By Dave Byrne
New Era Correspondent
Thursday night, Gabe Abreu had a dream. A dream where he, and his Pequea Valley teammates, climbed the New Era Tournament mountaintop.
Abreu’s dream became the West Lampeter Pioneers’ nightmare Friday at Manheim’s Baron Conplex, as the Braves (34-2), capitalizing on seven errors, …
By Dave Byrne
LNP Correspondent
As July turned to August, the heat wave that held our area in a choke-hold finally broke. There are, however, scattered pockets of resistance.
The Canadian front that drifted in over the weekend did little to chill the sticks of the Hempfield Black Junior-Midget …
By Dave Byrne
New Era Correspondent
Dan Herr is a deeply religious man and, as coach of the Strasburg/Willow Street Cardinals, he has witnessed those beliefs and instilled them in his team.
And so, with the Cards clinging to a one-run lead in the bottom of the sixth inning, …
By Dave Byrne
New Era Correspondent
Under a dreary sky, the Hempfield Youth Association’s midget baseball program got a bad case of the blues on Saturday.
Hempfield Black and Hempfield Red, the HYA’s travel teams for the 14-to-16 year-old age group, took a double hit in the New Era …
By Dave Byrne
New Era Correspondent
As Safe Harbor’s Phil Texter stepped in to lead off the sixth inning, he got an encouraging word from coach Bruce Perry in the third base box.
“Lay off this stuff,” he said, showing the area to be disdained. “Get your pitch to …
By Keith Scheigert
New Era Sports Writer
Jonathan Palomarez wasn’t perfect Thursday night, but he was pretty darn close.
The Lititz pitcher flirted with a perfect game in the New Era Midget Tournament quarterfinals Conestoga Valley. He settled for a one-hitter in an 8-0 victory in the nightcap of …
By Dave Byrne
LNP Correspondent
It was Nick at night and pitchers’ delight as the Manheim Lions and the Strasburg/Willow Street Pioneers advanced to the junior-midget semifinals of the LNP Tournament .
Each team won games shortened to five innings by the 10-run rule. The Pioneers (18-8) ripped Adamstown …
By Dave Byrne
New Era Correspondent
Manheim Township Red and the Safe Harbor Cubs posted victories as the 55th New Era Baseball Tournament got under way Tuesday night with a Midget-Midget division quarterfinal doubleheader in Mount Joy.
The Penn Manor League rivals prevailed as Township (19-11) dusted the Ephrata …
By Dave Byrne
LNP Correspondent
The same teams that are locked in a best-of-three fight for the Lancaster County Midget League championship will play for the midget division championship of the LNP Tournament.
Somebody somewhere got this figured out right.
Comet Blue and Bears Blue will meet next Thursday …
By Dave Byrne
LNP Correspondent
The Safe Harbor Lions and the Strasburg/Willow Street Pioneers will meet next Monday night at Kunkle Field in Mt. Joy to decide the championship of the LNP Tournament ‘s Junior-Midget division.
The Penn Manor League rivals earned their respective berths with a pair of …
