By Dave Byrne
New Era Correspondent
Hempfield Black and The Akron Lions each had an adverse condition to overcome in Friday night’s New Era Tournament Midget-Midget quarterfinals.
Their success in doing so, and lack of same, were reflected in the outcomes of their respective games.
Hempfield Black rallied to …
By John Finger
New Era Correspondent
They say pitching wins games. In the case of Leola’s Brent Buckwalter and Solanco’s Mike Haverstick, they are right.
Buckwalter and Haverstick led their teams to victories in the midget division semifinals of the New Era Tournament on a sun-drenched Saturday afternoon at …
By Keith Schweigert
Special to the New Era
When Manheim and Safe Harbor looked across the field at one another in the first game of Saturday’s New Era Tournament Junior-Midget semifinal doubleheader, they had to feel a sense of deja vu.
Manheim and Safe Harbor have squared off several …
By Dave Byrne
New Era Correspondent
The Mountville Indians and the East Petersburg Reds will play for the Midget-Midget title of the 50th New Era Tournament Tuesday at 6:15 p.m.
The Indians (28-9) took the measure of yet another Hempfield area team, Hempfield Black, 5-2, in the opener of …
By Dave Byrne
LNP Correspondent
Leola pitcher Brent Buckwalter summed it up perfectly.
“It’s about time.”
For the Leola baseball team in general and Buckwalter, Kris Toomey and Carlton Stoner in particular, there had been too many empty-handed returns from LNP Tournaments past.
This time they drew a full …
By Dave Byrne
New Era Correspondent
On a team of big boys and big boppers, Casey Bires is an unlikely candidate to be stroking a game-winning home run. Yet there he was Wednesday night, circling the bases toward a jubilant reception committee of Manheim Lions.
Bires’ shot in the …
By Dave Byrne
New Era Correspondent
Skip Walters had seen nothing like it in his long coaching career.
Bob Sauders had, but never in a championship game.
Sauders’ Mountville Indians scored 12 runs in their last at-bat – the top of the sixth – to snatch an 18-8 victory …
