2025 Georgia Preview: Allatoona Buccaneers
January 24, 2025
The 2025 high school baseball season is quickly approaching and as usual, excitement abounds 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 Georgia.
Teams across the state have goals and aspirations to finish their seasons in the GHSA or GIAA state playoffs, 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 individual teams across Georgia. We will take you right up to first pitch this season with these team previews and by continuing our scheduled podcasts and releasing our preseason top-10 rankings in each GHSA classification and Power 25.
Please keep checking back throughout the season as we will be your one-stop shop for everything related to high school baseball across the state.
Each week we will be releasing our Players of the Week, updating the top-10 ranks in each GHSA classification, as well updating our Power 25 overall rankings. One thing, especially, you don’t want to miss are our scheduled podcasts with guests from across the state, as well as the recaps and previews of the big games we’re covering.
*Please note the information has been gathered from head coaches across the state, based on their replies to the questionnaire we distributed over this offseason.
High School: Allatoona Buccasneers
Head Coach: Keith Hanses
Classification: GHSA Class 4A
Region: 7-4A
2024 Record (Finish): 21-13, First round
No. of Returning Positional Starters: 13
Team Strengths: Senior leadership, multiple returning with multiple years experience.
TOP RETURNING PLAYERS
- 2025 LHP Cooper Underwood, Georgia Tech commit
- 2025 LHP Davis Bargeron, Georgia College commit
- 2025 1B/P Cruz Paul, East Tennessee State commit
- 2025 SS Anthony Planeta, Southern Union State CC commit
- 2025 OF Jack Reynolds, Bryan College commit
- 2025 C Sam Tomczak, Georgia Highlands CC commit
- 2026 LHP Cohen Bohannon
- 2026 3B/RHP Cooper Slayton
TOP UNDERCLASSMEN
- 2027 C/3B Parker Hope
- 2027 3B/C Jackson McBurnett
TEAM OUTLOOK
After a very successful season in 2024, the Allatoona Buccaneers look to continue their winning ways with a strong senior and junior class that include some top-end talent in the region. Leading the way for this year’s Bucs squad is LHP Cooper Underwood and Davis Bargeron, both coming off a hot 2024 season with 2.75 and 2.39 ERA’s. Other leaders from this senior class are Anthony Planeta, who led the team last season with a .360 batting average, Sam Tomczak, and Jack Reynolds. For the 2026 grads, LHP Cohen Bohannon looks to continue his impressive work from the left side showing a strong three pitch mix. Another top junior for this Allatoona team, 3B/RHP Cooper Slayton, who continues to flash the range in the infield with an accurate arm, bounce at the hot corner, and also an electric arm on the mound, will be a fun one to watch as the season continues. A handful of sophomores also look to do some damage in this already stacked batting line-up, C/3B Parker Hope and also another C/3B Jackson McBurnett both look to contribute their talents and will be fun to see their maturity as it gets later in the season. With a roster this talented, this is a team that looks to strive for greater results than their unfortunate demise from a year ago. This team has talent and depth at every position and bats that can get hot at any moment. It will be hard to contain a team of this caliber for long, very much looking forward to watching them in 2025.
Find more information on the 2025 Allatoona program below:
+ Follow them on X: @ahsbucsbaseball
+ Visit the Prep Baseball Georgia, 2025 HS Team Previews
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