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UTA baseball, softball players earn weekly league honors

The baseball and softball teams each had a player garner weekly honors from the Sun Belt Conference on Tuesday.

Softball’s Player of the Week was awarded to junior infielder Whitney Walton, while junior infielder Dylan Paul earned the weekly award on the baseball side.

Walton batted .647 in five games over the past week and stands with a .475 batting average for the season.

Walton has been an offensive force for the softball team. She currently leads the Sun Belt Conference in batting average, hits, doubles, walks and on-base percentage.

She’s second in the conference in runs scored.