Mississippi HS Team Preview: Nettleton Tigers
January 24, 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: Nettleton High School
Head Coach: Brian Rea
MHSAA Classification: MHSAA 3A
District Number: District 4
2024 Record (Playoff Finish): 15-14 (Eliminated Third Round)
ROSTER PREVIEW
+ No. Returning Positional Starters: 5
+ No. Returning Pitchers: 6
+ Key Returners:
- SS/RHP Luke Ricks (2025, Arkansas Mid-South)
- 3B/RHP Max Smith (2025)
- OF/LHP Owen Roebuck (2026)
- 1B/RHP Cody Williamson (2025)
- OF/RHP J.R. Williams (2026)
- UTL/RHP Reid Raper (2027)
More Names to Know
2025s:
- OF/RHP Brance Lee (2025)
- OF Sam Riley (2025)
2026s:
- C Travis Sullivan (2026)
- RHP Ace Carroll (2026)
- OF Brady Williams (2026)
- UTL Spencer Holland (2026)
- UTL Cayden Duran (2026)
- UTL Brody Neal (2026)
TOP NEWCOMERS
+ Impact Underclassmen:
- 2B/RHP Benton Dabbs
- OF Logan Dabbs
- INF Paxton Humble
- INF Weston Bynum
- 1B Ka'Darius Denman
- INF Grayson Rikard
- RHP Parker Baggett
- OF Paxton Hall
- OF/LHP Hunter Harlow
2025 OUTLOOK
+ Nettleton returns 5 positional starters and 6 pitchers from last year’s roster that ended the season at 15-14 after a 3rd round loss in the 3A State Playoffs. Head Coach Brian Rea returns over 100 innings from last season as well as 4 of the Tigers leading hitters from 2024.
Top returners for Nettleton include seniors Luke Ricks (SS/RHP, Ark State - Mid South signee), Max Smith (3B/RHP), and Cody Williamson (1B/RHP), juniors Owen Roebuck (OF/LHP) and JR Williams (OF/RHP), along with sophomore Reid Raper (UT/RHP).
Max Smith led the Tigers with a .453 batting average last year with 3 home runs and 28 runs batted in. He, along with Roebuck (17 RBI) and Williamson (13 RBI) will look to provide lots of production this spring. Raper logged 41 innings as a freshman with a 3.36 ERA and 46 strikeouts. JR Williams added 34 quality innings as well with 40 strikeouts.
Other Tigers that will look to produce include seniors Brance Lee (OF/RHP) and Sam Riley (OF), juniors Travis Sullivan (C), Ace Carroll (RHP), Brady Williams (OF), Spencer Holland, Cayden Duran, and Brody Neal, along with underclassmen Benton Dabbs (2B/RHP), Logan Dabbs (OF), Paxton Humble (INF), Weston Bynum (INF), Ka’Darius Denman (1B), Grayson Rikard (INF), Parker Baggett (RHP), Paxton Hall (OF), and Hunter Harlow (OF/LHP).
Nettleton will begin regular season play on February 11th versus Shannon.
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