KANSAS CITY, Mo. — For the second time this week Bellevue University senior Alec Ackerman (Parker, Colo.) has earned Player of the Week award, having been voted the National Association of Intercollegiate Athletics (NAIA) Baseball Player of the Week, as announced by the NAIA office on Tuesday.
Ackerman batted .800 with a 2.018 OPS in five games with three doubles, a tripe, a home run, 11 RBI, and eight runs scored. He also played errorless defense at first base as the Bruins picked up a run-rule victory over Morningside University on Tuesday before leading BU to a four-game NSAA series sweep over Dickinson State.
Ackerman posted five multi-hit games on the week, reaching base safely at least three times in each contest. In each of the first three games last week, he had at least three hits including an extra-base hit.
Earlier this week Ackerman was voted NSAA Player of the Week for the second time this season. He becomes the eighth Bruin to earn an NAIA national weekly award joining Chad Hopkins (1994, Player), J.P. LaPointe (2005, Player), Maxx Catapano (2010, Pitcher), Kyle Kinman (2014, Pitcher), Osvaldo Gonzalez (2015, Player), Derik Bontempo (2017, Player), and Graham Cahill (2021, Pitcher).
On the season, Ackerman now leads the Bruins in hitting (.427), on-base percentage (.505), triples (3), RBI (31). He ranks second in slugging (.740), OPS (1.245), and extra-base hits (15) while also being top five in doubles (3rd, 6), home runs (3rd, 6), and runs scored (4th, 20) and has a .995 fielding percentage in 200 total chances at first base.
The Bruins (20-9) are next scheduled to play a four-game series at Waldorf University this weekend in Forest City, Iowa. Friday’s double-header is slated for a 1 p.m. first pitch with Saturday’s twin-bill beginning at noon.
