Colorado Mines (5-1, 4-0 Rocky Mountain Athletic Conference) is ranked No. 24 this week in the American Football Coaches Association’s Division II top-25 poll. It’s the first national ranking for the Mines football team since the beginning of the 2005 season.
Mines plays Mesa State (2-3, 2-2) Saturday at noon in an RMAC game at Campbell Field in Golden.
RMAC salutes Arvada West product.
After returning a punt 78 yards for a touchdown Saturday in Adams State’s 55-0 homecoming rout of New Mexico Highlands, Grizzlies senior Trevor Zott has been named the RMAC’s special-teams football player of the week.
Zott scored Adams State’s first special-teams touchdown in nearly four years and put an exclamation point on the Grizzlies’ largest margin of victory since 1989, when they pounded Oklahoma Panhandle State 56-0.
Zott, a 5-foot-10, 165-pounder from Arvada West, averaged 21.6 yards on five punt returns against New Mexico Highlands. His average this season (12.1) leads the RMAC.
Zott ranks fourth in the RMAC in kickoff returns (20.8 average per return) and ninth in all-purpose yards (113.4 average per game).
Mines receiver’s performance rewarded.
Colorado Mines wide receiver Jerrod Doucet has been named the RMAC’s offensive football player of the week.
Doucet, a sophomore from Baytown, Texas, caught 11 passes for 141 yards and two touchdowns, including the game-winner with 30 seconds remaining, in the Orediggers’ 19-16 victory over CSU-Pueblo in Golden on Saturday. He leads the RMAC in touchdowns with nine.
CSU climbs to 16th in volleyball poll.
The Colorado State women’s volleyball team improved its ranking once again this week, rising to No. 16 in the Division I American Volleyball Coaches Association’s top-25 poll.
The Rams won three-set matches on the Mountain West Conference road last week against Air Force and Nevada-Las Vegas.
