SENATOBIA – A total of 21 current, former and incoming Northwest Rangers will be playing baseball around the country this summer.

Freshman Peyton Plumlee, who has signed with Mississippi State, will take the mound for the Strasburg Express in Strasburg, Va. In his only season in a Northwest uniform, Plumlee was 6-2 with a 4.58 ERA in nine starts with 53 strikeouts.

Left-hander Dalton Minton and catcher Jake McPhail, both freshmen, will play together this summer with the Nevada (Mo.) Griffons of the MINK Collegiate Baseball League. Minton, a Horn Lake native, started in 10 games for the Rangers this season and was 3-1 with a 2.55 ERA. McPhail split time with Cody Cooper behind the plate this season and hit .254 with seven doubles, a home run and 21 RBIs.

Northwest will have a large presence in the Cotton States Baseball League as well, with a total of nine Rangers spread out across five different clubs. Freshman outfielder Hunter Bishop and outgoing sophomore outfielder/infielder Hunter Wilson will play together on the Tippah Tribe, joining former Northwest outfielder Stephen Sexton who's currently at Arkansas-Monticello.

Bishop played in 42 games this season for the Rangers, hitting .239 with two doubles and 13 RBIs, while Wilson, a Mississippi College signee, played in all 50 games this season and batted .357 with six doubles and 28 RBIs. Sexton, meanwhile, joins the Tribe following his junior campaign at UAM in which the Boll Weevils won the Great American Conference championship and advanced to the NCAA Central Region Tournament.

Mississippi College signee Hunter Lacefield will join former Ranger Taylor King on the North Delta Dealers. Lacefield capped off his sophomore season with nine appearances on the mound, finishing 2-0 with a save and 24 strikeouts in 18.2 innings of work. King, who redshirted at Memphis last season following an injury, hit .313 during his Ranger career with 22 doubles, two triples, eight homers, 53 RBIs and 50 runs scored.

Former Ranger and current West Alabama utility player Luke Latham will play for the Hill Country Generals. In two years at Northwest, the Batesville native finished his Ranger career hitting .235 with 12 doubles, a triple, nine home runs and 52 RBIs.

Future Rangers Bailey Nix and Dakota Dailey will join the Tallahatchie Rascals, while Cody Andresky will play for the Tupelo Thunder in the CSBL. Nix, a Pittsboro native, concluded his senior year with Bruce High School and earned a spot in the Northeast Mississippi Coaches Association baseball all-star game. 

Dailey, a Holly Springs native, recently transferred from Delta State to Northwest to play for Bubba Skelton and the Rangers' basketball program. The 2014 MAIS Player of the Year also played baseball while in high school at Marshall Academy. Andresky signed with Northwest from Olive Branch High School and capped his senior season hitting .278 with six doubles and 22 RBIs. 

Eight more future Rangers will take the field this summer as well. Brody Catt, Drew Hurst and Hunter White will play for the Tupelo 49ers, while Jordan Volner will compete with the Jonesboro Ricemen, all three teams belonging to the American Legion summer league. Zack Pope (Madison County Thunder), Cameron Kendall (Madison County Thunder), Ian Hawkins (Memphis Tigers) and Kyle Moore (Batters Box) round out the summer league Rangers.

Catt and White, products of Itawamba Agricultural High School in Fulton, capped off their senior season by leading the Indians to the MHSAA Class 4A state playoffs. Hurst finished his final high school season with 18 appearances on the mound and a 1.71 ERA, 5-3 overall record and four saves. A product of Tupelo Christian Prep, Hurst also helped lead the Eagles to its first state championship after entering the final game in a relief appearance in the sixth inning. 

As a senior at Madison Ridgeland Academy, Pope played in all 39 of the Patriots' contests this season and batted .470 with 13 doubles, two triples, five home runs and 46 RBIs. He also got plenty of work on the mound, making 10 appearances on the season with 21 strikeouts in 29.1 innings of work and helping MRA to the MAIS Class AAAA Division I state championship.

Also a pitcher, Hawkins wrapped up his senior season at DeSoto Central by throwing 33.2 innings in 11 appearances, ending the year with a 3-1 record and 40 strikeouts.

Wrapping up the list for Northwest is former Ranger Clay Casey. After spending the 2015 season at Northwest, Casey recently wrapped up his sophomore season at the University of Houston hitting .226 with five doubles, five home runs and 18 RBIs. He will be playing with the Menlo Park Legends of the California Collegiate League. 

In addition to the summer leagues, Northwest will also be represented well on the minor league level.

Former second round MLB Draft pick Cody Reed had a good outing in the Cincinnati Reds' spring training and reported to Triple-A Louisville to open the 2016 season. Through June 1, Reed has tossed 46.2 innings and is 4-2 with a 2.70 ERA. He also currently leads all Louisville pitchers with 47 strikeouts on the season.

Former Ranger Dalton Dulin will receive his minor league assignment later this month. Dulin, a 17th round draft pick by the Washington Nationals last summer, spent his rookie campaign with the Short Season Single-A  Auburn Doubledays and played in 35 games, batting .273 with six doubles, a triple and eight RBIs. The Memphis, Tenn. native also finished second on the team last season with eight stolen bases.

Jordan Barnes, a 15th round selection by the New York Yankees in 2013, will continue his professional baseball career this summer in the newly-created United Shore Professional Baseball League. Barnes will play for the Birmingham Bloomfield Beavers, one of three teams in the league.

Barnes spent the past three seasons in the Yankees organization with the GCL Yankees down in Tampa, Fla. In 130 career games, he hit .200 with eight doubles, two triples, two home runs, 30 RBIs and 20 stolen bases. 

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