By Dave Byrne
Sports Staff
Baseball has always been, will always be, a funny game.
Holding a 10-4 lead, and having scattered two hits over two innings of relief, Nick Breznak was three outs away from pitching the Warwick Phillies …
By Dave Byrne
Sports Staff
The Midget finals of the 67th New Era Tournament will be a rematch of the 2008 Midget-Midget finals.
Top seed Manheim VFW will face sixth-seeded Strasburg/Willow Street tonight at 7 p.m. at Clipper Magazine Stadium.
As …
By Dave Byrne
Sports Staff
Now we’re all square.
Bear Shank threw five innings of relief behind starter Dan Eshleman and Eshleman knocked in three runs — two of the insurance variety in a three-run seventh inning Monday night — as the Strasburg-Willow Street White Sox forced a decisive, …
By Dave Byrne
Sports Staff
Rudyard Kipling never played in the New Era Tournament.
But his poem “If” resonated across the Midget final of the 67th New Era Tournament.
“If you can keep your head when all about you are losing …
By Dave Byrne
Sports Staff
This year’s change in the format of the New Era Junior-Midget tournament happened just in time for the Strasburg/Willow Street White Sox.
Going from single elimination to double elimination in the championship series proved fortuitous for the …
By Dave Byrne
Sports Staff
Young they may be, but the 2012 Mountville Indians are also something else.
LNP Tournament Midget-Midget champions.
Proving eight first-year players need not be a barrier to success, the Indians (32-9) took the measure of the Warwick Phillies 7-3 Friday night at Mtount Joy’s …
By Dave Byrne
Sports Staff
Fifty years from now, in 2063, who will gather to celebrate the golden anniversary of winning the 2013 Lancaster Newspapers New Era Midget baseball championship?
That quest begins tonight at 5:15 p.m. at Clipper Magazine Stadium, when top-seeded Hempfield Black takes on No. 8 …
By Dave Byrne
Sports Staff
Penn Manor threw down the gauntlet at the 2012 Lancaster Newspapers New Era Junior-Midget Tournament, knocking down the Strasburg-Willow Street White Sox on opening night.
Down but not out, the Sox battled back through the elimination bracket and defeated Elizabethtown Navy – which had …
By Dave Byrne
Sports Staff
Can the Mountville Indians repeat their feat of 2002-04, when they consecutively won their fifth, sixth and seventh New Era Tournament titles?
The two-time defending champion Indians shoot for their 10th title overall as the Lancaster Newspapers New Era Tournament gets underway tonight with …
By Dave Byrne
Sports Staff
“I remember, like, when I was five,” mused Shaun Fedor, looking back over the passage of seven years. “I dreamed of playing here.”
Here being Mount Joy’s Kunkle Field, the cathedral of youth baseball and home of the Lancaster Newspapers New Era Tournament.
Unfortunately …
