High School Baseball

Lyle Krall once walked past Jackie Robinson as he sat in a hotel lobby and wrote in his journal during spring training. It’s among the coach’s million stories.

Hempfield High School’s baseball team will defend its state championship next spring with a new man at the helm.

Jeremy Morrison has decided to go out on top as Hempfield High School’s baseball coach.

Eight area players have been voted to the inaugural Pennsylvania State Baseball Coaches Association All-State teams, including five first-team selections.

The 2024 All-Lancaster-Lebanon League baseball teams reflect the league’s impressive present and its promising future.

Hempfield won the PIAA Class 6A baseball championship June 13 in large part because of the play of Brody Gebhard. The right-hander pitched in three of Hempfield’s four wins in the state tourney, including tossing a no-hitter in the second round against McDowell. And he threw a complete-game …

STATE COLLEGE — Brody Gebhard fueled Hempfield’s run to the PIAA Class 6A baseball championship game at the plate and on the mound, leaving an imprint in each of the Black Knights’ first three games of the state tournament.

STATE COLLEGE — The quiet tension of weeks of baseball on the edge, every pitch and at-bat charged with high stakes, is over.

And then there were two.

To this point, the greatest challenges Hempfield’s baseball team faced came from inside the Lancaster-Lebanon League.

READING — Hempfield’s baseball team is one win from a state championship.