Tim Walton of the National Champion Florida Gators has had good success going to the West Coast and getting some excellent So Cal talent including pitcher Delaney Gourley who played in the clinching championship game this year as a true freshman.

The Gators have an especially strong pipeline going into the OC Batbusters organization and have four current players on the Haning/Stith team who are Gainesville bound in the next few years: 2015 outfielder Amanda Lorenz, 2015 infielder Sophia Reynoso, 2017 infielder Jordan Matthews and 2017 pitcher Natalie Lugo.

Last Monday (Nov. 10), the members of the OC Batbusters Haning-Stith team got a special workout in as they played two games against the Venezuela National Team at Bill Barber Bark in Irvine, Calif. and Natalie got to pitch in the second of the two games.

Before she took the circle, we had a chance to talk with the soft-spoken, but skilled and competitive pitcher, about being a Batbuster, what pitches she throws and how she came to be recruited by Florida.

Here’s the interview…

… and also here’s one of her pitching sequences against the Venezuela team: