Danny Zandona

Height:
6-1
Weight:
190
B/T:
R/R
Class:
Junior
High School:
Santa Barbara HS
Experience:
2V

Expected to be one of the top right-handed relief pitchers outof the bullpen this spring.

2014: Made 20 appearances on the mound as ajunior, including four starts ... expected to pitch exclusively outof the bullpen as a senior ... in second career start, allowed onerun and nine hits in six innings for win against Northern Illinois... career-high six strikeouts ... also started against Pepperdine,tossing five scoreless innings with one hit and four strikeouts forwin, and against Saint Mary’s, allowing two runs with threestrikeouts in five innings for win ... earned win with 3 1/3scoreless innings in relief at Northridge ... 16 relief appearances... finished 4-0 with a 3.49 ERA and 43 strikeouts in 49 innings... did not play summer ball.

2013: Posted a 2-1 record and 4.50 ERA over 10relief appearances as a sophomore ... 13 strikeouts in 16 innings,including four strikeouts in 1 2/3 innings against Santa Clara onApril 16, matching his career high ... earned victory in firstappearance of season Feb. 18 at Santa Clara as Cal Poly ralliedfrom 3-1 deficit ... pitched 3 2/3 scoreless innings at Washingtonon March 3, three scoreless frames for win against Holy Cross onMarch 6 and two scoreless hitless innings against San Jose State onMarch 12, dropping his ERA to 0.90 ... ERA of 2.25 was doubled infinal appearance of season as he allowed four runs and six hitswithout securing an out at UC Irvine on May 12 ... 1.00 ERA in fourhome games and 0.93 ERA in night contests ... played summer ballfor Walla Walla Sweets in West Coast Collegiate Baseball League,posting 2-3 record and 5.23 ERA in 11 games (one start), strikingout 14 batters in 22 1/3 innings.

2012: Appeared in seven games on the moundwith one midweek start against Santa Clara on Feb. 21 …pitched four innings against Broncos and suffered the loss despiteseason-high four strikeouts … 0-1 for the year and a 4.85ERA … eight strikeouts in 13 innings … played summerball for Bend Elks in West Coast Collegiate Baseball League,pitching three games in relief with no record and a 6.75 ERA.

High School: Zandona compiled a 27-8 careerwin-loss record and 2.69 ERA under head coach Fred Warrecker atSanta Barbara High School ... struck out 218 batters and walkedonly 43 in 247 career innings pitched ... as a senior was 10-1 with1.29 ERA and three saves ... nine complete games, including fourshutouts ... 98 strikeouts in 81.2 innings ... also hit .421 with24 RBI and just four strikeouts in 98 plate appearances ... as ajunior hit .277 and was 9-3 on the mound with 3.42 ERA and sixcomplete games, including a one-hitter vs. Pioneer Valley ...sophomore statistics include a .347 batting average and a 7-3win-loss record and 3.44 ERA with four complete games ... 19complete games in last three seasons, including five shutouts ...first-team All-Channel League as a junior and league MVP as asenior ... also as a senior was first-team all-CIF-SouthernSection, third-team all-state, and Santa Barbara County and SantaBarbara Athletic Roundtable player of the year ... all-county as ajunior ... led Dons to Channel League titles in 2010 and 2011 andthird-place finish in 2009 ... Dons reached semifinals ofCIF-Southern Section Division II playoffs in 2011 and quarterfinalsin 2010 ... member of National Honor Society and CaliforniaScholarship Federation ... visited UC San Diego before choosing CalPoly because it has a "great baseball program and its coachingstaff is second to none."

Personal: Son of Dan and Linda Zandona ... nosiblings ... enjoys cooking, going to the beach, working out andplaying the guitar in his free time ... claims to be 100 percentItalian ... born February 27, 1993, in Santa Barbara, Calif. ...majors in industrial technology.