1 week Ago By JUSTIN FITZGERALD [email protected]
College of Idaho pitchers Dawson, Jackson and Jakob Cummins never thought they’d be in this position. The reason? Simple math. The three brothers all graduated from Kimberly High School.
Dawson in 2020, Jackson in 2022 and Jakob in 2024. College athletes only get four years of eligibility, which means Dawson Cummins should’ve finished his college career the same year Jakob Cummins graduated from Kimberly. But Dawson Cummins, who pitched for the College of Southern Idaho in 2021 and missed his sophomore season due to injury before transferring to the Yotes in the fall of 2022.
That created a special opportunity. All three Cummins brothers are on the same baseball team. Something that never happened growing up.
“It didn’t really cross our mind until Jakob was a senior,” Dawson Cummins told the Times-News . “It never really became a question just because of how eligibility works. With injuries, it ended up working out and thank goodness it’s been pretty fun.
” Kimberly graduates and brothers Dawson, left, Jackson, center, and Jakob, right, are pitchers for the College of Idaho this spring Dawson is a redshirt junior. Jackson is a junior and Jakob a freshman. Before this year, only Jackson Cummins had played on a team with his brothers.
He played with his older brother for his freshman and sophomore years and his younger brother for his junior and senior years. That doesn’t include the times the three brothers went at it on the family farm in Murtaugh. Whiffle ball games were a constant, as was the basketball game 21.
Trash talk never stopped. They were supposed to call their own fouls, but usually didn’t, so the games would get more and more physical. “Usually if we were playing 21, I would team up with Jackson and probably tackle him and whatnot,” Jakob Cummins told the Times-News .
“But it was pretty rare that we beat Dawson. He was always pretty good when we were younger.” Dawson Cummins initially came on Yotes head coach Shawn Humberger’s radar during a tryout in Caldwell in his senior year of high school.
When he was at CSI, Humberger kept tabs on him. Two years later, Jackson Cummins applied to the College of Idaho, drawn to the opportunity to play at the next level as well as pursue his academic interests. He graduated from Kimberly with a 4.
0 GPA and a combination of academic and athletic scholarships. The timeline lined up for Dawson Cummins to join him. Jakob Cummins followed two years later.
Dawson Cummins graduated from Kimberly High School in 2020, then pitched at the College of Southern Idaho in 2021 before transferring to the College of Idaho in the fall of 2022. The three all live together in the same house. Initially, it felt like the youngest brother was just a weekend visitor.
They soon settled in, though Jackson Cummins tends to be the one who does most of the cleaning and cooking. “We kind of go in phases,” Jackson Cummins told the Times-News . “A lot of steak and eggs, tacos, ground beef and rice.
Just pretty simple high-protein meals to keep us .” After years where the younger brothers were trying to chase the oldest, all three Cummins brothers now stand 6 feet, 3 inches. Humberger sees similarities in their progressions despite slight differences in the way they pitch.
Dawson and Jackson Cummins both started their senior years of high school throwing their fastballs around 80 mph and progressed to the mid-80s by the end of their senior year. They then hit about 85-87 mph as freshmen in college and now throw over 90 mph. Jakob Cummins projects to be on the same path.
Kimberly infielder Jakob Cummins slides through home base on May 16, 2024, during the 3A baseball state quarterfinals between No. 4 Kimberly and No. 5 Marsh Valley at Vail Stadium in Nampa.
The Bulldogs defeated the Eagles, 4-0. Dawson throws from a lower arm slot than Jackson Cummins, which means his pitches have more sink to them. Jakob Cummins throws the traditional 12-6 curveball, while his two older brothers’ breaking pitches tend to have more slider-type movement.
The oldest and youngest brothers are a bit more wiry, while Jackson Cummins is a little stiffer because he has a thicker lower half. He also uses his changeup as a go-to pitch. “Their stuff is all excellent; their work ethic’s excellent,” Humberger told the Times-News .
“They just move a little bit different and have a little different arm action.” KIMBERLY — Kimberly High School’s Dawson Cummins is no stranger to success, but he also knows how much work it takes to get it. His summer rou.
.. Dawson Cummins has a 5.
63 ERA in a team-high 46 1⁄3 innings pitched entering Friday’s doubleheader against Lewis-Clark State College. Jackson Cummins has a 5.77 ERA in 34 1⁄3 innings pitched and Jakob Cummins an 8.
14 ERA in 21 innings pitched. All three have had their ups and downs, though one game stands above the rest. In a 10-4 win over Park University Gilbert (Arizona) on Jan.
31, Dawson Cummins pitched the first three innings. He was relieved by Jakob Cummins, who pitched the next three innings and earned the win in his college debut. Jackson Cummins pitched the last three innings, striking out six and earning the save.
“After the game, we went out to dinner as a family, and we’re like, ‘Oh that was quite a deal,’” Dawson Cummins said. “I guess we never thought we’d be fortunate enough to be in this position.” Kimberly senior Jackson Cummins fires the ball to first base against Burley on March 19, 2022, in Kimberly.
Kimberly defeated Burley 14-4 in the first game and 10-3 in the second game. They haven’t had much other time to reflect. The college baseball season is a three-month grind that never lets up.
Most of their downtime is spent trying to figure out what pitches will work for the next opponent. Though Dawson Cummins has another year of eligibility, he wasn’t sure as of press time if he was going to use it. If that holds, this will be the only year the brothers spend on the same team.
Sure, they’ll have more time working on the family farm, chasing rodeo jackpots competing in tie-down roping or big-game hunting together. This opportunity basically snuck up on them. But that doesn’t mean they’re taking it for granted.
“I had the opportunity to play baseball and basketball with both of them,” Jackson Cummins said. “It’s even more special now having all three of us on the same team.” Your story lives in the Magic Valley, and our new mobile app is designed to make sure you don’t miss breaking news, the latest scores, the weather forecast and more.
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Prior to coming to Twin Falls, he was the sports reporter at the Cherokee Scout in Murphy, North Carolina for 2.5 years. Despite growing up in Maryland and graduating from the state’s flagship university, he thinks Old Bay is overrated.
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