By Will Welliver
Sports Staff
Throwing a no-hitter is something few baseball players get to experience at any level of the game. It is a difficult feat to accomplish because fielders have to make plays, the pitcher has to throw strikes and other breaks throughout the game have to …
By Dave Byrne
Sports Staff
He wasn’t the biggest player on the field, but he got the biggest hit of the night.
Ben Wirth’s RBI singled home Ryan Dornes from second base and Manheim Township Black overcame Rheems Blue 6-5 in extra innings in the nightcap of a New …
By Joel Schreiner
Sports Correspondent
Madison Zimmerman admits he was nervous when he took the mound Tuesday night at Clipper Magazine Stadium.
It showed.
The Ephrata starter was shaky, at best, for the first two innings but survived, eventually got into a groove and threw a complete game as …
By Dave Byrne
Sports Staff
Add to life’s certainties, death and taxes, this one truism: Bryan Haberstroh will not pitch any more this year in the New Era Tournament.
Which is good news for Hempfield Black, the Mountville Angels’ opponent in tonight’s New Era Junior-Midget Division championship game.
After …
By Dave Byrne
Sports Staff
Lightning, the two-out, baseball variety, struck three times Monday night at Mt. Joy’s Kunkle Field as the Warwick Phillies used three two-out, nobody-on rallies to stave off defeat, then rallied one final time in extra innings to defeat Manheim Township Black, 10-7, in the …
By Dave Byrne
Sports Staff
Playing “small ball” baseball is much like a chess match.
And certain plays from the “small ball” catalogue are much like the sacrifices offered and taken on the chess board.
Take the old first-third play, for example.
The base runner will drift off first, …
By Dave Byrne
Sports Staff
In two years or so they will be competing for positions on Hempfield’s varsity and JV baseball squads.
But Tuesday night the stakes were more immediate and personal for the members of Hempfield Black and the Mountville Angels.
Going toe-to-toe for the right to …
By Dave Byrne
Sports Staff
It would not be an insult to state that the Warwick Phillies stole the New Era Tournament Midget-Midget title.
On a night when hits were at a premium, the Phillies stole ten bases, pacing a 9-8 victory Tuesday over Manheim VFW Maroon and the …
