KANSAS CITY, Mo. --- California Baptist University senior Tiburcio Casillas has been named the NAIA Men's Soccer National Offensive Player of the Week, the national office announced Tuesday. The award is the third one in 2010 and is based upon action from Sept. 13-19.

Casillas was selected out of a pool of conference/independent/unaffiliated player of the week winners among 23 conference/independent/unaffiliated groupings. He becomes just the second Lancer ever to earn national weekly honors, joining Adam Kramer, who earned NAIA Defensive Player of the Week honors Sept. 3, 2007.

On Monday, Casillas was named Golden State Athletic Conference Offensive Player of the Week. It is the second straight week the Lancers nabbed a GSAC Player of the Week honor as Osvaldo Bastida was also named Offensive Player of the Week last week.

Casillas, a 5-10 senior forward from Inglewood, Calif., became just the third player in California Baptist history to score four goals in the No. 11-ranked Lancers 5-0 win over NCAA Division III California-Santa Cruz on Sept. 17. His efforts handed the Lancers their fourth straight win and it was the first time since 2003 that a CBU player recorded four markers. On the year, he is ranked in the top-30 statistically with six goals.

CBU opens GSAC play Saturday (Sept. 25) when it hosts Westmont at 3:30 p.m.