10th Battalion
2014 Homecoming Honorees Matt Kohorst ’07
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MATT KOHORST ’07 was a pitcher for the La Salle Lancer Varsity Baseball team all four years of his career at La Salle. He was a three-time First-Team All-League as a sophomore, junior and senior and was named First-Team All-CIF his senior year. In his junior season, Matt recorded 77 strikeouts in 66 innings of work and was named the Santa Fe League Most Valuable Pitcher. As a senior, Matt posted a 6-4 record with 104 strikeouts in 67.1 innings. Matt led the Lancers to Matt Kohorst ’07
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Kasey Johnson ’07 numerous victories on the mound and was named to La Salle’s Athletic Hall of Fame for Baseball and was also named La Salle’s Athlete of the Year for 2007. Matt was recruited to play baseball for the University of San Diego Toreros where he spent one season before transferring to the University of Kansas. He had to redshirt the 2008-2009 season due to transfer rules but was an asset to the Jayhawks starting his sophomore year in 2009. During his three years at Kansas, Matt pitched a total of 28 games and had 31 strikeouts. He was named to the Big 12 Commissioner’s Honor Roll and the Athletic Director’s Honor Roll all three years and was appointed to the First-Team Academic All-Big 12 in 2012. Matt ended his career at the University of Kansas with a career record of 3 wins and 0 losses. Matt graduated in 2012 with a Bachelor of Science in Business Management and Leadership and currently works as a financial analyst in acquisitions for Everest Properties in Pasadena.