Pennsylvania

American Legion Baseball

Saturday, July 2

Quarterfinal Round

Troy-Canton 13, Wyalusing 3

Semifinal Round

Mansfield-Wellsboro 8, Troy-Canton 0

Towanda 6, Athens 4

Championship Game

Mansfield-Wellsboro 20, Towanda 6

Wednesday, July 6

Jenkintown 5, Warminster 2

Roslyn 4, Fort Washington 3

Thursday, July 6

Roslyn 13, Jenkintown 6

Fort Washington 8, Warminster 5

Friday, July 7

Jenkintown 8, Fort Washington 6

Sunday, July 8

Roslyn 10, Jenkintown 2

Roslyn wins the Lower Montco League championship

Wednesday, July 6

Connellsville defeated Jeff Morgan

Farmington defeated Belle Vernon

Uniontown defeated Colonial 3

Smithfield defeated Carmichaels

Thursday, July 7

Winner's Bracket

Connellsville vs. Farmington

Uniontown vs. Smithfield

Loser's Bracket

Jeff Morgan vs. Belle Vernon

Colonial 3 vs. Carmichaels

The York County League will begin its playoffs on Thursday with four games. Top seed Northeastern will host New Oxford, and the other matchups are South Western at Pleasureville, Hanover at Red Lion, and Shiloh at Dallastown. The tournament champion will advance to the Region 4 Tournament. We will update this post as the games are completed.

First Round - Thursday, July 7

#8 New Oxford at #1 Northeastern

#5 Shiloh at #4 Dallastown

#7 South Western at #2 Pleasureville

#6 Hanover at #3 Red Lion

The Central Penn League in Region 7 has finalized its playoff bracket.  Philipsburg will not be participating in the playoffs.  The first round matchups are as follows:

Round 1

Beech Creek (#1) Bye

DuBoise (#5) vs. Clearfield (#4)

Bellefonte (#6) vs. Mifflin County (#3)

Clarence (#7) vs. State College (#2)

Fayette County in Region 6 will begin its league playoffs on Wednesday with 4 games. Top seed Connellsville will host Jefferson Morgan in one first round contest. Other matchups pair Farmington and Belle Vernon, Colonial 3 and Uniontown, and Smithfield and Carmichaels. The double elimination tournament is scheduled to run through Sunday. We'll post updates on results as the games are completed.

First Round - Wednesday, July 6

Jefferson Morgan (8 seed) vs. Connellsville (1 seed)

Belle Vernon (5 seed) vs. Farmington (4 seed)

Colonial 3 (7 seed) vs. Uniontown (2 seed)

Carmichaels (6 seed) vs. Smithfield (3 seed)

The seven PA regional tournaments will take place July 16 to 20 and will be held at the following locations:

Region 2

Quakertown

Region 3

Spring City

Region 4

Fayetteville

Region 5

South Scranton

Region 6

Blackhawk

Region 7

Bedford

Region 8

St. Mary's

The PA State Tournament will be held July 26 to 30 at Bear Stadium in Boyertown.

by Vince Rodemer

BEAVER SPRINGS--West Snyder got the clutch hit they've been looking for from Hunter Jordan.

Unfortunately, Montgomery's got a few more and their outfielders made several huge plays to kill any momentum early in the game and the visitors knocked off Post 942 8-5 in an American Legion baseball game on Tuesday night.

"I think from what I was hearing from the guys, they were happy to hit the ball harder," West Snyder coach Scott Sharp said. "The other thing (they were saying) is that we close. The last time we played these guys, they played very, very good defense and held us when we could have been scoring. Their defense kept in the game quite a bit."

The visitors put two runs on the board with RBI singles from Jensen Drick and Bailey Wilk.

In the bottom half, West Snyder had runners on first and third with two outs when Devon Leister lofted a liner into the left center gap, but Wilk quickly closed it and snared the ball to end the inning.

The following inning it was more of the same from Wilk and right fielder Brayden Strouse.

Wilk went back on Aaron Sharp's deep fly ball and caught it facing away from the field on the run to rob Sharp of at least three bases.

That play instantly saved the visitors a run when Dylan Loss came up and smashed a double over Strouse's head.

An error put runners on the corners with two outs and brought up Travis Zechman.

The left hander lined a ball to right, but Strouse came in and made a diving catch to end the inning.

Montgomery added a run in the third and another in the fourth on a wild pitch to double its lead to 4-0.

West Snyder lit the scoreboard for the first time in the bottom of the fourth.

Ashton Martin reached on an infield single and moved to second when the second baseman threw it away.

Jordan followed with a single and Devon Leister knocked Martin in with a groundout to make it 4-1.

