University of New Mexico senior softball player Andrea Howard is the Mountain West Conference’s player of the week after a big weekend in tournament play in Texas. And teammate Emma Bramson was named the league’s freshman of the week as well on Tuesday.
Howard, a La Cueva High product and 2021 Olympian with the Italian team, had a sensational five games at the tournament hosted by Lamar University in Beaumont: a .471 batting average, a .941 slugging percentage, a .500 on-base percentage, 16 total bases and eight RBIs. The Lobos won four of the five games and take a 6-3 record into their own tournament, the Lobo Classic.