OSU Baseball’s Watts-Brown Collects Big 12, National Honors

IRVING, Texas – For the second time this season, Oklahoma State's Juaron Watts-Brown is the Big 12 Pitcher of the Week, claiming honors for his performance against Texas in week seven.

After helping OSU to a series win over the 15th-ranked Longhorns with a dominant performance to win the second game of the series, Watts-Brown was also named the Perfect Game/Rawlings Pitcher of the Week as the nation's top college baseball hurler and was tabbed as one of Collegiate Baseball's National Players of the Week.

The sophomore right-hander worked a season-high eight innings against the then-league leading Longhorns and racked up 12 strikeouts, one shy of his season high, while allowing just one run on three hits.

Watts-Brown's 128-pitch effort saw him strike out six consecutive batters to over the first two innings, and he ended the night by retiring the last six batters he faced.

With the win, Watts-Brown moved to 4-1 on the season and increased his Big 12-leading strikeout total to 67, which also ranks second nationally.

OSU has seven Big 12 weekly award winners this season:

• Janzen Keisel – Big 12 Newcomer of the Week, Feb. 27
• Nolan McLean – Big 12 Player of the Week, March
• Nolan Schubart – Big 12 Co-Newcomer of the Week, March 6
• Roc Riggio – Big 12 Player of the Week, March 13
• Juaron Watts-Brown – Big 12 Pitcher of the Week, March 13
• Carson Benge – Big 12 Newcomer of the Week, March 27
• Juaron Watts-Brown – Big 12 Pitcher of the Week, April 3