Mississippi HS Team Preview: Pisgah Dragons
January 8, 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: Pisgah High School
Head Coach: Samuel Starnes
MHSAA Classification: MHSAA 2A
District Number: District 6
2024 Record (Playoff Finish): 25-9 (Eliminated Third Round)
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ROSTER PREVIEW
+ No. Returning Positional Starters: 7
+ No. Returning Pitchers: 5
+ Key Returners:
- 3B/RHP Ian Holliday (2025, Jones College)
- 1B/C/RHP Paxton Prisock (2025)
- OF/RHP Ryder White (2026, East Central CC)
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2026s:
- RHP Brody Tanner (2026)
- RHP Austin Sanders (2026)
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+ Impact Underclassmen:
- MIF Jackson Carlisle (2028)
2025 OUTLOOK
+ Pisgah returns 7 positional starters and 5 arms from a 2024 roster that finished 25-9 after a third round loss in the State 2A playoffs. Head Coach Samuel Starnes believes overall pitching and defense will be keys to a deep playoff run for the Dragons in 2025.
Top returners for Pisgah are seniors Ian Holiday (3B/RHP, Jones College recruit) and Paxton Prisock (1B/C/RHP), along with junior and former Future Gamer Ryder White (OF/RHP, East Central CC recruit).
Holliday and White have been major contributors to the program since junior high and will be expected to be leaders this spring in all phases while Prisock adds depth on the mound as well as being a solid defender at first base and behind the plate.
Other Dragons expected to contribute will be juniors Brody Tanner (RHP) and Austin Sanders (RHP), along with freshman Jackson Carlisle (MI).
Pisgah will begin regular season play on February 11th versus Enterprise Brookhaven.
Find more information on Pisgah’s 2025 season below:
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+ Find more 2025 team previews on our MHSAA Season Preview page
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