Sports Logo Design mimicking USC Trojan Mascot

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Logo Design Brief
My nephew just committed to pitch for the USC baseball team. He's unique in that not only is he a lefty with a crazy spin rate, he throws from the slot, meaning not overhead and not side arm but in between. That led the coach to tell his father on the phone that "your son is a unicorn" and we couldn't pass him up. So, my idea is to create a logo for the family to use (not for sale, just for fun). You'll see attached images of the USC Trojan mascot on a horse. But.... can you place my nephew, Evan, on the horse, not holding a sword but a baseball? And the horse can actually have a unicorn horn. And I guess you'd have the horse looking screen left, because Evan is a left hander so you'd have him in the throwing motion on top of the horse/unicorn throwing towards screen right or front. Should the ball be in his hands with some swish/fire marks behind his hand? Or should the ball be just released with the swish/fire marks behind the ball? Can you do a more detailed logo like the one attached, or does it need to be more generic with just an outline of a horse and Evan? His curly hair coming out of his hat is an identifier. By the way in the more detailed USC logo the trojan in the background isn't necessary. Let me know if this can work, and thanks in advance for any help! Jeff
Updates
I will be out of town with limited access to internet until early Thursday morning.
Added Tuesday, June 1, 2021
Logo Text
no text needed, I don't believe
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- The USC colors shown in the logos attached, horse should be white