Bellarmine University’s Bradley Barraclough (Lincoln, England) is the Great Lakes Valley Conference Men’s Soccer Player of the Week. The senior forward tallied three goals in helping his Knights claim a pair of victories to open the season.

In Bellarmine’s 2-0 win over visiting Tiffin on Friday, Barraclough scored the game-winning goal on an unassisted breakaway in the 35th minute. He would later add an insurance goal for the Knights, scoring by way of a header on an assist from Ross Hopkins in the 56th minute.

Barraclough returned on Saturday to deliver an insurance goal in Bellarmine’s 4-0 win at Kentucky Wesleyan in the league opener for both teams. He scored the Knights’ second goal of the match in the 59th minute on an assist from Jack Binns.

Barraclough leads his team and is tied with UW-Parkside’s Jon Bebeau as the top goal-scorer in the GLVC with three on the season.

The 23rd-ranked Knights (2-0, 1-0 GLVC) will host 7th-ranked Northern Kentucky and Urbana this weekend.

Other top performers in the GLVC last week included Drury’s Peter Higgins, Northern Kentucky’s Nicholas Chiarot, Rockhurst’s Mark Magee, Saint Joseph’s Cole Galloway, Southern Indiana’s Simon Rawnsley and UIndy’s Bobby Adkins.