DALLAS, Texas – Southern Arkansas right-handed pitcher Jeremy Adorno added to his early season haul of weekly honors on Wednesday as the National Collegiate Baseball Writers Association (NCBWA) named the Kissimmee, Florida, native the Division II National Pitcher of the Week. He becomes the first Mulerider to receive the national recognition from the NCBWA since Landon Simpson in March of 2015.
 
Adorno was one of eight regional pitchers of the week and claimed the national honor which stamps an impressive two and a half weeks for the first-year Mulerider. On Tuesday, he became the first pitcher in the Great American Conference to earn pitcher of the week plaudits for three consecutive weeks and he became the first player in program history to win the award three times in a single career.
 
From Tuesday's GAC PiOTW announcement:
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 and five were browsing.
 
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 his 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.