Three Central College athletes received American Rivers Conference honors on Monday.

Dom DeLaPaz was tabbed as the league’s baseball position player of the week, Peyton Steffen was named the women’s track performer of the week and Emma Beck was picked as softball pitcher of the week.

DeLaPaz crushed five home runs and drove in 13 runs while going 7-9 at the plate in five games last week. The Dutch split a pair of games with Buena Vista University, sandwiched around a three-game series at Luther College where they went 1-2. Central is 13-14 overall and 5-10 in conference games. DeLaPaz is batting .333 for the season with 11 homers and 35 RBIs while slugging .724.

Steffen was the top collegiate finisher in the 3,000-meter steeplechase at the Jim Duncan Invitational in Des Moines on Friday, placing behind an unattached runner. Competing in her first career steeplechase on the Drake University track, she recorded a time of 10:33.85, which ranks fourth in NCAA Division III.

Beck tossed Central’s first no-hitter since 2002, blanking Buena Vista University 14-0 in five innings in Pella last Tuesday, walking one batter while fanning nine. She also shut out Cornell College in Mount Vernon Thursday, 8-0 and 11-0, extending her scoreless innings streak to 18.1 and lowering her earned run average to 1.92. Beck is 11-2 on the season.