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Princeton’s Danny Cihocki goes national pitching for NIU · Illinois Valley - Shaw Local

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  Speaker 1: Princeton's Danny Sahaki goes national pitching for NIU. Written by
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  Kevin Huronimus, This article is being read by an automated
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  voice brought to you by Everlett. I turned on ESPN
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  Plus to watch the NC DOUBLEA Division one baseball tournament
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  over the weekend and saw a familiar face on the mound.
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  The screenshot read Danny Sahaki, Princeton ill The former Princeton
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  Tiger standout, got the call out of the bullpen for
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  Northern Illinois in its last two games in their NC
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  Double A tournament run in Tallahassee, FLA on National TV,
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  facing Coastal Carolina and host and number ten Florida State.
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  It was the huskies first NCUBA tournament appearance since nineteen
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  seventy two. How cool is that? It was a blast
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  playing in that environment. See Hockey said, That's why I
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  play college baseball to experience moments like that, to play
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  in the big games and see the atmosphere of FSU.
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  It was really cool, a really fun experience. Playing on
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  national TV was icing on the cake. I knew we
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  were going to be on national TV. He said. It
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  didn't really change anything what we do as team but
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  it was definitely cool being on national TV against it's
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  the number ten ranked team in the country. We were
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  fortunate to play good baseball at the right time, win
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  the MAC and go to a regional and try to
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  compete to go to a World Series. Sea Hockey, a
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  twenty twenty three princet grad, said, what stood out the
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  most was the home FSU crowd, the atmosphere that FSU
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  has their war chance. They're clapping every pitching, trying to
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  make it hard on the opposing team. It was really
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  cool to see, he said. See Hockey entered the Coastal
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  Carolina game in the bottom of the third inning with
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  the Huskies down four to two, and IU erupted for
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  eight runs in the fourth to go up ten two,
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  leaving Sea Hockey, who allowed three runs with two strikeouts
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  over two and one third innings, the winning pitcher in
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  the twelve ten final. Two nights later, Sea Hockey was
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  tagged for the loss in a season ending defeat to
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  Florida State, again coming in relief for only the second
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  time this season. He made one hundred and twenty three
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  pitches in two days and left it all on the mound.
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  They called my name in the bullpen. I wanted the
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  ball and I was ready to go. Sea Hockey said,
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  I threw a lot of pitches, do what I could
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  to help my team win those I was able to
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  do that and happy to do that for us. Retired
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  Princeton coach Wick Warren was tickled to see his former
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  Tiger pitch in the big stage. It was awesome. A
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  PHS player on ESPN Big Time Environment, Danny did well,
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  Warren said. With his history making season complete for NIU,
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  Sea Hockey has set his sights on new adventures. On Wednesday,
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  he announced on social media he would be entering the
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  Transfer portal as a senior, with one year of eligibility remaining.
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  He said the timing is right to make the move.
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  With NIU leaving the MAC in favor of the Horizon League,
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  NIU is moving conferences next year. I wanted to either
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  stay in the MAAC or go bigger like the Big Ten,
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  or something to go play and compete versus those guys,
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  Sea Hockey said. In his post, Sahaki states he brings
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  one hundred thirty four plus di innings with six starts,
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  including four pitches fastball eighty nine to ninety two miles
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  per hour, curveball seventy eight eighty one, slider eighty eighty three,
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  and change up eighty two eighty four. In his second
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  season for NIU coming out of Lakeland College, Siahackey went
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  seven to three this year with a five point three
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  four ERA and eighty strikeouts in ninety two point two innings.
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  He made fifteen starts prior to his first two relief
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  appearances in the NCAA Tournament. He earned his first career
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  win for NIU on February twenty eight, twenty twenty five,
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  at CU, striking out five Cougars while allowing one earned
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  run in two and two thirds innings in a five
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  to four win. He finished the twenty twenty five season
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  with a two to two record and five point seven
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  to one ERA, with forty four strikeouts in forty innings
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  over twenty two appearances. Sea Hockey pitched his freshman season
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  at Lakeland, leading the Lakers and wins with a seven
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  to four record, striking out eighty batters in sixty to
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  two thirds innings. As a senior at Princeton, Sea Hockey
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  went five to three with a one point sixty three
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  ERA and eighty nine strikeouts, ranked in the top twenty
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  in the state. Kevin Hieronymous has been the BCR Sports
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  editor since nineteen eighty six. Contact him at Kuronomous at
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  bcrnews dot com.