Jacob French Named ACC Player Of The Week

CHARLOTTE, N.C. – Jacob French has become the first Cal baseball player to be named Atlantic Coast Conference Baseball Player of the Week. French was honored for his performances in games played March 17-23. 

French reached base safely in each of his first nine plate appearances (8-for-8, HBP) in Cal's historic sweep March 21-23 at No. 14 Stanford that was the Golden Bears' first three-game road sweep of the Cardinal in recorded history and the first since Cal won all three games of a 1992 series in Berkeley. French finished the three-game series with a .769 batting average (10-for-13), eight runs scored, two doubles, three triples, four RBI, one hit by pitch, a 1.385 slugging percentage and a .786 on-base percentage, while reaching base safely in 11 of his 14 plate appearances.

The sophomore outfielder finished the week with a .647 batting average (11-for-17), nine runs scored, two doubles, three triples, five RBI, one hit by pitch, a 1.118 slugging percentage and a .632 on-base mark. He had back-to-back career-high-tying four-hit games in the first two contests against Stanford, as well as a pair of hits in both a March 18 victory at Saint Mary's and the series finale against the Cardinal on March 23.