Aaron Sharp followed with an RBI single to right to cut the lead to 4-2 before Montgomery starter Gage Yohn got out of it.

Following Chris Elliott's scoreless inning of relief in the fifth, Post 942 came back for more offensively.

Zane Leister and Zechman both singled with one out and following a groundout, Jordan connected for a two-run game-tying single to center.

"It's very encouraging (to see the clutch hit)." Scott Sharp said. "What I'm seeing from the guys here (is that) we are starting to put the ball in play and hit the ball harder. I'm hoping the hits are going to come in when we have runners on base. It seems that we get guys on and get them in scoring position…I think every inning but two, we left runners on third base. That's tough, especially the first inning when we had a runner on third and no outs or one out and didn't score him."

Had another run scored for West Snyder, there may have been a different result.

"I was going to go with Aaron, I told him to get loose if we get the lead," Scott Sharp said. "When they scored a couple of runs, I decided to stay with Chris. He's a nice little pitcher and he needs this experience. He's a young guy."

Yohn got out of the inning though and set the stage for Mike Alexander's go-ahead two-run double in the top of the sixth.

Montgomery got two more on a Drick two-run double in the top of the seventh to assume an 8-4 lead before Martin's RBI single settled the score at the final, 8-5.

by Vince Rodemer

STATE COLLEGE--A night after Mifflin County was the beneficiary of a rocky inning from visiting Clarence that resulted in a mercy-rule 11-1 victory, it almost turned the trick again.

State College made four consecutive errors to begin the seventh inning, but Oliver Daily came on to strike out the game's final three batters and give Post 245 the 6-4 home victory in an American Legion baseball game in State College.

For Mifflin County, starting the first, second and third innings by issuing a free pass, including the walk to start the third that jumpstarted State College's four-run inning was its downfall.

"Pretty much cost us the game when we had that one bad inning," Mifflin County coach Bernie Howard said. "It was like a reversal from (Monday) night. We had that one inning with a couple of walks, it was our undoing."

Post 287 starter Kyle Peachey seemed to be having control issues, which could have been rooted in the trouble that Peachey seemed to be having with the mound.

He was constantly kicking dirt around and trying to get his footing that resulted in him falling off the mound and leaving pitches inside and out of the strike zone.

Howard said the right-hander didn't voice any sort of complaints about the mound, so that wasn't the primary issue.

The walk to Caleb Walls to start off the bottom of the first was erased when Peachey got Tyler Hall swinging and catcher Isaac Maclay gunned down Walls trying to steal second.

Mifflin County had a chance to put a run on the board in the top of the second when Nick Hostetler singled with two outs and stole second to get in scoring position.

State College starter Spencer Randolph got a grounder to third to end the inning and the threat.

Post 245 started their half when Harrison Walls drew a leadoff walk and his courtesy runner scored to make it 1-0 on a Justin Vescio fielder's choice.

Peachey got out of the inning with a grounder to second and a fly ball to left, leaving the deficit at a run.

Mifflin County had two on with two outs in the top of the third on a pair of singles from Cade Attick and Ty Bodtorf.

Randolph escaped with a pop out to second base to that ended the inning.

The State College pitcher drew a walk to start the third and more trouble for Post 287.

Caleb Walls singled up the middle and Hall was hit by a pitch to load the bases.

Josh Gardner and Vescio each drew bases-loaded walks sandwiched between an error and the score settled at 4-0.

Oliver Daily capped the four-run inning with an RBI single before Andrew Larson, who came on in relief could escape the inning on a beautiful Attick double play.

Mifflin County opened it scoring in the top of the fourth when Kenny Cavanaugh and Nick Hostetler put together back-to-back singles with one out.

Larson was excellent in the fourth and fifth for Mifflin County.

In the fourth his 1-2-3 inning was aided by Maclay's throw to second to catch Caleb Walls stealing and in the fifth allowing him pitched around a one-out walk.

State College added a run in the bottom of the sixth on a Daily tripled and Steven Plafcan RBI single to extend the lead to 6-1.

It was a good thing, though because after playing outstanding defense all day, State College made four straight errors to begin the seventh inning, plating three Mifflin County runs.

The final of the four was a rocket between the legs of the Post 245 second baseman and nearly got to the fence to score Ross Underhill and Ty Bodtorf and put Larson on third with no outs.

"We needed that," Howard said. "Down 6-1 in the last inning, we could have folded up the tent and we ended up with the tying run at the plate. I was proud of the fact that they did battle back there, it will be good for the rest of the season."

Daily came on to put out the fire with three consecutive strikeouts to end the game.

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by Vince Rodemer

LEWISTOWN--Mifflin County and Clarence looked to be in a pitcher's duel through three innings on Monday night.

