Softball | 3/21/2017 2:07:00 PM

NEW ORLEANS, La. – Texas State's Randi Rupp was selected as the Sun Belt Conference Community Coffee Pitcher of the Week, the league announced Tuesday afternoon.
 
The honor is Rupp's first pitcher of the week plaudit this season and the sixth of her career.
 
Community Coffee Sun Belt Pitcher of the Week
Randi Rupp (Texas State, Junior, RHP, Management)
Randi Rupp went 3-0 on the week with a 0.00 ERA, 26 strikeouts and a .136 opponent batting average, while allowing only nine hits and issuing three walks in 19.0 innings of work … She opened the week with her fourth complete-game shutout of the season in the Bobcats' 7-0 win at Houston, which had entered the game on an eight-game win streak. The junior righty struck out seven, while scattering four hits and issuing two walks … In TXST's five-inning, 11-0 win in the series opener against App. State, the junior threw four complete scoreless innings with six strikeouts, giving up only a single hit … She closed the week and the App. State series with 8.0 innings and 13 strikeouts. Rupp scattered four hits and did not issue a free pass … Rupp is now 13-2 on the year with a 1.11 ERA in 17 appearances (16 starts).
 
Rupp, who's 67 career wins are tied for third on the TXST career list, also earned the CollegeSportsMadness.com Sun Belt Player of the Week honors, which does not have separate awards for hitters and pitchers.
 
The Bobcats play a neutral-site nonconference doubleheader today (Tuesday) against Southern in Houston, then resume league play with a series at ULM on Saturday and Sunday (March 25-26).
 
2017 TEXAS STATE HONORS
Corrina Liscano

• Third Team Preseason All-Sun Belt Conference

Ariel Ortiz

• Sun Belt Conference Player of the Week – March 14
• CollegeSportsMadness.com Sun Belt Conference Player of the Week – March 14

Randi Rupp

• Sun Belt Conference Preseason Pitcher of the Year
• First Team Preseason All-Sun Belt Conference
• Sun Belt Conference Pitcher of the Week – March 21
• CollegeSportsMadness.com Sun Belt Conference Player of the Week – March 21

 
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