Gallatin Valley baseball duo journeys from NWAC mound to top-tier Division I programs

Story By Grace Lawrence, MontanaSports.com

BELGRADE — Two pitchers that started their careers in the Gallatin Valley will now take the mound for two of the top Division I baseball programs in the country.

Evan Hamberger and Michael Freund committed to UConn and Oregon, respectively, after this past year in the Northwest Athletic Conference.

"You know, last year we were all in the NWAC, and both at jucos, and our futures were pretty uncertain," Freund explained. "And we just kept pushing through it. Now we're here, so yeah. It's pretty cool."

The NWAC is the largest community college conference in the country. One where if you play well enough, you'll make it to the Division I level.

And it's a journey they took part in simultaneously; Hamberger reflected on how their time in NWAC brought them together.

"Just the late night conversations in our juco dorm rooms, talking about where we want to go, what we're going to do when we finally make it."

Well, they made it.

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