By Dave Byrne
New Era Correspondent
Nobody coaches “little ball” like Mountville’s Bob Sauders.
He’s the Gene Mauch of Lancaster County baseball, with one notable exception. Sauders wins when it really counts.
Sauders spun gold out of straw again Thursday night at Mount Joy’s Kunkle Field, when his Mountville …
By Dave Byrne
LNP Correspondent
If you like scoring, lots of scoring, and if you like your baseball a little on the wild side, Ephrata’s War Memorial Field was where you wanted to be Friday night for the opening games of the 56th annual LNP Midget Baseball Tournament .
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By Dave Byrne
New Era Correspondent
There is no substitute for experience.
Monday night’s junior-midget doubleheader at Mt. Joy’s Kunkle Field proved that.
Two of the New Era Tournament ‘s most savvy teams — the Strasburg/Willow Street White Sox and the Safe Harbor Lions — advanced to the J-M …
By Dave Byrne
New Era Correspondent
Manheim Township Black was the perfect storm.
Hempfield Black was the fishing boat.
Hempfield could find no shelter from Township’s 15-hit attack and was swamped, 18-1, in the nightcap of New Era Tournament ‘s Midget-Midget quarterfinal opener at Mt.Joy’s Kunkle Field.
It was …
By Dave Byrne
New Era Correspondent
Like the hypnotic repetition in an episode of Sesame Street, Saturday’s New Era Tournament Midget semifinal showcased the number three.
Hempfield Black picked up its first win over Lititz Oddfellows in three years, 6-3, in the second game of a doubleheader at Manheim’s …
By Dave Byrne
New Era Correspondent
The dream of every junior-midget-age boy in Lancaster County — to play in the New Era Tournament championship game — has become a reality for the members of Hempfield Black and the Strasburg/Willow Street White Sox.
Those two teams will meet Monday at …
By Dave Byrne
LNP Correspondent
While his brother Casey was pitching Manheim Township into the American Legion District 10 finals, Cory Pfautz was rewarding Glenn Gallagher’s confidence in him.
Gallagher and Manheim Township’s other coaches were huddled behind the backstop prior to the first game of last night’s LNP …
By Dave Byrne
LNP Correspondent
One is a savvy veteran of multiple LNP Tournament wars. The other, by comparision, is still wet behind the ears.
Austin Hinkle and Jason Enoch pitched Hempfield Black to the Midget Division championship of the LNP Tournament , defeating defending champion Bears Blue 2-1 …
By Dave Byrne
New Era Correspondent
Two years ago they were known as the Cardiac Cardinals and their late-inning, come-from-behind victory in the Midget-Midget championship game of the New Era Tournament put an exclamation point on a breathtaking season.
This year, their second as junior-midgets, the Strasburg/Willow Street White …
By Dave Byrne
New Era Correspondent
It started way back in late January, early February.
Small groups of kids meeting in elementary school gyms, in empty warehouses all across Lancaster County. Hitting in the cage, taking grounders, getting a head start on the baseball season.
It ended last …
