~ABOUT US~ CLEVELAND HEIGHTS TIGERS' BASEBALL PROGRAM

 Tiger Nation Baseball includes all the baseball teams fielded by Cleveland Heights-University Heights High School.  When the number of participating players permits, the three teams will include a Varsity team, a Junior Varsity-A team and a Junior Varsity-B team. While the website focuses primarily on the Varsity team, the coaches and players realize that success at the Varsity level requires a program that develops younger talent into tomorrow's Varsity stars.  And so, during the interscholastic high school season,  the website will include a section showing the game schedule of the Junior Varsity-A team and, if one is fielded that year, the Junior Varsity-B team.  If family or friends of JV-A or JV-B players want to contribute pictures to a photo gallery for one or both of the JV teams, email the  pictures  to  the website administrator  at  rinkrobertp@gmail.com, and he will make arrangements to add them  to a JV photo gallery on  the website. 

With a multi-million dollar upgrade to the buildings and other facilities of Cleveland Heights High School in 2017 & 2018, the "on campus" home field of the Heights Tigers baseball teams, including Varsity and Junior Varsity A & B teams, was relocated and re-built.  Home plate was moved to the north, from its old location right next to Cedar Road on the south.   Right field now abuts Cedar Road and left field abuts the side street on the east side of the school building. A new scoreboard has found its permanent home to the right of dead center field. The field has been completely resodded and  leveled. Permanent batting & pitching cages for the Tiger teams and visiting opponents now adorn the left and right field lines.  Permanent brick dugouts were constructed for the Tiger teams and opponents.   

It's fair to say that Tiger Baseball  Teams were pretty inexperienced in the 2023 Season as well as the 2022 Season.  So the  upcoming 2024 Season looks to build on the successes of the 2023  and 2022 Interscholastic and Summer Seasons.  For the 2023 Interscholastic and Summer Seasons the Varsity team finished with  an  overall record of  19 wins  vs 25 losses. For the Interscholastic season the Varsity team ended with  a  record of  12 wins  & 14 losses  and for the Summer season finished with 7 wins & 11 losses.  The  Tigers  lost  only 4  seniors  to  graduation  as  the 2023  season  ended.   Hitting  should  once  again  be  a  strong  suit  for  the  Tigers  this  year.  And  defense  is  looking  to  follow  in  the  same  mold.  As  is  the  case  for  many  growing  inter-scholastic teams,  pitching  continues  to  present  challenges  to  this  year’s  Varsity  roster.  Nonetheless,  player registrations for the coming 2024  season continue  to  be  strong  and  hopefully  will provide  a  solid  base  for  this season.  With  strong registrations  again  this year  comes  the  chance  to  field  three  levels  of  baseball  at  Heights  this  year.  Again this  year the Tigers will be fielding a Varsity squad,  a JV-A squad  and a JV-B squad.   You can follow all the progress of the teams here on this Tiger Nation Baseball website.