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Mississippi HS Team Preview: Mantachie Mustangs


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: Mantachie High School
Head Coach: Nicholas Morrow
MHSAA Classification: MHSAA 3A
District Number: District 1
2024 Record (Playoff Finish): 7-15 (No Postseason)

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ROSTER PREVIEW

+ No. Returning Positional Starters: 6
+ No. Returning Pitchers: 3
+ Key Returners:

  • CF Colton Baxter (2025)
  • 1B/RHP Collin Elliott (2025)
  • 2B/RHP Ashton Shelton (2025)

More Names to Know

2026s:

  • 1B/RHP Trip Barnes (2026)
  • 3B Hudson Trulove (2026)
  • RHP Hayden Estes (2026)
  • P/OF Troy Bruce (2026)

TOP NEWCOMERS

+ Impact Underclassmen:

  • C/RHP Carson McMillen (2028)

2025 OUTLOOK

+ Mantachie returns 6 positional starters and 3 pitchers from last year’s team that finished 7-15 after failing to reach the State 3A playoffs. Head Coach Nicholas Morrow believes it's time for his squad to step up with 7 Mustangs that have plenty of in-game experience over the past two seasons. 

Top returners for Mantachie include seniors Colton Baxter (CF), Collin Elliot (1B/RHP), and Ashton Shelton (2B/RHP). 

Other Mustangs Coach Morrow expects to step up will be juniors Trip Barnes (1B/RHP), Hudson Trulove (3B), Hayden Estes (RHP), and Troy Bruce (RHP/OF), along with freshman Carson McMillen (C/RHP).

Mantachie will begin regular season play on February 10th versus Smithville.


Find more information on Mantachie’s 2025 season below:

+ Follow them on X: @Mantachie22Ball
+ Find more 2025 team previews on our MHSAA Season Preview page

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