WASHINGTON - Marlin Ikenberry recalls watching Reed Garrett pitch in the Commonwealth Games of Virginia prior to his senior year at Mills Godwin High near Richmond.
At the time, Ikenberry was the head coach at VMI in Lexington, Virginia, and the annual event was held in Salem.
“He was an 85 to 87 mile-per-hour right-hander, very athletic,” Ikenberry said Thursday of Garrett. “He threw a lot of strikes; at the time he threw three pitches for strikes. After the Commonwealth Games, he committed pretty quickly to VMI.”
“I used him as a wedge guy as a freshman,” added Ikenberry, now the coach at JMU.