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American Legion Baseball

The Latrobe Jethawks complete in Westmoreland County's District 31 Southeast Division.  The Jethawks 11-4-1 in league play a year ago, and qualified for the league playoffs.  In 2011, Latrobe hopes to return to the Region Seven Tournament.  The team has advanced to regionals ten times, which leaves Latrobe tied with Murrysville for the most out of all Westmoreland County teams.  A link to the team's website and schedule is below.

Taras Letnaunchyn couldn't have been more eager to take the mound for Boyertown in their opening round matchup with State College in the 2010 Pennsylvania American Legion Championship Tournament.  After all, his last time out there he was plagued by spotty control and ultimately ended up taking his first loss of the season in the Berks County League winner's bracket final.

Tonight's task inv...

Region: 7

League: Central-Penn, postseason champions

Record: 34-8

State College, the Central-Penn League champion commenced their region seven tournament run by putting up their first of many crooked digits, with a 19-10 victory over Bushy Run fr...

Homer City routed Creps United 15-0 in 5 innings on Saturday to advance to the Indiana County championship round.  Creps United will play Saturday's other victor Indiana Legion at 2pm today in an elimination contest.  The winner will go on to meet Homer City on Monday night.

Greensburg and Bushy Run will meet in the finals of District 31 following sweeps in the league's semifinal round.  The championship will be played at 5pm at Westmoreland County Community College.  By virtue of their finals appearance, both teams have clinched spots in next week's regional tournament in Clearfield.  Greensburg defeated West Hempfield 11-6 to complete their two game sweep in one semifinal.  In the other series, Bushy Run finished off Mu...

League's around Region Seven are now in the thick of their playoffs.  In Jefferson County, the four team, double-elimination playoffs began with two games.  Punxsutawney defeated Clearfield 11-8, while top seed DuBois beat Brookville 10-5.  Brookville will travel to Clearfield for a loser's bracket matchup, while Punxsutawney will play DuBois for a spot in the finals.  No matter what, Clearfield's season will continue past this round, since it host ne...

Four teams will participate in the Jefferson County Playoffs in Region Seven.  Below are the first round matchups.  The tournament is double elimination and all games will be played at the home field of the higher seed.

#3 seed Clearfield @ #2 seed Punxsutawney

#4 seed Brookville @ #1 seed DuBois

District 31

Greensburg 14, Kiski Valley 12 in the deciding game three of their matchup

Cambria County

Ebensburg 10, Portage 2

Bedford 10, St. Michael 7

Somerset 16, Patton 6

Cambria County's four best of three quarterfinal playoff series began on Monday.  Somerset defeated Patton 12-2, Claysburg topped Westmont 10-6, Bedford beat St. Michael 12-2, and Portage beat Ebensburg 9-5.

Stay tuned for updates on these playoffs, as well as results from around the state.

The District 31 League in PA's Region 7 has begun its playoffs.  The top eight teams began best of three series the other day, with some somewhat surprising results so far.

On July 3rd:

(8) Bushy Run 6, (1) Hempfield East 5  (Bushy Run leads 1-0)

(4) Murraysville 9, (5) Irwin 3  (Murraysville leads 1-0)

The Region 7 results page has now been updated with links to almost every league and team in the region!  To access the information, simply click on the desired team or league name and the site will open in a new window!

We'll add the rest of the links as they become available.

Here is a link to Region 7's Cambria County League, make sure to check out some of their games if you get the chance!

http://www.cambrialegionbaseball.org/schedule.asp

Eight of Pennsylvania's finest legion baseball teams descended on Bear Stadium in Boyertown last August for the 2009 PA American Legion Baseball State Championship Tournament.  The title of the tournament is a mouthful, but the five day tournament showcased PA's elite teams from all across the state.  This past year, the tournament featured six regional champions and two regional co-champions.  Before the recap, let's get into who represented every ...