The Licking County Settlers are a collegiate summer baseball team located in Newark, Ohio. They are a member of the Great Lakes Summer Collegiate League. The GLSCL is a branch of the National Alliance of Collegiate Summer Baseball (NACSB), which is responsible for such wood-bat leagues as the Cape Cod League. The Settlers were formed in 2006, playing their first two seasons at Denison University. In 2008, they moved to their new home field, Don Edwards Park, home of the Babe Ruth World Series. In 2010, the Settlers entered the Great Lakes playoffs as the number one seed only to lose the championship to the second seed Hamilton Joes, who finished the 2010 season ranked 12th nationally.
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