By Greg Caldwell
Correspondent
Strong pitching was the key to victory for Hempfield Black and the Strasburg-Willow Street Cardinals in Friday’s quarterfinals of the New Era Midget-Midget Tournament at Kunkle Field in Mount Joy.
Bear Shank put on a dominating performance for SWS in the first game, overcoming some …
By Dave Byrne
Sports Staff
As the tortoise taught the hare, it’s not how you start, but how you finish.
A lesson revisited Wednesday night in the first game of the Midget semifinals of the 65th New Era Tournament.
A lesson learned within the lesson by Strasburg/Willow Street Blue …
By Dave Byrne
Sports Staff
In the five years the New Era Tournament has been played at Clipper Magazine Stadium, only two Midget programs have been represented in every year of competition: Comet Blue and Hempfield Black.
Curiously, neither program had experienced success in that period, going a cumulative …
By Dave Byrne
Sports Staff
Lancaster County was abuzz Monday with the rhapsody of singing chainsaws as countless woodsmen cleaned up the fallen aftermath of Sunday’s violent thunderstorms.
Chainsaws were not in the arsenal of Travis Reapsome and Brett Brooks Monday night, in the first game of a LNP …
By Dave Byrne
Sports Staff
Tanner Fahnestock delivers a pitch for Manheim VFW in the fourth inning of Monday’s game against Warwick.
It’s not a ball game until Manheim VFW falls behind by three runs.
So far in the 65th New Era Tournament, that’s been happening early enough — …
By Dave Byrne
Sports Staff
Not to put too much pressure on a group of 15- and 16- year olds, but, expect big things out of Hempfield High School’s baseball program over the next few years.
Accomplishing what only two programs have done before, the core group of the …
By Dave Byrne
Sports Staff
The waiting, as Tom Petty once sang, is the hardest part.
Especially if you are a 13-14 year-old baseball player in the Manheim system.
Young men like Colin Fry, Kyle Winters, Ben Bomberger and company have waited two long years. Two long years to …
By Dave Byrne
Sports Staff
Ever since HBO originally broadcast the World War II miniseries “Band of Brothers” in 2001, it seems just about every sports team has declared themselves to be a band of brothers. To the point where it’s almost become a cliché.
But, there’s a reason …
