Tourney debut at ‘The Clip’ leaves lasting impression

By Jeffrey Reinhart
New Era Sports Writer

The New Era Midget Tournament has found a new home.

And here’s hoping Clipper Magazine Stadium will be the tournament’s home for a long, long time.

The gorgeous two-year-old stadium, which is the home of the Atlantic League’s Lancaster Barnstormers, hosted its …

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Once again, Hempfield looks like team to beat

By Dave Bryne
New Era Correspondent

After several near misses in the ’90s, Hempfield Black has made a habit of winning the New Era Tournament’s Midget division.

Black, the defending NET champion, has won five titles since 1997, four in the last five years, and appears poised to repeat …

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Championship is up for grabs

By Dave Bryne
New Era Correspondent

Gazing into the crystal ball last year our fearless forecaster foresaw a New Era Tournament Junior-Midget championship game that would be a repeat of 2004, pitting Lititz VFW against the Mountville Angels.

So Lititz went out in the first round and Mountville exited …

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Usual suspects ready to battle in M-M tourney

By Dave Bryne
New Era Correspondent

Hopefully, when Ron Wagner elects to retire from his day job, it will last longer than his retirement from coaching youth baseball.

By all appearences, Mt. Joy Blue’s venerable coach went out on top last year as his team defeated Hempfield Black 5-0 …

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Manheim VFW downs Mennonite

By Dave Byrne
New Era Correspondent

Manheim pitcher Jeff Knosp went from gem to jam Wednesday night, but with a little help from his friends, came away the king of the diamond.

Knosp won his eighth game of an undefeated summer as Manheim VFW (17-3) outscored Lancaster Mennonite 9-6 …

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Garber leads E-town past Hempfield Black

By Dave Byrne
New Era Correspondent

Among the dugout chatter you’ll likely hear at a baseball game is this: “Come on, have a day!”

Brad Garber had a day Thursday night, going 3-for-4 at the plate with five RBI and two runs scored. Included in his offensive outbreak was …

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Norlanco avoids upset bid from Hempfield Black

By Dave Byrne
New Era Correspondent

Sometimes, Goliath ducks and David’s stone whizzes harmlessly by.

That was the case Thursday night, when the Norlanco Redbirds dodged a determined upset bid from Hempfield Black, prevailing 8-6 in eight innings to reach the Midget-Midget semifinals of the 61st New Era Tournament …

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Donegal holds on for thrilling win

By Dave Byrne
New Era Correspondent

Coming out of his third at-bat of the night, Nick Zito thought he detected a pattern in the way Hempfield Black’s John Brubaker was pitching to him.

“I struck out, (but) I saw that the first pitch was coming low and it was …

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Wolf’s slam sends Mountville into semis

By Dave Byrne
New Era Correspondent

While Rheems was making a pitching change in the bottom of the sixth inning, Mountville first base coach Scott Ream called batter Cullen Wolf over for a quick word.

“Close your eyes, swing at the first pitch as hard as you can and …

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Manheim VFW walks its way to a win over SWS

By Dave Byrne
New Era Correspondent

If the Manheim VFW Maroon Midget-Midgets haven’t chosen a theme song yet, perhaps they might consider Aerosmith’s Walk This Way.

Josh Good and Jeremy Patrick drew back-to-back, two-out, bases-loaded walks in Manheim’s final at-bat to fuel a 2-1 victory over the Strasburg/Willow Street …

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