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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

Clarence @ DuBois

State College @ Bellefonte

Check back for further updates from the Central Penn League and from around the state.

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 the event.

More information can be found here: Next Level Baseball Showcase

Updated 11:20pm

Bradford-Tioga League

Semifinal

Towanda 9, Wellsboro 6

Championship Game

Towanda 12, Athens 7

Towanda advances to the Region Five Tournament

District 11

First Round

Moscow 10, South Scranton 7

West Scranton 9, Dickson City 0

Semifinals (Best of Three, Beginning Tuesday)

Moscow vs. Valley View

West Scranton vs. Green Ridge

District 15

Championship (Best of Three, Beginning Tuesday)

Milford vs. Hawley

Susquehanna Valley

Double Elimination (Begins Monday with 8/9 Game)

Line Mountain 12, West Snyder 1

Shamokin/Mt. Carmel vs. Danville

Catawissa vs. Berwick

Line Mountain vs. Sunbury/Northumberland

Selinsgrove vs. Bloomsburg

West Branch

Double Elimination (Begins Monday)

Lewisburg 5, Watsontown 1

Hughesville vs. Montoursville

Williamsport vs. Montgomery

Lewisburg vs. Watsontown

Milton has a first round bye.

Wyoming Valley

Double Elimination (Begins Friday, All games at Mountain Top)

Hazleton vs. Greater Pittston

Tunkhannock vs. Mountain Top #2

Updated 11:40pm

Philadelphia

Semifinals (Begin Wednesday, Best of Three)

Bustleton vs. Ivy Ridge

Rhawnhurst vs. Loudenslager

Lower Bucks

First Round (Begins Thursday)

Lower Southampton vs. Falls

Yardley-Morrisville vs. Newtown

Bensalem or Northampton vs. Bristol or Yardley Western

Bensalem or Northampton vs. Bristol or Yardley Western

Other leagues are still finalizing their brackets.  If you have updated information for any league, please either leave a comment or email.  We'll get the information up on the site as soon as possible.  Thanks!

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

Bux-Mont

Double Elimination (Begins Thursday, Play in Game on Tuesday)

Hatfield vs. Pennridge

Plumstead vs. Pottstown

Warrington vs Souderton

Nor-Gwyn -- Perkiomen winner vs. Doylestown

Lehigh Valley

Double Elimination (Begins Wednesday)

Coplay vs. North Parkland

Lower Macungie vs. Southern Lehigh

Northern Valley vs. Fullerton

South Parkland vs. West Allentown

Northampton County

First Round (Begins Monday, Best of Three)

Easton vs. Bath

Palmer vs. Roseto

Kemp Post vs. East Stroudsburg

Freemansburg vs. Nazareth

Schuylkill-Berks

Each division will conduct separate playoff tournaments and the winners will meet in the League Championship Game

North Division (Begins Tuesday)

Schuylkill Valley vs. Minersville

Pottsville vs. Pine Grove

Tamaqua vs. Valley View

Southern Area -- Bye

South Divsion (Begins Tuesday)

Tulpehocken vs. Fleetwood

Kutztown vs. Hamburg

Wyomissing vs. Muhlenberg

Oley/Topton -- Bye

Updated 11:30pm

Fayette County

First Round (Begins Monday, Best of Three)

Game One:

Connellsville 21, Masontown 6

Masontown vs. Connellsville

California vs. Colonial

Farmington vs. Charleroi

Uniontown gets a first round bye.

If you have any information on the other leagues in Region 6, please leave a comment or email.  We'll get the information up on the site as soon as possible.  Thanks!

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

Lebanon County

Semifinals (Begin Tuesday, Best of Three)

Annville vs. Campbelltown

Myerstown vs. Fredericksburg

Franklin County

No playoffs -- Regular Season Champion advances to regionals

Waynesboro currently leads the league

If you have information on playoff bracket for the other leagues in Region 4, please post a comment or email.

