Connor Burns Award Field Player of the Week Week Of 4/10/2023 Sport Baseball School Long Beach State Year Junior Position Hometown Chino, Calif. High School Lugo HS Connor Burns slashed .500/.550/.889 as third-place Long Beach State went 2-2 with a third straight Big West series victory, earning the true junior catcher a first career Big West Field Player of the Week award. Burns recorded a hit in all four games, extending a current hit streak to a career-best nine straight contests, with three multiple-hit efforts for the week. Five of the Chino native’s nine hits (9-for-18) went for extra bases, through four doubles and a career-high sixth home run of the season. Burns wound up with five runs, four RBI and a pair of walks. Burns began the week by going 3-for-6 with two doubles, a run and an RBI in a 4-3 home loss in 13 innings to No. 23 UCLA on Tuesday night. Burns then went 2-for-4 with a double, walk and two runs on Thursday and 3-for-5 with a double, home run, two runs and two RBI on Friday as LBSU clinched the series in Irvine. The reigning Big West Defensive Player of the Year, Burns handled 42 of 43 chances cleanly behind the plate, with five assists and one error (interference), and threw out two of three would-be base-stealers. Burns makes three straight Dirtbags to pick up Big West Field Player of the Week distinction, following teammates Kyle Ashworth (March 27) and Jonathon Long (April 3).