Derbacher (Gen. Valley '06) Tabbed NE-10 Player of the Week

Southern Connecticut State University junior Karl Derbacher (Genesee Valley '06) has been selected as the Northeast-10 Player of the Week for the week ending April 27, 2008. It is the second-straight week that Derbacher has been honored by the league. One week ago, Derbacher was named to the NE-10 weekly honor roll.

Last week, Derbacher hit .531 (17-for-32) and drove in 10 runs during seven games for Southern Connecticut State. He scored five runs and tallied four extra-base hits, including three doubles. Derbacher had at least one hit in all seven games and he put together five multi-hit and four multi-RBI games.

Derbacher started the week with back-to-back four-hit games against American International and Merrimack on Tuesday and Wednesday. He drove in five runs combined and scored twice. Friday, Derbacher ripped a two-run triple in the ninth inning as SCSU outlasted Pace, 5-4. Over the weekend, he had six hits and scored three runs in a three-game series against St. Anselm. In the second game of Saturday's doubleheader, Derbacher went 3-for-5 with two runs batted in, one run scored, one double and two stolen bases.

The Northford, Conn., native is among Southern Connecticut State's top three in every major offensive category. He leads the team in batting average (.432), hits (73), doubles (16), runs batted in (46), walks (31) and on-base percentage (.526). Derbacher is second in runs scored (43), triples (5) and slugging percentage (.586) and third in stolen bases (26).

Derbacher played in the New York Collegiate Baseball League during the 2006 season for the Central Division champion Genesee Valley Riverbats. In 19 games, Derbacher batted .265 with 11 runs batted in, 11 runs scored, 18 hits and six stolen bases.