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2025 Minnesota High School Team Previews, Volume XIII

March 24, 2025
Andy Judkins
State Director, Prep Baseball Minnesota

Prep Baseball Minnesota strives to be the most comprehensive source of player information across the state. Prep Baseball is the number one resource for high school baseball in each state that we cover through various events, boots-on-the-ground scouting staff, daily coverage, and multimedia platforms. Our multimedia platforms and events work together, creating each state's most potent high school baseball promotion source. While other organizations take a national approach, our goal is to become the authoritative voice on the ground level of each state.

As we prepare for the upcoming 2025 high school season, we will be taking a preseason glimpse at programs from around the state.

WAYZATA TROJANS

Head Coach: Bobby DeWitt (16 seasons, 227-133)

Class: 4A
Conference: Lake
2024 Record: 26-1, Class 4A State 3rd Place
X: @WTBaseball2023

Impact Players:

Coach's Comment:
"I expect this team to get back right where we were in the state tournament. Of course not 26-1, but still just as competitive. I expect to win conference, win the section and compete for a title. Hope I don't have to eat these words at the end."

ST. FRANCIS SAINTS

Head Coach: Luke Scardigli (8 seasons, 103-91)

Class: 3A
Conference: Mississippi 8
2024 Record: 15-8
X: None

Impact Players:

  • Cooper Fiskewold, OF/RHP, 2025 (University of Nebraska-Omaha commit)
    .409, 7 2B, 1 3B, 4 HR, 28 RBI
    26 IP, 41 K, 1.35 ERA
  • Owen Lamson
    7-0, 39 IP, 22 H, 7 BB, 45 K, 0.90 ERA

Coach's Comment:
"In spite of a disappointing finish last year, this year will be no different than the past few years. We expect to contend for the section championship. How we get there is yet to be determined. We lose quite a bit of offense but are encouraged by some of our returning seniors and a talented junior class. We do return almost 100 innings of experience on the mound, so we plan to lean on our pitching and defense until our lineup comes into focus."

MINNEWASKA LAKERS

Head Coach: Joe Alexander (3 seasons, 48-18)

Class: 2A
Conference: West Central
2024 Record: 20-4-1, Section 3AA Runner-Up
X: @waskaball

Impact Players:

Key Underclass Players:

  • Miles Wildman, 2027

Coach's Comment:
"The Minnewaska Lakers will be looking to build off of an incredibly successful 2024 campaign. While it is never easy to replace 8 incredibly talented players, there will be a lot of great competition from many promising players, grades 9-12, to fill out our line up, joining our very solid returning core of Levi Johnson, Noah Jensen, Connor Erickson, and Marc Gruber. The Lakers are looking forward to another season in the incredibly tough West Central Conference and in Section 3AA."

PINE CITY DRAGONS

Head Coach: Cory Schmidt (1 season, 2-15)

Class: 2A
Conference: Great River
2024 Record: 2-15
X: None

Impact Players:

  • Ethan Aagaard
  • Caleb Hogberg
  • Jacob Staber
  • Ezrah Barth

Key Underclass Players:

Coach's Comment:
"I think this year is going to be a huge jump for us in terms of success within competition. Last year we 7 new starters in the lineup and by the end of the season we were playing good teams pretty close but lacked the ability to put teams away.  Another year for those individuals and I believe some of the late losses are going to start turning into late wins."

RUSSELL-TYLER-RUTHTON KNIGHTS

Head Coach: Danny Moffitt (2 seasons)

Class: 1A
Conference: Red Rock
2024 Record: 13-12
X: None

Impact Players:

  • "Hopefully I have 7 seniors coming back and good junior group behind them." 

Key Underclass Players:

  • Bradyen Chandler
  • Garrett Elton

Coach's Comment:
"We have great opportunity to be successful this year. With having this many seniors and a well-rounded junior class behind them."

GLENCOE-SILVER LAKE PANTHERS

Head Coach: Dean Schwirtz (24 seasons, 363-181)

Class: 2A
Conference: Wright County
2024 Record: 10-11
X: @gslbaseball

Impact Players:

  • Luke Roepke, P/1B, 2025
  • Landon Stifter, C
  • Brody Ruschmeier, SS
  • Jackson Wischnack, P/3B
  • Evan Motzko, CF,
  • Max Hensch, LF/P

Key Underclass Players:

  • Trevor Engelmann LHP/OF, 2029

Coach's Comment:
"The majority of our starters last season were underclassmen. We believe with a year of development and growth we have an opportunity to be a much-improved team. Everything will depend on our ability to consistently throw good strikes and play solid defense."

TOTINO-GRACE EAGLES

Head Coach: Mike Smith (17 seasons, 216-149-1)

Class: 3A
Conference: Northwest Suburban
2024 Record: 19-8, Class 3A State Champions
X: @TGEagleBaseball

Impact Players:

Key Underclass Players:

Coach's Comment:
"We have some great guys in our program. They love the game and they love each other. It will be a lot of fun to see what this group can do together on and off the field."

FOSSTON GREYHOUNDS

Head Coach: Ryan Hanlon (17 seasons, 244-92)

Class: 1A
Conference: Northwest Diamond/Pine-to-Prairie
2024 Record: 17-7
X: @FosstonBaseball

Impact Players:

  • Ryne Duppong
  • Will Christen
  • Jakob Rudie
  • Tanner Vig
  • Mitchell Mulry

Coach's Comment:
"We are excited for the 2025 season, after losing graduating a few big groups the past few years we will have a lot of new faces in the lineup playing in some key roles. We are excited to see how some of our guys progress in a more impactful role this spring."

EAGAN WILDCATS

Head Coach: Steve Butler (8 seasons)

Class: 4A
Conference: South Suburban
2024 Record: 10-15, Section 3AAAA Runner-Up
X: @Eagan__Baseball

Impact Players:

Key Underclass Players:

Coach's Comment:
"We are returning 15 players from our Section 3AAAA runner up roster. A hard working group of young men who believe they are capable of anything."

SPRING GROVE LIONS

Head Coach: Chris Strinmoen (9 seasons, 89-72)

Class: 1A
Conference: Southeast
2024 Record: 15-9
X: @SGLionsBaseball

Impact Players:

  • Ben Udstuen, 2025
  • Brandon Jahnke, 2025
  • Zach Brumm, 2025
  • Ezra Griffin, 2025
  • Kolton Nerstad, 2026
  • Gabe Klug, 2026

Key Underclass Players:

  • Sam Klug, 2027

Coach's Comment:
"We are excited to be returning 7 letter-winners, including 2 of our primary pitchers. If our younger arms step up, and we get some offensive production from the bottom half of our lineup, I think we will be very competitive. Defensively, I feel really good about our team heading into the season. For the first time in a while, we will be primarily juniors and seniors, so we have some experience on our side."

HUTCHINSON TIGERS

Head Coach: Tim Thode (2 seasons, 22-22)

Class: 3A
Conference: Wright County
2024 Record: 10-12
X: @HutchBsbl

Impact Players:

Coach's Comment:
"We have a great group of athletes back that expect to make noise in the conference and section. Depth and competitiveness is our strength to go along with our entire infield and catcher returning."

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