GSA Spotlight: Washington’s Joe DeMers

As the series opener against UC Riverside progressed last Saturday, Washington junior righthander Joe DeMers kept putting up zeroes. Early in the game? Zeroes. Middle innings? Zeroes. So, when UW pitching coach Jason Kelly peeked up at the scoreboard in the eighth inning, it finally started to sink in. Not only was DeMers closing in on a no-hitter, he was on the verge of recording the first perfect game in Husky history.

Perhaps no pitching coach expects his arms to record a perfect game at any point in their careers, but when the Huskies signed DeMers[…]