Jonah Sebring Award Field Player of the Week Week Of 5/8/2023 Sport Baseball School UC Santa Barbara Year Junior Position Second Base Hometown Valley Center, Calif. High School Jonah Sebring guided second-place reigning league champion UC Santa Barbara to a come-from-behind series victory at UC Riverside, earning a first Big West Field Player of the Week distinction. Sebring went 8-for-18 (.444) and slugged .889 with six runs, two doubles, two home runs, nine RBI, three walks and four stolen bases on four attempts during a 2-2 road week in Riverside. Sebring now leads The Big West with 14 steals on the year, on 18 tries. The Valley Center native’s week was highlighted by an 18-4 romp in the Sunday rubber game, as Sebring went 5-for-6 with game and season highs of four runs, two home runs, five RBI and three steals. Sebring opened the scoring with a two-out, two-run single in the first, and added long balls in back-to-back two-out at-bats late through a two-run blast in the seventh and a solo effort in the ninth. The first-year Gaucho who spent the 2022 season at Golden West College in Huntington Beach started all four contests at second base and handled 10 of 11 chances cleanly for a .909 fielding percentage. Having reached the 30-win mark Sunday at 30-14 overall, UCSB sits exactly two games back (15-6) of Cal State Fullerton (28-15, 17-4 Big West) with three weeks left in the regular season. Sebring is the Gauchos’ third Big West Field Player of the Week for 2023, following sluggers Jared Sundstrom on Feb. 27 and Broc Mortensen on April 24.