Meridians Baseball: Welcome

Meridians

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National Amateur Baseball Federation (NABF) Baseball (18+)

 

Top-tier Cincinnati team with College-level experienced players:  NKU, XavierMiami University, UC-Clermont, Wooster, ConcordKent State Kentucky State

Meridians team colors are royal blue and white.

(meridian = the highest point or stage of development; peak, a zenith) 

Formed in 2002, the Meridians have a 147-88-2 overall record in their 11 seasons in the Cincinnati Recreation Commission Men’s "Major Division" and NKABL.   2011/12 NKABL Runner-up, 2009 Regular Season Champions (18-1), #1 seed in the 2009 NKABL Tournament - #2 / 2011-2, #3 / 2010 NKABL Tourney, 2008 and 2006 CRC City Tournament.



Tuesday, May 21
2013 Opening Weekend

Well, let's try again... 

NKABL:  Saturday, May 25th - TBD 

CRC:  Sunday, May 26th with a 1:00 contest @ Roselawn #1 vs. Cincinnati Bombers

Please RSVP by Thursday, so far Reese & Soto in for both. 

Swings tonight & Thursday, 6:00 @ Sycamore.   



Tuesday, May 21
Meridians CRC schedule

All Sunday CRC games at Roselawn Fields

June 2nd - 1:00 at #2 vs. Star Tunes

June 9th - 1:00 at #1 vs. Cincinnati Chill

June 16th - 1:00 at #2 vs. Springdale Cleaners

June 23rd - 3:15 at #1 vs. Redhawks

June 30th - 3:15 at #1 vs. Cincinnati Bombers

July 7th - 1:00 at #2 vs. Star Tunes

 

Saturday NKABL games throughout (and into August with tournament) with non-league games also on the schedule for Thursday, 6/13 and Friday 6/21.



Thursday, April 11
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Soto, Witt and Mears take care of over 6 pounds of the Mud Bugs.   No newbies this go-around as we've all had the critters before with Mears the last man to fall to Crawfish temptation after perusing the menu for 18 minutes (to be fair, there are no pictures in their menus...)

Only 3 Meridians this year, but just like the small band of brothers 2 years ago - certainly enough to keep the streak alive.



Silver Sluggers

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Rack would swing at this pitch!

2012:  Derek Reese & Jeff Mears

2011:  Derek Reese 

2010:  Mike Soto

2009: Chuck Moore

2008: Kevin McClung

2007: Jack Parkhurst

2006: Jim Rack (Summer) and Mike Soto (Fall) 

2005: Scott Bush & Jared Cutter (Summer) and K.C. Fread (Fall)

2004: Blain Williams (Summer) and Scott Bush (Fall)

2003: Kevin McClung

2002: Jim Rack



Sunday, August 26
2012 Season Stats

Jeff Mears:  8-3, Save      Justin Kraus:  5-1, Save      Derek Reese:  5-4, Save 

Alex Bolia:  Save      Ben Scheffel:  0-1      Dizzy Peyton:  0-2      Josh Williamson:  Save

 

Alex Bolia (NKU):  39 K's in 20 innings      Jeff Mears:  117 K's (+) - 15 K's in 6 innings on 5/20     

Justin Kraus:  12 K's in 6/16 CG      Josh Williamson:  2 K's in 1 inning Save

Dizzy Peyton:  32 K's in 17 innings (23 in 6/10, 9-inning CG)

 

2012 Meridians HRs

Ross Rutherford - Brian Weinewuth - Jeff Mears (15 triples)



The Meridians turned 10 years-old in 2012!

Meridians reach the 125 win mark!   Returning to the CRC while maintaining a schedule in the NKABL as well, we hit the 125 win mark in the home stretch of the 2011 season (7/31).

100 wins: A great maiden voyage in the NKABL sees us at 13-1 after our first August game (8/2) of the summer.   After a rain-shortened 2007 season (6 games played), the Meridians get back to it in 2008 and then dominate most of 2009 in the new league.

With a shutout and enforcing the 10-run rule in the same game, the Meridians reach 75 wins in the final game (10/15) of the 2006 season.   We play in only 1 tournament and average less than 20 league games per year so a good feat in 5 short seasons.

5/29/05: With a 2-1 victory over the Hilltoppers on our Opening Day (5/22) and sweeping the Outlaws the next weekend (5/29), the Meridians hit 50 wins early in the 2005 season.



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