North Dakota High School Team Preview: Fargo Shanley
April 6, 2025
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As we prepare for the upcoming 2025 high school season, we will be taking a preseason glimpse at programs from around the state of North Dakota.
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FARGO SHANLEY 
Team: Shanley
Mascot: Deacons
X: @deaconbaseball
Class: A
Head Coach: Lucas Rustad
Years as Head Coach at School: 12
2024 Overall Record: 27-5
2024 Post-Season Finish: Class A State Champions
PLAYERS TO WATCH
- Landon Hale, OF/2B, 2025
- Quinn Miller, 2025
- Greg Noel, LHP, 2025 (DMACC Commit)
- Jeremiah Bekkum
- Eli Emineth, 2027
- Cole Stimpson, 2027
- Ryan Ommen, 2027
ALUMNI IN COLLEGE
- Adam Leininger - DMACC
- Jordan Leininger - DMACC
- Bo Meier - Iowa Western
- Tommy Simon - NDSU
- Sam Ovsak - St. John’s University
COACHES THOUGHTS
“Building year for our program. We return 5 seniors with only 3 seeing significant playing time a season ago. I feel if those seniors lead us on practice and pitch to their capabilities we will be in every game we play. Defense will be extremely important to support our pitchers. We lost all of our offensive leaders and hitting will be something that will need to improve as the season goes on as most of our younger starters have not seen varsity pitching in their careers. We are going to have to find ways to manufacture runs. Bunting and baserunning will be important for us in order to produce runs.”
- Lucas Rustad, Head Coach