Cast of familiar characters

By Dave Byrne
Sports Staff

One of the best lines in the classic film Casablanca, a film redolent with memorable lines, has Claude Rains’ character prefect-of-police Captain Louis Renault, order an underling to, ” … round up the usual suspects.”

As the Midget division of the New Era Tournament …

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Taking stock of J-M field

Play-in games set for Thursday

By Dave Byrne
Sports Staff

As Donegal, the Mountville Indians, Manheim VFW and the Warwick Phillies prepare to open the New Era Tournament Midget-Midget championship series on Monday, their Junior-Midget brothers dip their toes into the tournament pool Thursday night with play-in qualifying games.

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Sauders, baseball in Mountville closely linked

Guides Indians as Midget-Midget qualifying gets under way tonight

By Dave Byrne
Sports Staff

Hall of Famer Walter Alston managed the Brooklyn/Los Angeles Dodgers for 23 years, famously on a series of one-year contracts.

Lancaster baseball has its own Walter Alston in Bob Sauders, who has coached the Mountville …

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Manheim VFW storms past Comet Blue

Lightning, rain postpones nightcap

By Dave Byrne
Sports Staff

Severe weather left its mark on the first night of the 67th New Era Tournament’s Midget Division schedule.

Not only did Thursday night’s storm postpone the second game of a scheduled quarterfinal doubleheader at Clipper Magazine Stadium, it truncated the …

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PM tops SWS for extra-inning win

Comets’ Herr outduels White Sox’s Eshleman for 3-1 victory

By Dave Byrne
Sports Staff

Back in their heyday, Tom Seaver and Steve Carlton went mano-a-mano in some classic pitching duels worthy of their Hall-of-Fame pedigrees.

Most of which went Seaver’s way, through no fault of Carlton.

For five innings …

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Warwick, Mountville set stage for showdown

By Dave Byrne
Sports Staff

Memo to the Philadelphia Phillies: You can outhit your fielding mistakes. You can overcome baserunning blunders.

The Warwick Phillies proved that Monday night in a 7-4 victory over top-seeed Donegal in the opening night of the 68th New Era Tournament’s Midget-Midget championship series.

They …

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SWS Pioneers advance to Midget semis

By Dave Byrne
Sports Staff

Ephrata Pride and the Strasburg-Willow Street Pioneers advanced to the Midget semifinals of the 67th New Era Tournament Friday night at Clipper Magazine Stadium.

The Pride (14-3-1) got a yeoman effort from pitcher Seth Griffith and a three-RBI night from Brady Sipe to subdue …

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Lititz exits; Elizabethtown, SWS advance

By Dave Byrne
Sports Staff

As the top two seeds in the Junior-Midget division of the New Era Baseball Tournament, it would be logical to see the Strasburg/Willow Street White Sox and Lititz VFW face each other.

But in a knockout game?

In an NET turned upside down, elimination …

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Indians advance to final; Manheim, Warwick in elimination game

By Dave Byrne
Sports Staff

Logan Givler pitched a scoreless inning to close out the Mountville Indians’ victory over Manheim VFW on Monday night. He was just getting started.

Givler pitched the Indians (31-9) into Friday’s New Era Tournament Midget-Midget championship game, limiting the Warwick Phillies to Justin Byler’s …

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