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Ryan Dunmire's two-run double in the bottom of the ninth scored the tying and winning runs to give Red Land an 8-7 come-from-behind win over Ephrata in the American Legion Region 4 baseball playoffs Tuesday afternoon in Fredericksburg.

Ephrata scored three runs in the top of the eighth to take a ...

The Donegal Midget-Midget team does not appear to have an official nickname.

Perhaps Bulldogs?

Because, like the bulldog, Donegal does … not … stop.

In a game that featured 10 pitchers, 40 runs, 32 hits, eight lead changes and took two hours and 50 minutes to complete, Donegal...

Ross Peeples pitched perhaps his best game in his seven years as a Lancaster Barnstormer to beat the Somerset Patriots in Bridgewater, N.J., Monday night.

Peeples fired a four-hit shutout to beat the Pats, 3-0.

Peeples, the only remaining Barnstormer from the inaugural 2005 team, allowed just ...

Adam Yunginger and Cameron Gallagher helped lead Manheim Township's baseball team to the PIAA Class AAAA semifinals this spring.

Now, the Blue Streak stars and Division I-caliber tandem front a Lancaster-Lebanon League contingent that lists six players on the 2011 Pennsylvania High School Basebal...

After a few games in the American Legion Region 4 baseball tournament, you didn't have to hit the batters over the head with the fact that pitching, quality pitching, that is, is sparse in these here parts.

Heading up to the plate with the knowledge that anyone 60 feet, six inches in front of the...

If you set out to create an ecologically diverse landscape in Lancaster County populated by native species friendly to wildlife, would you think of that expansive suburbia known as Manheim Township?
Why not? That would be the reply of an energetic and determined grassroots group called Habitat MT.
A...

Joe Murren lined a single into the gap in the bottom of the 12th to knock in the winning run, giving New Oxford a 10-9 victory over Ephrata in the second round of the American Legion Region 4 Tournament at Wenger Field late Sunday night.
Ephrata saw a 9-3 lead evaporate as New Oxford forged a 9-9 ti...

Defense is going to be the Barnstormers' focus in the second half of this season.
"Our goal," manager Butch Hobson said before Saturday's game with Bridgeport, "is to have the best defense in the league."
Yep. Defense. Gonna be our thing.
But maybe not every night. Once in a while they'll just hit a...

With one stroke of his bat, Mark Lowrie created all of the momentum Ephrata would need.
With his team trailing 4-3 after five innings, Lowrie belted a two-run double to center field to begin a seven-run inning. Ephrata rode that momentum to a 10-9 win over Hummelstown in the first round of the Ameri...

 

The leaders in the clubhouse sat on a small hillock above the 18th green at Pilgrim's Oak, watching the last foursomes finish, when the possibility of a sudden-death playoff was raised.
"I'm going to need to take more Advil!" cracked Chris Fieger who, with his son Christopher Jr., finished...