Newberry College Student from Central is National Gold Glove Winner by ABCA/Rawlings

2016 Jun 6

Newberry College pitcher Daniel Nations has won the Division II Gold Glove, as announced by the American Baseball Coaches Association. Nations is Newberry's first-ever national Gold Glove winner and the first South Atlantic Conference honoree since 2012.

Nations - who recently graduated from Newberry College with a History degree - is a native of Central, S.C., and was the winner of the South Atlantic Conference's Gold Glove honor and was also an honorable mention all-conference starting pitcher.

Nations committed no errors on the year in 88 innings of action on the mound, recording four putouts and 23 assists. Nations was also effective with runners on base, as only three of nine potential base stealers were successful against him. He finished the year with an 8-1 record with two saves and a 3.48 earned run average, striking out 80 and walking 42.