Lincoln Land finished the 2025 season with a 34-19, falling to Vincennes in the championship game of their sub-regional. The Loggers have cemented themselves as one of the top Division II junior colleges in the Midwest and will once again look to compete for a chance to move onto District play this upcoming spring. 

POSITION PLAYERS 

This Loggers’ offense will be without multiple key pieces from last year’s group, losing nearly 1,000 at-bats due to graduation or transfer. 

That being said, one integral part of their club as a whole that returns is MIF Nolan Turner. The left-handed hitting sophomore, committed to Ashland, hit .345 as a freshman last season with 13 extra-base hits and 37 RBI, walking nearly twice (45) as much as he punched out (23). Turner had a productive fall at the plate, working on the barrel when we saw him and consistently showing an impact top-of-the-lineup profile. Defensively, he earned All-Region honors with his glove last year and should shuffle around the middle of the Loggers’ infield throughout the spring. 

Nolan Turner

Sticking with the returners, two uncommitted names of note are sophomore OF Colbie Glenn and sophomore UTL Kaeden Bowles. Each of them saw over 130 at-bats last season, they both drove in 30+ runs, and Glenn was an All-Region defensive selection for his efforts in the outfield. Expect them both to take steps up this season, and the same could be said for R-FR OF Trevor Geis, who’s a strong right-handed hitter that missed a majority of his freshman year with an injury. 

Trevor Geis

Three freshman outfielders to keep an eye on are Camden Cox, Mason Marshall, and Trager Shultz. Cox swings a short, flat, compact right-handed barrel that we were plenty familiar with dating back to his days at O’Fallon, and he homered in one of our looks this fall. Working back from an injury, Marshall is a highly athletic, former multi-sport standout at Chatham that does a lot of things right on the baseball field. A left-handed hitter, Shultz is a plus runner with high bat-to-ball and a track record of in-game performance as a standout for Pleasant Plains. 

Camden Cox

Aside from those three, most of those expected to see consistent playing time for Lincoln Land this year will be new. Sophomore 1B Jack Swaney, a Northern Illinois transfer, swings a physical left-handed barrel that should slot nicely near the middle of this offense. Two freshman infielders, Scout Moffatt and Alex Barnes, are a pair of right-handed hitters with sure-handed gloves that are capable of providing value at multiple positions on the dirt.

The Loggers’ projected catching duo will also be new, as sophomore C Michael Roberson and freshman backstop Carter Lennington should see a bulk of the time behind the dish. Roberson, a transfer from John A. Logan, worked on the barrel a few times when we saw him this fall and has above-average arm strength behind the plate. Lennington has a chance to be a real impact offensively right away in his freshman season, swinging a power-packed right-handed barrel with feel for it when we saw Lincoln Land this fall. Another name to watch is freshman Luke Saxe, who has experience behind the plate, but can also bounce around and play other positions. 

Michael Roberson

PITCHERS

The unquestioned strength of this Lincoln Land club is their pitching – a deep, talented group that can be one of the MWAC’s best. 

One name to keep an eye on after a strong freshman year is sophomore RHP Garrick Winkeler (Ashland), who pitched to a 3.69 ERA over 31 ⅔ innings with 10 walks and 27 punchouts. Committed to Division II Ashland, the 6-foot-4, 220-pound right-hander pitches in the mid-to-upper-80s and pairs it with a hard, tight mid-to-upper-70s slider. A majority of Winkeler’s outings last season were in relief, but expect the physical right-hander to be a regular starter for the Loggers this upcoming spring. 

Garrick Winkeler

Maybe the biggest “X-Factor” for Lincoln Land is the development of sophomore RHP Max Powers, who could have a major impact in the success the Loggers have on the mound this coming spring. Powers is coming off a fairly impressive fall across multiple stops, ultimately culminating in a commitment to Murray State. He’s taken a jump from a consistency standpoint in holding his velocity, working in the zone more often too with a power fastball that sits in the upper-80s to low-90s in game. We saw Powers grab some uncomfortable swing-and-miss on a mid-to-upper-70s slider with sharp, two-plane depth this fall, and he also turned over a firm changeup with run to left-handed hitters at 84-85 mph. Powers has the potential to be a dynamic arm for Lincoln Land if he can be in the zone as often as he was this fall come the spring season. 

Max Powers

A pair of committed sophomore right-handers that caught our staff’s attention this fall were RHP Joe Stellano (Illinois-Springfield) and RHP Luke Goss (Bradley). Stellano brings a competitive, up-tempo presence to the mound, challenging hitters often with an upper-80s fastball this fall and spinning a mid-70s slider with depth off it. Goss pumps a power upper-80s sinker from a ¾ slot that averages 19-to-20+ inches of horizontal movement and compliments it with a short 79-81 mph slider. 

Luke Goss

Four uncommitted right-handed arms of note are R-FR Jack Wheeler, sophomore Bryce Buhs, sophomore Henry Cooper, and R-FR Alex Tame. 

+ Wheeler joins the Loggers via transfer from Division I Valparaiso. The 5-foot-10, 180-pound right-hander pitched at 87-89 mph over two innings of work at the Dinger JUCO Classic, showing a changeup at 80-81 mph and spinning a 72-74 mph curveball. 

Jack Wheeler

+ Buhs returns 17 ⅔ innings from last year as a freshman, working almost exclusively in relief. He threw well at our ScoutConnect JUCO Invite in early October, pumping his fastball in the upper-80s and spinning a short, lateral breaking ball at 79-81 mph, an improvement to what we’ve seen from him in the past. 

Bryce Buhs

+ Cooper has an athletic, controlled, and tempo’d delivery with a long arm swing on the backside that pitched at 87-88 mph with his fastball in our look this past October, pairing it with a short, tight slider at 77-80 mph. 

Henry Cooper

+ Tame carries his fastball from a high, over-the-top slot, pitching in the mid-80s in our looks and spinning a big, bendy low-70s curveball off it. 

As far as left-handed arms go, three names to mention for Lincoln Land are sophomore Conrad Charpentier, sophomore Jacob Long, and freshman Tristan Lance. Charpentier and Long are low-80s pitchability arms, with the former returning 20 ⅔ innings from a year ago. Lance, a newcomer, pitches in the mid-80s and can really spin a sweeping breaking ball with tilt.