Pennsylvania

American Legion Baseball

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...

Following Saturday's quarterfinal games, four teams remain alive in the single-elimination York County playoffs.  Pleasureville beat Hanover 9-6, and will play at Spring Grove, which defeated Red Lion.  To seed Southwestern York knocked out Glen Rock 5-2 and Suburban York eliminated New Oxford by a 9-4 count.  Suburban York will visit Southwestern in Sunday's other semifinal.  The semifinals winners will meet for the York County title and a berth in t...

Following a very successful run during the high school season, Hopewell was forced to complete its legion schedule in just sixteen days.  The teams picked up right where they left off in the Spring, winning all fourteen games scheduled.  This same momentum stuck with Hopewell, as it defeated Beaver Falls 11-1 in the opener of the Best of Five Beaver County Championship Series.  Hopewell is now just two wins away from another trip to the Region Six Tourname...

The heavy rain that passed through the area on Saturday led to postponements and delays through the eastern part of the state.  The three Bux-Mont League playoff games scheduled for Quakertown were pushed back, but were able to be played thanks to the great work by the grounds crew.  Hatfield stayed alive in the first game of the day by defeating Pottstown 8-7.  Another one run game followed, as Pennridge eliminated the Doylestown Tigers 10-9.  In the...

Rivals Spring City and Norchester will meet Sunday in Royersford to decide the Chester County Championship following their victories in Saturday's games.  Norchester ended Caln's season 11-10 in the day's opener at Ram Stadium.  Spring City then finished off West Chester surprising playoff run with a 15-4 rout.  Norchester will have to beat the host Red Sox twice on Sunday to win the title, with Spring City only needing one more victory to claim Chester Co...

Milford and Hawley split the first two games of their District 15 Championship Series Saturday at Hawley.  Milford took the first game from the hosts 9-3, with Hawley striking back in Game 2, winning 14-2 to stay alive.  After an off day Sunday, the series will move to Milford for the finale.  Hawley and Milford will meet one more time to determine the league champion and the representative to the Region Five Tournament at Mountaintop.

Regular season champ Greater Pittston fell 11-4 to four seed Old Forge in the first round of the Wyoming Valley playoffs at Mountain Post's home field in Mountaintop.  Plains was the other first round winner, knocking off Plymouth by a score of 9 to 3.  Sunday's schedule begins with Old Forge and Plains meeting in the a winner's bracket contest, while Greater Pittston will try to stay alive in an elmination game against Plymouth.  The winner of the tournam...

The pairing for the new Schuylkill-Berks League's first title game was set after the games played on Saturday.  Tamaqua won the North Division crown by defeating Southern Area 12-5.  Southern Area had qualified for the game by ending Valley View's run earlier in the day by a score of 14-0, in a game stopped after 5 innings due to the mercy rule.  These games were moved to Pottsville from Tamaqua due to rain earlier in the day.  In the South Division, ...

Here are the playoff results and another great report from Elk County Fan1:

Smethport 15, Kane 7

Ridgway 13, Smethport 5

Best of Three Series:

Fox Twp 9, Bradford 4

Fox Twp 17...

Region 2

Schuylkill-Berks, South Division

Hamburg 2, Muhlenberg 0, Muhlenberg eliminated

Kutztown 8, Fleetwood 7, Fleetwood eliminated

Saturday's schedule:

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

The sixteeen team, double elimination playoff schedule has been set for the teams in Allegheny County.  Each of the leagues sends representatives into the tournament.  The first round is scheduled to begin Saturday at several sites.  Here are the matchups:

CIT vs. Pleasant Hills

Bethel Park vs. Plum

Keystone Oaks...

Region 2

Schuylkill-Berks

Valley View 4, Tamaqua 2

Southern Area 12, Pine Grove 8

Saturday's Games

Southern Area vs. Valley View

T...

Berks County has a built in off day/rain date tonight, so the third round of competition will continue tomorrow afternoon at Bear Stadium in Boyertown.

Day 2 results:

Winner's Bracket

(1) Boyertown 13, (5) West Lawn 1  (7 innings)

(3) Twin Valley 6...

Region 2

Schuylkill-Berks

Loser's Bracket

Valley View 16, Pottsville 11

Pine Grove 7, Schuylkill Valley North 2

The Berks County League, in PA's Region 2, began their postseason double elimination tournament last evening.  Four games were held at the higher seed.  Tonight's matchups will also take place at the higher seeded team, with all action moving to Bear Stadium in Boyertown beginning on Friday.

The results are:

(1) Boyertown...

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

The Fayette County League will begin their playoffs this week with a double elimination tournament.

The first round matchups are:

(1) Uniontown vs. (8) Farmington

(4) Connellsville vs. (5) California

(3) Colonial vs. (6) Charleroi

District 15

Semifinals, best of 3

In game 1, Hawley defeated Honesdale 9-4.

We'll be posting a series of round up posts throughout the coming days as we get scores from around the state.  Some leagues have no published information, so results from every team may not be available... but we're working on it.

Lebanon County

First round, double elimination