FRISCO, Texas — Southeastern's Hallie Burns and Lamar's Cimara-lei Wessling have been named this week's Jersey Mike's Southland Softball Players of the Week, the conference office announced Monday. Burns gets her second nod of the season while Wessling is a first-time winner.
Softball Hitter of the Week: Cimara-lei Wessling, Lamar – So. – INF – Converse, Texas (Veterans Memorial High School)
Wessling batted .563 (9-of-16) with six RBIs, two doubles, a triple and a home run. She recorded four two-hit games with two coming each against Northwestern State, for which she also picked up two RBIs, and versus UIW. She batted .555 in the UIW series, which included a game-tying solo home run against UIW to help Lamar comeback and sweep the doubleheader, 4-3, in game two.
Honorable mention: Corine Poncho, McNeese
Softball Pitcher of the Week: Hallie Burns, Southeastern – R So. – RHP – Booneville, Miss. (Booneville High School)
Burns was 3-1 with a 0.79 ERA in a 4-2 week that saw SLU clinch the first Southland Conference regular season championship in program history. Burns earned a win over SFA Tuesday and both of the Lions' wins at Nicholls, holding the Lumberjacks to 10 hits and two runs in 17.2 innings pitched. The sophomore is 17-4 on the season with a 1.36 earned run average for a SLU staff that has a 1.63 team ERA and 18 shutouts.
Honorable mention: Maddie Taylor, McNeese
2026 Southland Conference Softball Players of the Week
| Date |
Hitter |
Pitcher |
| Feb. 9 |
Ellie Vance, SFA |
Hallie Burns, Southeastern |
| Feb. 16 |
Rylee Cloud, McNeese |
Molly Yoo, Nicholls |
| Feb. 23 |
Reagan Heflin, Nicholls |
Brookelyn Taylor, McNeese |
| March 2 |
Nyjah Fontenot, McNeese |
Mattison Buster, Northwestern State |
| March 9 |
Alexis Dibbley, McNeese |
Brookelyn Taylor, McNeese |
| March 16 |
Maria Detillier, Southeastern |
Mattison Buster, Northwestern State |
| March 23 |
Cala Wilson, Lamar |
Kendra Winfrey, A&M-Corpus Christi |
| March 30 |
Ellie Vance, SFA |
Cera Blanchard, Southeastern |
| April 6 |
Isabella Flores, Lamar |
Mattison Buster, Northwestern State |
| April 13 |
Ka'Lyn Watson, Southeastern |
Molly Yoo, Nicholls |
| April 20 |
Cimara-lei Wessling, Lamar |
Hallie Burns, Southeastern |
Southland weekly award winners are nominated and voted upon by each school's sports information director. Voting for one's own athlete is not permitted. To earn honorable mention, a student-athlete must appear on 25 percent of ballots.