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CLEVELAND, Ohio — After one of the most clutch hits in the Kenyon College baseball season so far, Luke Meister made his way onto the North Coast Athletic Conference’s (NCAC) radar and earned Athlete of the Week honors. The award marked the second time in Meister’s career that he hauled in Athlete of the Week honors, with the fifth-year senior also earning the weekly recognition as a sophomore back in 2022.
Meister made his impact in Kenyon’s lone outing last week, a doubleheader at home against Ohio Wesleyan University. The Owls trailed for most of the first game against the Battling Bishops, including facing a 5-0 deficit through the top of the fifth inning. However, Mester managed to get Kenyon on the board, scoring the team’s first run on a wild pitch. The senior scored three runs in game one for an Owls offense that needed all the help it could get, and Meister mustered even more help late in the game.
With the game tied 8-8 in the bottom of the ninth inning, Meister came up to bat in about as big of a spot as you could draw up as the bases were loaded with two outs on the board. The senior was down to his final strike as extra innings loomed large, but one massive swing saw Meister mash a ball over the center-field wall, giving the Owls a 12-8 walk-off win on the grand slam.
For the game, Meister was 2-for-5 with four RBIs and three runs scored, and his RBI and run totals were both season highs. The Owls also clinched a comeback win in game two against OWU, where Meister scored Kenyon’s last run in a 7-4 victory. Last year against OWU, Meister had a monster three-homer game at OWU, a herculean effort akin to his game-winning heroics at home.
