Tweet #theGAC  RUSSELLVILLE, Ark. – The Great American Conference announced the league’s Players of the Week recipients for the seventh week of the baseball season. Southern Arkansas’ Cortland McPherson captured the Player accolade while Arkansas-Monticello’s Grant Black and Henderson State’s Bryant Haralson shared the Pitcher award.
 
GAC BASEBALL PLAYER OF THE WEEK – Cortland McPherson, Southern Arkansas, DH, Jr., Lukin, Texas
McPherson hit .615 for the week, going 8-for-13 with four runs scored and four RBI. He recorded at least one hit in all four games and tallied four extra-base hits - three doubles and a home run - during the week. He posted a .667 on-base percentage and a 1.077 slugging percentage. The Muleriders have won 11 straight games, tied for the third-longest streak in GAC history.
 
GAC BASEBALL CO-PITCHER OF THE WEEK – Grant Black, Arkansas-Monticello, RHP, Sr., Newport, Arkansas
Black shut out Northwestern Oklahoma State, 9-0, in Friday’s series opener for his second shutout of the season and his third complete game. He held the Rangers to four hits and a walk while striking out nine. This performance dropped his ERA to 1.91, the fourth-best mark in the GAC. The Weevils swept the Rangers and have won 11 of their last 13 games.
 
GAC BASEBALL CO-PITCHER OF THE WEEK – Bryant Haralson, Henderson State, RHP, Jr., Atkins, Arkansas
Haralson threw a three-hit shutout in a 1-0 victory against Southeastern Oklahoma State. He faced just three above the minimum. After giving up a single to start the fifth, he retired the final nine batters, six by strikeout - including all three batters in the seventh. He lowered his ERA to a GAC-leading 1.45 and bolstered his strikeout-walk ratio to 49:3.
 
NOTABLE NOMINEES
- Hunter Harrison, Sr., 1B, Southeastern Oklahoma State (Homered and drove in five runs in series against Henderson State)
- Hunter Heath, Sr., DH, Oklahoma Baptist (Went 7-for-14 with a home run and five runs scored; Bison went 4-0 for the week)
- Zach Klockowski, Sr., DH/1B, Arkansas Tech (Hit .444 with a .583 on-base percentage in Tech’s series against Southern Nazarene)
- Kaleb Matthews, Sr., IF, East Central (Picked up nine hits and nine RBI as ECU split its four games; hit. 563)
- Sean Wagner, Jr., 1B, Arkansas-Monticello (UAM swept Northwestern Oklahoma State; drove in seven runs and hit .455)
- Justin Weigle, Sr., SS, Ouachita (Collected seven hits in three-game series against ECU; totaled five RBI)
- Anthony Wiggins, Sr., OF, Southern Nazarene (Hit .429 with three doubles and five RBI)
 
NOTABLE PITCHER NOMINEES                                          
- Quentin Bowling, Fr., RHP, Arkansas Tech (Earned two saves with 2.2 hitless innings against Southern Nazarene)
- Jefferson Harris, So., RHP, Southern Nazarene (Picked up a complete-game victory against Arkansas Tech; allowed seven hits)
- Carson McPherson, Sr., LHP, Oklahoma Baptist (Tossed 7.0 scoreless innings and struck out eight against Harding)
- Kenneth Tabor, Jr., RHP, Southern Arkansas (Limited SWOSU to one run and three hits; did not allow a hit until the sixth inning)
- Mike Wade, Sr., RHP, Southeastern Oklahoma State (Pitched 6.0 scoreless frames against HSU, earned second-straight win)