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Former Heritage player given Big 12 honor

On 2/26/2007

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Contributed by: University of Nebraska on 2/28/2007

University of Nebraska second baseman Jake Opitz was named Big 12 Player of the Week on Feb. 26 for his performance at the Rice Invitational Feb. 24 to 25. It is the first weekly honor for Opitz, a junior from Heritage High School in Littleton.

Opitz hit .600 (6-for-10) with five runs scored, one RBI and a pair of doubles in helping the Huskers to a 2-1 week, highlighted by a win over nationally-ranked Florida Atlantic. Optiz, who also drew three walks, finished the weekend with a .692 on-base percentage. Against Texas A&M-Corpus Christi, he went 3-for-4, scored three times and went 2-for-2 with a pair of walks against sixth-ranked Rice.

Opitz and the Huskers stayed seventh in the Collegiate Baseball poll and jumped from 19th to 18th in the Baseball America poll released Feb. 26. The Huskers return to action March 2 when they travel to Deland, Fla., for the Stetson Invitational, where they will face Iowa, Notre Dame and the host Hatters.

Opitz was named the Denver Post's 2004 Colorado Player of the Year when he played for Heritage, and was the chosen in the 39th round of the draft that year by the Seattle Mariners. He is the son of Jeff and Melanie Opitz. He is majoring in Sociology.

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