Baseball: Gelof named ACC Player of the Week

Courtesy UVA Media Relations

Junior Jake Gelof was selected as the ACC Player of the Week on Monday. He takes home the honor for the second time in his career and is the first Cavalier to be recognized this season.

Gelof hit .438 (7 for 16) in a 4-0 week for the seventh-ranked Cavaliers. In the three-game sweep against No. 20 Miami, he was 7 for 14 (.500) with a double, triple, three home runs and nine RBI. He vaulted himself to the top of Virginia’s all-time home run list in the process and is now tied with E.J. Anderson (1995-98) for the most career homers in UVA history (37).

Gelof drove in four of UVA’s six runs on Sunday to help UVA sweep Miami for the first time since 2012.

Through 32 games this season, Gelof is batting .372 (48 for 129) with 14 doubles, three triples, 12 home runs and 53 RBI. He enters midweek action as the national leader in RBI (53) and ranks fifth in the country in total bases (104). He also leads the ACC in doubles (14), triples (3) and slugging percentage (.806).

ACC baseball weekly honors are determined by a vote of a selected 15-member media panel and announced on Mondays throughout the regular season.