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Not your typical baseball player
By Brent Paz
Of the Emtrild
Kyle Etchison doesn’t look
like he fits the mold of your
typical youth from a tough
neighborhood who rises from
his bad environment to
become a top flight pitching
prospect.
The Duck pitcher is clean
cut, tall with hazel eyes, soft
spoken and hardly resembles
anyone out of the gang movie
“The Warriors.” However,
things could have been dif
ferent if the people around his
neighborhood didn’t refer to
him as “Kyle the baseball
player.”
“I have a lot of friends who
are dead because of getting
shot,” Etchison says about
the environment of Baldwin
Park, Calif, near East Los
Angeles, where the six-foot
two 190 pound righthander
grew up among spray painted
graffiti on the walls and the
bums on the street.
“I played baseball because I
didn’t want to stay there,” the
Eugene born native says. “It
was something to do besides
walk around town and do
nothing.”
Despite the adversity of the
harsh backdrop, Etchison
escaped from his
neighborhood influence
because of his baseball skills.
The Oregon Club Sports
baseball pitcher’s talent has
developed to the point that he
signed a letter of intent to
pitch for Jack Dunn’s Portland
State Vikings next year. The
scholarship came after having
some impressive pitching per
formances against the elite
baseball teams of the Nor
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And the gangs of the Pac-10
aren’t especially nice people
either.
Etchison began his baseball
odessy when he moved to
California at the age of three
after being born in Eugene. At
Sierra Vista High School in
California, Etchison led his
teams to the state baseball
playoffs, only to lose in the
semifinals and quarterfinals
each season. From there he
went to Mt. San Antonio Com
munity College in Walnut,
Calif, to play ball. He was a
modest 12-6 for his career at
Mt. San Antonio, but no major
colleges came knocking at his
door. It seemed his baseball
career had come to an end un
til he decided to come back to
Eugene to work for the
summer.
“I just came for the summer
to see my dad for awhile," Et
chison says. "I played for a
semi-pro team, Abby’s, and
went '9-2 pitching while the
team finished second.
“My friend, Mike Perkins,
the catcher told me about this
team for next year,” Etchison
explained after he discovered
Oregon would have a club
sports baseball team. He
discussed the possibilities of
playing with a few other
players and decided "It was
better than not playing at all."
At first the righthander’s ex
ploits went unnoticed on the
club team. Things changed
quickly after Etchison and the
Ducks made some waves at a
baseball tournament in
Portland involving the big wigs
of the NorPac. Etchison
knocked off eventual league
champion Oregon State and
everyone began to take a
serious look at the pitcher,
especially PSU’s coach Jack
Dunn.
“We didn’t know who he
was in the Pac-10 tourna
ment," Dunn says. "He beat
OSU and pitched well against
our team which was hitting
.301 for the year. He left the
game with the score tied at 3-3
in the late innings.
"We were looking for a front
line pitcher for next year to try
to rebuild our pitching,” Dunn
says. “He showed us good
velocity and changes speed
very well. He should fill one of
our gaps.”
The PSU bound hurler was
suprised by the attention his
pitching received after posting
a 7-3 mark with 2.59 ERA for
the Ducks with victories over
OSU and Washington.
“I didn’t plan on anything
happening. I didn’t think
anyone would look at us and
follow us,” Etchison says.
“Then we started winning and
the newspaper comes out,
then the TV.”
Duck coach Larry Hanson
was “not a bit” surprised on
the junior’s scholarship to
PSU. “He pitched great and
was one of the best pitchers in
the Northwest,” Hanson says.
"His potential is unlimited."
According to Hanson, Et
chison’s talent was tapped by
pitching coach Brian
Anderson.
“He is basically a good pit
cher who throws strikes,”
Anderson says. “He beat the
good teams (OSU and
Washington) and his best
asset is that he has command
of all his pitches."
Etchison’s rags to riches
saga will have him pitching on
the mound of Civic Stadium in
Portland next spring. “It is a
great place, Civic Stadium,"
Etchison says with anticipa
tion. “I want to win that league
and go down and play USC and
Arizona State.”
“I hate leaving Larry (Han
son) and Brian (Anderson)
because they did so much for
me. I feel bad,” Etchison says.
“I’m glad, too, because look
what they are going to do now.
Everyone is interested in it
(baseball team) and I know
they will have it back in a cou
ple years."
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