Rutgers-Camden Athletics

Mackenzie Mason returns for her fourth and final season as the Scarlet Raptors’ catcher as she continues her climb up the career statistical charts at Rutgers-Camden. A stellar defensive catcher with a strong arm, Mason is seventh on the program’s all-time list with 362 career putouts. If she gets 148 or more putouts this season, she will become only the fifth player in program history to reach the 500 plateau. Mason’s fielding percentage of .97968 currently ranks eighth on the team’s career list, barely behind seventh-place, a .97969 mark by Kathleen Dreitlein (2005-08).
 
Mason ranks 24th in career games, entering the 2018 campaign with an even 100. Offensively, she is tied for 15th in career doubles at Rutgers-Camden (16) and is tied for 12th with three sacrifice flies. She needs 78 at bats to become the 20th player in program history to reach the 300 milestone.
 
Mason also excels in the classroom. A Psychology major, she was named to the Rutgers-Camden Athletic Director’s Honor Roll for the Spring 2016 semester and repeated on that team for the 2016 Fall and 2017 Fall semesters.
 
Softball 2017: Played in 32 games, making all 29 of her starts at catcher…Hit .247 with a .338 slugging percentage and a .333 on-base percentage…Scored nine runs…Tied for the team lead with seven doubles and finished third on the Scarlet Raptors with 13 RBIs…Third on the team with 10 walks and second on the club with five sacrifices…Went 2-for-2 on stolen base attempts…Defensively, led the club with 120 putouts and added 18 assists and two double plays…Compiled a .979 fielding percentage…Hit .429 (3-for-7) with the bases loaded and .276 (8-for-29) with runners in scoring position…Had one of the top percentages on the team for moving up runners, advancing 22 in 40 chances (.550)…Produced the game-winning hit and caught the shutout in the Scarlet Raptors’ season opener, ripping a two-run double in the second inning to lead Rutgers-Camden over Fredonia, 2-0, on March 3…Went 1-for-2 with a double, two walks and three runs scored against Alfred State (March 11), while adding eight putouts behind the plate…Had her season high of nine putouts and added one assist against Wisconsin-Stout (March 13)…Produced one of the finest offensive performances in program history, going 4-for-4 (one hit shy of the program record) with six RBIs (two shy of the program record) in the opener of a doubleheader against New Jersey City University (April 2), including two-run singles in the second, fourth and seventh innings of a 7-3 Raptor victory…Added two hits and one RBI in the nightcap…Her 6-for-8, seven-RBI performance on the day helped her earn Rutgers-Camden’s Raptor of the Week honor on April 3…Went 2-for-4 with one run and one RBI in the nightcap of a doubleheader against Stockton University (April 13), completing a twinbill in which she combined for a 3-for-6 day and added six putouts and two assists…That doubleheader started a three-game hitting streak (April 13-15), in which she went 4-for-10 (.400) with a double, a walk, one run and one RBI…Had a two-run double and scored a run, going 1-for-3, in a 5-2 victory over Montclair State University (April 23, Game One)…Went 1-for-1 with a walk and one run scored in the Raptors’ final game of the season, the nightcap of a doubleheader against Kean University (April 29).
 
Softball 2016: Played in 39 of the Scarlet Raptors’ 40 games, starting 38…Was the team’s starting catcher in 31 of those games…Hit .181 with 12 runs, 14 RBIs, eight doubles and one home run…Had a .298 slugging percentage and a .243 on-base percentage…Collected six walks, one sacrifice fly and two sacrifices…Hit by a pitch on two occasions…Led the team with 157 putouts and finished fourth in assists (39)…A clutch hitter, batted .289 with runners on base (13-for-45), .344 with runners in scoring position (11-for-32) and .429 with runners at third base and less than two outs (3-for-7)…Had a lofty .510 percentage in advancing runners (26-for-51)…Went 2-for-3 with one run and three RBIs against Sarah Lawrence College (March 15) and 2-for-3, including a double, a walk, two runs and four RBIs  later the same day against Southern Vermont College…Also had 10 putouts against Southern Vermont, the first of her three games in double-digits for putouts, including 10 against Albertus Magnus College (March 16) and 11 in the opener of a Penn State-Abington doubleheader (March 24)…Against Bay Path University (March 17), went 2-for-2 with two doubles, one run and two RBIs…Had her first career home run in a 7-2 victory over The College of New Jersey (April 12, Game One), a solo shot to left field in the fifth inning…Went 2-for-3 with a double, the home run, two RBIs and one run in that contest…Ripped two doubles in three at bats, while adding one RBI in the opener of a doubleheader at Ursinus College (April 24)…Was 2-for-3 with one run scored against Ramapo College (April 28, Game One)…Notched three assists on four occasions.
 
Softball 2015: Played in 29 games, starting 22…Hit .255 with a .275 slugging percentage and a .286 on-base percentage…Scored 11 runs and collected four RBIs…Added one double, three walks and two stolen bases in three attempts…Finished second on the team with two sacrifice flies and 85 putouts…Added 15 assists…Made her collegiate debut as the starting catcher in the season opener against Lynchburg College (March 13), going 0-for-1 and collecting six putouts in six chances…Had a sacrifice fly later that day in her lone plate appearance against Capital (March 13), collecting her first RBI…Also added seven putouts and one assist in the Capital game…In her next game against Lynchburg College (March 14), went 1-for-2, collecting her first collegiate hit with a second-inning single through the right side of the infield…Went 2-for-5 with two runs, six putouts and one assist against York (NY) College (March 20)…Went 1-for-1 with her first collegiate double, while adding one run, eight putouts and one assist against Penn State-Abington (March 25, Game Two)…Went 2-for-3 in the opener of a Montclair State University doubleheader (April 11)…That contest was the middle game of a three-game hitting streak from April 9-11, in which she hit 4-for-10 (.400) with two runs and one RBI…Went 2-for-5 with one run, one RBI and seven putouts in the nightcap of a John Jay College doubleheader (April 16)…Had a one-out pinch-hit single in the sixth inning against Rowan University (April 28) to break up a no-hitter being thrown against the Raptors in the New Jersey Athletic Conference playoffs.