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Molly: One of 29 dogs adopted on day one of York County SPCA’s Clear the Shelters event
Molly is one of 29 dogs adopted on day one of York County SPCA’s Clear the Shelters event in Manchester Township, Saturday, Aug. 9, 2025.
A jam-packed weekend of Susquehanna and Central League playoff baseball saw a trio of best-of-three series conclude with sweeps, while two matchups will need Game 3s to decide a winner.
East Prospect and York Township both swept their way into the Susquehanna League semifinals, where they will face each other starting Thursday. Conrads and Hallam, meanwhile, will play a third game Tuesday after road teams won both showdowns over the weekend.
The Central League opened its six-team postseason with a pair of quarterfinal series. Mechanicsburg moved on with a sweep of Jefferson and will face Mount Wolf in the next round. The series between Glen Rock and Manchester, however, remained unresolved entering the week.
Top-seeded Windsor and Stoverstown both earned byes to their respective league semifinals, opening their schedule for the York County Championship Series on Saturday and Sunday. Stoverstown continued the Central League’s recent run of success in that series by winning Games 2 and 3 in identical 3-0 fashion Sunday over the Susquehanna League regular-season champions. The Tigers have claimed the title in back-to-back years.
A weekend free of rain left an empty slate Monday evening. Conrads will host Hallam and Glen Rock will welcome Manchester for series-deciding games at 5:45 p.m. Tuesday. All semifinal series are tentatively scheduled for Thursday, Saturday and Sunday.
Here’s a look at how each series was either won or extended Sunday.
SUSQUEHANNA LEAGUE
East Prospect 6, Jacobus 4: At East Prospect, Luis Perez-Alfaro went 3 for 4 with three doubles and an RBI to lead the No. 2 Pistons (25-12) to the Game 2 victory and first-round sweep. Teammates Ryan Flury went 2 for 3 with two RBIs; Brady Cook went 2 for 3 with an RBI; and Josh Kreider pitched six innings, allowing four runs (three earned) on four hits with five walks and six strikeouts. For the No. 7 Jackals (7-31), Evan Tanner went 2 for 3 at the plate, while Alex Eisenberger was 1 for 2 with a double and scored twice. East Prospect led 5-0 after a four-run bottom of the third.
The Pistons won 11-0 in five innings on Saturday at Jacobus, scoring five runs in the top of the third and four more in the fifth. Cook finished 2 for 3 with four RBIs; Ryky Smith was 2 for 4 with two doubles and two RBIs; Coy Allmon added a two-run double; and Dylan Stoops pitched a five-inning shutout, allowing eight hits and two walks while striking out seven. Tanner was 2 for 2 to lead Jacobus.
York Township 9, Felton 8 (8 innings): At Shryock Field, Dave Miele’s leadoff homer in the bottom of the eighth broke an 8-8 tie and clinched the walk-off home victory and series win for No. 3 York Township (22-16). Miele finished 3 for 5 with three RBIs after a two-run double in the third. Teammates Dennis Porter, Max Naill and Dean Davis each went 2 for 3 with an RBI; Philip Longnecker went 2 for 5 with two RBIs; and Luke Sutherland threw 2 1/3 innings of shutout relief to earn the win. For the No. 6 Mad Dogs (12-26), Kam Bayman was 3 for 4 with an RBI while Cole Bankert, Colin Palmieri and Colin Heaps each went 2 for 4 with an RBI. York Township led 8-4 after five innings before Felton scored four in the sixth to tie it.
On Saturday at Felton, home runs by Miele, Longnecker and Austin Mumaw led Township to a 6-3 Game 1 road victory. Miele hit a two-run shot in the top of the first, Longnecker added a two-run dinger in the third and Mumaw went deep in the sixth. Longnecker finished 2 for 2 with two RBIs, two runs scored and two walks. Ethan Saxe pitched a complete game, allowing three runs (one earned) on five hits while walking two and fanning eight. Felton scored on Garrett Daniels’ solo homer in the fifth and Quinton McNew’s two-run single in the seventh.
Conrads 10, Hallam 2: At Hallam, Mitchell Garber went 3 for 4 with three RBIs to lead No. 4 Conrads (18-19-1) to the Game 2 road victory. Teammate Zachary Bortner pitched six innings, allowing two runs on two hits with five walks and eight strikeouts; Austin Dunlap went 2 for 2 with two runs scored; Kevin Keesey was 2 for 2 with an RBI; and Emmett Simpson picked up two RBIs and scored two runs. For the No. 5 Express (16-21-1), Derek Sheckard went 2 for 3 at the plate.
