William Jewell College first baseman Dylan Christie and University­­­ of Indianapolis sophomore right-handed pitcher Dylan Stutsman have been respectively named the PNC Great Lakes Valley Conference Player and Pitcher of the Week in the sport of baseball, the conference office announced Monday.

In a four-game conference series at Missouri S&T, Christie hit went 8-for-14 (.571) at the plate with six of those hits being home runs, while the other two were made up a double and a single.  In the Saturday’s first game, a 6-3 setback to the Miners, Christie was 1-for-4 with a double.  In the second game of the doubleheader, which Jewell won 6-5, he was 2-for-4 with a home run, four RBI and three runs scored.  In Sunday’s twinbill, he cleared the fence five times on the day, with his first game effort stemming from a 2-for-2 performance with two homers, two RBI and three runs scored in an 8-4 loss to S&T.  In the series finale, a 10-7 Jewell victory, he was 3-for-4 with four RBI and three runs scored, all of which came from homering three times.

This is the first career honor for the Overland Park, Kansas, native and the first for a Cardinal since Luke Lucchetti was recognized on March 31, 2015.

?Stutsman also earns his first career award, which is the first for a UIndy pitcher since Jake Shaw on Feb. 29, 2016. 
 
The Greyhound closer appeared in all four games of UIndy's series with Bellarmine, going 2-0 with one save and seven strikeouts while allowing just one hit in six innings of work.  Stutsman needed just nine pitches to get through the ninth inning in game one, which was enough to earn the victory after UIndy sealed it with a walk-off 4-3 win. He followed that effort with three strikeouts in two innings of work in the Hounds’ 4-1 loss.  In the opener on Sunday, Stutsman made a two-run lead stand in 1 1/3 innings of work for his 10th save of the year in the Hounds’ 3-1 victory. The Bloomington, Indiana native added another win after 1 2/3 innings of spotless ball in game two, a 15-14 Greyhound victory.