Braden Cannon of Wayne State College was voted to the 2025 NCBWA (National Collegiate Baseball Writers Association) All-Central Region Second Team announced Friday afternoon.  The award is voted on by a group of sports information directors within the Central Region. 
            Cannon, a junior relief pitcher from Millard South HS, earned All-NSIC First Team honors this season after leading the NSIC with 10 saves while posting a 2-1 record and a 2.61 ERA in 17 appearances.  He pitched 20.2 innings this season and allowed just 18 hits and six earned runs with 20 strikeouts and eight walks.    
            After allowing three runs in his first outing of the season January 31 against CSU Pueblo, Cannon gave up just three more earned runs the rest of the season.  He picked up the win with 1 2/3 innings of hitless relief in a 6-3 win at Northern State April 26^th and fired a season-high 2 2/3 innings of relief with five strikeouts to get the win in a 9-8, 10-inning win over Minnesota Duluth at the NSIC Tournament May 7^th.  Six of his 10 saves came in one-run wins for Wayne State this season.
            Cannon had a streak of four straight saves in late March and early April – two games at UMary, Minnesota Duluth and Concordia-St. Paul with three of the saves coming in one run wins.  He also had three consecutive saves in late April at St. Cloud State along with two saves in a doubleheader vs. Sioux Falls. 
            In just his junior season, Cannon has notched 27 career saves in a Wildcat uniform and has the single season saves record at WSC with 10 saves this season and in 2023 as a freshman. 
            Wayne State finished the 2025 baseball season at 30-22 overall and was third place in the NSIC with a 25-15 league record.      

2025 NCBWA All-Central Region
 
Player of the Year | Caden Robertson, Central Oklahoma
Pitcher of the Year | Maddox Long, Harding
Coach of the Year | Matt Magers, Minnesota State 
 
First Team
C – Chaz Poppy, Arkansas-Monticello
1B – Dagen Brewer, Pittsburg State
2B – Jack Hines, Augustana
3B – Jacob Steele, Central Missouri
SS – Jett Buck, Washburn
OF – Wesley Mitchell, Southeastern Oklahoma
OF – Isaac Pegors, UMary
OF – Caden Robertson, Central Oklahoma
OF – Vance Tobol, Central Missouri
DH – Louis Magers, Minnesota State
UT – Chase Keeton, Southeastern Oklahoma
SP – Nathan Culley, Minnesota State
SP – Kolby Dougan, Pittsburg State
SP – Maddox Long, Harding
SP – Dax Sharp, Central Oklahoma
RP – Payton Byrd, Henderson State
RP – JD McReynolds, Central Oklahoma

Second Team
C – Jeremy Schork, Henderson State
1B – Ike Mezzenga, Minnesota State
2B – Jackson Mervosh, Washburn
3B – Logan Lacey, Harding
SS – Cole Dawson, Arkansas Tech
OF – Alex Rodgers, Pittsburg State
OF – Zach Stroh, Minnesota State
OF – Trevor Winterstein, Augustana
OF – Kirk Woolf, Arkansas-Monticello
DH – Dayvian Johnson, Central Missouri
UT – Josh Dykhoff, Minnesota-Crookston
SP – Jeremy Adorno, Southern Arkansas
SP – Colton Anderson, Rogers State^
SP – Will Kates, Northwestern Oklahoma^
SP – Ty Riley, Fort Hays State
SP – Maddox Thornton, Pittsburg State
RP – Austin Adair, Southern Arkansas
RP – Braden Cannon, Wayne State
^ - tie in voting