COLORADO SPRINGS, Colo. – The Rocky Mountain Athletic Conference announced its weekly award winners for softball Tuesday afternoon and for the first time this season first time in her career, Colorado School of Mines outfielder Cassidy Chvatal was named the league's Player of the Week.
 
This marks the second weekly honor awarded to an Oredigger this season, as Sadriena Rodriguez was named Pitcher of the Week on April 15.
 
The junior from Broomfield closed out her first season as the Orediggers' everyday right fielder by posting a .700/.750/1.400 line in a four-game sweep of Adams State, posting two doubles, a triple and a home run while driving in five and scoring six and hitting for the cycle over the course of Friday afternoon's doubleheader. In the series opener, Chvatal went 1-1 with a run scored and reached on a hit by pitch in an 8-0 win and followed that up with a 2-3 performance with a double and two more runs scored in a 9-0 win. Friday she posted her first three-hit game of the season, jacking a two-run home run to add to her team-leading total of eight while also doubling home a run and scoring in a 7-2 win while in the finale went 1-2 with a two-run triple and scored a further two times.
 
Entering the postseason, Chvatal is batting .293 with a .579 slugging percentage with 10 doubles, two triples, eight home runs, 27 RBI and 30 runs scored.
 
Mines (29-21, 25-17) opens RMAC Tournament play this Thursday at 10 a.m. against fifth-seeded Regis in the first game of the weekend.

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Week 13 RMAC Players of the Week
Player: Cassidy Chvatal, Mines
Pitcher: Preslee Christensen, Colorado Mesa
Honorable Mention: Lauren Zimmerman, Chadron State; Iliana Mendoza, Colorado Mesa; Jenna Medhus, MSU Denver; Arianna Ramirez, New Mexico Highlands; Brooklyn Levin, Chadron State; Sadriena Rodriguez, Colorado School of Mines; Cheyenne Prieto, MSU Denver; Jazmyn Griego, New Mexico Highlands; Autumn Kunze, UCCS.