Pennsylvania

American Legion Baseball

Towanda defeated Troy 11-2 Friday evening to advance to today's final four in the Bradford-Tioga League Playoffs.  They will meet Wellsboro in one semifinal, with Athens set to play in the other semifinal.  Athens awaits the winner of Wyalusing and Canton in that game.  The semifinal survivors will play later Saturday for the league title.  All of today's games will be played in East Troy.  The winner of the championship contest will move on to r...

The six team playoff field in Region Five's District 11 has been set.  Regular season champion and top seed Valley View leads the way.  Post 411 won the title by two games.  The second seed, Green Ridge, will join Valley View in the semifinals, as both teams have first round byes.  Single elimination will determine the other two semifinalists.  In one first round game, six seed Dickson City will travel to West Scranton to take on three seed Post ...

The four team playoff field has been set in Region Five's District 15 League.  The league, which comprises the state's northeast corner, will begin with two semifinal series. The Hawley Toros have claimed the top seed following a doubleheader sweep of Hamlin on the regular season's last day.  Hamlin, the four seed for the playoffs, will visit Hawley Thursday evening for Game One of their best of three semifinal series.  Game Two is scheduled for Hamlin on ...

In 2011, the Wyoming Valley League was the strongest in the Region Five Postseason.  League members Plains and Back Mountain ran through the Regional Tournament at Bloomsburg, finishing as the top two teams.  Although Back Mountain knocked Plains off in the Winners' Bracket Final of the tournament, Plains was better on the final day, defeating Back Mountain twice for the regional title and the trip to the State Tournament.  This year's league season is sch...

District 11, which is located in Northeast Pennsylvania, begins play on June 2nd.  The league is comprised of nine Scranton area teams and the top six will make the playoffs.  Last year Green Ridge won the league title and finished with a 2-2 record at the regional tournament.  They'll likely be near the top of the league again this year, and Carbondale/Lakeland and Abington have also been strong in the past at the league and regional level.  A full l...

Bradford-Tioga

Tuesday’s Game - Semifinals

Canton 18, Wyalusing 11

Wednesday’s Game - Championship

Canton vs. TBD

Wyoming Valley

Bradford-Tioga

Playoffs begin Tuesday, Matchups to be determined

Wyoming Valley

Monday’s Game - Losers’ Bracket

Plains 11, Greater Pittston 6

Tuesday’s Game - C...

Scores and schedules for Regions Four and Five are posted below.  Be sure to check back to this post for further updates as they come in.

Cumberland

Monday's Games - Opening Round

Mechanicsburg @ New Cumberland

Silver Spring @ Red Land

Bradford-Tioga

Playoffs begin July 12th

District 11

Best of Three Finals begin Saturday

Green Ridge (3) @ West Scranton (1)

District 15

Here are Thursday's scores and Friday's schedule for the playoff tournaments in Region Five.  Scores and schedules will be updated further as information becomes available.

Bradford-Tioga

Playoffs begin July 12th

Top seed Jersey Shore leads a six team field as the West Branch League Playoffs begin this evening.  Jersey Shore and second seed Hughesville will receive byes to the second round of the double elimination tournament.  Four teams are in action in tonight's first round, with Lewisburg visiting Milton and Williamsport matching up with Watsontown.  On Thursday, the Lewisburg-Milton winner will face off with Hughesville, and Jersey Shore will host the Williams...

The eight teams of the Susquehanna Valley League will participate in the double elimination playoffs beginning Wednesday night.  There are four games on the slate, all of hosted by the higher seed, and all starting at 5:30.  Regular season champion and defending regional champ Danville hosts Shamokin/Mt. Carmel.  Catawissa travels to two seed Sunbury/Northumberland.  Line Mountain visits Berwick and Bloomsburg will play at Selinsgrove.  The winne...

The District 11 Semifinals will begin tonight in Region 5.  The playoffs will consist of two best of three rounds, with the higher seed in each matchup getting homefield advantage in two of the three games.  Tonight, four seed South Scranton will visit undefeated regular season champion West Scranton at Bataglia Field.  Wednesday, the action will shift to South Scranton's home field at Connell Park, before returning to Bataglia for a decisive game Thursday...

Also out of PA's Region 5, the Wyoming Valley League schedule is posted at the link below.

Wyoming Valley League

The beginning of the District 11 season schedule has been posted online.  Find it at the link below.

District 11 League

Region 5 fans will notice a slight change in the teams that make up the Wyoming Valley League this summer.  Plymouth-Grontkowski, which has enjoyed a good deal of success in northeast Pennsylvania the past several years, will officially change legion post sponsorships.  The team will now represent Swoyersville Post 644 which is located about ten minutes northeast of their former sponsor.

This move will help to bolster an alrea...

Spring City bounced back to top Danville in game five of the 2010 PA Legion Championship Tournament Wednesday morning by a final score of 11-2.

Danville has been eliminated, while Spring City advances to game ten tomorrow afternoon, where they'll take on the loser of Boyertown-Hopewell.

In the first of many exciting games on day one of the tournament, region two champion Pennridge held on and staved off a late Danville rally to win 5-4.

Danville was down two entering the ninth, when they rallied four two runs.  Despite having the tying run in scoring position with nobody out, they were unable to push the runner across for the equalizer.  

Region Five Tournament play kicked off this morning at Mountaintop with District 11 representative Valley View defeating Wyoming Valley champion Greater Pittston 5-1.  Greater Pittston will try to stay alive Sunday in Game 5, while Valley View moves on in the Winner's Bracket to Sunday's Game 7.

Play in the Susquehanna Valley and West Branch Leagues is down to the final pairings.  In the Susquehanna Valley League, Danville will visit undefeated Selinsgrove in the championship round.  Selinsgrove will have to be beaten twice to be eliminated.  One win will give Selinsgrove another league title and visit to the Region Five Tournament.

In the West Branch League, Sunbury/North...