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2025 High School Previews: Cypress Centurions


Steven Hardesty
Assistant Scouting Director

 

  

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The 2025 California high school baseball season is quickly approaching and, as usual, excitement is abound throughout the state. Players and coaches have been working in preparation for the upcoming season and, as is the case each year, there are some very talented players and teams across California.

Teams across the state have goals and aspirations to finish their seasons in their respective CIF Section Championship Game, but there is plenty of work to be done before that becomes reality. We hope to familiarize our readers with many of the teams across the state as we preview these individual programs across California. We will take you right up to first pitch this season with these team previews, eventually releasing our Preseason Power 25 rankings.

Please keep checking back throughout the season as we will be your one-stop shop for everything related to high school baseball across California. Each week we will be releasing our Power 25, Players of the Week, Diamond Notes, podcasts, and much more.

Our 2025 preseason coverage continues today with a preview of the Cypress Centurions.


2025 TEAM OUTLOOK

High School: Cypress Centurions
Head Coach: John Weber
CIF Section: Southern Section
Division: 1
2024 Record (Playoff Finish): 19-10-1 (lost 2nd round)
Key Players Lost: Nick Montgomery, Justin Tillar

+ No. Returning Positional Starters: 6
+ No. Returning Pitchers: All of them, the entire staff
+ Team Strengths:  Pitching will be the strength as we return all 205 innings from last year along with adding a few more young talented arms.  I would also think that our defense will be as well as we return Jake, Rodriguez and Connor in the infield and Kwon as our CF.

ROSTER PREVIEW

+ Key Players:

Seniors:

+ '25 RHP Aiden Franco 

+ '25 LHP Wyatt Rosales

+ '25 CF Spencer Kwon

+ '25 INF John Short

+ '25 3B Connor Arstaserse 

Juniors:

+ '26 C Noah Johnson

+ '26 SS Jake De Laquil

+ '26 LHP Drew Slevcove 

+ '26 LHP Nick Nelson 

+ Projected Starters: Wyatt Rosales, SR Left hander, Aiden Franco, SR Right hander, Tate Belfanti, SO, Left hander
+ Projected Relievers: Connor Artasers, SR, RH Closer, Dylan Keliiholokai, SO RH, Derw Slevcove JR, LH, Nick Nelson, JR, LH, Garrett Rodriguez SR, RH

IMPACT UNDERCLASSMEN

+ '27 LHP Tate Belfanti

+ '27 RHP Dylan Keliiholokai 

+ '27 INF Gary Hennessy

+ '27 OF Tyler Vladic 

BOTTOM LINE

With a deep returning pitching staff that accounted for all of our innings in 2024 that reached the second round of the CIF-SS D1 playoffs we we will be experienced and talnted on the mound plus adding new talented pieces to our staff. Combine that with a very strong defense up the middle that should make it difficult for teams to score runs against us we have a chance to be in every game we play and eye a return trip to the CIF-SS playoffs in May - Coach Weber

PREP BASEBALL CA STAFF’S TAKE

As long as John Weber is coacing the Centurions, Cypress is going to be tough to beat. The 2025 version of the Centurions will be no different, and while they lost some key seniors, they have plenty of pieces to cause havoc in the spring. When you look at the roster/lineup you can't help but notice the balance of seniors with guys who've been around for a couple of years and will help this roster win games. Pitching could end up being a team strength next spring and you're always going to get a mix of West Coast baseball offensively with a Weber coached team. When those two things clash it usually means Cypress is playing into late May. - Les Lukach

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