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Boyertown and Twin Valley will begin play in the Mid-Atlantic Regional Tournament on Thursday.  The tournament is hosted by Brooklawn and will be contested at Campbell's Field in Camden, NJ.  Twin Valley will play Delaware champ Stahl Post at 9:30am in Game 1.  Boyertown will meet up with West Seneca, the New York champion, in Game 2.  That game will begin at approximately 12:30pm.

Live stats of the tourn...

Zach Eddinger was not charged with a run in nine innings of work, and rode a big four-run first inning to a 6-3 win over North Parkland in the first round of the Region 2 American Legion playoffs.

“All of my pitches were kind of on today,” said Eddinger. “My fastball had a little pop today. It was nice to see.”

After innings of inactivity, something finally happened for Nazareth.

Something Nazareth pitch Brad Frase has never seen.

Things turned around for Nazareth, who beat Salisbury 4-3 at Boyertown High School in the first round of the Region 2 playoffs when Jake...

**Per the state director, this is the official bracket being used for this weekend's tournament.

Game 1: Schuylkill-Berks vs. Lehigh Valley #1, 9:30am

Game 2: Northampton #1 vs. Lehigh Valley #2, doubleheader

Game 3: Berks vs. Northampton #2, 4pm

Game 4: Host vs. Bux-Mont, doubleheader

The 2013 PA Region 2 tournament will commence Saturday morning at Bear Stadium in Boyertown with a strong field of teams looking to continue southeastern PA's dominance in the state playoffs.

Boyertown, the host of the tournament, won the Berks County League regular season before going 2-2 in the league playoffs.  The Bears will open up their tournament in game four against Lehigh Val...

The last time Doylestown was on the field at Boyertown’s Bear Stadium, the Tigers were wrapping up the program’s first ever state championship in a win over Spring City last August. This year, Steve Ruane’s squad began its campaign with a 2-0 victory over host Boyertown. Doylestown took advantage of solid pitching and spotty Boyertown defense. Starting pitcher Andrew Check went four innings, striking out five while walking just one. He also added t...

Game 12: Spring City (PA) 3, Flemington (NJ) 1 (11 innings) (Flemington eliminated)

Game 13: Brooklawn (NJ) 9, Doylestown (PA) 3 (Doylestown eliminated)

Game 8: Flemington (NJ) 10, Columbia Park (MD) 1

Game 9: Spring City (PA) 6, Stahl Post (DE) 4 (Stahl Post eliminated)

Game 10: Doylestown (PA) 5, Columbia Park (MD) 2 (Columbia Park eliminated)

Game 1...

Game 8: Columbia Park (MD) vs. Flemington (NJ), 9:30am (7 innings)

Game 9: Spring City (PA) vs. Stahl Post (DE), 12pm

Game 10: Doylestown (PA) vs. Game 8 Loser, doubleheader

Update (2pm):

Game 4 is just underway.  Follow live here: Gametracker

Due to Thursday night's rainout, Game 4 has been p...

The Mid-Atlantic National Regional Tournament gets underway Thursday morning at Owls Field in West Lawn.  We'll have periodic updates on our twitter feed throughout the tournament.  The National Legion Organization will provide live play-by-play and stats online through all of the games.  A link to the tournament schedule is below.  Just click on a game in the calendar and link will appear for the Gametracker Live Stats.  Also below are links to ...

Region 2 Tournament Capsules

North Parkland

League: Lehigh Valley Regular Season and Playoff Champion

Manager: Terry Stoudt

Website: http://www.northparkla...

Updated 12:00am

Berks County

Double Elimination (Begins Wednesday)

Conrad Weiser vs. Shillington

West Lawn vs. Norchester

Daniel Boone vs. Boyertown

Twin Valley vs. Exeter...

The double elimination Berks County Playoffs begin Wednesday evening.  With the top five teams in league finishing within two games of each other, the tournament should be very wide open.  The first two rounds will be at the home fields of the higher seeded teams.  The remaining rounds will be played at Shillington's Rulon Griffith Field.

Regular season champion Shillington will ho...

The matchups for the best of three quarterfinal series have been set in the Northampton County League.  Regular season champion Bath is seeded first, and takes on eight seed Easton.  Division rival Nazareth, the two seed, faces Freemansburg.  Roseto and Palmer Township will meet in the 4-5 matchup, while local rivals East Stroudsburg (#3) and Kemp Post  (#6) will face off in the remaining series.

Each series will con...

With league playoffs just a few weeks away, teams around the state have begun to position themselves for their respective league tournaments in pursuit of coveted regional tournament berths.  In Pennsylvania's Region Two, a number of close races are starting to develop.  The regional tournament this year will be held at West Lawn's Owls Field at Ted Palka Park.

In the Berks County League, the league race remains wi...

We here at palegionball.com hope you enjoyed the unofficial start to the summer season and also got to take some time on the true meaning of Memorial Day.

While many were packing their bags and heading home from the beach or firing up the grill, Hatfield and Exeter were locked in a tight holiday contest today. Exeter got off to a quick start with three runs in the top of the first. Hatfield quickly answered with two of their own in the ...

The Lehigh Valley League, an eleven team league that plays in Pennsylvania's Region Two, has released its 2012 schedule.  Last year's league title was won by Northern Valley, which along with Fullerton represented the league in the state regionals.  The league, which has existed since 1941, will only have one regional representative this year, so the run to the title should be especially fierce.  One major highlight of the season will be the league's secon...

A major shake-up in PA Legion Baseball has officially been announced.  The NorChester Bulldogs, long-time participants in Region 3's Chester County League, will make the move to the Berks County League this summer.  The move will solidify the Berks County League as one of the nation's top legion leagues with several state and national powers in NorChester, Boyertown, West Lawn, and Shillington.

Bristol claimed its first ever legion state championship on Saturday afternoon with a 11-3 win over Boyertown.  We'll have a lot more on the game and the national regional qualifiers coming soon.