By Kyle Coppola
Rising Star: Bryson Mitchell Shines as South Sumter Baseball Pitcher
South Sumter freshman Bryson Mitchell is the youngest pitcher on the South Sumter roster. This young man has shown a lot of great promise through the first 13 innings of his high school baseball career.
Mitchell has thrown 13.2 innings in the 2024 season. He has 10 strikeouts and has only given up 6 earned runs over that span. Mitchell has been impressive and was a key contributor in last week’s game against The Villages that South Sumter nearly won. While Sophomore Jackson Gill has had the majority of innings pitched this season with 23, and Colter Shea also contributing, Mitchell is off to a stellar start to his career.
(Photo Credit – Joe Ott Photography “Fan Zone”)
South Sumter is currently on a 5-game losing streak, but Mitchell has certainly been a bright spot this year for The Raiders. He has all the makings to be a great pitcher. Mitchell has faced 62 batters and is sitting on a 3.07 ERA. Jackson Gill leads the team with a 2.96 ERA.
He has only made 3 appearances in high school so far, but I like what I see out of this kid. He takes control on the mound and will continue to improve over the season and summer months. He was a standout performer on his Ballers-Lakeland-14U team.
(Photo Credit – Joe Ott Photography “Fan Zone”)
South Sumter just took a loss from Central last evening, 4-0, but again Bryson Mitchell looked good on the mound. He pitched five innings while giving up just two earned runs and two unearned runs off six hits. He also allowed just one walk.
South Sumter is just in a rut recently. They have been scoring runs, but the pitching has let them down recently. Last night the pitching was there, but the bats couldn’t contend with Central’s Justin Tranum, who pitched 5.2 innings and had 12 strikeouts.
Overall, we will continue to watch Bryson Mitchell develop over the next few years. He is an exciting prospect to have at South Sumter High.
Kyle Coppola was born in Newton, Massachusetts and received his Bachelor of Fine Arts in Communications from Curry College in 2016. After traveling to Florida on a family vacation, he decided he could not get enough of the warm weather and made the move from snowy Massachusetts to central Florida 8 years ago.
For the last decade Kyle has gained valuable experience in social media content creation, marketing and sales, writing, video production, sports announcing and even broadcasting for local radio stations, such as FM 102.9 in The Villages and FM 91.5 in Massachusetts. Every year he volunteers at The Villages Charter High School as a play-by-play sports announcer for the football games as well as a public address announcer for the basketball games, including the annual Battle at The Villages Tournament.
Outside the office Kyle is a husband and father to two beautiful girls along with their cat. In his spare time he likes to spend time with his family, travel, play golf and swim. He is also a huge sports junkie and even bigger motorsports fan and loves to attend racing events when he can.
