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Lee Schurlknight (Darlington, S.C., Byrnes Academy), a freshman pitcher for the Sewanee baseball team, has been named the NCAA Division III National Pitcher of the Week for the week of March 7-13. Schurlknight, who pitched Sewanee's and the Southern Collegiate Athletic Conference's first no-hitter of the season Thursday, March 10th, against Rust College, was honored after voting by the National Collegiate Baseball Writers Association (NCBWA).
Schurlknight, a left-hander from Darlington, South Carolina, threw a no-hitter in a 19-0 win over the Bearcats in the first game of a doubleheader. He worked a complete game, throwing seven innings, striking out 12, and walking just two while allowing no hits to earn his first win in a Tiger uniform. Schurlknight also quarterbacks the Tiger football team.
In addition to his national honor, Schurlknight was named the SCAC's Co-Pitcher-of-the-Week and Sewanee's Tiger of the Week. He shared his honor with the NCBWA's Hitter of the Week, Michael Pascarella of the University of Pittsburgh-Bradford.
Founded in 1962, the NCBWA is dedicated to the advancement of college baseball. Membership is open to writers, broadcasters and publicists of the sport. The complete release can be read
here.
