BY DAVE BYRNE
Sports Writer
LNP Tournament history works both for and against the Strasburg/Willow Street midgets as they prepare for Wednesday’s quarterfinal doubleheader at Clipper Magazine Stadium.
As a program, SWS is 0 for 7 in NET Midget championship games, including four straight barren appearances, 2009-12.
But this …
BY DIANA PUGLIESE
Sports Writer
When Warwick broke out to an early lead and Manheim Township struggled just to get on the bases, things looked dire for the Streaks.
But for a team that combined to score 23 runs in the first two games of the LNP Tournament, it …
BY DAVE BYRNE
Sports Writer
Comparing scores is a fool’s errand.
That said, looking at the Warwick Phillies’ 7-6 and 3-0 regular-season victories over the Strasburg/Willow Street Cardinals, you would never see this coming: Warwick 19, SWS 6.
One night after being limited to four hits by the Manheim …
BY JOEL SCHREINER
Correspondent
SWS weathered a storm and a ferocious Cocalico comeback to stay alive in the New Era Midget-Midget Tournament.
SWS broke open a tie game with a huge final inning to put away Cocalico, 14-8, Tuesday night at Kunkle Field in Mt. Joy.
SWS will play …
BY DAVE BYRNE
Sports Writer
Bryce Behmer and John Seibert can clear a fence or two.
They each cleared the friendly confines of Mount Joy’s Kunkle Field Monday night, leading their respective teams to 10-run rule victories and into tonight’s semifinals of the LNP Midget-Midget Tournament.
Behmer stroked a …
BY DAVE BYRNE
Sports Writer
A look at the competitive balance among the ten teams in the New Era Tournament’s junior-midget division gives a pretty good idea of which two teams will appear in the championship series at the end of this month.
In head-to-head league competition, Donegal …
BY DAVE BYRNE
Sports Writer
The 2014 LNP Tournament is just around the corner, with the Midget-Midgets kicking off the double-elimination festivities on Monday, July 7.
But, before then, there is much to be accomplished in terms of preliminary games.
The first of those preliminaries are tonight with …
By Dave Byrne
Sports Staff
If they were to return from the great beyond, George Kirchner, the father of the New Era Midget Baseball Tournament, and Charlie Henry and Bill Carroll, men whose steady hands guided it for over 50 years, would likely not recognize their baby.
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