Mississippi HS Team Preview: Pelahatchie Chiefs
January 1, 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: Pelahatchie High School
Head Coach: Tip Nutt
MHSAA Classification: MHSAA 2A
District Number: District 4
2024 Record (Playoff Finish): 5-23 (No Postseason)
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ROSTER PREVIEW
+ No. Returning Positional Starters: 6
+ No. Returning Pitchers: 5
+ Key Returners:
- SS/RHP Javion Magee (2025)
- UTL/RHP Ben Mosley (2025)
- C/3B/RHP Hayden Johnson (2025)
- INF Cooper Scherer (2025)
- OF/1B/LHP Peyton Holmes (2026)
- OF/LHP Dannon Weaver (2027)
TOP NEWCOMERS
+ Impact Underclassmen:
- CINF/RHP Brayden Nichols
- MIF/RHP Chase Parker
2025 OUTLOOK
+ Pelahatchie returns 6 positional starters and 5 pitchers from last year's roster that finished last season 7-23 after failing to reach postseason play. Head Coach Tip Nutt will look to the return of nearly his whole pitching staff in efforts to make 2025 a competitive year for the Chiefs.
Top returners for Pelahatchie include seniors Javion Magee (SS/RHP), Ben Mosley (C/OF/RHP), Hayden Johnson (C/3B/RHP), and Cooper Scherer (3B/SS), junior Peyton Holmes (OF/1B/LHP), and sophomore Dannon Weaver (OF/LHP).
Mosley led all returners with a .385 average last season while also leading the team with 19 runs batted in. Magee (.344) and Johnson (.306) will also look to produce this season after both had solid 2024 seasons. Johnson (25 2/3) and Holmes (23 2/3) led Chiefs in innings on the mound a year ago and will look to hold opposing lineups in check in 2025.
Underclassmen looking to make an impact will be Brayden Nichols (CI/RHP) and Chase Parker (MI/RHP).
Pelahatchie will begin regular season play on February 22nd versus Yazoo County.
Find more information on Pelahatchie’s 2025 season below:
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+ Find more 2025 team previews on our MHSAA Season Preview page
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