Meridians Baseball

We pick up an independent game for Friday night vs. the Queen City Legends and they were more than we thought they were coming in.  We knew we had a college team on our hands, but with a smattering of D1 and JuCo guys in the mix - this crew was a little bit more than that.  We get caught with our college kids unavailable and while we hang in for a bit, it turned out to be a quick night as they walk us off in 5 innings.

Mears fights through 3 innings on the bump and should have also had our only RBI, Kraus and Reese take a turn as well.   Knocks by Reese, McCullough, Couture and Kraus (2B).

Saturday brings a barnburner and a logistics nightmare as we switch fields twice due to a burst pipe & scheduling issues and wind up on a skin field with no mound...   Reese picks back up after his appearance the night before and gets relieved after 3 due to a plethora of relief pitchers on hand.   Koppelman, Dolan and Herbstreit each get an inning before Reese has to come back in to finish off the long night.   Per Meridians statute 124.07 - Reese gets the Win.   Final: 16-10 over the LYC Raiders.

Each Meridians hurler gets at least 2 K's in their respective innings with Reese tallying 7 in his 4.1 total innings.   Herby sets the modern-day record with 3 HBP in his inning of work (he mixed in a BB in between - otherwise, it would have been 3 in a row...).   Kyle tries to make good though, with a 3B, 2H and 2R on the night.   His fellow Transylvania alum, Muench tries to lose one right away in the 1st and ends up with a 2B off the fence.   Parkhurst, 2-3, 2R - Lahmers, 2B, 2R - Reardon, 3 BBs, HBP, 3R - Humpert, 3B, 2H, 3R - Soto, 2-3, 2B and Koppelman with his 1st Meridians hit.

We then get the Redhawks in CRC play who we got a look at a few weeks prior for a quick scrimmage.  Unfortunately, they get Bommer after a week on vacation.  He runs through them facing only 1 more than the minimum, 8 K's including the side in the 4th and we wrap it up in the lightning-shortened 5th inning (Final: 10-0).   Mears, 2B, 2 RBI - Reese, 2H - Humpert & Rutherford, 2R each