Jacks reflect on 2025 baseball season
CALEB PEREZ | Hagadone News Network | UPDATED 1 year, 3 months AGO
The Jacks’ Evander Stephens throws a pitch against the Othello Huskies in a game from the spring season. Stephens is one of the five seniors who graduated from the team and was a starter all four years of high school.
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Jacks’ junior Caleb Kukes made a swing at the ball in a game earlier this season. Kukes will be a senior on the roster next season, and coach Longwill said that he’s excited to see what the returning players can accomplish.
Caleb Coduti stands ready at the plate to make a swing for the Jacks. Coduti is another graduate of Quincy High School who played all four years on the baseball team.
QUINCY – The Quincy Jackrabbits baseball team finished their 2025 season with a 5-15 record and entered the District Five tournament as the seventh seed. This was their first year back in 2A as they played in the Central Washington Athletic Conference.
“We wanted to try and secure a home field opening round district game,” said Jacks’ head coach Seth Longwill. “Keep improving, working up, having some momentum going into districts and be able to play with anybody to give ourselves a chance to advance.”
The Jacks opened their season against Warden where they earned a 5-1 victory and in their second game of the season, they played against Cashmere, who is an old rival from their time in the 1A where they came up short with a 1-2 loss.
“Our two best arms went at it, and it was a good battle,” said Longwill. “Both teams scored in the first inning; they scored two, we scored one and nobody scored after that.”
As the season continued, the team earned wins against Cascade 12-2, Ephrata 15-5 and two against Grandview 14-4 and 3-2 to put them as the seventh seed in the district tournament. There they played against the No. 6-seeded Prosser on the road.
Prosser would put up three runs in the first inning, with the Jacks putting up one in the third. In the bottom of the fourth inning, Prosser put up another five runs and Quincy would put up another run in the top of the sixth, ending the game 2-8 in the seventh inning.
“It just kind of seemed like a repeated theme (this season), one inning just kind of hurt us every game it felt like,” said Longwill. “We’d give those good teams from the CWAC an extra out or two and they just took advantage of it.”
He said that while these errors had been occurring all year, he did start to notice that toward the end of the season, the team had started to really clean up the number of errors that were made in a game.
“We did kind of what our goal was. We caught some momentum going in at the end and then ran Grandview and ten ran Ephrata,” said the coach.
The Jacks graduated five seniors this season: Caleb Coduti, Carter Yeates, Adrian Baughman, Evander Stephens and DJ Frerks. Coduti and Stephens played on the team all four years of high school and made the state tournament in the 1A during their freshman year as starters.
“We wanted to get back to state, but we just got a real good dose and feel of the CWAC,” said Longwill. “These teams just reload every year and they’re high quality.”
The Jacks players are going through their offseason grind playing summer baseball and will continue to work out going into the fall and winter months to prepare for next season. Longwill said that it will come down to the skills of the younger players as they come up into next season and for returning players like upcoming senior Ashton Barnes-Keller to continue having strong performances.
“We just want to keep grinding and get after it,” said Longwill.
Jacks’ junior Caleb Kukes made a swing at the ball in a game earlier this season. Kukes will be a senior on the roster next season, and coach Longwill said that he’s excited to see what the returning players can accomplish.
Caleb Coduti stands ready at the plate to make a swing for the Jacks. Coduti is another graduate of Quincy High School who played all four years on the baseball team.ARTICLES BY CALEB PEREZ
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