By Dave Byrne
New Era Correspondent
There are many athletic rivalries in Lancaster County. None match the fire, the deep-seated, stick-in-the-craw intensity of Manheim Township/Hempfield.
It’s the Hatfields and McCoys. The Montagues and Capulets.
And it begins here. The foundation of the 2005 Lancaster-Lebanon League Section 1 baseball race …
By Dave Byrne
LNP Correspondent
Familiarity, it is said, breeds contempt.
There can be no denying the two LNP Tournament Midget finalists are familiar with each other.
The Pequea Valley Braves and West Lampeter Pioneer Blue reached Friday’s final game of the NET with victories Saturday at the Baron …
By Jeffrey Reinhart
New Era Sports Writer
There is simply no stopping Jason Enoch.
If he wants the ball, give it to him.
If he wants to throw a fastball, let him.
If he wants to snap off a nasty curve ball, let him.
And if the game is …
By Dave Byrne
New Era Correspondent
The last time he pitched against Mount Joy Blue, Sheldon Witmer pitched himself into a corner.
This time, painting the corners, Witmer pitched the Strasburg/Willow Street Cardinals into the finals of the New Era Tournament Midget-Midget division.
With Witmer bedeviling Mount Joy on …
By Dave Byrne
New Era Correspondent
Thursday night, Gabe Abreu had a dream. A dream where he, and his Pequea Valley teammates, climbed the New Era Tournament mountaintop.
Abreu’s dream became the West Lampeter Pioneers’ nightmare Friday at Manheim’s Baron Conplex, as the Braves (34-2), capitalizing on seven errors, …
By Dave Byrne
LNP Correspondent
As July turned to August, the heat wave that held our area in a choke-hold finally broke. There are, however, scattered pockets of resistance.
The Canadian front that drifted in over the weekend did little to chill the sticks of the Hempfield Black Junior-Midget …
By Dave Byrne
New Era Correspondent
Dan Herr is a deeply religious man and, as coach of the Strasburg/Willow Street Cardinals, he has witnessed those beliefs and instilled them in his team.
And so, with the Cards clinging to a one-run lead in the bottom of the sixth inning, …
By Dave Byrne
New Era Correspondent
Under a dreary sky, the Hempfield Youth Association’s midget baseball program got a bad case of the blues on Saturday.
Hempfield Black and Hempfield Red, the HYA’s travel teams for the 14-to-16 year-old age group, took a double hit in the New Era …
By Dave Byrne
New Era Correspondent
As Safe Harbor’s Phil Texter stepped in to lead off the sixth inning, he got an encouraging word from coach Bruce Perry in the third base box.
“Lay off this stuff,” he said, showing the area to be disdained. “Get your pitch to …
By Keith Scheigert
New Era Sports Writer
Jonathan Palomarez wasn’t perfect Thursday night, but he was pretty darn close.
The Lititz pitcher flirted with a perfect game in the New Era Midget Tournament quarterfinals Conestoga Valley. He settled for a one-hitter in an 8-0 victory in the nightcap of …
