NEW YORK – Tyler Houston hit five home runs last week to help Butler record five-straight wins. The junior outfielder posted a .429 batting average with six of his nine hits going for extra bases. He scored seven runs and led the team with 10 RBI. Those numbers allowed Houston to receive BIG EAST Player of the Week honors, an announcement made by the league office on Tuesday, March 28.
 
Houston recorded at least one RBI in all five games last week and scored a run in four of the five contests. His standout performance came in game one of Saturday's doubleheader at Ohio where he went 5-for-5 from the plate with three home runs, six RBI and three runs scored. He is just the 14th player in school history to record five hits in a single game, joining teammate Michael Hartnagel that has accomplished the feat twice in his career including once earlier this season at Furman. The school record of six belongs to Kyle Waggoner which was set during the 2010 season.
 
Three home runs in a single-game ties the school record as Houston will now place his name alongside Gordon Hansen and Joe Pauley. Hansen hit three home runs vs. Southeast Missouri State during the 1983 season and Pauley posted three home runs in a single contest at Valparaiso during the 2008 campaign.
 
Houston will stand alone in the BU Record Book for most total bases recorded in a single game. His three home run game that included two other hits gave him 14 total bases, a number that broke the old record of 13 set by Hansen and Pauley in the games mentioned above.
 
The Bulldogs are now 16-7 overall and have won 10 of their last 11 games. The team will round out the month of March with a single game at Ball State on Tuesday beginning at 3 PM. Weekend action will feature three games in Chicago with Butler facing both Eastern Michigan and Chicago State. The Cougars will host the action that begins on Saturday, April 1. BU will play a doubleheader against each team and end the weekend with a single game vs. Eastern Michigan on Sunday beginning at 1 PM.