College of St. Benedict shortstop Sara Wennerstrand, a junior from Baxter, was named the MIAC Softball Player of the Week Monday.
Wennerstrand batted .438 last week to help CSB go 3-1 and improve to 11-1 in the MIAC. She had seven hits, two hits in three of the four games she played in.
She went 2-for-4 with a double in a 6-3 Game One win over Augsburg, 2-for-4 and drove in the game-winning run with a walk-off RBI single in the bottom of the eighth in a 3-2 win in Game Two. Wennerstrand also went 2-for-4 with an RBI to end the game in CSB's 9-1, 6-inning win over St. Olaf.
Wennerstrand ranks second in the MIAC in RBIs (31) and hits (42).
The Blazers are scheduled to play a doubleheader against Hamline in St. Paul Wednesday.
