D3baseball.com Team of the Week
 
WINONA, Minn. — You'll have to excuse R.J. Brown (Broadview, Ill.) if he's feeling a strong sense of déjà vu.
 
For the second time this season, the Saint Mary's University of Minnesota junior right-hander tossed a no-hitter last Friday in guiding the Cardinals to a 4-0 win in the opening game of their conference doubleheader against Carleton.
 
And, for the second time this season, Brown was rewarded for his no-hit performance by being named Minnesota Intercollegiate Athletic Conference Pitcher of the Week when the league office released its award winners on Monday.
 
But wait, that eerie sense of déjà vu doesn't stop there.
 
The weekly recognition for Brown's gem against the Knights was not limited to the MIAC, either, as Brown—for the second time this season—was named to the D3baseball.com Team of the Week, it was announced Tuesday.
 
Brown—who allowed just three base runners, two via Cardinal errors and the other on a second-inning hit batter, en route to his first no-hitter against Aurora on March 17—was just as stingy against Carleton on Friday. Brown set down the first seven Knight batters he faced—before surrendering a one-out walk to Zane Johann—and retired the last 10 Carleton hitters, after giving up back-to-back two-out walks to Ben Frerichs and Brendon Fischel in the fifth. He induced the Knights into 10 groundball outs and eight fly ball outs.
 
Brown—the first Cardinal pitcher in more than two decades to throw a no-hitter, and the first in program history to notch two no-hitters in a single season—is the first NCAA Division III hurler to throw two no-hitters in a season since Ferrum's Jake Perkins did it twice during the 2014 season. Brown is also the first MIAC pitcher with two no-hitters in a season since 1977, when Saint John's Rick Laba achieved the feat—no-hitting Gustavus (2-0) and Augsburg (2-0).
 
After logging  just 5 2/3 innings combined over his first two seasons as a Cardinal, has thrown a team-leading 44 1/3 innings this season, owning a 3-3 record, a 3.05 ERA, and a team-best 36 strikeouts.
 
Brown and the Cardinals (7-9 MIAC, 17-18 overall) are back in action on Wednesday, when Saint Mary's entertains Hamline in a 2:30 p.m. conference doubleheader at Max Molock Field.