STATESBORO - Georgia Southern senior third baseman Hannah Farrell was named to the 2019 All-Sun Belt Conference softball first team with the release of the league's annual awards today.

Farrell was the lone Eagle to earn a spot on the All-Conference teams, as she was named the first-team third baseman. She joins pitcher Dixie Raley (2016) and outfielder Emily Snider (2017) as Eagles to earn first-team All-Sun Belt honors since Georgia Southern joined the league in 2015.

The Jesup, Ga., native leads the Eagles and ranks third in the Sun Belt Conference with a .403 batting average. She is hitting .443 in Sun Belt play and also ranks 75th among players in NCAA Division I in batting average. Farrell has 14 doubles, five home runs and 31 RBI, also ranking fourth in the Sun Belt in doubles. She has tallied 20 multi-hit games in 2019 and heads into the Sun Belt Conference tournament on a nine-game hitting streak and an 18-game streak of reaching base safely.

A second-team All-Sun Belt honoree a year ago and a third-team NFCA All-South Region honoree as a junior, Farrell is bidding to become just the fourth Georgia Southern softball player to hit .400 over an entire season. If she is successful, she will join Sue Lanier (.465, 1986), Nina Iduate (.450, 2010) and Shanita Black (.410, 2006) in accomplishing the feat.

Farrelll and the seventh-seeded Eagles open up play in the 2019 Sun Belt Conference Championships on Wednesday, facing sixth-seeded Coastal Carolina at 11 am ET on the campus of Texas State University.