COLORADO SPRINGS, Colo. – MSU Denver outfielder Jesse Velders has been named the baseball Player of the Week by the Rocky Mountain Athletic Conference.
 
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 up with 4-for-5 and 2-for-3 games before being pitched more carefully in Sunday's finale, when he was 1-for-4. (Late in the game, with first base open, Adams State elected to walk Velders intentionally, loading the bases for reigning National Player of the Week Zach Schuler.) Velders had a .700 on-base percentage and a 1.211 slugging percentage for an OPS of 1.911.
 
Velders leads the RMAC in batting by 39 points at .474, and he's tied for the league lead with 17 doubles. He's batting a league-best .537 in RMAC play (30 points higher than all other qualifiers) and has a league-high 15 doubles (four more than any other player).