Barkley and Roessner earn Big 30 baseball honors

Landon BarkleyBig 30 baseball player of the year Landon Barkley has been great for Bolivar-Richburg, and he also knows that sports are about fun and opportunities to make friends and further relationships.He speaks humbly about himself, and would rather put the emphasis on experiences with friends and family to get this prestigious award.

"My family really supported me on the long nights, all the money they put into investing in me.

I couldn't be more appreciative for my family, I thank God for everything he continues to do."Mason Roessner has pitched great this past season.

He earned the Big 30 pitcher of the year with a 2.13 ERA, also eclipsing 100 career strikeouts in 2025 with 51 on the season.

"All throughout his career he has had an instinct that only certain athletes have," Coudersport coach Doug McClintick said, "He will smile at you and then he will strike you out."Mason RoessnerEach player just finished their senior season.

Both made the most of it.

They made a huge impact on their teams and have great stories.Barkley was a power player both on the mound and at the plate.

He hit .456 with two home runs and 19 RBI's, he also had a 1.78 ERA with 50 strikeouts in 39.1 innings pitched.

"Landon is just an all around great athlete," Bolivar-Richburg coach Dustin Allen said.

"He shows great sportsmanship, this year he was one of the guys we really had to lean on."Bolivar-Richburg lost seven seniors from 2024, meaning that Barkley needed to be even more of a key player.

Playing shortstop, he was a leader in the field.

"He was a coach out in the field, " Allen said.

"He could pitch and play short without his arm bothering him throughout the year."As a hitter other teams respected him.

"He was always getting on base," Allen said.

"Other teams respected him in the aspect that he intentionally walked numerous times this year."Barkley focused on being a big role model as a senior.

He invited his teammates to come to his house and work on their game.

"We got together as a team.

We came to my garage, I have a big garage.

We hit a lot of balls off of my pitching machine.

A lot of hard work went into it and it paid off, I couldn't be more proud of last year."Bolivar-Richburg had a 12-8 season, and lost to Genesee Valley-Belfast 4-3 in the sectional quarterfinal.

But they were the only team to defeat Genesee Valley-Belfast in the regular season with a 5-2 win in April.Barkley was happy to highlight his teammates and the fun they had.

"We didn't win, but it was a very fun time.

At the beginning of the season we had a little rough patch, but we figured our ways out."Barkley will be headed to Finger Lakes Community College.

His hope is that he will become a Game Warden.

He won't be playing sports though, "I'm putting my full attention towards classes and schooling," Barkley said.

"Sadly I will give it a break and bunker down and get good at what I need to be good at."Pitching is incredibly important, and consistency is a big deal when it comes to high school pitching.

Roessner was used and relied upon as just that.

"Roessner's numbers become even more impressive when you consider that I marched him out there for every tough game," McClintick said.

"If we played defense and scored a few runs we were going to win the game."Roessner surprisingly wasn't even going for strikeouts on the mound, he would rather pitch for contact.

"I haven't always been a strikeout pitcher," Roessner said.

"As I have grown since freshman season, I have kind of gained some velocity and that kind of helped me with strikeouts and keeping my ERA down overall."Roessner played T-Ball and found out early on that he wanted baseball.

Roessner was a 1000 point scorer in basketball as well as playing soccer in the fall, but baseball is his most important sport.

"The team aspect of it I think I enjoy more than soccer or basketball," Roessner said.

"I think towards the end of the season you get tired of the sport you are playing, but baseball I never truly felt that."Coudersport went 11-6-1 and lost to Port Allegany in the District 9 playoffs.

"I think we did better than I thought we would do, which is good," Roessner said.

"Coming into the season we had four seniors and three of the four have played all the way up through," Roessner said.

"But we had a lot of freshmen, I wasn't quite sure how the season would shape up.""We just worked hard every single practice.

The first game we were pretty rusty and that was a wake up call for us.

My goal is to win the league and obviously we came up short."Roessner is going to Penn State-Mont Alto this fall and will play baseball.

The Nittany Lions are going to get the arm from Coudersport that gave the Falcons so many wins.The awards put a bow on the 2025 high school baseball season.

With the baseball awards going to seniors, there will be fresh faces being honored in the future.

Next year it will be a fight to the finish to fill Barkley and Roessner's positions..

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