Mississippi HS Team Preview: Mize Bulldogs
December 23, 2024
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: Mize
Head Coach: Justin Ainsworth
MHSAA Classification: MHSAA 2A
District Number: District 8
2024 Record (Playoff Finish): 21-10 (Eliminated Second Round)
ROSTER PREVIEW
+ No. Returning Positional Starters: 6
+ No. Returning Pitchers: 7
+ Key Returners:
- OF/RHP Trey Myers (2026, Mississippi Gulf Coast CC)
- RHP/OF Ethan Warren (2025)
- INF/RHP Garrison Carrel (2027)
- INF/RHP Holder Mcalpin (2027)
- OF Parker Himmel (2028)
TOP NEWCOMERS
+ Impact Underclassmen:
- OF Walker Sullivan (2027)
- INF Graham Davis (2027)
- C/RHP Cale Tudor (2027)
- 1B/C Josiah Ainsworth (2027)
- INF Will Duckworth (2027)
- OF Cooper Freeman (2027)
- UTL Brendon Street (2028)
2025 OUTLOOK
+ Mize returns 6 positional starters and 7 pitchers from last year’s team that ended the season at 21-10 following a 2nd round loss in the 2A State Playoffs. Head Coach Justin Ainsworth feels the strength of his team's defensive play will be a huge plus this coming spring.
Top returners for Mize include senior Ethan Warren (RHP/OF), junior Trey Myers (OF/RHP, MS Gulf Coast CC recruit), sophomores Garrison Carrel (INF/RHP) and Holder McAlpin (RHP), along with freshman Parker Himmel (OF).
The Bulldogs return their top offensive threat from 2024 in Myers along with their top innings eater from 2024 in Warren while hoping for a few others to step up big this coming spring.
Other players Coach Ainsworth will look to for production will be sophomores Walker Sullivan (OF), Graham Davis (INF), Cale Tudor (C/RHP), Josiah Ainsworth (1B/C), Will Duckworth (INF), Cooper Freeman (OF), and freshman Brendon Street (UT).
Mize begins regular season play on February 10th versus Puckett.
Find more information on Mize’s 2025 season below:
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