HOUGHTON, N.Y. -- Houghton baseball student-athlete Wayne Rode has been named the Empire 8 Baseball Player of the Week for the week ending April 25.

It's the second time the senior has earned the award this season.

Rode led the Highlanders at the plate going 9-for-18 (.500 batting average) with a pair of doubles, three home runs, nine runs batted in and seven runs scored in a 3-2 week for the Highlanders. He homered in both ends of a doubleheader against St. John Fisher to start the week and followed that up with back-to-back three-hit efforts with a pair of RBI in a win over Elmira and a home run, double and four RBIs in a victory over Keuka.