The two teams combined for one hit over that time, but everything went haywire after that and Mifflin County used Clarence starter Noah Chambers' ineffectiveness against him to plate five fourth-inning runs and knock off the visitors 11-1 in five innings at Mifflin County High School.

"I said to the guys after the game that I couldn't remember a time where an inning could go that bad for a team," Mifflin County coach Bernie Howard said. "You just have to take advantage of that and we did. We were in a little bit of a scoring drought when Ross got the base hit (to start the inning). He hit three guys in a row, I'm not sure that I've seen that in a long time."

Post 287 plated those five runs on just one hit and added six more in the fifth to finish the game.

Ty Bodtorf tossed a complete game, allowed just a pair of hits and struck out five batters for Mifflin County.

The only hit early on belonged to Clarence's Matthew Reese, a single up the middle to lead off the game.

Bodtorf retired the following nine hitters though to keep the game scoreless through three innings of play.

Clarence took a 1-0 lead in its half of the fourth that started with Reese's walk to begin the inning.

Andy Swabick smashed a one-out double to deep center to score Reese and make it 1-0.

Bodtorf got the following two hitters on a groundout and fly out to end the inning and threat.

"The complete game that he threw recently was his longest outing of the year," Howard said of Bodtorf. "We didn't want to take him off short during the high school season, so he threw a minimum number of innings. I thought he looked excellent in the last game and certainly didn't disappoint tonight. He did an excellent job."

The bottom half of Chambers' disastrous fourth started innocently with a Ross Underhill single up the middle.

Chambers hit the following three batters--Isaac Maclay, Bortorf and Kenny Cavanaugh with Cavanaugh's scoring Underhill to even the game at 1-1.

A pair of wild pitches and Hostetler's sac fly made it 4-1 and a passed ball made it 5-1 Mifflin County.

Bodtorf got Clarence in order in the fifth, which included a pair of strikeouts to set the stage for the bottom half of the inning.

Caleb Bell came on in relief, but ran into the same issues as Chambers.

Andrew Larson singled to begin the inning and Ross Underhill and Isaac Maclay drew back-to-back walks to load the bases.

"We talk about (patience) a lot," Howard said. "You don't want to give the advantage to the opposition. I thought our guys handled that very well. We drew two walks there because the guys battled and stayed off bad pitches. I thought overall for us, it was a pretty good game."

Bortorf drove in a pair of runs in with a single and Kenny Cavanaugh walked to reload the bases.

Zach Hostetler was hit by a pitch and brother Nick chopped a two-run single to third to extend the lead to 10-1.

A grounder up the middle from Aaron Kanagy ended the game at 11-1.

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Updated results and standings are being posted to the site daily for teams and leagues around the state.  Don't forget, you can now submit a score to us in just a few seconds by filling out the form founding by clicking on the 'Submit A Score' link at the top right of the page.

Don't see a result or standings update for your favorite league or team?  Be sure to send that information along via the 'Submit A Score' link or by emailing it to us at [email protected]  Your help is greatly appreciated.

We're excited to announce a new site feature: you can now submit game results directly on the website in just a few seconds.  A new page has been added to the navigation bar titled 'Submit A Score'.  Simply click on this link and fill out the few fields, click submit, and you're done.  Any game result information you can provide would be greatly appreciated.  Thanks for your help!

The 2016 PA Legion Baseball season officially kicks off this week with a slew of games taking place around the state.  Check back often to view up to date standings and results pages from around the state.

As a reminder, results can be accessed by clicking on the region name in the navigation bar at the top of the site.  To see your league's standings, simply scroll over the region and click on the league name.

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Play ball!

It's getting warmer (just kidding, it's snowing...) and that means that legion baseball is right around the corner.  We're in the process of updating the site in preparation for the 2016 season but we need your help.  Please pass along all league and team schedules that you may have, we will work over the next month or so to combine the information we receive to provide overall schedules by region.

As we mention every year, providing an entire state's worth of information is a daunting task.  We're in need of volunteers to update schedule and result information.  It takes just a few seconds per day and would really help us out.  The more help we have, the more information you'll find on the site.  We simply don't have time to do it all ourselves.

If you have schedule information you can provide or you'd like more information on how to volunteer for the site, please contact us at [email protected].  Thanks!

Downingtown and Red Land began National Regional play on Wednesday in Leesburg, VA. Downingtown dropped the tournament's opening game to Funkstown, MD by a 6-4 score. Red Land defeated host Leesburg in the nightcap 3-1. Both teams are back in action on Thursday, and an updated bracket can be found at the following link - Mid-Atlantic Regional Bracket