User:Reggiepennell/sandbox

Childhood
Matthew was born at Frisbie Memorial Hospital in Rochester, NH to the proud parents of Dave and Karen Nason. Around the age of 5 Matt realized he was a gifted athlete and started playing t-ball and K-2 basketball for the Milton rec department. Matt's parents Dave and Karen showed extreme support of Matthew and his older brother Tom's athletic careers. As Matthew grew he went through the ranks as an average baseball and basketball player until he was about 12. With the help of his little league coach Barry Davis Matthew started to excel in baseball and local Milton Rec basketball Pam Pennell paved the way for Matthew for Matthew to be a high school stud. Pam spent countless hours with Matthew teaching him to be a ferocious shot blocker and teaching him how to score at will from the post.

Babe Ruth Baseball
Once Matt was to old for Barry's baseball team he moved up to the Milton Babe Ruth team coached by former Farmington great Keenan Skillins. Although the team was ages 13-15 and Matt was the minimum 13 he made an immediate impact with childhood friend Reggie Pennell. Pennell went on to make the 13 year old all star team but Nason didn't this fueled a fire in Nason that nobody had ever seen and improved his game for his 14 year old season. In Nason's 14 year old season he started in right field and had a .300 batting average with 10HR and 50RBI's in only 16 games. He led the team to its first playoff win. In Matt's 15 year old season he got bored with dominating right field so he took his talents to the mound and had a .000 ERA and pitched 4 out of the 12 games. He had an even better year at the plate and had a whopping 12 homers and 60 RBI's and led 3 Ponds Automotive to their first championship.