Tennessee HS Team Preview: Volunteer Falcons
January 21, 2025
The 2025 Tennessee 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 Tennessee.
Teams across the state have goals and aspirations to finish their seasons in Murfreesboro at the state tournament championships – 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 Tennessee. 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: Volunteer High School
Head Coach: Josh Peterson
TSSAA Classification: AAA
District & Region: District 2 + Region 1
2024 Record (Playoff Finish): 20-18 (Region)
ROSTER PREVIEW
+ No. Returning Positional Starters: 8
+ No. Returning Pitchers: 10
+ Key Returners:
- RHP/3B Austin Williams (2025)
- 1B/DH Anthony Blasini (2025)
- 1B/RHP Luke Armstrong (2025)
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2026s:
- RHP/MIF Gavin Hickernell (2026)
2025 OUTLOOK
+ Volunteer High enters the 2025 season with big aspirations. In 2024, Volunteer had a huge bounce back season where they went 20-18 and made it to the region semifinals. Volunteer will bring back 8 starters and 10 pitchers from the 2024 team, while also returning three senior leaders that should play a huge role in getting Volunteer back to region play. The first senior is 2025 RHP/3B Austin Williams. Williams was an all-district and all-region player in 2024. Williams returns as one of the top of the rotation arms and a big bat in the lineup. The next senior is 2025 1B/DH Anthony Blasini, who was an all-district player in 2024 and will anchor the middle of the lineup. Then you have 1B/RHP Luke Armstrong. Armstrong was another all-district player and will be a reliable arm and bat for Volunteer. Another player that will play a big role for Volunteer will be 2026 RHP/MIF Gavin Hickernell. Hickernell comes in as the shortstop and another strong arm for Volunteer. With a returning veteran group, Volunteer has high aspirations in 2025, where they will use small ball and team speed to score runs and use their veteran pitching staff to get them over the top.
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