By Dave Bryne
New Era Correspondent
When its comes to the 2007 New Era Tournament’s Midget-Midget scrum, one thing is certain. There will be no repeat by last year’s champion.
The Norlanco Redbirds have left the building, graduated to the Junior-Midget division. So while there will definitely be a …
By Dave Byrne
New Era Correspondent
Karnac the Magnificent will now divine the answers having never before seen the question.
Wrigley Field, on days when the wind is blowing out.
Citizens Bank Park, any day.
Kunkle Field, when the junior-midgets set up shop.
The question?
Name three baseball …
By Dave Byrne
New Era Correspondent
Michael Houseal approached perfection while Ian Bentley approached exhaustion.
In the end, both embraced victory on the first night of the 62nd New Era Midget Baseball Tournament.
Houseal threw a no-hitter, losing his perfect game on a one-out walk in the fifth inning, …
By Jeff Reinhart
New Era Sports Writer
Lititz is out to defend its New Era Midget championship, and in its quarterfinal game Thursday night in Clipper Magazine Stadium, the Oddfellows certainly played like a team on a mission.
J.T. Garner had three hits and knocked in three runs and …
By Dave Byrne
New Era Correspondent
Sometimes, it’s not how you start, but how you finish.
That was the lesson learned by Mount Joy Blue and the Strasburg-Willow Street White Sox in Friday night’s New Era Tournament Junior-Midget quarterfinals.
After overcoming an early 3-2 deficit, Mount Joy Blue scored …
By Jeffrey Reinhart
New Era Sports Writer
Sure it was Friday the 13th, but nothing goofy happened on the second night of the New Era Midget-Midget Tournament at Kunkel Field in Mount Joy.
Just some solid pitching, some clutch hitting and, in Hempfield Black’s case, a lot of base …
By Dave Byrne
New Era Correspondent
It was a classic end to a classic game.
St. Leo centerfielder Travis Jankowski tracked down Joe Good’s deep fly ball to right center, leaped to catch the ball while crashing, hard, into the fence and still had the presence of mind to …
By Dave Byrne
New Era Correspondent
There was a chill in the air Monday night, but it did little to cool the smoking-hot bats of Manheim Township Black and Mount Joy Blue.
Those Junior-Midget hit machines advanced to tonight’s championship game of the New Era Midget Baseball Tournament.
In …
By Dave Byrne
New Era Correspondent
Monday night’s New Era Tournament midget-midget semifinal doubleheader was a study in contrasts.
Hempfield Black (32-5-1) scored early and often, dropping hits all over Kunkle Field in a 12-1 victory over Rheems Gray.
Earlier, Mount Joy Blue (29-7) waited until it was almost …
By Dave Byrne
LNP Correspondent
His Manheim Township Black teammates call Matt Turman, not surprisingly, the Terminator.
Turman terminated St. Leo’s Cinderella story Monday night, driving in the winning run to give MT Black a 6-5 victory and the Midget championship of the 62nd LNP Tournament.
Turman’s seventh-inning, bases-loaded, …
