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Mississippi HS Team Preview: Bayou Academy Colts


Prep Baseball Mississippi Staff

The 2025 Mississippi high school baseball season is quickly approaching and, as usual, excitement is abound 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 Mississippi.

Teams across the state have goals and aspirations to finish their seasons at Pearl’s Trustmark Park, in the State Tournament finals at the end of May, 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 Mississippi. We will take you right up to first pitch this season with these team previews, eventually releasing our Preseason Power 25 rankings that’ll carry us into the opening week of action.

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 and updating the Power 25 rankings.

Our 2025 preseason coverage continues today.

High School: Bayou Academy
Head Coach: Dee Haynes
MHSAA Classification: MAIS Class 5A
District Number: District 1
2024 Record (Playoff Finish): 18-16 (Eliminated Second Round)

 


ROSTER PREVIEW

+ No. Returning Positional Starters: 5
+ No. Returning Pitchers: 3
+ Key Returners:

  • P/OF Reed Holman (2025, Mississippi Delta CC)
  • P/OF Bo Linkous (2025)
  • C Elliot Lloyd (2026)

2025 OUTLOOK

+ Bayou Academy returns 5 positional starters and 3 arms from a roster that finished last year at 18-16 after a 2nd round loss in the MAIS 5A Playoffs.. Head Coach Dee Haynes believes overall scrappiness along with a balanced roster will allow his Colts to be competitive in 2025.

Top returners for Bayou include seniors Reed Holman (LHP/OF, Mississippi Delta CC recruit) and Elliot Lloyd (C), along with junior Bo Linkous (RHP/OF).

Holman was a workhorse on the mound for the Colts last year going 5-4 with a 2.13 ERA with 56 strikeouts. Linkous was valuable on the mound as well finishing 3-2 with a 3.75 ERA along with 34 K’s. Each of the top returners each hit over .300 in 2024 with Linkous leading all returners with 23 runs batted in, with Lloyd adding 15. 

Bayou will begin regular season play on February 21st versus Heritage Academy. 


Find more information on Bayou Academy’s 2025 season below:

+ Follow them on X: @Bayou_Athletics
+ Find more 2025 team previews on our MHSAA Season Preview page

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