2023 Baseball Roster
Roster
Colby Allen
- Height:
- 5-11
- Weight:
- 177
- Class:
- Freshman
- Hometown:
- Louisville, Miss.
- High School:
- Starkville Academy
2025 (Jr.): Earned third-team All-America honors by the National Collegiate Baseball Writers Association (NCBWA), as well as first-team All-South Region by ABCA/Rawlings and Sun Belt Conference at relief pitcher…Appeared in a team-best 29 games, including two starts, and posted a 7-4 record with 12 saves…Fanned 77 and walked 17 in 67 innings with a 3.63 ERA…Allowed 53 hits, while opponents hit .214 against him…Posted a three-year 17-7 record with 19 saves…His junior season save total ranks tied for fifth, while his career number ranks is seventh on the career school chart…Over his final 13 appearances of the season, he went 4-0 with six saves over 27 2/3 innings…Fanned 33 and walked eight with a 1.95 ERA over that span…Threw a season-high five innings in relief against Old Dominion (3/15) in which he fanned a season-best seven…Hurled four shutout innings in first start of the year against Mississippi State (2/18), allowing no runs and no hits with a walk and five strikeouts with the Golden Eagles capturing a 3-0 win in the contest…Got a no decision in his second start versus Miami (6/1) in his final appearance of the season…Went four innings and gave up three runs on three hits with a pair of strikeouts…Tossed at least three innings in 10 times and two innings 21 times…Went seven outings at one point (3/8-25) without allowing an earned run, spanning 16 innings and went 2-0 with four saves over that time…A preseason All-American by the NCBWA as well as a starting pitcher for the Sun Belt…Named to the Athletic Director’s Honor Roll for the Spring 2025 and Fall 2024 semesters.
2024 (So.): Made a team-high tying 27 appearances with a pair of starts to register a 10-2 record with seven saves…His win and save total were team bests…Fanned 82 and walked just 18 in 65 1/3 innings to go with a 3.58 ERA…Tied for No. 12 nationally in wins…Earned ABCA All-South Regional honors as a relief pitcher…His second start of year came in an elimination contest in the NCAA Knoxville Regional against Indiana in which he limited the Hoosiers to a run on four hits and two walks with a career-high eight strikeouts over seven innings to earn a victory…Named the Sun Belt Conference Most Outstanding Player by going 2-0 with a save, which included a win in the championship game over Georgia Southern…Threw 5 1/3 innings and allowed no runs on four hits with a walk and five strikeouts while opponents hit .190 off of him in three games…Threw two scoreless frames against Georgia Southern (5/26) in the final with a hit and a strikeout…Had saves in four consecutive appearances coming against Arkansas State (5/10), Ole Miss (5/14), and Texas State (5/17-18) in consecutive games…Went five innings over that stretch in which he did not allow an earned run (one unearned), while giving up three hits and a walk with seven strikeouts over that span…Got out of the Ole Miss game on six pitches over an inning of work with a strikeout…Went 10 1/3 innings from May 10-26, over seven appearances, without allowing an earned run.
2023 (Fr.): Pitched in 12 games, including one start…Posted a 0-1 record with a 11.57 ERA, in which he fanned 15 and walked just four…Only start came at Ole Miss (3/7) in which he gave up two runs on two hits with a walk and two strikeouts over two innings to suffer the loss in his only decision of the season…Fanned a season-high three batters in his debut versus New Orleans (2/21) and Old Dominion (4/6) in the first game of a doubleheader…Threw a season-high two innings on three different occasions…A member of the Fall 2022 semester Athletic Director’s Honor Roll.
High School: Played at Starkville Academy, which captured 30 victories and finished in the North State championship for the third-straight time…Pitched and played catcher, where he was an all-district performer his senior season…Played 38 games and posted a .320 average with eight doubles, seven home runs and 34 RBI…Added a .610 slugging percentage and a .504 on-base percentage…Threw 13 1/3 innings over 10 appearances with 1-2 record and three saves…Had opportunity to pitch in the Southeast Collegiate League during the summer and allowed just two runs, three walks with 22 strikeouts and a 1.08 ERA over 16 2/3 innings.
Personal: Son of Todd and Janet Allen…Born on June 24…Majoring in Exercise Science.
