SENATOBIA – Eighteen current, former and incoming Northwest Rangers will be playing baseball around the country this summer in addition to two in the minor league ranks and one coaching.

Tanner Cable, who played the 2013-14 seasons at Northwest and junior season at Delta State, is back with the East Texas PumpJacks in the Texas Collegiate League for a second straight summer. The right-hander pitched 41.1 innings last summer, going 2-2 with a 3.70 ERA and holding opponents to a .179 average. 

Outfielder James Lear, who played his junior season at USM, will also be back with the PumpJacks this summer. Lear hit .270 with five doubles, 11 RBIs and a team-best 32 stolen bases (2nd in the TCL) in 2014.

Rising junior third baseman Taylor King, who redshirted this past season at Memphis, will play for the (Washington) DC Grays in the Cal Ripken Collegiate League. King hit .313 with 22 doubles, eight home runs, 53 RBIs and 50 runs scored during the 2013-14 seasons.

John Wesley Ray, who pitched his freshman season at Ole Miss, will transfer to Northwest in the fall. Ray appeared in five games in relief for the Rebels, posting a 2.08 ERA. Ray is playing for the Baltimore Redbirds in the Cal Ripken Collegiate League.

Right-hander Matt Ferguson (Memphis) will play for the Licking County Settlers in Newark, Ohio this summer. Ferguson was 2-0 in eight appearances for the Tigers this season.

Domenick Carlini, a rising senior left-hander at Southeastern Louisiana, is headed to the St. Cloud Rox (Minn.) in the Northwoods League. Carlini was 1-0 with three saves and 30 strikeouts in 17 appearances this season.

Shortstop Jay King and outfielder Kramer Hollenbach will play for the Tippah County Tribe in the Cotton States League in Holly Springs. The all-region/all-state duo played the 2013-14 seasons together at Northwest. King, an NJCAA Third Team All-American and Marucci Division II Elite Hitter, ended his Ranger career with 108 hits (12th all-time), 76 RBIs, 68 runs scored, 15 doubles, a triple and 10 home runs in 92 starts. Hollenbach hit .375 for his career with 21 doubles, six home runs, 71 RBIs and 27 stolen bases.

Third baseman Hunter Wilson and left-hander Hunter Lacefield, who just completed their freshman seasons with the Rangers, will both be playing for Duke McCrory and the Mississippi Dukes this summer. Wilson hit .333 with three doubles, two triples and 10 RBIs while Lacefield was 0-2 with a 3.65 ERA in 24.2 innings of work. Utility player Luke Latham is back with the Dukes for a fourth summer. 

Also joining the Dukes this summer are C Cody Cooper, RHP Jonathan Lindsey and C Jake McPhail. Cooper hit .284 with five doubles, three home runs and nine RBIs in 25 games. Lindsey was 2-2 in 11 appearances. 

McPhail (Lafayette HS) was a 2015 First Team All-State, Crossroads Diamond All-Star and the 2015 District Offensive Player of the Year. He hit .410 as a junior for the Commodores with 42 RBIs (second-most on the team) and fielded .991 behind the plate with only one error in over 150 chances. He was named the team's most valuable position player and was also First Team All-Division 2-4A.

Stephen Sexton, an Arkansas-Monticello commit, will be playing for the Tippah County Tribe in the Cotton States League. In 77 career games at Northwest, Sexton hit .278 with 19 doubles, a triple, six home runs and 57 RBIs.

Brennan Pugh (Williams Baptist College) will play for the Tupelo Thunder in the Cotton States League.

Pitchers Jarod Wright (Arlington HS) and Peyton Plumlee (Lewisburg HS), both incoming freshmen, will be playing with Memphis Tigers Baseball. 

In the minor league ranks, CF Jordan Barnes, a 15th round selection by the New York Yankees in 2013, is currently with the GCL Yankees in Tampa, Fla. Former All-American LHP Cody Reed, the 46th overall pick in the 2013 MLB Draft by the Kansas City Royals, is currently with the Wilmington Blue Rocks (Advanced-A).

Former Ranger and Ole Miss Rebel left-hander, Jeremy Massie, will coach for the Waterloo Bucks (Iowa) in the Northwoods League. Massie made 40 appearances in two seasons in Oxford and also saw action in the College World Series with the Rebels last year. He's currently a graduate manager for the team.

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