Mississippi HS Team Preview: Wayne County War Eagles
January 15, 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: Wayne County High School
Head Coach: Kody Wayne Lancaster
MHSAA Classification: MHSAA 5A
District Number: District 4
2024 Record (Playoff Finish): 8-16-1 (No Postseason)
ROSTER PREVIEW
+ No. Returning Positional Starters: 3
+ No. Returning Pitchers: 3
+ Key Returners:
- MIF/RHP Brayson Graham (2025, Jones College)
- OF/P Dallen Hollifield
- 3B/RHP Ross Clements
- INF/RHP Jon Micheal Pitts
- INF/RHP Colt Branch
TOP NEWCOMERS
+ Impact Underclassmen:
- INF/RHP Brady Ainsworth
2025 OUTLOOK
+ Wayne County returns 3 positional starters and 3 arms from a team that ended last season at 8-16-1 after failing to reach the 5A State Playoffs. Head Coach Kody Wayne Lancaster will count on a solid defensive squad and grit as keys to a competitive spring for his War Eagles.
Top returners for Wayne County include seniors Brayson Graham (MI/RHP, Jones College recruit), Jon Michael Pitts (INF/RHP), and Ross Clements (3B/RHP), along with sophomores Dallen Hollifield (OF/P), Colt Branch (INF/RHP). And Brady Ainsworth (INF/RHP).
Graham paced the offense last season with a .388 batting average and will be expected to be a big run producer once again. He should get some middle of the order help from Clements (.269, 2 HR, 13 RBI). Graham (27 innings) and Holifield (24 innings) return to the mound for the War Eagles after contributing heavily in 2024.
Wayne County will begin regular season play on February 11th versus Richton.
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