Was named to the Schutts/NFCA Freshman of the Year Top 25 list… Appeared in all but one game and made 59 starts as a true freshman… 49 starts came at first base, 16 as the DP, and one start at each shortstop and right field and also saw time behind that plate as a sub… Finished with a second-best .318 batting average… Knocked nine home runs and drove in 32 RBI… Scored 46 runs and scattered 47 hits… Also had seven doubles and a triple… Slugged .561 with a .483 on-base clip… Drew 49 walks, the second-most on the team… Had a two-home run game and drove in a season-best four runs against UAB (3/3)… Named SEC Co-Freshman of the Week on March 4… Concluded the season with 12 multi-hit games, all two-hit performances, and six multi-RBI games… Strung together a season-best nine-game hitting streak with a 12-game on-base streak… Her .483 on-base percentage finished 64th nationally and 11th in the SEC… Had four sacrifice flies, the third most in the SEC… 0.82 walks per game finished the season 12th in the country and sixth in the league… Named to J. Reid Parker Director of Athletics Honor Roll.
High School
Started 264 games during her career at Faith Academy where she was a six-year (7th-12th grade) varsity player… Was a four-time First Team All-County, All-Regional, and 5A All-State selection… Also earned First Team All-Super State (classes 1A-7A) honors… During her freshman campaign, she was named First Team Coastal Alabama and Class 5A All-State after hitting .491 with 12 home runs… She hit .462 with a school record 18 home runs as a sophomore… As a junior, she matched her 18 home runs from the season before with a .500 batting clip… Capped her career with a .514 average and 21 homers… Concluded her career with a .431 batting average, .513 on base percentage, .882 slugging percentage, driving in 262 runs and sending 75 balls over the fence… Selected to play for the East squad in the PGF High School All-American game in Irvine, California as a senior… Selected for Louisville Slugger Hit Club, honoring the top 10 players in the nation in 2018… Runner-up for Mobile County Female Athlete of the Year in 2018… Class 5A Hitter of the Year as a junior… Selected to the Alabama North-South All-Star Team as a junior… Also a Maxpreps First Team Underclass All-American as a junior… High School records include single-season (21) and career home runs (75)… Ranks third in career home runs and seventh in single season home runs in the state Alabama… Ranks seventh in career RBI (262) and fifth in career walks (124) in the state of Alabama.
Personal
Daughter of Jennifer and Frank “Bo” Fincher… Has an older brother, Luke… Born March 29, 2000 Majoring in Human Development and Family Science.
Georgia Softball vs Florida NCAA Super Regional Game 3 Postgame Press Conference
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Georgia Softball vs Florida NCAA Super Regional Game 2 Postgame Press Conference
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Georgia Softball vs Florida NCAA Super Regional Postgame Press Conference
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