Bears Blue takes LNP midget title

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 …

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Mission accomplished; Harbor caps 39-1 season with LNP title

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 …

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Mountville, Maytown/Marietta advance

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 …

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Safe Harbor, SWS reach J-M semis

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 …

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Township Black, Safe Harbor roll into Midget-Midget semis

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 …

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