Cambria County

Double Elimination (Begins Wednesday)

Richland vs. Somerset

Meyersdale vs. Patton

Cernic's vs. Claysburg

Stoystown vs. Bedford

Central Penn

Playoff Seeds to be determined

District 31

First Round (Best of Three)

Game Two

Unity 8, Latrobe 7

West Hempfield 4, Kiski Valley 3

Irwin 13, Mt. Pleasant 3

Hempfield East 14, Derry 4

Semifinals (Begin Wednesday, Best of Three)

West Hempfield vs. Hempfield East

Unity vs. Irwin

Indiana County

Semifinals (Begin Wednesday, Best of Three)

Young Township vs. Blairsville

Marion Center vs. Punxsutawney

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

Erie County

Double Elimination (Begins Thursday, All games at Northwestern HS)

First Round

Erie vs. Wesleyville

LeBoeuf vs. West County

Second Round

LeBoeuf -- West County winner vs. Albion

Erie -- Wesleyville winner vs. Millcreek

If you have information on playoff bracket for the other leagues in Region 8, please post a comment or email . 

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 berth in the Region 7 Tournament in Latrobe later this month.  The #2 team to represent  Indiana County at the tournament will be determined by the playoffs.

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 host last place Conrad Weiser.  The West Lawn Owls travel to league newcomer Norchester in the other matchup on one side of the bracket.  Exeter, the two seed, hosts Twin Valley, while Daniel Boone goes to Bear Stadium to take on Boyertown.  The winner of the playoff tournament will join West Lawn at the regional tournament.  If West Lawn wins the playoff title, then the runner up woud claim the regional berth.

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 conducted Monday through Wednesday.  Games One and Three will be hosted by the higher seeds, with the exception of the East Stroudsburg - Kemp Post series.  All games in the series will be played at Kemp's home field at Stroudsburg High School.  The league champion will advance to the Region Two Tournament at West Lawn in two weeks.

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 by West Hempfied, Unity, Derry, and Mount Pleasant.  Check back for further results from around the state.

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 semifinal round.  Each first round series will be best of three games, with games one and three, if necessary, hosted by the higher seeds.

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 champ will represent Disctrict 15 at the Region Five Tournament beginning July 21st at Scranton's Connell Park.

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 regional play in Scranton in a couple of weeks.

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 seeded Kiski Valley.

On Sunday, the same teams will face off at the fields of the lower seeds.  Game three of each series, if necessary, will be played back at the homes of the higher seeded teams on Monday.  The league playoff champion will advance to the Region Seven Tournament at Latrobe.  Should Latrobe win the playoff crown, the runner up would join the Jethawks at regionals.

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 site welcomes parents to request shots of their children in action to be included in the galleries with no purchase obligation.  All pictures are available in several formats, including commemorative mugs and t-shirts, digital downloads, and standard prints.  Residents local to the area can inquire about a special CD offer that offers great discounts.

The site currently features photos from legion baseball (including tournaments), a plethora of other sporting events (such as football, basketball, and soccer), community events (such as trips to the beach, car shows, and festivals), and school events (like graduations and concerts).

Head over to www.poppopgood.com or click on the ad on the right side of the page to see everything the site has to offer.

You can also follow the photographer on Twitter @PopPopGood for updates about new pictures.

**Update**

Galleries are now available of the following senior legion teams:

Boyertown, Chaney (Md), Daniel Boone, Downingtown, Exeter, Frederick (MD), Hatfield, Mt. Carmel, Narberth, Norchester, Nor-Gwyn, Oxford, Shillington, Spring City, Quakertown, and West Lawn

And junior legion teams:

Boyertown Bear Cubs, Boyertown Grizzlies, Collegeville, Schuylkill Valley, Spring City, and Uwchlan

Coming up will be league playoffs, regional tournaments, the PA state tournament & Mid-Atlantic regional tournament.

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 920.  Five seeded Moscow will take on four seed South Scranton in Sunday's other game.

The best of three semifinals will begin on Tuesday.  The three game championship series is scheduled to begin on July 14th.  The league playoff champion will advance to the Region Five Tournament in Scranton later this month.