2008 Baseball Recruits
Montana State-Billings
MSUB Adds Pair of Pitchers (8/6/07)
Pitchers Brian Howe of Whitefish and Andy Barham
of Bozeman will join Montana State University
Billings' baseball team this fall for the 2008 season.
Howe is a 5-foot-9 lefty who split time between
Whitefish and California. He graduated from Valencia
High School in Valencia, Calif., in 2006 and did not
attend college last year. Howe earned all-conference
and all-state honors at Valencia and also played for the
Lake Havasu All-Stars.
“We are extremely excited about the addition of
Brian,” said Brown. “He gives us another lefty and is a
guy who will compete for a weekend spot in the
rotation. He is definitely a guy that will be an impact
player on and off the field.
"He is a strong student, is passionate about baseball,
and is a good person. We expect Brian to be an inning
eater as well as a guy that gives us a chance to win
every time he gets the ball. He has a bulldog mentality
on the mound and expects to succeed every time he
steps on the field.”
Barham is a 6-foot-4 right handed pitcher who
graduated in 2005 from Bozeman High School and
played two years at Columbia Basin College. He was
an all-state tight end for the Hawks' football team and
played Legion baseball for the Bozeman Bucks.
At Columbia Basin, Barham pitched 22 1/3 innings of
relief last year with a 4.03 ERA. As a freshman he
pitched 15 1/3 innings with a 1.76 ERA.
“Andy is guy that we went after out of high school, so
we have been keeping an eye on him for the last two
years,” Brown said. “He had an outstanding career as
a Buck and followed it up with a solid career at
CBC. We look for him to continue that success here at
MSUB.
"He is a big, strong, athletic kid that will give us a
power arm on the mound as well as depth in the
outfield. Andy is a hard working guy that has had
success at every level, and we expect his work ethic
and attitude to be contagious on and off the field.”
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