WACO, Texas - Heather Stearns pitched nine scoreless innings over the weekend and allowed just four hits while striking out 17 hitters to earn Tuesday's Big 12 Pitcher of the Week honor for Baylor University.

The junior righthander took a no-hitter into the sixth inning for her second consecutive game Saturday evening vs. Northwestern State, but settled for the 30th 1-hitter in history in Baylor's 11-0 win over the Lady Demons. Stearns fanned a career-high 13 batters and walked only one in the six-inning, run-rule victory over NSU.

Sunday, again vs. the Lady Demons, Stearns threw three innings of scoreless work scattering three hits, walked none and struck out four. Stearns has extended her scoreless-innings streak to 23.0 innings headed into Thursday's matchup with No. 2 Oregon. Her performance helped Baylor go 4-0 at NSU's Lady Demon Classic and improve to 9-0 overall.

The Bears, ranked No. 7 in Tuesday's NFCA poll, will play host to the Ducks Thursday night at 6:30 p.m. The program is promoting a "blackout" at Getterman Stadium and the first 750 fans will receive free t-shirts.

Baylor will also take on North Texas and No. 25 Tulsa Friday, Oregon again Saturday at 4:15 p.m. and closes its portion of the Baylor Invitational vs. Abilene Christian at 6:30 p.m.

For Stearns, it was her second Big 12 Pitcher of the Week award; she earned the honor last season as a sophomore March 4.

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