HATTIESBURG, Miss. -- After striking out 12 batters and allowing only one hit over five innings against Middle Tennessee Saturday evening, Southern Miss junior RHP Nick Sandlin (Evans, Ga.) was named Conference USA Pitcher of the Week as well as a Collegiate Baseball National Player of the Week.
This is the third time that Sandlin has been honored with both awards the same week this season. The C-USA accolade also marked the fourth time this season that the Golden Eagle ace has won the league’s weekly award. He is the first Southern Miss player to win the weekly pitcher award four times in one season.
Louisiana Tech junior OF Mason Robinson earned Conference USA Hitter of the Week honors, while FIU junior RHP Andres Nunez (nine strikeouts with no earned runs in a win at UTSA) earned Co-Pitcher of the Week honors.
After missing a turn in the rotation, Nick Sandlin came back with a limited pitch count against Middle Tennessee in the final game of the series and retired 15 of 16 batters he faced, as the pitching staff notched its third shutout of the campaign. The only runner he allowed to reach base was a bloop single to start the second.
He fanned the side three of five innings he worked. He also produced two flyouts to the outfield and a ground out to third. With his strikeout total, it was the fifth time in nine starts this season he has fanned double-digit batters.
For the season, he has improved his record to 5-0 and lowered his ERA to 1.17. Sandlin has totaled 87 strikeouts with only six walks this season in 54 innings.
It was the fifth C-USA weekly award of the year for the squad.
