Mississippi HS Team Preview: St. Joseph Bruins
January 23, 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: St. Joseph Catholic - Madison
Head Coach: Tanner Moulder
MHSAA Classification: MAIS Class 6A
2024 Record (Playoff Finish): 14-22 (Eliminated First Round)
ROSTER PREVIEW
+ No. Returning Positional Starters: 5
+ No. Returning Pitchers: 4
+ Key Returners:
- LHP/OF Chad Davidson (2027)
- C/1B Nick Glorioso (2027)
- UTL Brandon Burkes (2025)
- OF/LHP Bash Brown (2025)
- OF/LHP Colin McElwain (2025)
- CINF/RHP Tripp Mooney III (2025)
2025 OUTLOOK
+ St. Joseph (Madison) returns 5 positional starters and 4 pitchers from last year’s team that finished the season 14-22 after a first round loss in the MAIS 6A State Playoffs. Head Coach Tanner Moulder will look to team chemistry and the overall work ethic of his Bruins as key components to a competitive 2025 spring.
Top returners for St Joseph include seniors Brandon Burkes (UT/RHP), Bash Brown (OF/LHP), Colin McElwain (OF/LHP), and Tripp Mooney (CI/RHP), junior John Dean D’Antonio (INF), along with sophomores Chad Davidson (OF/LHP) and Nick Glorioso (C/1B/RHP).
The Bruins lost quite a bit of production to graduation though do have some talented up and comers ready to make their mark. Lefty Chad Davison logged over 30 innings last season (36 Strikeouts) and will look to hold opposing offenses in check with help from Colin McElwain, who added nearly 20 innings of his own. Glorioso (9 RBI) and D’Antonio (7 RBI) are expected to lead the offense with Burkes, Brown, and Mooney all ready to step up this year.
St. Joseph will begin regular season play on February 11th versus Marshall Academy.
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