NATCHITOCHES—Another week, another Southland Conference weekly award.

For the fourth consecutive week, Northwestern State (5-4-1, 1-0) earned one of the SLC weekly honors, as Alina Graf was named the SLC Defensive Player of the Week.

Graf follows a string of three consecutive goalkeeper of the week awards, two by Libe Banuelos and one by Kora Fry.

A senior from Achern, Germany, Graf is a vital part of a back line that held Nicholls to five shots total with none on goal. She leads a back line that has not surrendered a goal in the past six games, which ties a program record.

Nicholls was held without any dangerous chances by the stingy Demons defense and helped the team dominate possession throughout the game in the 2-0 victory, their sixth consecutive conference-opening triumph.

In that string, the Demons have won five games in a row, the longest stretch of consecutive wins in two seasons.

The award comes one week following her first goal as a member of the Demons, finding the back of the net on a penalty kick in the dominant 7-0 win over Mississippi Valley State.

Graf and the Demons have one match this week, traveling to San Antonio to play UIW, which begins a string of three consecutive matches on the road.