Category: 2008
2008 Tournament Results
Manheim Township a precarious top seed
By Dave Bryne
New Era Correspondent
Defending New Era Tournament Midget champion Manheim Township is the top seed of this year’s New Era Midget division tournament, and must be considered the favorite.
However, uneasy lies the crown on the head of the Lanco School League king.
Four games — …
J-M field appears to be wide open
By Dave Bryne
New Era Correspondent
Over the last five years, two programs have dominated the New Era Tournament’s Junior-Midget division.
Mountville won its first NET J-M title in 2004, and came back with a second in 2006.
Those titles interrupted a string by Manheim Township, which took the …
LNP Tourney opens with Midget-Midget twinbill
By Dave Bryne
LNP Correspondent
The 63rd LNP Midget baseball tournament begins Thursday and continues Friday with Midget-Midget Division quarterfinal doubleheaders beginning at 6 p.m.
The M-M semifinals will be held next Monday at 6 with the championship game set for 7 p.m. Tuesday.
All of the games will …
Solanco erupts for 9 runs in final at-bat; wild pitch ushers in winning run for Lititz
A big night for Black and Gold
By Dave Byrne
New Era Correspondent
If you like to block out four or five hours to watch baseball, and you like to see baseballs sprayed all over the yard, then Mount Joy’s Kunkle Field was the place to be Thursday night.
In the first game of the Junior-Midget …
Drama on Day One
The 63rd New Era Tournament kicks off with an offensive explosion from Strasburg/Willow Street and some late-inning heroics for the Ephrata Dragons.
By Jeffrey Reinhart
New Era Sports Writer
Hot dogs, apple pie and the New Era Tournament.
It must be summertime in Lancaster County.
And what a doubleheader …