Nya Chacon’s three home-run series last weekend at Montana earned the Northern Colorado senior Big Sky Conference softball player of the week honors.
Chacon, an outfielder from Loveland and Mountain View High School, was announced Tuesday as the player of the week.
It’s the first Big Sky honor for a UNC position player this season. Bears pitchers Erin Caviness and Isabelle DiNapoli were named conference pitchers of the week on back-to-back weeks, Feb. 26 and March 4.
Chacon hit .545 in the series against the Grizzlies. She had six hits — with a home run in each game — to go with 10 RBI and four runs scored.
Chacon had seven RBI in the second game of a doubleheader Saturday to tie a Big Sky Conference single-game record. UNC won the game 13-2 and had 12 RBI as a team.
Chacon is the Bears’ fifth-leading hitter this year by average. She’s hitting .287 in 94 at-bats, and her 18 RBI are also fifth.
UNC, 4-2 in the Big Sky and 19-19 overall, hosts league-leading Weber State for three games Friday and Saturday at Gloria Rodriguez Field in Greeley. The teams are scheduled for a doubleheader at 2 p.m. and 4:30 p.m. Friday and a single game at noon Saturday. Weber State is 5-1 in the Big Sky and 17-17 overall.
