By Dave Bryne
New Era Correspondent
Last Friday, Solanco Gold coach Steve Foley ran into a friend who inquired, “How are you doing in the New Era?”
“I’m in the middle of a game right now,” was Foley’s reply.
A reply met, no doubt, with a slightly tilted head …
By Dave Bryne
New Era Correspondent
Mark this under the heading of biting the hand that feeds you.
Lowen Johnson, the 12-year old ace of the Manheim VFW Maroon Midget-Midget baseball team, is one of a group of pitchers tutored by Millersville University baseball coach Glenn Gallagher.
Friday night …
By Dave Bryne
New Era Correspondent
A key ingredient to a successful baseball team is having depth on the bench.
Even more important, however, is knowing how and when to use that depth.
That’s something Manheim Township Black’s Lyle Hosler is learning in his first head-coaching endeavor.
For Township’s …
By Dave Bryne
New Era Correspondent
Donegal beat Monday’s unsettled weather to the finish line in the first game of a New Era Tournament Midget semifinal doubleheader.
Led by the strong …
By Dave Bryne
New Era Correspondent
It is said Heaven helps those that help themselves. Which certainly held true Monday evening for Lititz VFW’s Brent Stoltzfus. However, Heaven was powerless to help Hempfield Black.
Stoltzfus ripped a grand slam home run in the first game of a Junior-Midget doubleheader …
By Dave Bryne
LNP Correspondent
For the Warwick Phillies and the Mountville Indians, the path to the LNP Tournament Midget-Midget championship game was a walk in the park.
The park was Mt. Joy’s Kunkle Field complex. The walk was the key to each team’s victory.
For Mountville (43-7), a …
By Dave Bryne
New Era Correspondent
The evening’s unseasonable chill hinted at the coming of fall, but Donegal’s boys of summer warmed things one last time. And pitcher Darin Gorski brought the heat.
In one of the most dominant performances in New Era Tournament history, Gorski struck out 16 …
By Dave Bryne
New Era Correspondent
After pitching the Mountville Angels into the Junior-Midget championship game of the New Era Tournament on Monday night, the last thing D.J. Ream expected was a curtain call 48 hours later. And yet, with Lititz VFW making like the ’27 Yankees Wednesday night …
By Dave Bryne
LNP Correspondent
The moment of truth came early for the Warwick Phillies and for Mountville Indians starting pitcher Patrick Welsh.
Phillies pitcher Matt Ruhl led off the top of the second inning with a hit, and pinchrunner Dylan Adams was soon standing on third base, courtesy …
By Dave Bryne
New Era Correspondent
After a three-year run of championships from 2001-03, Hempfield Black hopes to hoist the New Era Tournament Midget trophy again this year.
Hempfield was eliminated in the first round last season.
This year, the Black (20-3) is one of the favorites to get …
