Prep Baseball Report

St. Louis Open: Hitting Leaderboard


By: Diego Solares
Area Scout, Illinois & Missouri

On Tuesday, June 13th, the PBR Missouri and Illinois staff converged on the campus of Saint Louis University to host the annual St. Louis Open. This event was open to all 2024-to-2027 graduates and, like all PBR events, served as an identifier for future invite-only events, such as our Top Prospect Games and the PBR Future Games.

To see a full list of the players that attended this event, click HERE

Shortly after the event’s conclusion, our staff published the day’s stat leaders, highlighting a handful of names who put up numbers across the board. You can find that by clicking HERE

We then highlighted a handful of the day’s standouts inside our ‘Quick Hits’ story, which you can read HERE

Today, with the help of our partners at TrackMan and Blast Motion, we’ve compiled leaderboards to highlight which names had the most impressive batted ball data, as well as swing metrics, too. You’ll find those leaders, below.

MAX EXIT VELOCITY 

Rank Name State School Class Pos Exit Velocity (max)
1 Hayden Bernreuter IL Triad 2025 OF 104.6 mph
2 Jack Roessler IL Waterloo 2024 RHP 101.2 mph
3 Brennan Nickerson MO Parkway south 2024 3B 99.5 mph
4 Jake Stedman IL Belleville West 2024 SS 97.2 mph
5 Cruz Harlan IL Centralia 2024 SS 97.0 mph
6 Gavin Bradley MO Eureka 2024 C 95.6 mph
7 Matthew Maue IL Columbia 2024 2B 95.4 mph
8 Brendan Pyle MO Fort Zumwalt East 2026 3B 93.3 mph
9 Chase Alwardt IL Edwardsville 2024 1B 93.3 mph
10 Mason Marshall IL Chatham Glenwood 2025 OF 93.1 mph

AVERAGE EXIT VELOCITY 

Rank Name State School Class Pos Exit Velocity (avg)
1 Jack Roessler IL Waterloo 2024 RHP 91.2 mph
2 Hayden Bernreuter IL Triad 2025 OF 88.1 mph
3 Brennan Nickerson MO Parkway south 2024 3B 87.9 mph
4 Ethan Heller IL Beardstown 2025 C 87.4 mph
5 Jake Stedman IL Belleville West 2024 SS 87.0 mph

PEAK BATTED DISTANCE 

Rank Name State School Class Pos Distance (max)
1 Hayden Bernreuter IL Triad 2025 OF 370 ft
2 Brennan Nickerson MO Parkway south 2024 3B 370 ft
3 Jack Roessler IL Waterloo 2024 RHP 353 ft
4 Ethan Heller IL Beardstown 2025 C 348 ft
5 Jake Stedman IL Belleville West 2024 SS 338 ft
6 Brendan Pyle MO Fort Zumwalt East 2026 3B 330 ft
7 Chase Alwardt IL Edwardsville 2024 1B 328 ft
8 Cruz Harlan IL Centralia 2024 SS 326 ft
9 Nick Miller MO St. John Vianney 2025 OF 321 ft
10 Gavin Bradley MO Eureka 2024 C 319 ft

AVERAGE BATTED DISTANCE 

Rank Name State School Class Pos Distance (avg)
1 Nick Miller MO St. John Vianney 2025 OF 257 ft
2 Brendan Pyle MO Fort Zumwalt East 2026 3B 252 ft
3 Jake Stedman IL Belleville West 2024 SS 246 ft
4 Chase Alwardt IL Edwardsville 2024 1B 244 ft
5 Cruz Harlan IL Centralia 2024 SS 243 ft

PEAK HAND SPEED

Rank Name State School Class Pos Hand Speed (max)
1 Jake Stedman IL Belleville West 2024 SS 26.1 mph
2 Jackson Connoyer IL Quincy Notre Dame 2026 RHP 25.9 mph
^ Gage Hollands MO Nevada 2025 OF 25.9 mph
3 Jack Roessler IL Waterloo 2024 RHP 25.2 mph
4 Matthew Maue IL Columbia 2024 2B 24.8 mph
5 Hayden Bernreuter IL Triad 2025 OF 24.2 mph

AVERAGE HAND SPEED

Rank Name State School Class Pos Hand Speed (avg)
1 Jackson Connoyer IL Quincy Notre Dame 2026 RHP 24.5 mph
2 Gage Hollands MO Nevada 2025 OF 24.5 mph
3 Jack Roessler IL Waterloo 2024 RHP 24.0 mph
4 Matthew Maue IL Columbia 2024 2B 23.6 mph
5 Jake Stedman IL Belleville West 2024 SS 23.2 mph

PEAK BAT SPEED

Rank Name State School Class Pos Bat Speed (max)
1 Brennan Nickerson MO Parkway south 2024 3B 83.0 mph
2 Jack Roessler IL Waterloo 2024 RHP 80.6 mph
3 Jake Stedman IL Belleville West 2024 SS 77.8 mph
4 Hayden Bernreuter IL Triad 2025 OF 76.9 mph
5 Matthew Maue IL Columbia 2024 2B 76.5 mph

AVERAGE BAT SPEED

Rank Name State School Class Pos Bat Speed (avg)
1 Brennan Nickerson MO Parkway south 2024 3B 77.6 mph
2 Jack Roessler IL Waterloo 2024 RHP 76.4 mph
3 Hayden Bernreuter IL Triad 2025 OF 74.1 mph
4 Matthew Maue IL Columbia 2024 2B 73.4 mph
5 Jake Stedman IL Belleville West 2024 SS 72.7 mph

For a look at all the statistics collected from this event, click HERE

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