By Dave Byrne
New Era Correspondent
In the classic baseball film Bull Durham, pitching phenom “Nuke” Laloosh whines to his catcher/mentor, “Crash” …
By Dave Byrne
New Era Correspondent
It was last call at the old New Era Midget Baseball Tournament.
Last chance to win an NET title at any level for the players who comprised Solanco Gray, and for most of the members of this edition of Hempfield Black.
Tuesday night …
By Dave Byrne
LNP Correspondent
If the LNP Tournament awarded a tournament MVP award, the hands-down winner for the Junior-Midget Division would be Manheim Township Black’s Carlos “X” Medina.
If the tourney awarded a single-game citation for championship-game merit, Medina would share it with teammate Tyler Deshong.
Given the …
By Dave Byrne
New Era Correspondent
Hockey (remember hockey?) has a great tradition where the members of the Stanley Cup Championship team kiss the Cup while skating around the rink.
A new tradition was born Tuesday night at Mount Joy’s Kunkle Field. Following Mount Joy Blue’s 5-0 victory over …
By Jeffrey Reinhart
New Era Sports Writer
The New Era Midget Tournament has found a new home.
And here’s hoping Clipper Magazine Stadium will be the tournament’s home for a long, long time.
The gorgeous two-year-old stadium, which is the home of the Atlantic League’s Lancaster Barnstormers, hosted its …
By Dave Bryne
New Era Correspondent
After several near misses in the ’90s, Hempfield Black has made a habit of winning the New Era Tournament’s Midget division.
Black, the defending NET champion, has won five titles since 1997, four in the last five years, and appears poised to repeat …
By Dave Bryne
New Era Correspondent
Gazing into the crystal ball last year our fearless forecaster foresaw a New Era Tournament Junior-Midget championship game that would be a repeat of 2004, pitting Lititz VFW against the Mountville Angels.
So Lititz went out in the first round and Mountville exited …
By Dave Bryne
New Era Correspondent
Hopefully, when Ron Wagner elects to retire from his day job, it will last longer than his retirement from coaching youth baseball.
By all appearences, Mt. Joy Blue’s venerable coach went out on top last year as his team defeated Hempfield Black 5-0 …
By Dave Byrne
New Era Correspondent
Manheim pitcher Jeff Knosp went from gem to jam Wednesday night, but with a little help from his friends, came away the king of the diamond.
Knosp won his eighth game of an undefeated summer as Manheim VFW (17-3) outscored Lancaster Mennonite 9-6 …
By Dave Byrne
New Era Correspondent
Among the dugout chatter you’ll likely hear at a baseball game is this: “Come on, have a day!”
Brad Garber had a day Thursday night, going 3-for-4 at the plate with five RBI and two runs scored. Included in his offensive outbreak was …
