Mississippi HS Team Preview: Pontotoc Warriors
January 16, 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: Pontotoc High School
Head Coach: Jon David Poss
MHSAA Classification: MHSAA 5A
District Number: District 1
2024 Record (Playoff Finish): 16-14 (Eliminated Second Round)
ROSTER PREVIEW
+ No. Returning Positional Starters: 9
+ No. Returning Pitchers: 5
+ Key Returners:
- C Jackson Williams (2025)
- OF Braxton Whiteside (2025, East Mississippi CC)
- 1B/LHP Caden Spears (2025)
- SS/RHP Corbyn Clayton (2026)
- OF/LHP Miller Finn (2026)
- OF Jaxon Dandridge (2026)
More Names to Know
2025s:
- 1B/RHP Hadley Corley (2025)
- MIF Malachi Witcher (2025)
- UTL/RHP Luke Blanchard (2025)
2026s:
- INF Parker Heatherly (2026)
- INF John Scott Wilson (2026)
TOP NEWCOMERS
+ Impact Underclassmen:
- C Nit Sitthiprasert (2027)
- OF/LHP Thomas Jefcoat (2027)
- INF Cayson Witcher (2028)
- INF/RHP Walker Chrestman (2028)
2025 OUTLOOK
+ Pontotoc returns 9 positional starters and 5 pitchers from a team that ended the year 16-14 after falling in the 2nd round of the 5A State Playoffs. Head Coach Jon David Poss will look to depth on the mound, including 3 established starters, along with a gritty Warrior offense as keys to a competitive 2025 spring.
Top returners for Pontotoc include seniors Jackson Williams (C), Braxton Whiteside (OF, East Ms CC recruit), and Caden Spears (1B/LHP), along with juniors Corbyn Clayton (SS/RHP), Miller Finn (OF/LHP), and Jaxon Dandridge (OF).
Williams and Whiteside provided the power last season with 4 home runs each and hope to improve on those numbers this spring. Clayton (5-5, 3.09 ERA, 80 K’s) and Finn (4-3, 3.92 ERA, 77 K’s) led the Warriors on the mound in 2024 and look to step up once again with Spears (5-3, 2.67 ERA) and Corley (3.39 ERA, 43 K’s) also ready to toe the rubber.
Other Warriors looking to make their mark will be seniors Hadley Corley (1B/RHP), Malachi Witcher (MI), and Luke Blanchard (UT/RHP), juniors Parker Heatherly (INF) and John Scott Wilson (INF/RHP), sophomores Nit Sitthiprasert (C) Thomas Jefcoat (OF/LHP), along with freshmen Cayson Witcher (INF) and Walker Chrestman (INF/RHP).
Pontotoc will begin regular season play on February 14th versus Mooreville.
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