Bats Receive Rings for 2025 Championship
Keene SwampBats players and staff from the historic 2025 season recently received their championship rings to commemorate one of the most unforgettable seasons in franchise history.
Keene Finished with Best Record in NECBL History
KEENE, N.H. – Keene SwampBats players and staff from the historic 2025 season recently received their championship rings to commemorate one of the most unforgettable seasons in franchise history.
The Bats won 38 of 50 games – a winning percentage of .760 – to finish with the best record in NECBL history, surpassing the 37-12 mark of the Newport Gulls' 2009 title-winning team and the 37-12-1 mark of the Gulls in 2023.
The SwampBats have had four of the top 11 seasons in league history, including 33-14 in both 2005 and 2003 and 35-15 in 2002. Their six league championships are the second most in league history, as are their 703 victories, as they surpassed 700 as a franchise this past summer.
Keene's 2025 NECBL championship, with the road to it being paved through a 6-0 postseason mark, joins their 2000, 2003, 2011, 2013, and 2019 titles. The Bats also blazed through the 2003 postseason with a perfect 6-0 mark, and they have two of the four 6-0 postseason records in league history (Newport 2005, Vermont 2007).
Nobody will soon forget the 2025 version of the NECBL championship series, in which the Bats swept the Martha's Vineyard Sharks 2-0 in epic fashion – erasing a 10-run eighth inning deficit in 13-12 Game 1 win that will forever live in the hearts of the franchise, with fan-favorite Ripken Reese blasting a walk-off grand slam to center to win a game in which the Bats trailed by seven runs entering the ninth. Not to be outdone, Reese added to the legend with a two-home run game the following night on the road as Keene scored the final 16 runs after trailing 7-0 in the second inning.
The Bats have swept their opponent in three of their last four NECBL championship series appearances, including Martha's Vineyard in 2019 and the Laconia Muskrats in 2011.
A fitting finish indeed for one of the most dominant seasons the league has seen.
Stay tuned for the 2026 NECBL schedule, expected to be announced in January, and the Bats roster for this upcoming summer – expected to feature some familiar names.