“Some people call them ‘atom balls,’ but these were nuclear balls because they were hit so hard,” said Lehigh Valley Carpenter Coach Ted Plessl about how well his team was hitting in Tuesday’s opening.
Three players from the Times News area will be competing on this year’s Lehigh Valley Carpenter Cup team.
Pleasant Valley’s Jack Smale will be on the squad for the second year, while Jim Thorpe’s Jame.
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With a weather prediction for snow later in the day, the Jim Thorpe-Tamaqua baseball game was moved up to a morning start time on Monday.
Tamaqua then went out and created its own blizzard of scoring,.
Pitching, defense and timely hitting win baseball games.
Turns out Lehighton excelled at all three on Monday in its 5-0 Schuylkill League victory over Jim Thorpe.
Start with Carter Birnbaum on the mou.