• Tigges batted .591 as the Bears won eight games during the week
• Tigges' belted five home runs and drove in 14 runs
• Tigges is batting .353 with 11 home runs and 40 RBIs this season

The Iowa Community College Athletic Conference (ICCAC) has named DMACC's Bri Tigges the ICCAC Athlete of the Week for Division II Softball for the Week of April 13 to 19.

Tigges, a sophomore from Urbandale, is being honored by the conference for the first time this season and she is one of four members of the DMACC softball team to be honored this spring. Freshman Mackenzie Mohler of West Des Moines and sophomore Macee Reiling of Dallas Center have each been honored twice for their hitting, Mohler the weeks of March 23 to 29 and March 16 to 22 and Reiling the weeks of Feb. 23 to March 1 and Feb. 9 to 15.

Kierra Jungers, a sophomore from Fonda, has been honored five times for her pitching performances, the weeks of April 13 to 19, April 6 to 12, March 23 to 29, Feb. 23 to March 1 and Feb. 9 to 15.

Tigges batted .591 with 14 runs batted in as the Bears won eight games during the week. Her hits included five home runs and four doubles and she scored 13 runs.

Tigges as 1-for-2 with two RBIs and a run scored in an 11-0 win over Northeast (Iowa) Community College (NEICC) in the first game of a doubleheader April 13 at Farley. She went 2-for-3 with a pair of doubles, two RBIs and two runs scored in an 8-0 win in the second game.

Tigges was 1-4 in a 3-0 win over Ellsworth Community College (ECC) in the first game of a doubleheader April 17 at Iowa Falls and came away with one hit, a home run, in two at-bats with three RBIs and two runs second in a 19-5 win in the second game.

Tigges was 3-for-3, all doubles, three RBIs and two runs scored in a 10-0 win over Iowa Lakes Community College (ILCC) in the first game of a doubleheader April 18 at the DMACC softball diamond and was 2-for-2 with a home run, three RBIs and two runs scored in a 17-0 win in the second game.

Tigges was 0-for-2 with one run scored in a 9-2 win over Iowa Central Community College (ICCC) in the first game of a doubleheader April 19 at the DMACC softball diamond and went 3-for-4 with a double and a home run, one RBI and three runs scored in an 11-10 win in the second game.

Tigges is batting .353 with a .636 slugging percentage and a .411 one-base percentage this season. She has 61 hits in 173 at-bats and her hits include 14 doubles, a triple and 11 home runs. She has driven in 40 runs and scored 50 runs.

Tigges is tied for fourth in the ICCAC in home runs.