2013 Champions Picnic
Category: 2013
2013 Junior Midget Championship: Lions roar loudest: St. Leo answers PM victory with title-game romp
By Dave Byrne
Sports Staff
Dropped to the canvas by a shot to the solar plexus, the St. Leo Lions gathered themselves, landed their share of counter punches and won the Lancaster Newspapers New Era Tournament Junior-Midget championship on points.Beaten 3-2 by the Penn Manor Comets in the continuation …
2013 Junior Midget Loser’s Final: Penn Manor tops Garden Spot, nabs berth in LNP Tournament title game
By Will Welliver
Correspondent
On Thursday, Penn Manor pitchers couldn’t solve St. Leo and Garden Spot’s bats couldn’t be stopped.
Go figure that come Friday, Garden Spot had trouble at the plate as the Comets’ Jeff Taylor threw seven strong innings and Austin Roberts had three hits and drove …
2013 Midget Championship: Oddfellows take Midget tile with 1-0 win over Hempfield Black
By Dave Byrne
Sports Staff
The late stages of a scoreless baseball game is no time to be conservative.As ABBA sang, you gotta take a chance, take a chance, take a chance, take a chance.
Hempfield Black coach Jeremy Morrison took a chance with the bases loaded in the …
2013 Midget Semifinals: Lititz Oddfellows, Hempfield Black to battle for LNP Midget title
By Dave Byrne
Sports Staff
A defensive sentinel at third base all night, Bears Blue’s Santino Buonamici had been a particular thorn in Michael Perezous’ side.Buonamici picked Perezous in the third-inning, snaring a line drive off his shoe tops.Then he turned Perezous’ sharp, one-out grounder into an around-the-horn double …
2013 Midget-Midget Championship: Warwick’s Caleb Heck knocks in four runs, scores game-winner
By Dave Byrne
Sports Staff
The 2013 baseball season has been one of many journeys for Caleb Heck.None more significant than the 70 feet he traversed from third base to home in the bottom of the sixth inning, Saturday afternoon at Mount Joy’s Kunkle Field.Heck, who drove in four …
2013 Midget-Midget Loser’s Final: Mountville Indians return to LNP Tournament final
Saylor throws two-hitter to defeat Strasburg/Willow Street, 7-0
By Dave Byrne
Sports Staff
Google “Bulldog” on your Wikipedia and you just may find an illustration of 12-year old C.J. Saylor.Saylor, the regular catcher for the Mountville Indians, personified the term of bulldog, pitching the defending champions back into the …
2013 Tournament Results
SWS, Hempfield move into semis
By Dave Byrne
Sports Staff
Strasburg-Willow Street’s Midgets may be trending young this summer, but it was the team’s two returning veterans leading it to the semifinals of the 68th Lancaster Newspapers New Era Tournament.
Austin Pletcher and Cameron Enck, the only two holdovers from last year, were a …
Peters’ slam lifts St. Leo’s; Penn Manor also advances
By Dave Byrne
Sports Staff
Baseball is a game of redemption and second chances.
Which, for St. Leo’s catcher Tyler Peters, is a very good thing.
A half-inning after committing an error that allowed Garden Spot to tie the game, Peters stroked a grand slam home run, driving the …