Mississippi HS Team Preview: Tupelo Christian Eagles
December 31, 2024
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: Tupelo Christian Prep
Head Coach: Andrew Herrington
MHSAA Classification: MHSAA 1A
District Number: 1A + District 1
2024 Record (Playoff Finish): 16-13 (Eliminated Second Round)
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ROSTER PREVIEW
+ No. Returning Positional Starters: 6
+ No. Returning Pitchers: 4
+ Key Returners:
- INF/RHP Cullen Hobby (2025)
- RHP/INF Thomas Goralczyk (2025)
- INF/RHP Jax Coker (2026)
- SS/RHP Dawson Ward (2027)
- OF/RHP Jack Decker (2027)
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2026s:
- C Matthew McDaniel (2026)
- OF Brooks Bresee (2026)
TOP NEWCOMERS
+ Impact Underclassmen:
- 1B Logan Umfress (2027)
- UTL/RHP Bryce Godown (2027)
- C Drew Dickey (2027)
- UTL/RHP Weston Parrott (2027)
- LHP/OF Reeves Kenney (2028)
- RHP/OF JD Wamble (2028)
2025 OUTLOOK
+ Tupelo Christian Prep returns 6 positional starters and 4 arms from a roster that finished last season at 16-13 after a second round loss in the 1A State Playoffs. Head Coach Andrew Herrington is counting on his guys on the mound as well as overall experience of the Eagles to be keys to a successful 2025 spring.
Top returners for TPCS seniors Cullen Hobby (INF/RHP) and Thomas Goralczyk (RHP/INF), junior Jax Coker (INF/RHP), along with sophomores Dawson Ward (SS/RHP) and Jack Decker (OF/RHP).
Goralczyk (59 strikeouts in 44 innings) was the top innings eater in 2024 and will once again be a go to arm in district play with Coker and Decker ready to contribute as well. Dawson Ward led all returners with 22 runs batted in last season, with Goralczyk (19 RBI’s), Hobby (16 RBI's) and McDaniel (16 RBI’s) all helping out as well.
Coach Herrington will also look for production out of juniors Matthew McDaniel (C) and Brooks Bresee (OF), sophomores Logan Umfress (1B), Bryce Godown (OF/INF/RHP), Drew Dickey (C), and Weston Parrott (RHP/OF/INF), along with freshmen Reeves Kenney (LHP/OF) and JD Wamble (RHP/OF).
TCPS begins regular season play on February 25th versus New Site.
Find more information on Tupelo Christian Prep’s 2025 season below:
+ Follow them on X: @TCPSBSB
+ Find more 2025 team previews on our MHSAA Season Preview page
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