Parker French Earn Baseball Weekly Accolades

[Donald Boyles]

NEWCOMER OF THE WEEK

Parker French, Texas, Fr., RHP, Dripping Springs, Texas/Dripping Springs

French played a part in three of Texas' wins over top 25 teams last week as the Longhorns went 4-0 with French posting a 2-0 record and one save. On Tuesday, with the UT entering the week with a 6-8 record, No. 20 Texas State visited Austin as French took the mound with a 50-pitch limit set. He stretched the 50 pitches over 4.0 scoreless innings, scattering three hits. On Friday in the series opener against No. 17 Oklahoma, the freshman earned his second career save for the Longhorns retiring both batters he faced in the 12th inning as Texas picked up a 7-6 win. With the Horns looking for the road sweep over the Sooners, French silenced Oklahoma's bats by not allowing a hit through the first 5.2 innings in his Sunday start. Texas would go one to win, 9-4. On the week, the Dripping Springs, Texas-native pitched 11.1 innings over three games with five strikeouts and a 3.18 ERA.

And of course my picture from the Texas State game;

 

[TexasBaseballBlog]

So proud of Parker! Brooks Marlow has earned the same honor twice this season and Jonathan Walsh earned Big XII Player of the Week honors a few weeks ago as well.

Hook 'em!

 

[bbdude]

Happy as all get out when any of our guys earn these kind of accolades but it makes it especially cool when they are Freshmen! Congrats to Parker and HOOK'EM!