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2025 Georgia Team Preview: North Paulding Wolfpack


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: North Paulding Wolfpack
Head Coach: Matt Richardson
Classification: GHSA Class 6A
Region: 5-6A
2024 Record (Finish): 24-13
No. of Returning Positional Starters: 7
Team Strengths: Experience position players. Top of the line starting pitching 

 


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TEAM OUTLOOK

The Wolfpack are looking to repeat a successful 2024 campaign that featured 20+ wins and a final-four run, and have the roster to do so albeit losing some key production from last year’s team. It starts with the pitching for North Paulding, led by three committed seniors in RHPs Yenli Nolasco, Lucas Vargo, and Raedan Jones who make up the starting rotation and give this ballclub the chance to compete night in and night out. Senior and Georgia Highlands commit Zac Parker will anchor the bullpen, with a pair of right-handed brothers in junior Turk Williams and sophomore Chance Williams looking to make an impact with two unique pitch mixes. On the nights he's not starting, Nolasco will likely be patrolling centerfield while providing big-time raw power in the middle of the order. Senior C Nathan Rowland and sophomore 2B Wesley Moering give the Wolfpack a trio of bats who can put balls out to any part of the park. Junior SS Cade Cox is a three year starter for this club and is in line for possibly the biggest role yet bringing a toolsy, high-floor profile that can help a team win in multiple ways. Another committed senior in OF Hayden Miller helps strengthen the lineup even more alongside junior Lawson Sheffield, who’s looking to replace his older brother’s production from last year (2024 grad C Cayden Sheffield, Georgia Tech). Look out for two-way sophomore JR Hoffman to make an impact on both sides after really standing out this fall. With North Paulding now in 6A, they face yet another tough region that features Cherokee, Walton and the defending 6A state champions in Etowah, so it’s safe to stay the final four road won’t be easy to repeat but this is the roster to do it.


Find more information on the 2025 North Paulding program below:

+ Follow them on X: @NPPackBaseball
+ Visit the Prep Baseball Georgia, 2025 HS Team Previews


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