2025 High School Previews: Summit Skyhawks
January 23, 2025
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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 Summit Skyhawks.
2025 TEAM OUTLOOK
High School: Summit Skyhawks
Head Coach: Samuel Lopez
CIF Section: Southern Section
Division: Division 3 (2024)
2024 Record (Playoff Finish): 24-6 Overall 10-2 League (Sunkist League Champs) (CIFSS D3 - 2nd Round)
Key Players Lost: Robert Duran (P) CSUSB
+ No. Returning Positional Players: 20
+ No. Returning Pitchers: 9
+ Team Strengths: Pitching - returns 172 innings from 2024, leading the way with three D1 commits in Dylan Harrison, Kody Smathers and Ryan Oaks, tons of experience with deep bullpen including a good mix of both righties and lefties. Hitting - returning all 9 starting players from the batting lineup from last years 2024 Sunkist League Championship team with a team batting average of .320 and 254 hits.
ROSTER PREVIEW
+ Key Players:
Seniors:
+ '25 RHP/OF Dylan Harrison Clemson Commit
+ '25 SS Sammy Lopez Cal Baptist Commit
+ '25 RHP/3B Kody Smathers Cal Baptist Commit
+ '25 INF/OF Isacc Castanon LBSU Commit
+ '25 C Ian Stewart Concordia University Irvine Commit
Juniors:
+ Projected Starters: Dylan Harrison - Kody Smathers - Ryan Oaks
+ Projected Relievers: Diego Gomez - David Tamayo - Jamez Guerrero - Conner Crawford - Aiden Martinez
IMPACT UNDERCLASSMEN
+ '27 Mario Flores
+ '27 Landon Peterson
BOTTOM LINE
We put together a very strong season in 2024 winning our league and reaching the CIF-SS D3 2nd round before a hard loss to Newbury Park. But, this years squad has all the potential to be even better than the squad in 2024. On the mound we return high levels of experience and those arms are very talented lead by Harrison, Smathers, and Oaks, as well our bullpen is deep and solid. As good as we are on the mound I'm as excited about what we can do the plate with 9 returners from a team that hit over .300 collectively in 2024 that has continued to get better. This Summit squad has the potential to make plenty of noise in Southern California if we play up to our ability. - Coach Lopez
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MORE 2025 TEAM PREVIEWS
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Upcoming Events
Showcase | State | Date | Location |
North Bay Preseason ID | CA | 01/25/25 | Novato High School |
Inland Empire Preseason ID | CA | 01/26/25 | Ganesha High School |
East Bay Preseason ID | CA | 02/01/25 | Pittsburg High School |
Sacramento Preseason ID | CA | 02/09/25 | McBean Park |
Orange County Rising Stars ID | CA | 03/02/25 | Mater Dei High School |
Inland Empire Rising Stars ID | CA | 03/30/25 | Corona High School |
Los Angeles Rising Stars ID | CA | 04/27/25 | O'Malley Field |
MORE PREP BASEBALL NEWS
- CA 2025 High School Previews: Madison Warhawks 2/11/25
- CA Central California Preseason ID: Top Overall 2/11/25
- CA 2025 High School Previews: Valhalla Norseman 2/10/25
- CA Central California Preseason: Pitcher Analysis 2/10/25
- CA Central California Preseason ID: Outfielder Analysis 2/10/25
- CA Sacramento Preseason ID: Statistical Analysis 2/10/25
- CA 2025 High School Previews: Novato Hornets 2/09/25
- CA 2025 High School Previews: Notre Dame (Sherman Oaks) Knights 2/09/25
- CA 2025 High School Previews: Rocklin Thunder 2/08/25
- CA 2025 High School Previews: Harvard Westlake Wolverines 2/08/25