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Baseball Spotlight: Matt Harughty
October 25, 2007 | Baseball
NORMAN, Okla. -- SoonerSports.com brings fans the eighth installment of the 2008 Baseball Newcomer Video Spotlights, featuring junior infielder Matt Harughty.
Matt Harughty | BIO
Junior | Infield | 6-0 | 170 | R/R
Spring, Texas - Blinn College
In preparation for the 2008 season, SoonerSports.com will feature one of the Sooners' newcomers each week throughout the rest of the year.
Each spotlight will include an updated bio, Q&A session and a series of videos featuring a scouting report from OU head coach Sunny Golloway.
Harughty, a junior college transfer from Blinn College, and the Sooners are in their fourth week of fall team practices and have completed eight intrasquad scrimmages so far.
OU will scrimmage twice this weekend, starting on Saturday at 1 p.m. and continuing Sunday at 1 p.m. All intrasquad scrimmages are free and open to the public at L. Dale Mitchell Park.
Click the links below to watch Coach Golloway discuss Harughty's recruiting process and his potential for the 2008 season, as well as practice footage from the fall.
Matt Harughty | BIOJunior | Infield | 6-0 | 170 | R/R
Spring, Texas - Blinn College
Harughty Q&A
Read below to find out who would play Matt in the movie of his life
and what he can't go without during the season:
Q: What interesting jobs have you held?
A: Shop Assistant at Ranger Oilfield Products Inc.
Q: What is the most interesting places you have visited?
A: Bangor, Maine and Brenham, Texas
Q: Why did you choose OU?
A: Winning tradition
Q: What was your favorite baseball team when you were younger? Now?
A: Houston Astros then and Boston Red Sox now
Q: Who is your favorite non-baseball athlete?
A: Roy Williams
Q: What person you pattern my game after is?
A: Manny Ramirez
Q: In the movie of your life, who plays you?
A: Russell Crowe
Q: What can you not go without during a baseball season?
A: Big League Chew gum
Q: Who is the most famous person you have met?
A: Roger Clemens and Josh Beckett
Q: What is your favorite thing to do in Norman?
A: Go to football games.
Q: What is your dream job?
A: Be a MLB umpire
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