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 …
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 …
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 …
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 …
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 …
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 …
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 …
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 …
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 …
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 …
