University of Missouri-St. Louis senior first baseman Brianna Butler and Drury University junior pitcher Shelby Weissenbach have been named the Great Lakes Valley Conference Players of the Week in the sport of softball, the conference office announced Monday.
 
Weissenbach notched a 2-0 record with a 1.17 earned run average last week, helping Drury win two of its first four games at the Eight State Classic hosted by Arkansas Monticello.  She struck out 11 batters in 12.0 innings of action, giving up eight hits and two earned runs while walking five. 

She entered in the seventh inning for one out following Northeastern State’s go-ahead run in the Panthers’ 5-4 loss Friday afternoon, and then returned to the circle for a pair of wins to complete the week.  In Friday night’s 8-6 win over Southern Nazarene, Weissenbach earned the victory for the Panthers going 4.2 innings with six strikeouts and allowed six hits.  She finished the week Saturday with a seven-inning, one-hit 3-0 shutout of Panhandle State, an effort that saw her strike out four in the victory.

A native of Moreno Valley, California, this is Weissenbach’s first career weekly award.