A high school baseball player hitting a home run isn’t exactly rare, but it’s not exactly commonplace, either.

St. Joseph senior center fielder homered 10 times during the 2025 season.

Furness is the All-Mountain League Baseball Team MVP. Lompoc senior Jack Jones culminated an illustrious four-year pitching career on the Lompoc varsity by setting the Lompoc career strikeouts record and earning the league’s Pitcher of the Year award. Jones has signed with Cal State Northridge.

Besides leading the Knights in home runs, Furness led the team in RBIs with 30 and in doubles with seven. Furness was second on the team in hits with 32, behind only first baseman Ashton Bluem who had 34. Furness was fourth on the team in batting average at .323.

St. Joseph finished 24-8 overall, 13-2 in the Mountain League and won the league championship by four games under first-year head coach Erik Morrison. The Knights lost 9-8 in nine innings to Bakersfield Centennial in the CIF Central Section Division 1 championship game and went out in the first round of the Southern Cal Division 1 Regional playoffs with a 6-3 loss to San Dimas.

Jones finished his career at Lompoc with 335 strikeouts and took down the 54-year old school record that former big leaguer Roy Thomas had held. Jones pitched a perfect game his sophomore year.

Lompoc went out in the quarterfinals of the 2025 Central Section Division 2 playoffs.  

Bluem, a sophomore, is one of four St. Joseph players on the All-Mountain League First Team. The others are sophomore pitcher/outfielder Mason Majewski, junior infielder Connor Chanley and senior pitcher Niko Peinado.

Peinado went 8-2 as a pitcher with a 1.81 ERA. Chanley was second on the team and first among regulars in batting average at .337. Majewski was 8-2 with a 2.71 ERA as a pitcher.

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Righetti, the Mountain League runner-up, has two players on the All-Mountain League First Team, senior shortstop Jacob McMillan and pitcher/infielder Riley Bassett.

Lompoc also has two players on the All-Mountain League First Team, senior outfielder Sebastian Bravo, and sophomore infielder Stone Kubasiewicz. Mission Prep sophomore pitcher-outfielder Ty Bernal rounds out the All-Mountain League First Team.  

Three teams have two players on the All-Mountain League Second Team. The St. Joseph representatives are senior shortstop/pitcher Jayson Rodriguez and junior outfielder/pitcher Robbie Roemling.

The Righetti representatives are senior first baseman/pitcher Noah Farris and senior infielder Tim Devan. The Lompoc representatives are junior infielder Kasch Kubasiewicz and senior outfielder Blake Bailey.

Arroyo Grande senior center fielder Beau Sweeney and junior Tanner Bouronville are also on the All-League Second Team. Cabrillo senior catcher Blake Gregory and Mission Prep senior Brayden Mott round out the All-Mountain League Second Team.

St. Joseph junior outfielder/pitcher Thomas Jay Dugger, Righetti senior outfielder/infielder Blake Thayer, Lompoc sophomore catcher Aiden Vallarta, Cabrillo senior pitcher/infielder Thomas Kiesling and Arroyo Grande senior Linkin Whitney all earned All-Mountain League Honorable Mention.

Dugger led St. Joseph in batting average at .364. He played in 18 games.  Â