Logie Excited About The Challenge At Stony Brook

MANSFIELD, Ct. - The decision to attend Loomis Chaffee School and reclassify worked out amazingly well for Dawson Logie, with a commitment to play Division I college baseball at Stony Brook.

“I’m younger for my grade, so when I finished up my first junior year and had no college interest I decided to try to get into Loomis,” Logie explained. “When I first started talking to the head coach he looked up my name, size and weight and found it on PBR. He said we can use you.”

Recruitment picked up for the 6-4 220-pounder, the 11th-ranked uncommitted New England 2021 right-handed pitcher prior to making a college decision.

“Trevor Brown (PBR Connecticut Director of Scouting) did an interview with me and posted it and that was very helpful,” Logie noted.

Visits in the fall to Hartford and Sacred Heart ended in offers before Stony Brook entered the picture.

“They saw me with my travel team Clubhouse at a showcase in early March before the virus,” Logie reflected. “I got a text after that and then phone calls and Zoom. They saw videos from Loomis and ended up giving me an offer.”

Deciding on the America East Conference school came after a trip with his father in early June.

“Me and my dad took a ferry over and walked around a bit,” Logie said of seeing the college located in Stony Brook, N.Y. for the first time. “I committed while on the ferry on the way back.

“What sent me over the edge was when we found a door open and walked around the facilities looking through glass windows. They had some really cool facilities.”

The interaction with coaches also played a huge part in making a commitment for the 91st-ranked incoming senior in New England.

“I never talked to the head coach (Matt Senk), but I really liked things the pitching coach said about baseball and his philosophy as a coach,” Logie related in reference to Tyler Kavanaugh. “Another selling point was it’s outside of Connecticut. I kind of wanted to get out of Connecticut, that was one of the big things.

“I also really liked the way they recruited me. It felt like they wanted me more than others and that it was the best fit. Plus, they have a really good baseball program.”

Improvement on the mound brought attention to his game.

“It’s a lot of work, I say a full-time job,” Logie explained about the desire to get better as a pitcher. “I don’t have time for anything else. I’m in the weight room at Loomis and summer practices that are an hour-and-a-half away. It’s a lot of hard work.”

Stony Brook, which has made six appearances in the NCAA Tournament since2004 including a berth in the College World Series in 2012, came away impressed with what Logie had to offer.

“The only saw me pitch one time in person, but my fastball was up where it needed to be,” noted the 29th-ranked RHP in New England’s 2021 class. “I’ve always had a good curve and I showed a change that day, so I had three pitches working.”

That is an area of focus for Logie.

“I really want to be a starting pitcher, but in order to be competitive in Division I you have to have three pitches,” Logie said. “I need to work on my changeup. The pitching coach talked about 60 percent … you have to throw a pitch 60 percent of the time for a strike or it’s not a competitive pitch. I also need to add some velocity.”

Thanks in part to parents “for putting me through Loomis,” as well as head coach Donnie McKillop, “the first person I called when I got an offer,” Logie is a D-I commit.

“James Campbell, the pitching coordinator at Clubhouse who went to Stony Brook, was also very helpful,” Logie pointed out.

Admittedly, the recruiting process did not go as expected.

“If the quarantine didn’t happen I think I could have gotten more exposure, I only had three options, but everything worked out in the end,” Logie said. “I found a place I want to go to and I’m 100 percent happy with it.

“I see myself starting, being a weekend starter,” Logie added. “Every weekend I see myself giving my team a chance to win the game.”

It is something Logie has dreamed about since he was young.

“Back in Little League I was one of THE pitchers, but it was about growing from there,” Logie said. “I always wanted to play college baseball, but when I had a chance to come to Loomis I’m like … I’m really going to do this.”

A commitment to Stony Brook makes it reality.