2008 Champions Picnic
Category: 2008
2008 Tournament Results
Manheim Township a precarious top seed
By Dave Bryne
New Era Correspondent
Defending New Era Tournament Midget champion Manheim Township is the top seed of this year’s New Era Midget division tournament, and must be considered the favorite.
However, uneasy lies the crown on the head of the Lanco School League king.
Four games — …
J-M field appears to be wide open
By Dave Bryne
New Era Correspondent
Over the last five years, two programs have dominated the New Era Tournament’s Junior-Midget division.
Mountville won its first NET J-M title in 2004, and came back with a second in 2006.
Those titles interrupted a string by Manheim Township, which took the …
LNP Tourney opens with Midget-Midget twinbill
By Dave Bryne
LNP Correspondent
The 63rd LNP Midget baseball tournament begins Thursday and continues Friday with Midget-Midget Division quarterfinal doubleheaders beginning at 6 p.m.
The M-M semifinals will be held next Monday at 6 with the championship game set for 7 p.m. Tuesday.
All of the games will …
Solanco erupts for 9 runs in final at-bat; wild pitch ushers in winning run for Lititz
By Dave Byrne
New Era Correspondent
The inning was a total disaster.
Or a fantastic rally.
It all depends on your point of view.
Held scoreless for the first six innings, Solanco exploded for nine runs in the top of the seventh inning and defeated Manheim VFW 9-2 in …
A big night for Black and Gold
By Dave Byrne
New Era Correspondent
If you like to block out four or five hours to watch baseball, and you like to see baseballs sprayed all over the yard, then Mount Joy’s Kunkle Field was the place to be Thursday night.
In the first game of the Junior-Midget …
Drama on Day One
The 63rd New Era Tournament kicks off with an offensive explosion from Strasburg/Willow Street and some late-inning heroics for the Ephrata Dragons.
By Jeffrey Reinhart
New Era Sports Writer
Hot dogs, apple pie and the New Era Tournament.
It must be summertime in Lancaster County.
And what a doubleheader …
Township’s Thorsen tosses shutout; Lehman lifts St. Leo
By Dave Byrne
New Era Correspondent
The second night of competition in the New Era Tournament Midget division was a night of superlatives.
Manheim Township Black’s Chris Thorsen tossed the best game of this young tournament, stopping Bears Blue with a three-hit shutout in the first game of a …
Longball: Rheems Gray, SWS show power in victories
By Dave Byrne
New Era Correspondent
It is said the Lord helps those who help themselves and Jeffrey Miller helped himself to a victory Friday night in the first round of the New Era Tournament Junior-Midget quarterfinals.
Miller, who started and pitched the first five innings, stroked a two-run …