WSU landed recent baseball recruit on pure luck

Mark J. Rebilas-USA TODAY SportsRecruiting in college sports can be a very weird process. In some cases, it plays out over months with staffs targeting specific players and using any technique they can think of to convince him to come to their school. It other cases, the right circumstances just happen to come together. That is how the WSU baseball program landed recent signee Damon Jones.

WSU assistant coach Jim Horner landed Jones, but didn't even know who he was until the first time he saw him pitch. Horner was in Colorado at a game, only because of a connection to another player. Jones happened to be pitching that night and Horner apparently just happened to sit in the stands next to…