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East Oregonian
Tuesday, August 1, 2017
NAUGHTON: Earned Gonzaga scholarship offer worth 60 percent of the cost of attendance
Continued from 1B
school teams around the country as
well as professional players such as
former Buckaroo and current Miami
Marlins pitcher Dan Straily.
In Naughton’s Driveline work-
outs, he utilizes their weighted ball
system that helps strengthen the arm
and shoulder as well as build overall
arm strength and velocity. He still
does the workouts every Monday,
Wednesday and Friday throughout
the year.
“Once he started doing Driveline,
we noticed not just the velocity but
no more soreness as well,” Rob said.
“But the velocity started coming
up and up and he started hitting 80
miles-per-hour as a freshman and I
thought ‘There’s something here’
and we started tracking and charting
and setting goals.”
When Naughton began his
junior season for the Buckaroos, his
fastball was steadily around 84 mph.
Then over the course of the next few
months, his fastball kept increasing
into the high 80s until eventually
hitting 90. Every rise in velocity le
dto a rise in confidence.
“(Daniel) was always a good
pitcher, but he steadily hit his spots
better and could hit any pitch at any
count,” Duso said.
Which led to his crazy summer.
Naughton wrapped up a junior
season where statistically speaking
Staff photo by E.J. Harris
Pendleton junior Justin Duso, left, and senior Daniel Naughton,
right, talk with former Pendleton baseballer and current George
Fox player Brian Branstetter during a workout Wednesday in
Pendleton. Branstatter occasionally drops in and works out with
the high schoolers.
he was an average pitcher. He threw
33 innings in 10 games, sporting a
4.66 earned run average with 43
strikeouts and 26 walks with 36 hits
allowed.
He was setting his sights on
college baseball, but at the time
held what seemed like more realistic
options for his top choices — schools
like Mt. Hood Community College,
Linn-Benton Community College,
and Central Washington.
But his expectations began to
shift after earning an invitation to
the Area Code Tryouts, a Major
League Baseball-sanctioned event,
at the University of Portland campus
on June 26. There, Naughton threw
a bullpen session in front of dozens
of MLB and college scouts, showing
off his fastball velocity as well as an
improved curveball.
“It was almost scary,” Naughton
said of the experience, “because you
could see every single one of them
looking right at you. But all the kids
Coast Conference under head coach
Mark Machtolf. The Bulldogs have
averaged 30.3 wins per season over
the past 10 years, including a 69-41
(.627) record over the past two
seasons.
The winning culture, the close
proximity of campus to home, and
the relationship with the coaches
made it a no-brainer for Naughton
to accept the offer on July 12 and
commit to the Bulldogs.
“The campus, how friendly
the coaches are, the class sizes at
Gonzaga are small and the campus
is student-friendly,” Naughton said
of his thought process. “If you get a
degree from Gonzaga, you’re going
to do well in life and that was my
main reason.”
Rob said he is extremely proud of
what his son has accomplished this
summer.
“I knew Daniel was a college
baseball talent, but I didn’t know that
a D-I college like Gonzaga would
come right out of the gate and put all
their cards on the table as quickly as
they did,” he said. “Getting the grand
slam offer right out of the gate was
pretty cool. And this kind of thing is
rare for a kid from Umatilla County
so we’re really proud of him.”
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there were at a whole ’nother level
and it felt good to be there, too.”
There, he caught the eye of
Gonzaga’s coaching staff and
exchanged conversations soon after.
Things took off on July 1 when
Naughton pitched in a legion game
for Hodgen Distributing in a tour-
nament up in Spokane against the
19U Spokane North Stars — a team
that had defeated Hodgen just a few
weeks prior.
“I told coach (TJ Haguewood)
that’s the team I want to pitch against
and I want to beat them,” Naughton
recalled.
And he did just that. Naughton
led Hodgen to an 8-0 victory where
he threw a five-inning no-hitter
and struck out 12 batters with just
one walk. And he did so in front
of Gonzaga’s associate head coach
Danny Evans, who came to the
game to watch Naughton.
The next day, Naughton visited
Gonzaga and fell in love with the
campus, and then was handed a
scholarship offer worth 60 percent
of the cost of attendance.
“It was exhilarating,” Naughton
recalled of the moment Gonzaga
offered him. “It felt so good and
instantly boosted my mood, my
confidence, everything.”
Gonzaga may not have the
national baseball cachet of a school
like Oregon State, but it has built
up a solid program in the West
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