WINONA LAKE – Robbie Barnhill earned Grace College ’s first national award of the season when he was named the NAIA National Defensive Player of the Week on Tuesday.

Barnhill becomes the first men’s soccer player to win the NAIA weekly award since Collin Cone on Oct. 4, 2011.

The junior goalkeeper posted three shutout victories for Grace’s men’s soccer team last week, refusing to surrender a goal in 270 minutes of action. He earned shutouts in back-to-back away games against Bluefield and William Peace and then went on shut out Cardinal Stritch with six saves, including a key one-handed lunging save late in the contest.

The Lancers head up to Spring Arbor, Mich., this weekend for a pair of neutral-field games. Grace will play Cornerstone on Friday and Roosevelt on Saturday.