Colorado State University Athletics
Cusick tabbed MWC Player of the Week
2/19/2008 12:00:00 AM | Softball
Feb. 19, 2008
COLORADO SPRINGS, Colo. - Senior third baseman Lauren Cusick was named Mountain West Conference Softball Player of the Week on Tuesday. It is the second time in her career that Cusick has been tabbed for the conference's weekly honor.
Cusick, from Salem, Ore., helped Colorado State to a 5-0 record in Week 2, on the way to a Hotel Encanto de Las Cruces Classic championship. In five starts, she hit .571 (12-for-21), including three doubles, a triple and four home runs. Cusick also plated seven RBI and scored 12 runs. During the tournament, she registered four multiple-hit games, with three hits in three of those games. In the Rams' tournament opener vs. UT-Arlington, the senior doubled, tripled and homered in consecutive at-bats, finishing a single shy of the cycle. She continued her hitting streak vs. North Dakota State, smashing two home runs and a double. Defensively, Cusick recorded a perfect fielding percentage with two putouts and 13 assists on the weekend.
The MVP of the tournament, Cusick is currently riding an eight-game hitting streak, with five multiple-hit games, in the season's first 10 contests.
Overall, Colorado State is off to its best start, 9-1, in 20 seasons and is receiving votes in both national polls. The Rams look to stay hot this weekend, heading to California for the University of San Diego Tournament, where they will face UC Riverside, San Diego, Loyola Marymount, Nevada and Marshall.
