Mississippi HS Team Preview: Lake Cormorant Gators
January 22, 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: Lake Cormorant High School
Head Coach: Joshua Burch
MHSAA Classification: MHSAA 6A
District Number: District 2
2024 Record (Playoff Finish): 16-8 (Eliminated First Round)
ROSTER PREVIEW
+ No. Returning Positional Starters: 8
+ No. Returning Pitchers: 6
+ Key Returners:
- MIF/RHP Michael Callahan (2025, Itawamba CC)
- 1B/RHP Derrin Randle (2025, Northwest Mississippi CC)
- C/1B Walker Wixon (2025, Southwest Mississippi CC)
- OF/LHP Grant Mitchell (2025, Freed-Hardeman University)
- CINF/RHP Brayden Moberly (2025)
- UTL/RHP Tyler Stevens (2025)
- RHP/UTL Brayden Collins (2026)
More Names to Know
2026s:
- CINF/RHP Dominic Clements (2026)
- MIF/RHP Hayden Strieber (2026)
2025 OUTLOOK
+ Lake Cormorant returns 8 positional starters and 6 pitchers from last year’s team that finished the season 16-8 after a first round loss in the 6A State Playoffs. Head Coach Joshua Burch believes the strength of his pitching staff could allow the Gators to make a deep playoff run this spring.
Top returners for Lake Cormorant include seniors Michael Callahan (MI/RHP, Itawamba CC recruit), Derrin Randle (1B/RHP, Northwest CC recruit), Walker Wixon (C, Southwest MS CC recruit), Grant Mitchell (OF/LHP, Freed Hardman recruit), Brayden Moberly (3B/RHP), and Tyler Stevens (UT/RHP), along with junior Brayden Collins (UT/RHP).
Other players Coach Burch will look to for production will be juniors Dominic Clements (CI/RHP) and Hayden Strieber (MI/RHP).
Lake Cormorant will begin regular season play on February 11th versus Marshall Academy.
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