University of San Francisco baseball senior right-hander Landen Bourassa's outstanding, record-tying performance in Friday's series opener against Portland has continued to garner him attention this week, and now on a national level.
 
Tuesday, Bourassa was named the National Pitcher of the Week by the National Collegiate Baseball Writers Association. He was also named the D1Baseball/AstroTurf Player of the Week by D1Baseball.com. That followed a National Player of the Week nod on Monday from Collegiate Baseball Newspaper, which recognizes a number of outstanding performances each week of the season. Monday, Bourassa was named the West Coast Conference Pitcher of the Week.
 
Bourassa struck out 16 in a complete-game shutout Friday against the Pilots, tying a 75-year-old single-game USF record, when former Don and San Francisco Seal Con Dempsey Jr. struck out 16 against Saint Mary's in 1946. Bourassa had six strikeouts through the first two innings, struck out the side in the seventh, and had at least one strikeout in every inning. He threw only 108 pitches despite the record-tying 16 strikeouts - the sixth-most in the NCAA this season by a pitcher in a single game.
 
The complete-game shutout was the first thrown by a Don in six years, and marked the longest outing of Bourassa's career. Friday's dazzling performance was just another in a string of strong starts that Bourassa has posted in the month of April. Over his last four starts dating to April 1, he's carried a 0.58 ERA with only two earned runs allowed in 31 innings pitched, held opponents to a .156 batting average, and posted a better-than 7-to-1 strikeouts-to-walks ratio with 29 Ks against only four walks. He has gone a minimum of seven innings in all four of those starts, earning the winning decision in all four of them.
 
Bourassa and the Dons travel to Stockton, Calif., this weekend for a three-game WCC series against Pacific starting Friday. Fans can find all live coverage links on USFDons.com.