After posting a new career-high in scoring over the weekend, Steele Venters was named the Big Sky Conference Men's Basketball Player of the Week, announced by the conference today (Dec. 6). The award is Venters first player of the week honor as an Eagle.

Venters scored 33 points in Eastern's 78-70 win over North Dakota State this past Saturday (Dec. 3) on a very efficient, 14-of-19(73.6%) shooting performance. The redshirt-sophomore was 3-of-7(42.9%) on three-point shots, giving him 16 career games with three or more made threes.

The game marked Venter's first career 30-point game, after surpassing his previous career-high of 29 points that he recorded against Southern Utah in December of 2021. His point total is tied for the 50^th best single game performance in Eastern Washington history. It was also the Eagles' first 30-point game since Linton Acliese III had 38 against Montana State in February of 2022.

Along with the scoring, Venters matched his career-high with three steals against the Bison. The Ellensburg, Wash. native added two blocks, two assists and one rebound in the win.

Venters can be found on numerous Big Sky leaderboards, highlighted by his 14.9 points per game that ranks ninth. He is fourth in made three-pointers a game (2.3), fifth in shooting percentage (45.0), tied for 14^th in steals per game (1.0) and tied for 15th in blocks per game (0.5).

Over the past four games, Venters is averaging 21.8 points per game. He has 32 career games scoring in double figures and 13 with 20 or more points.

Eastern Washington will travel to play California on Wednesday, Dec. 7 at 7 p.m.