Hallam prevailed 7-6 in Game 1 Saturday at Conrads, briefly leading 7-0 in the fourth and staving off a comeback. Ethan Shimmel homered and finished 2 for 4 with two RBIs, while Nathaniel Brown and Brock Adams each went 3 for 4 with two RBIs. For Conrads, Keesey was 2 for 2 with two RBIs and two walks, while Matt Jordan went 2 for 4 with three RBIs. Keesey’s bases-loaded walk made it a one-run game with one out in the seventh, but Hallam’s Logan Kline escaped with a strikeout and flyout.
CENTRAL LEAGUE
Manchester 4, Glen Rock 3: At Manchester, Joe Capobianco’s one-out, two-run double in the bottom of the seventh scored Mitchell Moser and Nathan Moser to give the No. 5 Indians (16-12-3) the walk-off victory and level the series at a game apiece. Capobianco finished 2 for 4 at the plate, while Nathan Moser went 1 for 1 and scored twice. Teammate Jonah Latshaw went 2 for 2 with an RBI, while Spencer Rhoads was 2 for 3. Jordan Nichols pitched six strong innings and Kody Reeser tossed a scoreless seventh to earn the win. For No. 4 Glen Rock (17-13-1), Alex Hess went 1 for 3 with two RBIs.
On Saturday at Glen Rock, the hosts won 8-2 after jumping ahead with four runs in the bottom of the second. Manny Cartegena started it with a two-run homer and finished 2 for 3 with three RBIs, while Benjamin Koller went 2 for 4 with two RBIs. Devin Niemiec and Josh Preston pitched four and three innings, respectively, scattering eight combined hits. Pete Capobianco was 2 for 3 on the visiting side.
Mechanicsburg 5, Jefferson 0: At Jefferson, the No. 3 Cardinals (20-11) scored four runs in the top of the third to take a 5-0 lead and cruised to the series-clinching road victory. The Titans finished their season 13-17-1. Complete statistics were unavailable as of Monday morning.
In Game 1 Saturday at Mechanicsburg, Phil Walby outdueled Sam Crater as the Cardinals earned a 4-2 home victory. Walby struck out 14 and walked none while allowing two unearned runs on two hits in a complete game. Crater pitched six frames, allowing four runs on 10 hits. Mechanicsburg took the lead on Kaden Schoenly’s two-run double in the first, while Sam Grube and Landon Mark added RBI singles in the second and fourth, respectively. Schoenly and Mark each went 2 for 4. The Titans received a two-run single from Ross Drawbaugh in the third after a pair of errors.
YORK COUNTY CHAMPIONSHIP SERIES
Stoverstown captures title with back-to-back shutouts: At Stoverstown, the Central League’s Tigers (22-9-1) won both games Sunday by 3-0 scores to capture the York County Championship series, 2-1. In the deciding Game 3, Stoverstown’s Dillon Machauski threw 6 2/3 innings of shutout baseball, allowing four hits and a walk with two strikeouts. Teammate Chris Mattison connected for a solo homer in the bottom of the first, and the Tigers added a pair of runs in the sixth to gain breathing room. Joe Yourgal relieved Machauski to record the last out.
In Game 2 on Sunday morning, Justin Charles pitched a complete-game shutout, allowing three hits and three walks while striking out seven. Levi Krause connected for a solo homer in the bottom of the second; Joe Yourgal went 1 for 2 with an RBI single in the fifth; and Tanner Hoffman added an RBI single in the sixth.
For Windsor (33-5-1), Sean Glatfelter pitched a six-inning complete game in Game 3, allowing three runs (one earned) on five hits while striking out six and walking two. Teammate Zach Gettys tossed all six frames in Game 2, allowing three runs on seven hits with three walks and eight strikeouts.
Windsor won 7-6 in Game 1 at home Saturday, walking it off with Tyler Stabley’s bases-loaded single to score Connor Dewees in the seventh. The Cardinals had scored six runs in the bottom of the first before the Tigers responded with six in the second. Nate Hodgkinson had a three-run homer after Dewees’ two-run single in the first. Stoverstown received two-run singles from Brandon Warner and Xavier Bonilla in the second before Lucas Ream’s tying single. Windsor’s Kieran Kearns pitched four innings of shutout relief to earn the win.