Meridians Baseball

Mike Soto:  166-89-2 (2002-2006, 2008-2014)

Jack Parkhurst & Derek Reese:  0-0-1 (2013) 

Justin Kraus:  1-3 (2010 & 2012)

Jason Ehrhardt:  1-0 (2011)

K.C. Fread:  2-4 (2007)

Jared Cutter & Scott Bush:  1-0 (2005)

Meridians Summer finale was a long 7 innings and we fall easily after a big 3rd inning for Yorkville who had hot bats all afternoon.   Scarce hits from Kraus, Averwater, Reardon and Brady Reese with our lone Run from Couture's RBI HBP.

Thanks to the largest roster the Meridians have ever carried, for the patience of those that didn't always start and the contributions of all when called upon.   

Best of luck to our college contingent of Robert Humpert wherever he takes his talents, Nick Woltermann who's transferring to EKU, Brady Reese coming back home to UC and Tim Easterling jumping up to Wright State.

Jeff Mears:  8-2   Derek Reese:  3-2   Nick Woltermann:  Save

2014 Meridians HRs

Nick Woltermann, Justin Kraus (GS)

We hit the field a little late and a little slim, but find a good mix to get things started.   We plate 3 in the 4th to answer the Chiefs' 4 across the first three frames, but their bats come alive for a huge 6th inning.   Our offense sneaks across another one in the 9th with Reardon's 2nd knock, RBI from Brady Reese and Woltermann (on-base 3-5, R, SB) as well with Averwater on-base 2-4, Kraus o-b 2-3 and Parkhurst 1-2, BB, R.

Derek Reese battles into the 6th, Imperiale picks him up and then tosses a scoreless 7th with Dolan notching a scoreless 8th.   Final: 4-12   Cobalts only get 6 men to the 1st round and still can't field a team after we wrap up so we advance to Sunday afternoon.

We get to some meaningful baseball on a Saturday afternoon and answer the Bombers 1st run with one of our own, but they answer that again.   They follow that themselves though and dig us into a deep hole.  We score 2 in the 6th and 4 in the 7th for mini-comeback, but fall 7-10 to the other boys in blue.

The Cobalts come over to find that we have finished scoring for the day despite loading the bases in the 1st and they walk us off with a long 6th inning.   We go down in order in 3 of the last 5 frames with only a handful of walks and a lone hit for the duration.

Reese and Mears take their first lumps of the summer, Dolan with a 1-2-3 inning in Game 1 and Wolt is last to man the hill for the day.   Imperiale with a cameo, but we don't get to the 7th in Game 2 for him to toss so he has to settle for an inning in LF.   

Offense led by Woltermann (2H, 2B, 2R, 2 SB) with multi-hit days for Kraus and Koppelman (2-2, BB in Game 1) as well; RBI from Aultman, Kraus, Parkhurst, Biscotti and Koppelman - D. Reese with 3 BBs, R.   Averwater makes his return to give us an arm behind the dish and throws out two.

Outfield in Game 1 assumes that Wolt will get everything, infield and dugout assume the same in Game 2.

The men enjoy Gatorades of Meridians blue in between contests and Dogs of Red afterwards as thanks for an undefeated regular season (11-0).