Oklahoma Christian University Men's Baseball

One of Oklahoma’s most respected baseball coaches at any level, Lonny Cobble began serving as Oklahoma Christian’s 13th head coach in May 2012, tabbed to help the OC program transition into NCAA Division II status. After completing his 14th season at the helm of the Oklahoma Christian baseball program in 2026, Cobble has posted a 316-360-1 career mark. He's also coached the OC program's first two players to advance the Triple-A level of professional baseball: Cale Coshow and Hunter Markwardt. In 2025, Cobble produced the program's first All-Region honoree by any publication since 2021 in NCBWA Second Team honoree Hunter Jones. Jones also was named a First Team All-Conference selection while Trey Migl earned Second Team honors, marking the most All-Conference honorees for the maroon-and-gray since the 2021 campaign. In his first season at the OC helm in 2013, the Eagles enjoyed arguably their most successful campaign since the university revived the program in 2008. OC went 26-26, winning the National Christian College Athletic Association Central Region title – the program’s first postseason championship in 41 years – and qualifying for the NCCAA World Series. Cobble was named as the NCCAA Central Region coach of the year. After that success, the program made even more history as two players signed by Cobble (Coshow and Chris Burgess) were selected in the Major League Baseball draft – the first time OC ever had two players chosen during the same season. In year two under Cobble, in 2014, OC finished 38-17-1, smashing the program record for single-season wins, and repeated as NCCAA Central Region Champions while earning the No. 1 seed for the NCCAA World Series. The Eagles finished a strong third in the power-packed Heartland Conference while rising as high as No. 6 in the NCAA Division II South Central Region rankings. Cobble was named as the Oklahoma Baseball Coaches Association's college coach of the year for 2014. In 2015, the Eagles went 35-22, won their third straight NCCAA Central Region title and advanced to the NCCAA semifinals. Cobble again was named as the regional coach of the year. He recorded his 100th collegiate win in the 2016 season opener at Texas A&M-Kingsville and guided OC to a 30-22 record that included a third-place Heartland finish, a run to the Heartland tournament championship round and 9-6 record against teams that qualified for the South Central Region tournament. In 2017, the Eagles went 28-21 and had Oklahoma's NCAA Division II pitcher of the year in senior Dalton Rentz. Win No. 200 at OC came on April 5, 2019, when the Eagles took down No. 10-ranked Lubbock Christian (Texas) 7-6 at Dobson Field. Later in 2019, Markwardt became the third OC player coached by Cobble to be selected in the Major League Baseball draft, going in the 13th round to Philadelphia. In 2021 and 2022, Cobble guided OC to berths in the Lone Star Conference postseason tournament. Cobble came to OC after 19 seasons at Edmond Santa Fe High School, during which he built a Class 6A powerhouse from scratch as the school’s first baseball coach, hired when the school opened before the 1993-94 academic year. At Santa Fe, he posted a 536-234 record and twice guided the Wolves to the Class 6A state championship game, in 2002 and 2009. He had 28 players sign NCAA Division I scholarships and 19 players chosen in the Major League Baseball draft, including second-round selection Brandon Weeden in 2002. Cobble graduated from Tuttle High School in 1985 and played baseball at Carl Albert State College in Poteau before finishing his college career at the University of Central Oklahoma in Edmond. He graduated from UCO in 1991. He spent one season as an elementary-school physical education teacher and assistant high school baseball coach in Waurika before being hired at Edmond Memorial High School, where he coached the sophomore team and assisted coach Byron Graham with the varsity squad. Memorial won consecutive state large-school titles in 1992 and 1993 with Cobble on the coaching staff. Cobble was inducted in 2011 into the Oklahoma Baseball Coaches Association’s Hall of Fame. He’s been honored as the OBCA’s All-Region 8 coach six times and served as the West coach for the annual All-State games in 2002. He was named as the Worth coach of the year in 2005, the Miller Net coach of the year in 2006 and the Micky Owens coach of the year in 2007. Cobble is married to Terri Cobble and the couple has four grown children: Makenzie, Zac (a former standout for the Eagles), Hailey and Carly. The Cobbles live in Edmond and attend New Hope Church of Christ. CAREER RECORD AT OKLAHOMA CHRISTIAN   YEARS WINS LOSSES TIES 2013 (NCCAA Central Region Champs) 26 26 2014 (NCCAA Central Region Champs) 38 17 1 2015 (NCCAA Central Region Champs; 3rd in NCCAA World Series) 35 22 2016 30 22 2017 28 21 2018 22 27 2019 28 20 2020 9 13 2021 24 16 2022 21 31 2023 13 37 2024 11 39 2025 14 36 2026 17 33 TOTALS 316 360 1 CAREER CONFERENCE RECORD AT OKLAHOMA CHRISTIAN   YEARS WINS LOSSES CONFERENCE 2014 19 11 Heartland 2015 14 13 Heartland 2016 (Heartland Conference Tournament Runner-Up) 17 10 Heartland 2017 13 11 Heartland 2018 11 17 Heartland 2019 10 11 Heartland 2020 9 13 Lone Star 2021 21 12 Lone Star 2022 21 27 Lone Star 2023 13 35 Lone Star 2024 11 37 Lone Star 2025 13 35 Lone Star 2026 17 33 Lone Star TOTALS - Heartland Era 84 73 TOTALS - Lone Star Era 105 192 TOTALS - Overall 189 265  

