@MSUDenverBSB: Velders Earns Region’s Hitter of the Week Distinction

LUBBOCK, Texas – MSU Denver outfielder Jesse Velders has been named the baseball Hitter of the Week by the National Collegiate Baseball Writers' Association. MSU Denver has won the region's hitter of the week award for the second consecutive week. Velders was practically unstoppable in a four-game split at second-place Adams State, batting .684 (13-for-19) with six extra-base hits (four doubles, two homers) while scoring 10 runs and driving in seven. He opened the series by tying the program's single-season hits record with a 6-for-7 effort that included two doubles and two homers and seven RBIs, and then followed it...