Bio

Right-handed pitcher Steve Kovensky came out of Poway High School to win 18 games and strike out 129 batters for coach Bob Vetter's 1984 and 1985 Palomar teams. Kovensky is tied for fourth on the Comets' all-time career win list. He received a scholarship to Florida State, where he pitched for back-to-back College World Series teams that went a combined 116-31 in 1986 and 1987. At Florida State, Kovensky was a teammate of Dion Sanders. In the 1986 CWS at Omaha, Kovensky came in to get the Seminoles out of a late jam in relief against the University of Arizona in a match-up of the only two unbeaten teams remaining in the tournament. Arizona won the game, but the Seminoles battled back to reach a rematch of the two teams in the championship game, in which the Wildcats won a battle of one-loss teams to capture the national championship. Kovensky was 6-1 with eight saves and 70 strikeouts in 75 innings in his two seasons for Florida State. Kovensky is now Deputy Chief in the San Bernardino County Sheriff's Department.