RUSSELLVILLE, Ark. – For the first time in Great American Conference history, a player has earned a weekly honor in three consecutive weeks. Southern Arkansas freshman right hander Jeremy Adorno has been named the league's Pitcher of the Week for the third time this season after engineering yet another high quality outing in last weekend's conference-opening series against Northwestern Oklahoma State.
 
Pitching in front of the Walker Stadium faithful for the first time in his young Mulerider career, Adorno fired a complete game, seven-inning shutout of the Rangers in the back half of Saturday's doubleheader sweep. Highlighting the effort was a 15-strikeout performance from the Kissimmee, Florida native which tied him with SAU Sports Hall of Famer Hayden Simpson (2/14/2009 at West Alabama) for the second-most in a single game in program history and the most since Ziggie Vanderwall's program-record 17 against LSU-Shreveport on March 1, 2011.
 
Adorno scattered four hits, one walk and a single HBP in the 8-0 win over NWOSU. He faced just six over the minimum, only twice did a baserunner advance to second and of the 15 strikeouts ten were swinging.
 
Saturday's victory, which moved him to 3-0 on the season, capped what has been an impressive and historic 17 days for Adorno. It started with his no-hitter, the program's first since 2014, against Missouri Western in his Mulerider debut, to six days later tossing a six-inning one-hitter against Pittsburg State before shutting down the Rangers on Saturday. In just three starts totaling 20 innings, Adorno has recorded 32 strikeouts, allowed just five hits and one run. Opponents are hitting .079 against him and his ERA is 0.45.
 
Tuesday's announcement makes him the first pitcher in SAU's storied program history to garner the GAC's weekly arm award three times in a single career. He did it in less than three weeks.