Pennsylvania

American Legion Baseball

The Central Penn League will commence its double elimination playoffs on Wednesday.  First round matchups are below.  All games will be played at the home field of the higher seed.  The final will be played on Monday, or Tuesday if an extra game is necessary.

Clearfield @ Beech Creek

Mifflin County @ Philipsburg

...

On Thursday July 19th, Boyertown's Bear Stadium will play host to the second annual Next Level baseball showcase.  Last year's inaugural event played host to a large field of prospective college athletes, over twenty colleges and universities, and multiple professional scouts.  Two players from last year's event received scholarship assistance as a result of their performance, and many underclassmen have experienced greater contact with college coaches since th...

Updated 11:20pm

Bradford-Tioga League

Semifinal

Towanda 9, Wellsboro 6

Championship Game

Towanda 12, Athens 7

Towanda advances to the Region Five Tournam...

Updated 11:40pm

Philadelphia

Semifinals (Begin Wednesday, Best of Three)

Bustleton vs. Ivy Ridge

Rhawnhurst vs. Loudenslager

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...

Updated 11:30pm

Fayette County

First Round (Begins Monday, Best of Three)

Game One:

Connellsville 21, Masontown 6

Masontown vs. Connellsville

California vs. Colonial

York County

Double Elimination (Begins Tuesday, Eight seed to be determined Monday in play-in game)

Hanover vs. SW York

Dallastown vs. New Oxford

Glen Rock vs. Red Lion

Pleasureville -- Northeastern winer vs. Spring Grove

Cambria County

Double Elimination (Begins Wednesday)

Richland vs. Somerset

Meyersdale vs. Patton

Cernic's vs. Claysburg

Stoystown vs. Bedford

Central Penn

Elk County

First Round

Smethport vs. Fox Township

Port Allegany vs. Bradford

Second Round

Smethport -- Fox Township winner vs. Wilcox

Port Allegany -- Bradford winner vs. St. Marys

The Indiana County playoffs are set with two best-of-three semifinals series getting underway Wednesday, July 11.  Regular season champion Blairsville ( 21-3 ) will face Young Twp ( 14-10 ).  Punxsutawney ( 21-3 ), which finished in second place based on its head-to-head record with Blairsville, takes on a red-hot Marion Center team ( 16-8 ) that won its final 8 games of the season.  By virtue of its regular season title, Blairsville has already earned a b...

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...

Game One results from the District 31 quarterfinal matchups:

West Hempfield 7, Kiski Valley 6

Unity 11, Latrobe 9

Hempfield East 4, Derry 0

Irwin 8, Mount Pleasant 5

Game Two in each series is scheduled for Sunday.  The games will be hosted ...

Two first round games mark the start of the Elk County League Playoffs on Sunday.  Five seed Smethport travels to Fox Township in one matchup, while three seed Bradford hosts six seeded Port Allegany.  The first round victors will advance to semifinal matchups on Monday.  The Fox Township - Smethport winner will take on regular season champ Wilcox.  St. Mary's awaits the Bradford - Port Allegany winner.

Uniontown has earned Fayette County's regular season title and the top seed in the league's playoffs.  The seven team affair will begin on Monday with three first round series.  Two seed Connellsville will host Masontown, while in the other two series, six seed California visits Colonial and four seed Charleroi hosted five seeded Farmington.  Uniontown, which has recieved a first round bye for its first place finish, will await the three winners in the sem...

Hawley and Hamlin finished off their respective semifinal series to move on to District 15's best of three championship series.  Following a 5-0 win at home on Thursday evening, Hawley defeated Hamlin 6-5 on Friday night to win the series.  Milford hammered Montrose 11-1 in a game stopped after five innings due to the mercy rule.  As the top seed, Hawley will have home field advantage for the championship series, which begins on Tuesday.  The league c...

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...

District 31 in the state's Region Seven begins its eight team playoff tournament today.  The first round, which comprises of four best of three series, starts this afternoon with each game hosted for the higher seed.  Regular season champ Hempfield East hosts eight seed Derry, while seven seed Mt. Pleasant visits two seed Irwin.  Regional host Latrobe, the four seed, hosts rival Unity Township.  In the final matchup, West Hempfield travels to third se...

What started as a hobby and a desire to see local events commemorated through pictures has grown into a flourishing website for a local photographer.  PopPopGood.com currently features over 126,000 (yes, that's no typo!) high quality pictures of local sports and community events.  Good Shots Photography has taken great photos of legion baseball for years and will capture another season of legion excitement this summer.

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 ...