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2025 Georgia Preview: Piedmont Academy Cougars


Prep Baseball Georgia
Staff

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: Piedmont Academy Cougars
Head Coach: Casey Moody
Classification: GISA Class 2A
Region: GISA 2A
2024 Record (Finish): 15-9, Final Four
No. of Returning Positional Starters: 10
Team Strengths:  Depth on the mound and throughout the lineup. 


TOP RETURNING PLAYERS 

  • 2025 MIF/RHP Brayden Ross
  • 2025 C Chase Taylor
  • 2025 OF Ethan Barman
  • 2025 MIF/RHP Alex Statham
  • 2026 OF Jack Adams
  • 2026 INF/OF/RHP Zach Simmons
  • 2026 INF/RHP Jamus Wingate

TOP UNDERCLASSMEN

  • 2028 Kooper Pounds
  • 2028 Levi Malin

TEAM OUTLOOK

After a very successful season in 2024, the Piedmont Academy Cougars 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 Cougars squad is Brayden Ross who hit .333 and tossed a solid 1.95 ERA last spring. Chase Taylor, hit .365 with 20 stolen bases and is a 2x All State and All Region player. For the 2026 grads, OF Jack Adams and Zach Simmons look to make things happen in the outfield and on the mound with experience in this lineup from a year ago. Another top junior for this Piedmont Academy team, Jamus Wingate, who had 26 strikeouts in 20 innings pitched Hit .335 in Region play, another All Region player for Coach Moody last 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.


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UPCOMING EVENTS

Showcase STAte Date Location
LakePoint Rising Stars ID GA 02/17 LakePoint Sports
Rising Stars: Preseason All-State GA 03/01 LakePoint Sports
LakePoint Summer ID GA 05/28 LakePoint Sports
LakePoint Rising Stars Summer ID GA 05/28 LakePoint Sports
Top Prospect Games: Underclass GA 06/03-06/04 LakePoint Sports
Top Prospect Games: Upperclass GA 06/10-06/11 LakePoint Sports
Savannah Summer ID GA 06/12 Benedictine Military School
Savannah Rising Stars ID GA 06/12 Benedictine Military School
Athens Summer ID GA 06/17 University of Georgia
Athens Rising Stars ID GA 06/17 University of Georgia