Meridians Baseball

We send Ryan Williams back to Kentucky State for his Senior season after this regular season finale.   We would love having our lead-off hitter and most dominant pitcher (Fugate - Wooster) for the tournament, but they did their parts in ensuring us our #1 seed going in to the tourney.

Their lefty gifts us 6 walks through two innings and we cruise, scoring 6 runs in the 1st.   Reese gets the Win going 4 innings with 7 K's while helping himself by going 3-3 with 3 runs and 2 stolen bases, all on a bad hammy.   Kraus wraps up the top of 5th before we finish it in the bottom half (Final:  14-4).

Every Meridian hits.   Kraus with 2 BBs, Fread on base all 4 times (H, 2 BBs, HBP).   Cutter (2-3) and Parkhurst (1-2) with 3 RBI each.   Kraus, Lewis, Fread and Moore with 2 runs scored each.   Parkhurst with the game-ending Sac fly that Moore (2 RBI himself) considered sand-bagging in order to be able to hit the mound.

Meridians are NKABL Regular Season Champions finishing league play at 17-1!