Career Highs

• Innings pitched: 3.0, at Illinois State, Apr 09, 2019 
• Walks allowed: 4, at Illinois State, Apr 09, 2019 
• Strikeouts: 3, Coastal Carolina, Apr 03, 2019 ; Penn State, Apr 21, 2019 
• Batters faced: 13, at Illinois State, Apr 09, 2019 

MLB Draft

• 2016 MLB Draft - 35th Round - Chicago White Sox

Senior - 2020 (COVID-19 Shortened)

• Academic All-America First Team
• The third Academic All-America first team selection in Illinois history and the first in 20 years
• Academic All-District
• Academic All-Big Ten
• Two-time national leader in saves with 19 in 2019 and 6 in 2020
• Illinois' all-time leader in career saves
• Broke Illinois’ career saves record March 8 when he got the final six outs at Elon for his 25th career save
• 25 saves through 70 games (35.7%) in an Illinois uniform from 2019-20
• 25 of Illinois’ 44 wins (56.8%) were saved by Acton from 2019-20
• Illinois Athletics Senior GPA Award for the highest GPA of all senior student-athletes
• NCBWA Preseason All-America first team
• Perfect Game Preseason All-America second team
• Collegiate Baseball Newspaper Preseason All-America second team
• NCBWA Stopper of the Year Watch List
• Perfect Game Preseason All-Big Ten
• Rated "Best Fastball" in the Big Ten by Baseball America
• No. 237 MLB Draft prospect by D1Baseball
• No. 26 MLB Draft prospect in the Big Ten by Perfect Game
• No. 37 MLB Draft prospect in the Big Ten by D1Baseball

Junior - 2019

• NCBWA Stopper of the Year Award finalist (one of six)
• NCBWA District Player of the Year, the third District Player of the Year in Illinois history
• NCBWA All-America first team
• Perfect Game/Rawlings All-America first team
• ABCA All-America second team
• Collegiate Baseball Newspaper All-America second team
• Mideast All-Region first team
• All-Big Ten first team reliever
• National leader in saves (19)
• 19 saves, 2-3, 2.18 ERA, 33.0 IP, .127 BAA, 18 BB, 34 SO
• Big Ten single-season record for saves (19)
• Illinois single-season record for saves (19)
• Illinois Athletics Junior GPA Award for the highest GPA of all junior student-athletes
• Illinois Athletics Male Athlete of the Year finalist
• Team-best 2.18 ERA
• Team-best 95 strikeouts
• Team-best .127 batting average against
• Team for team-best 30 appearances
• Fifth on the team with 33 innings pitched
• Transferred to Illinois with two years of eligibility remaining
• 3.2 IP, 1 H, 0 ER, 3 BB, 4 K during six-game foreign trip to Curaçao and Aruba

Sophomore - 2018 (Parkland College)

• 2-3, 4 SV, 2.25 ERA, 32 IP, 25 BB, 44 SO, 13 H as a sophomore
• Committed to Illinois in the fall of his sophomore season at Parkland

Freshman - 2017 (Saint Louis)

• Pitched at Saint Louis University as a freshman in 2016
• 2-1, 6.12 ERA, 32.1 IP as a freshman

High School

• Three-year letterwinner at Lemont
• Played for head coach Brian Storako at Lemont
• 2016 IHSABCA Class 3A Player of the Year
• 2016 IHSABCA Class 3A All-State
• 2016 Herald-News All-Area
• Led Lemont to 2014 and 2016 3A state championships
• Drafted by the White Sox and won the 2016 state title on the same day

Personal

• Born June 15, 1998
• Son of Janette Acton and the late James Gordon Acton
• Father played football at Purdue, Triton College and Eastern Illinois
• Father was a golf professional and head professional at several golf courses in the Chicago area
• One younger sister, Isabel
• Majoring in finance
• Aspires to become a financial planner following his baseball career
• Chose Illinois because, "I thought it offered the best fit academically and athletically, giving me the opportunity to play Big Ten Baseball for a program with a great track record of pitching development while earning a top-tier degree."