After a large portion of the school's baseball team felt the pain of losing the state title in football, including Gould, the group has used the experience as fuel for a successful baseball season.

Parkside Baseball and Decatur and Mardela Softball are all headed to MPSSAA state title games after they each won their semifinals battles on Tuesday.

Normal Community's Max Heineman (5) celebrates after an out against Waubonsie Valley on Monday, June 9, 2025, during Class 4A Super-Sectional baseball at Illinois Wesleyan.

Mississippi State laid waste to Missouri pitching on Thursday night in a 25-7 win over the Tigers to take game one of the series.

On this special episode of The D1Baseball Podcast, Mike Rooney is joined by David Seifert and Chris Burke for a mock draft of the first 30 picks of the upcoming MLB Draft.