This past spring, Quitman High School won their first ever state championship in baseball. Fast forward to February 10th and a flurry of other firsts took place in advance of the Wolverines playing their first regular season game of the 2025 baseball season.
The day started with first year head coach, Chris Womack and the Wolverines baseball team “cutting the ribbon” on their brand new, locker room that is situated by the baseball field on campus.
“Quitman High School Baseball would like to extend a huge thank you to Thurston Allen and Jonesboro State Bank for their generous donation to help complete our baseball locker room! Your support means the world to our team,” said Womack. “We also want to recognize and thank Rod Potts with ProCar Products for the incredible State Championship sign, and Barry Dodson with Dodson Enterprises and Brent Pullig for their contributions. Additionally, we truly appreciate all the volunteers who donated their time, skills, and supplies to make this project a reality. Your generosity and dedication to our program do not go unnoticed! We are beyond grateful for the support of our community!”
Wolverines drop season opener
After the ribbon cutting ceremony the Wolverines took the field at QHS for their first regular season game of the year. They will have to wait at least a few days before they get their first official win of the 2025 season.
Calvary Baptist 11 Quitman 0: The expectation for Calvary Baptist out of Shreveport, which was a 2024 Division III “select” school quarterfinalist, was that a deep run in the 2025 playoffs was expected. One thing is for sure. Their pitching staff has a bonafide “ace”. Continually hitting close to 90 miles an hour on the “jugs gun”, Justin Funderburk kept Quitman at bay, allowing only one hit that being a first inning double by team captain Maddox Duck. It would be the only hit QHS would get until the bottom of the 7th innning when Kace West stroked a line shot to right field. In between Funderburk struck out 12 QHS batters before getting relieved in the 6th inning, including striking out the side in the 2nd, 3rd and 5th innings. Hudson Pullig also got on base for Quitman by drawing a walk. Zach Smudrick took the loss for the Wolverines.
Chris Womack, who is now in his first year at the helm for Quitman after being an assistant on the 2024 Division V “non-select” state champion Quitman squad, expected the Wolverines might have trouble putting the ball in play against the Calvary hurler.
“We expected that Funderburk would present a challenge for us,” said Womack. “He is one of the better pitchers in the state and seeing him in our first game after having to replace six starters from last year was a tall task for sure. We get them again later in the year though and I would think that we may have better fortunes then as our new guys will have gotten more seasoned.”
NEXT UP! The Wolverines will hope to get into the victory column on Thursday, February 13th, when they travel to Zwolle for a mixed double-header. Quitman will play Florien at 4:00 pm and then turn around and take on Zwolle at 6:00 pm. A Friday contest at Red River in Coushatta follows with first pitch scheduled for 6:00 pm.
The Lady Wolverines will open defense of their 2024 Division IV “non-select” school state championship on Friday, February 14th when they host Glenbrook Academy and D’Arbonne Woods in the 2025 Quitman Jamboree.