Broc Mortensen Award Field Player of the Week Week Of 4/24/2023 Sport Baseball School UC Santa Barbara Year Senior Position Rightfielder Hometown Ventura, Calif. High School UC Santa Barbara lefty slugger Broc Mortensen slashed .467/.579/1.067 with two home runs and five RBI to lead a three-game sweep at UC San Diego and nab a second career Big West Field Player of the Week award. The Gauchos went 3-1 for the road week with a 10-inning Tuesday loss at Pepperdine (4-2), moving back up into a tie for second place in The Big West standings with CSUN at 25-12 overall and 10-5 in league play. The native of Ventura went 7-for-15 at the plate with three runs, three doubles, four walks and a key sacrifice bunt. Mortensen had at least one hit in all four games, with a trio of two-hit efforts. Sunday’s two-run home run in the first inning to get UCSB on its way to a sweep-clinching 11-5 victory was the 40th of Mortensen’s Gaucho career. Matt Wilkerson owns the program’s all-time record with 42 from 2002-05. Starting all four games in right field, Mortensen made 10 clean putouts without an error defensively. The third-year Gaucho who previously spent time at Cuesta College (2019-20) and as a football player at Cal Poly (2017-18), was voted to the All-Big West Second Team in both 2021 and 2022. Mortensen’s first Big West Field Player of the Week honor came on March 22, 2021. This is UC Santa Barbara’s second selection for 2023, following newcomer Jared Sundstrom back on Feb. 27.