The backstop of the Orchard Lake St. Mary’s back-to-back-to-back state championship teams, Ike Irish, was drafted by the Baltimore Orioles with the 19th overall pick in the first round of the 2025 MLB Draft on Sunday, the third primary member of those title squads to be drafted.

Several hours later, another of the OLSM champs, Nolan Schubart, went to the Cleveland Guardians in the third round (Pick 101).

The first athlete in school history to be drafted in the first round of any sport’s draft, Irish joins former Eaglet teammates Brock Porter (Round 4, Pick 109 in the 2022 Draft by Rangers) and Alex Mooney (Round 7, Pick 218 in 2023 Draft) to be drafted, giving the OLSM program 11 overall picks.

“It was definitely a lot of appreciation for the people that have supported me throughout the process,” Irish told David Goricki of The Detroit News when asked what he felt when hearing his name called as a first-round pick of the Orioles. “I’m just super excited for this opportunity.”

While Mooney was drafted right on the heels of the Eaglets securing their third straight title — 2019, 2021 and 2022 — with a perfect 44-0 season, Irish spent three seasons at Auburn. He earned Freshman All-America honors by four different organizations in 2023, and was first-team All-SEC and a Buster Posey Award semifinalist in 2024, then became Auburn’s seventh consensus All-America as a junior.

Irish hit .364, slugged .710 with 13 doubles, two triples and 19 home runs for the Tigers in 2025, driving in 58 runs, with an OPS of 1.179, but spent much of the season playing right field after a shoulder injury — a broken scapula on a hit by pitch in March.

“We’ll have to wait and see,” Irish told Goricki. “I have a lot of fun catching, but I like playing outfielder too. It’s up to where the Orioles want to play me.”

A 6-foot-5, 223-pound left-handed-hitting corner outfielder for Oaklahoma State, Schubart has 60-grade power, according to MLB.com, hitting 23 home runs (and falling two hits short of winning the Big 12 Conference triple crown), earning All-America honors from several publications for the second straight year, and Acacemic All-American honors the last two, just the second player in OSU program history to do it twice.

He finishes his Cowboys career with 59 home runs — one every 10 at-bats — ranking fourth in program history in round-trippers, ninth in slugging percentage (.705), 10th with 199 RBI.

David Goricki of the Detroit News contributed to this report