Mississippi HS Team Preview: Columbia Academy Cougars
January 9, 2025
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: Columbia Academy
Head Coach: Keith Stanley
MHSAA Classification: MAIS 5A
District Number: District 3
2024 Record (Playoff Finish): 24-10 (Eliminated Fourth Round)
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ROSTER PREVIEW
+ No. Returning Positional Starters: 9
+ No. Returning Pitchers: All of them
+ Key Returners:
- RHP/INF Owen Simmons (2025)
- OF Jackson Speir (2025)
- LHP/1B Zeke Todd (2025)
- RHP/OF Roman Lawrence (2026)
- LHP/1B Logan Buckley (2026)
- RHP/UTL Reed Duncan (2026)
- RHP/INF Corban Lawrence (2027)
- RHP/INF Trent Buckley (2027)
TOP NEWCOMERS
+ Impact Underclassmen:
- RHP/C Zac McCain
- OF Carson Stuart
2025 OUTLOOK
+ Columbia Academy returns 9 positional starters and all innings from last year’s team that finished 24-10 after a 4th round loss in the MAIS 5A state playoffs. Head Coach Keith Stanley is excited about the experience of his Cougars heading into this spring and believes that experience along with key pitching will be major components to another deep playoff run in 2025.
Top returners for CA include seniors Owen Simmons (RHP/INF), Jackson Speir (OF), and Zeke Todd (LHP/1B, juniors Roman Lawrence (RHP/OF), Logan Buckley (LHP/1B), and Reed Duncan (RHP/UT), along with sophomores Corban Lawrence (RHP/INF), and former Future Gamer Trent Buckley (RHP/INF).
Trent Buckley, our #1 ranked player in the 2027 Class, led the Cougars in 2024 with a .389 batting average while collecting 7 home runs and 32 RBI’s. Speir is also back after leading the team in runs batted in with 36 to go along with his .360 average. Roman Lawrence (.347) and Owen Simmons (.315) both hit over .300 last season and will be counted on to produce once again.
Roman Lawrence led the mound attack with 7 wins and a 2.25 ERA. The righty picked up 75 strikeouts in 53 innings. Logan Buckley added 4 wins and 52 strikeouts in just 38 innings, with Trent Buckley adding another 4 wins with 80 K’s in 44 innings pitched. Todd gave the Cougar pitching staff 4 wins as well with 46 strikeouts in 31 innings.
Others expected to contribute will be sophomores Zac McCain (RHP/C) and Carson Stuart (OF).
Columbia Academy will begin regular season play on February 15th versus Presbyterian Christian.
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