By Dave Byrne
LNP Correspondent
Some days it just doesn’t pay to get out of bed.
It was one of those days Friday for the Reamstown and Manheim Township Red baseball teams in the LNP Tournament ‘s Midget-Midget semifinals.
Each team was on the receiving end of a flogging …
By Jeffrey Reinhart
LNP Sports Writer
Justin Garber pitched a complete game and squirmed his way out of a serious late-game jam Thursday night as Bears Blue of Elizabethtown held off Comet Blue of Penn Manor 6-3 to take the 55th LNP Midget championship in Manheim.
Bears Blue, which …
By Dave Byrne
LNP Correspondent
Andrew Johnson and Alan Smith hit run-scoring singles and Phil Texter turned in another mound masterpiece Monday night as the Safe Harbor Lions defeated the Strasburg/Willow Street Pioneers 2-1 at Kunkle Field in Mount Joy.
The victory delivered the junior-midget title of the 55th …
By Dave Byrne
LNP Correspondent
We’ve seen this scenario in so many LNP Tournament midget-midget finals.
Late inning. Runner on third base. Runner breaks for home. One of three things usually happens:
By Jeffrey Reinhart
LNP Sports Writer
The semifinal round in the midget division of the 56th annual LNP Tournament is set, and thanks to solid pitching performances by Austin Hinkle and Eric Wagner, Hempfield Black and the Lititz Oddfellows will join Bears Blue and Lancaster Red in the final …
By Dave Byrne
New Era Correspondent
And on the fourth day, the New Era Tournament delivered a Classic.
Hempfield Black’s Phil Harnick threw a no-hitter in the first game of Tuesday’s Junior-Midget quarterfinal doubleheader at Mt. Joy’s Kunkle Field, only to be upstaged by a pair of hard-throwing lefties …
By Dave Byrne
New Era Correspondent
Nobody coaches “little ball” like Mountville’s Bob Sauders.
He’s the Gene Mauch of Lancaster County baseball, with one notable exception. Sauders wins when it really counts.
Sauders spun gold out of straw again Thursday night at Mount Joy’s Kunkle Field, when his Mountville …
By Dave Byrne
LNP Correspondent
If you like scoring, lots of scoring, and if you like your baseball a little on the wild side, Ephrata’s War Memorial Field was where you wanted to be Friday night for the opening games of the 56th annual LNP Midget Baseball Tournament .
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By Dave Byrne
New Era Correspondent
There is no substitute for experience.
Monday night’s junior-midget doubleheader at Mt. Joy’s Kunkle Field proved that.
Two of the New Era Tournament ‘s most savvy teams — the Strasburg/Willow Street White Sox and the Safe Harbor Lions — advanced to the J-M …
By Dave Byrne
New Era Correspondent
Manheim Township Black was the perfect storm.
Hempfield Black was the fishing boat.
Hempfield could find no shelter from Township’s 15-hit attack and was swamped, 18-1, in the nightcap of New Era Tournament ‘s Midget-Midget quarterfinal opener at Mt.Joy’s Kunkle Field.
It was …