Walsh, a former pitcher for the Los Angeles Dodgers and a longtime coach at the high school level, joined the Oklahoma Christian baseball staff in August 2013 as a volunteer assistant. Walsh, 55, helps fellow assistant coach Chance Stevens in guiding OCs pitchers. Walsh spent 15 years as the pitching coach at Edmond Santa Fe High School, 14 of those working alongside Lonny Cobble, who is entering his fifth season as the head coach at OC after a long run as the head coach at Santa Fe. Walsh, who grew up in southern California, played collegiately for NCAA Division I California-Santa Barbara and was a ninth-round draft choice by the Toronto Blue Jays in 1982. After eight years in the minor leagues, the Dodgers called him up to the major leagues in 1990 and he played in 20 games, going 1-0 with a 3.86 ERA and 15 strikeouts in 16 1/3 innings. Injuries ended Walshs career after the 1992 season. Soon after, he and his wife moved to Oklahoma, where he has taught for more than 20 years. In addition to coaching at OC, Walsh also is an English teacher at Santa Fe.  

Preston King begins his first year as recruiting coordinator for the Oklahoma Christian baseball program ahead of the 2024-25 academic year after serving as a graduate assistant during the 2023-24 campaign. King, in addition to his recruiting coordinator duties, will work with the hitters and infielders in his assistant coach role for 2025. King played four years of collegiate baseball, starting out at the University of Texas Rio Grande Valley before transferring to Hill College as a sophomore. King spent his last two years playing for the Eagles as a junior and senior in 2022 and '23. In his first year on the diamond for the Eagles in '22, King helped OC to 21 Lone Star Conference victories, matching its most in-conference wins since joining the LSC in 2020. King, an junior infielder, appeared in 15 games while getting the start in 12 contests and was tied for the team lead that year with a .313 batting average, claiming 15 hits in 48 at-bats with three doubles and two home runs while accounting for 10 RBI. King's senior season saw him saw him make 36 starts while holding a .236 batting average with 29 hits and 14 RBI. Prior to beginning his college journey, King was an all-state baseball player for Argyle High School, where he was a four-year starter. The Lone Star State product now lives in Edmond, Okla., with his wife Kailey King (Kientzler). 

Cade Parent begins his second season at Oklahoma Christian as the baseball program’s director of operations ahead of the 2024-25 academic year. Parent's duties at OC include overseeing and coordinating various operations, including the program’s camps, analytics, team outings, equipment, travel and all other game day operations.  Parent played as a pitcher at Oklahoma Christian from 2022 to '23 before a torn tricep and Thoracic Outlet Syndrome (TOS) ended his career.  Before his time at OC, Parent pitched at Yukon High School, his alma mater, while his father, Matt Parent, is the former cross country and track coach at Yukon High School and Southwestern Christian University.