MARSHALL, Texas – Putting together a career week on the mound, East Texas Baptist University sophomore Sayers Collins earned two major awards for his performance last week. He was named to the "D3baseball.com Team of the Week" as a relief pitcher and was the American Southwest Conference Pitcher of the Week. Both honors are his first awards as a pitcher.

In three relief appearances last week, the native of Frisco, Texas, pitched 9.2 innings of no-hit, no-run ball while striking out 18 batters to earn a win and save. Collins began his week with two shutout innings against #14 Centenary College striking out three batters. Then against Louisiana College in game two, he set career highs in innings pitched (5.0) and strikeouts (11) while earning the win. The next day, he entered game three with a three-run lead in the seventh and struck out four more batters to earn the save and series win over ASC leading Louisiana College.

Collins is the fourth ETBU pitcher and fifth player to be honored by the ASC this season.
 
ETBU is home this weekend for their ASC series against Ozarks with game on starting at 7:00 PM on Friday pending weather. Saturday's doubleheader will begin at 1:00 PM