TERRE HAUTE, IND. -- Members of three Rose-Hulman Institute of Technology spring sports teams earned Heartland Collegiate Athletic Conference Player of the Week honors on Monday.

Senior pitcher Brad Otto (Bath/Union County) finished the week 1-0 with a strong seven inning performance in Saturday's victory over Hanover College and has been named the Heartland Collegiate Athletic Conference Baseball Pitcher of the Week.

Otto allowed just three hits and one earned run in his seven innings, with three strikeouts.  He held the Panthers to just a .120 batting average to earn his first win of the year.

Otto holds a 2.08 season ERA in 30.1 innings pitched and has struck out 14 batters in five starts for the Fightin' Engineers.

Senior pole-vaulter Ryan Schipper (Ft. Wayne, Ind./Bishop Dwenger) cleared a height of 16' 1 1/4", a national leading height entering the weekend, on Saturday afternoon at the William M. Welch Invitational and was named the Heartland Collegiate Athletic Conference Men's Field Athlete of the Week.

Schipper has provisionally qualified for the NCAA Division III Outdoor Nationals this coming May in Wisconsin with this height.  He recently placed 9th nationally at the NCAA Division III Indoor Nationals at Rose-Hulman.

Janel Belton -- HCAC Player of the Week

Junior thrower Janel Belton (Chesterfield, Mo./Parkway West) set a pair of school records winning two events in the William M. Welch Invitational on Saturday afternoon and has been named the Heartland Collegiate Athletic Conference Women's Field Athlete of the Week.

Belton tallied a shot put school record of 38' 1 1/4", the second best women's throw in Cook Stadium history, then topped her own record with a discus throw of 120' 10" eclipsing her previous mark by over three feet.

Freshman tennis player Michael Schoumacher (Memphis, Tenn.) led Rose-Hulman with a 2-1 record at the No. 6 singles position, with only a super tiebreak loss in the championship match of the Wabash College Kerry Seward Invitational to be named Heartland Collegiate Athletic Conference Men's Tennis Player of the Week.

Schoumacher won his first two matches, then dropped a 6-4, 3-6, 10-4 decision in a championship tiebreak.  The Engineers stand 3-5 overall and 2-0 in the HCAC.

The four honorees mark the most in one week for the Rose-Hulman athletic department.  Three nominees have been honored in a single week twice before, including last week.