Preliminary battles set for LNP Tournament

BY DAVE BYRNE
Sports Writer
The 2014 LNP Tournament is just around the corner, with the Midget-Midgets kicking off the double-elimination festivities on Monday, July 7.

But, before then, there is much to be accomplished in terms of preliminary games.

The first of those preliminaries are tonight with …

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Expanded tournament opens with M-M play

By Dave Byrne
Sports Staff
If they were to return from the great beyond, George Kirchner, the father of the New Era Midget Baseball Tournament, and Charlie Henry and Bill Carroll, men whose steady hands guided it for over 50 years, would likely not recognize their baby.

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E-town, SWS to battle for crown

Penn Manor eliminated from J-M chase in back-to-back losses

By Dave Byrne
Sports Staff

For four days Dan Eshleman waited to get his pitch.

For four days the Strasburg/Willow Street White Sox waited to get back to where they once belonged.

Eshleman got what he wanted, insuring his Sox …

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SWS, Hempfield move into semis

By Dave Byrne
Sports Staff

Strasburg-Willow Street’s Midgets may be trending young this summer, but it was the team’s two returning veterans leading it to the semifinals of the 68th Lancaster Newspapers New Era Tournament.

Austin Pletcher and Cameron Enck, the only two holdovers from last year, were a …

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