2025 KSHSAA Team Preview: Emporia Spartans
February 7, 2025
The Kansas high school baseball season kicks off on Mar. 20, opening day for regular season action under KSHSAA regulations. Leading up to opening day, we’ll be publishing our team previews ahead of the 2025 spring season, touching on programs spanning all state classifications, counting down to the official Prep Baseball Kansas Preseason Power 25 Rankings.
Perennially, we’ve submitted a preseason questionnaire to high school head coaches across the entire state. Their responses have been flooding in and we’re using the detailed insight they’ve provided in our team-by-team preseason analysis.
Our 2025 preseason coverage continues today.
Head Coach: Anthony Markowitz (9 years)
Classification: 5A
2024 Record (Finish): 9-15 (Regional Runner-Up)
2025 SEASON OUTLOOK
No. of Returning Position Players: 9
No. of Returning Pitchers: 5
Top Returners:
- SS/P Owen Ruge (2025; Butler CC)
- 6'3", R/R..... All Centennial League 1st Team 2024 .323 BA 6 2B's 3 3B's. 1.54 ERA- 49 k's- 4 bb's- 31 2/3 IP. All Centennial League 2nd Team 2023..... Complete Game 8 strikeouts, 1 run vs. Andover Central in 2024 Regionals
- C/INF/P Madden Seidl (2025; Cloud County CC)
- 6'5" R/R...... Varsity player for 2 years. Caught most of last season for us, came on at the end of the season on the mound. Had a good summer, touching 88-92 multiple outings.
- C/INF/P Andrew Ruxton (2025)
- 5'11" R/R...... All Centennial League HM 2024, One of our most consistent hitters in 2024 (.333 BA) 2.48 ERA on the mound.
- INF/OF/P Micah Gray (2027)
- 5'10" R/R..... All Centennial League HM 2024 (freshman season), hit 1/2 hole most of the year for us. (.328 BA) Will get more innings on the mound this year, was a top option out of the pen for us in 2024.
Key Players Lost:
- Aiden Ewing
Coach’s Insight: “We return all of our position players as well as depth behind them, as we graduated only one senior. I believe our strength will lie in our pitching rotation and depth on the mound. As the season progressed last year, our pitchers were very aggressive in the zone which in turn helped out defense. We anticipate the number of returning at-bats from the previous seasons will lead to more success and confidence at the plate. We have a quality group of senior leaders and high expectations. Our biggest struggle towards the end of the 2024 season was situational hitting with runners on base. If we can create more quality at bats with runners on base I believe our offense can get over the hump. ” – Anthony Markowitz, head coach
Find more information on the 2025 Emporia program below:
+ Follow them on X: @EHighBaseball
+ Visit Prep Baseball Kansas’ 2025 KSHSAA Team Previews page to learn more.
+ If you are a high school coach and didn’t receive our questionnaire, please click HERE to fill out the form