---Braden Bishop has a team-best nine goals, four game-winners, and 22 points. The Centerville, Ohio, native scored the game-winner against Indianapolis on Friday before adding two assists against Saint Joseph's.

By Mike Anderson, NKU Sports Information

INDIANAPOLIS – Northern Kentucky University’s Braden Bishop earned his second Great Lakes Valley Conference men’s soccer Player of the Week award of the season following a four-point weekend.

Bishop started the weekend by scoring his team-leading ninth goal of the season to propel the Norse to a 1-0 victory Friday night against Indianapolis. The free-kick play started off the boot of Dan Impellizzeri. Chad Cook flicked the ball ahead to Bishop, who buried the shot high to the left side.

In Sunday’s matinee against Saint Joseph’s, Bishop picked up a pair of assists in the 3-1 decision. Bishop aided Tony Ray’s game-winning marker in the 14th minute, as well as the insurance tally by Seth Eckerlin in the 62nd.

The wins pushed NKU to a 14-0 overall record and a 9-0 GLVC mark, clinching a spot in the GLVC Tournament in the process.

Bishop’s nine goals and four assists give him a team-high 22 points on the season. He also shares the team lead with four game-winning goals.

This marks the third time this season an NKU player has earned the GLVC Player of the Week honor. Steven Beattie was selected on Sept. 17 after a four-goal weekend. Bishop last earned the award on Sept. 24, after he added insurance goals in wins over Missouri-Rolla and Missouri-St. Louis.

It is the first time since the GLVC began the award in 1998 that an NKU men's soccer player has been named Player of the Week twice in the same season.

NKU returns home Friday to face Southern Indiana at 7:30 p.m. before entertaining Kentucky Wesleyan for Senior Day at 2:30 p.m. Sunday.