The Lone Star Conference released its 2025 Baseball Preseason Poll, ranking St. Edward's University Baseball fifth in the 13-team conference and LANCE LITTLE and JAKUB RAYFIELD as Players to Watch. 
 
Conference sports information directors, coaches, and media representatives voted Angelo State the favorite to win its eighth Lone Star Conference championship, led by LSC Preseason Player of the Year Jacob Guerrero. Reigning LSC Pitcher of the Year Rawley Hector. 
 
St. Edward's season opener is Jan. 31 against West Texas A&M. 
 
Throughout the year, all 13 LSC teams will play a single round-robin schedule with a four-game weekend series against each league opponent. To see the league schedule, click here.
 
The LSC Baseball Championship will feature a two-week tournament comprised of the top seven teams. The opening round is a best-of-three series and will be held May 2-4 at the sites of the No. 2 (vs. No. 7), 3 (vs. 6) and 4 (vs. 5) seeds. The league's top seed from the regular season will receive an opening-round bye and host the double-elimination championship round on May 8-10. The LSC Tournament Champion will receive the conference's automatic bid to the NCAA Division II Championship.
 
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2025 LSC BASEBALL PRESEASON POLL, AWARDS, PLAYERS/PITCHERS TO WATCH
 
Preseason Poll

Rank	Team	1st	Total
1	Angelo State	29	483
2	Lubbock Christian	5	457
3	West Texas A&M	2	411
4	UT Tyler	1	386
5	St. Edward's		311
6	Texas A&M-Kingsville		268
7	UT Permian Basin		266
8	Texas A&M International	2	234
9	St. Mary's		205
10	Eastern New Mexico		200
11	Cameron		143
12	Oklahoma Christian		119
13	Sul Ross State		66

 
 
Preseason Player of the Year
Jacob Guerrero, OF, Gr., Angelo State
 
Preseason Pitcher of the Year
Rawley Hector, RHP, Sr., UT Tyler
 
Preseason Players to Watch

Name	School	Pos.	Class.	Major	Hometown
Jacob Guerrero	Angelo State	OF	Gr.	Accounting	Colleyville, Texas
Lance Barnett	Cameron	UTL	Sr.	Sports & Ex. Sci.	Fort Worth, Texas
Luciano Terilli	Eastern New Mexico	OF/LHP	Sr.	Business Admin.	Dallas, Texas
Brevin McCool	Lubbock Christian	1B/3B	Sr.	Biology	Hobbs. N.M.
Hunter Jones	Oklahoma Christian	C	Sr.	Exercise Science	Norman, Okla.
LANCE LITTLE	St. Edward's	1B	Sr.	Accounting	Georgetown, Texas
Brendan Concannon	St. Mary's	OF	Sr.	Exercise & Sport Sci.	Flower Mound, Texas
Estevan Ortiz	Sul Ross State	SS	Sr.	Kinesiology	Uvalde, Texas
Abiam Medina	Texas A&M International	3B	Sr.	Business Admin.	Ponce, Puerto Rico
Vincent Sanchez	Texas A&M-Kingsville	INF	Sr.	N/A	Houston, Texas
Kaleb Scull	UT Permian Basin	SS	Sr.	Marketing	Lubbock, Texas
Kaston Mason	UT Tyler	1B/OF	Jr.	Management	Rockwall, Texas
Kyle Micklus	West Texas A&M	C	Sr.	General Studies	Waller, Texas

 
Preseason Pitchers to Watch

Name	School	Pos.	Class	Major	Hometown
Caleb Heuertz	Angelo State	RHP	Sr.	Business Mngt.	Angelo, Texas
Elijah Tolsma	Cameron	RHP	Sr.	Sports & Ex. Sci.	Torrance, Calif.
Adrian Rubio	Eastern New Mexico	RHP	Sr.	Criminal Justice	El Paso, Texas
Ryan Markwardt	Lubbock Christian	LHP	Sr.	Mngt. Info. Systems	Itasca, Texas
Chris Jones	Oklahoma Christian	RHP	Sr.	Business	Sapulpa. Okla.
JAKUB RAYFIELD	St. Edward's	RHP	Sr.	Criminal Justice	San Antonio, Texas
Kaleb Gauna	St. Mary's	RHP	Jr.	Ex. & Sport Science	Hondo, Texas
Ryan Sandoval	Sul Ross State	RHP	Sr.	Math	El Paso, Texas
Lalo Salinas	Texas A&M International	RHP	Sr.	Business Admin.	McAllen, Texas
Ulises Quiroga	Texas A&M-Kingsville	RHP	Gr.	N/A	Baytown, Texas
Trevor Barth	UT Permian Basin	RHP	Sr.	Accounting	Beaverton, Ore.
Rawley Hector	UT Tyler	RHP	Sr.	Marketing	Van Alstyne, Texas
Michael Guerrero	West Texas A&M	RHP	Sr.	General Studies	La Romana, Dominican Republic