Tompkins, who named to the second team, becomes the first Sacramento State softball player to earn academic all-district honors since Nicole Deatherage in 2004, and the sixth Hornet in the last nine years to achieve the honor.

Tompkins has started all but three games for the Hornets this year, and finished the regular season with 36 hits, 19 runs, a home run, 13 RBIs and seven sacrifices. The Salinas, Calif., native started 47 games at shortstop and five games at second base while committing just eight errors all season (.957 fielding percentage).

She is batting .308 (16-52) with runners in scoring position, and the Hornets are 33-14 in games that Tompkins starts at shortstop. Tompkins has 11 multiple-hit games (including three three-hit games) and hit her first career home run at the Capital Classic earlier this year.

In her second year at Sacramento State, Tompkins has a 3.62 gpa as a business major and was named to the Pacific Coast Softball Conference''s Commissioner''s Honor Roll last season.

To be eligible for Academic All-District honors as selected by the College Sports Information Directors of America (CoSIDA), a student-athlete must have at least a 3.20 gpa (on a 4.0 scale), must be a starter or an important reserve, and be in at least their second season with the current school.

Sacramento State concluded the 2006 regular season with eight-straight wins, a 35-20 overall record and a 14-6 mark in the PCSC. The Hornets will win their first conference title since joining the PCSC in 2003 if Portland State (12-5) loses one of its three makeup games this Friday and Saturday against Loyola Marymount. The winner of the PCSC receives an automatic berth into the NCAA Regionals, a place the Hornets have not been since 1995.