The 2025 preseason baseball coaches poll from the Michigan High School Baseball Coaches Association has been released.

Here are the preseason top 20 teams in each division:

 

DIVISION 1

1 Birmingham Brother Rice

2 Bay City Western

3 Novi

4 Jenison

5 West Bloomfield

6 South Lyon

7 Hudsonville

8 Detroit Catholic Central

9 Anchor Bay

10 Lake Orion

11 Grand Blanc

12 Saline

13 Sterling Heights Stevenson

14 Portage Northern

15 Midland

16 Mattawan

17 Hartland

18 Northville

19 Rochester

20 Dexter

DIVISION 2

1 Orchard Lake St. Mary’s

2 Ada Forest Hills Eastern

3 Pontiac Notre Dame Prep

4 Standish-Sterling

5 New Boston Huron

6 Trenton

7 Flint Powers Catholic

8 Spring Lake

9 St. Clair

10 Flat Rock

11 Dearborn Divine Child

12 Coopersville

13 Grand Rapids Christian

14 Richland Gull Lake

15 Macomb Lutheran North

16 Richmond

17 North Branch

18 Williamston

19 Grand Rapids West Catholic

20 Detroit Country Day

 

DIVISION 3

1 Grosse Pointe Woods University Liggett

2 Jackson Lumen Christi

3 Detroit Edison

4 North Muskegon

5 Traverse City St. Francis

6 Algonac

7 Hemlock

8 Ottawa Lake Whiteford

9 Ann Arbor Greenhills

10 Hanover Horton

11 Blissfield

12 Lansing Catholic Central

13 Schoolcraft

14 Kalamazoo Christian

15 Watervliet

16 Negaunee

17 Elk Rapids

18 Onsted

19 Ecorse

20 Brooklyn Columbia Central

 

DIVISION 4

1 Beal City

2 Portland St. Patrick

3 Mt. Pleasant Sacred Heart

4 Marine City Cardinal Mooney

5 Kalamazoo Hackett

6 Fowler

7 Merrill

8 Vermontville Maple Valley

9 Marcellus

10 Norway

11 Plymouth Christian

12 Riverview Gabriel Richard

13 Muskegon Catholic Central

14 Decatur

15 Rudyard

16 Indian River Inland Lakes

17 Rogers City

18 Ubly

19 East Jordan

20 Maple City Glen Lake

While he now spends his nights roaming the sidelines with a camera during Holly High School football games, documenting the successes by his son’s team, Bill Keenist spent 36 years roaming the turf and press boxes of the Pontiac Silverdome and Ford Field, helping others document the Detroit Lions’ successes.

The Oxford resident is one of three former public relations directors who have been named to the fourth class of recipients for the Pro Football Hall of Fame’s ‘Awards of Excellence,’ it was announced on Thursday.

The three — Keenist, former Dolphins senior vice president of communications and community affairs Jason Jenkins, and former special assistant to the commissioner Pete Abitante — will e honored during an awards luncheon in Canton, Ohio, next June 25-26.

Keenist was hired by then-owner William Clay Ford’s Lions organization in May 1985, and worked at several roles in the front office — assistant public relations director; PR director; director of marketing, broadcasting and communications; and senior vice president for communications — before his retirement in 2021, having spent nearly two decades in the last role.

Despite the absence of his employer in the NFL’s key event, Keenist worked 29 Super Bowls, five times acting as ‘co-captain’ of the public relations team for the event.

His NFL career included a Super Bowl ring during his short stint with the Washington Redskins (1981-83), then he worked for the USFL’s Pittsburgh Maulers (1983-84), before joining the Lions.

Billy Keenist Jr. is the head football coach at Holly.

The Pro Football Hall of Fame’s Awards of Excellence program started in 2022, to recognize the “behind-the-scenes” contributors in public relations, athletic training, equipment management and film/video directors. Each group set up its own selection committees and criteria for choosing new honorees in their area of expertise.