Kee baseball team’s 2025 campaign results in third 30-plus win total and second State Tournament qualification in the past dozen years as program continues to strive forward

The 2025 Kee baseball season represented a return to where ninth-year Hawk head coach Jim Mauss has said the program “belongs”.

The 32-11 overall record this season’s Kee diamond squad compiled included the Hawks’ third-most victories in the past 12 seasons and landed Kee at every team’s ultimate destination for just the second time in the past 14 summers. It was the last time that the Hawks went to the State Tournament (2021) and followed that qualification with the last time Kee baseball hit the 30-plus win mark (2022) that this year’s group of seniors began to earn their varsity stripes, ultimately taking what they learned from that 2022 senior group that accomplished those program highlights during their careers and creating highlights of their own ever since.

“Obviously, getting to State was something that we will always be proud of, especially with the growth of these guys the past three seasons,” Coach Mauss praised. “This group, especially the seniors, grew immensely from opening day 2023 until our last game at Merchants Park, and I couldn’t be more proud of the journey we had together.”

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