Eastern Connecticut State University

Right-handed baseball pitcher Norman T. Worthington was a 20-game winner who helped the program to its second national championship as a senior in 1990. The Narragansett, R.I. native won 20 of 22 decisions in three seasons of his four-year career and is the first hurler from the ’90 national title team to gain E-Club Hall of Fame induction. The 6-foot-3 inch, 200-pound Worthington is one of only 12 pitchers in the program’s 64-year history to win as many 20 career games. He was credited with 26 victories in 35 career decisions, with two coming in the 1990 NCAA post-season. In 48 career appearances – 41 as a starter – Worthington recorded 14 complete games, three of them by shutout. He had a 3.39 ERA and two saves in 273.3 innings, striking out 158. At the time of graduation, Worthington ranked third all-time in innings and starts and fourth in wins and complete games, losing more than one game in a season only once. He was 6-1 with two saves and a season-best 2.21 ERA as a freshman in 1986; 6-0 with a 3.90 ERA as a sophomore in 1987, and 8-1 with a 2.43 ERA as a senior on the 1990 title team. After missing the entire 1989 season while undergoing treatment for Hodgkin’s Disease, Worthington returned the next year as the team’s only captain and its inspirational. He was second on the staff that year in wins, starts and innings and won the second game of both the regional and national tournaments. In the final start and appearance of his career in the nationals ,he recorded his seventh straight win of the year by limiting Wisconsin-Oshkosh to nine hits and four runs over seven innings while fanning six in a 7-4 winners’ bracket victory. That start produced his fourth career post-season victory. A two-time All-New England selection, Worthington also helped the 1987 team win the Northeast Regional title. That year,  he netted complete games in three consecutive starts in the final weeks of the season, shutting out Massachusetts Dartmouth on seven hits and limiting Salem State to one earned run and eight hits before  eliminating Brandeis from the regional tournament.