2025 Season:
• Appeared in 11 games out of the bullpen in his final Northwestern State season.
• kept the Demons alive with a career-long 4 1-3 innings of shutout relief in a May 17 Southland Conference Tournament elimination-game win against Southeastern Louisiana.
• tossed 5 2-3 scoreless innings across his final four appearances
• was unscored upon in seven of his 11 outings.
• worked 1 1-3 scoreless innings of relief in an April 4 win against UTRGV.
• made his first Southland Conference appearance in nearly two years, tossing a scoreless inning of relief a Texas A&M-Corpus Christi on March 15.
• posted a scoreless inning of relief in a Feb. 25 win against Southern-New Orleans, his first appearance since May 2023.
2024 Season:
• Missed the season with an injury suffered in the fall, redshirted.
2023 Season:
• Appeared in eight games in relief in his first Division I season.
• earned his first win as a Demon, working one inning of a 13-inning victory against Louisiana Tech on April 4.
• tossed two scoreless innings in a Feb. 26 loss to Stephen F. Austin, striking out a pair.
• made his Demon debut, allowing one run in one inning of a Feb. 19 loss to Eastern Kentucky.
Summer 2022:
• Pitched for the Kansas Cannons in Kansas Collegiate League Baseball.
Prior to NSU:
• Pitched two seasons at Butler Community College.
• went 5-3 with 58 strikeouts in 57 innings as a sophomore.
• struck out 24 in 24 innings, going 1-0 in 13 appearances as a freshman.
High School:
• Three-year letterman for coach Derek Verner’s Longhorns.
• earned all-state honors as a senior.
• helped Jones win a state title as a sophomore and reach the state quarterfinals as a junior.
• three-year basketball letterman helped Jones reach the playoffs all three seasons.
• member of the National Honor Society and graduated with a 3.79 GPA.
Personal:
• Born April, 22, 2002.
• son of Katie and Will Talley.
• has two sisters, Cami and Carli.
• majoring in psychology.
• life’s ambition is to play baseball as long as he can.
