Middletown needed to schedule a game at the last minute to have a chance at making the District 3 playoffs.

Leave it to old Mother Nature to cause problems during the last scheduled week of the regular baseball season.

Middletown moved into a playoff spot in the District 3 Class AAA power rankings as the season winds down, beating powerful Mechanicsburg and last-place Hershey to claim 15th place in the standings last week.

An improved serve carries Kapenstein to a Mid-Penn Conference title

Harry Kapenstein had just gotten interested in playing tennis, so he didn’t expect to play singles matches for Middletown when the high school tennis season began.

Playing his older brother, Dan, at the courts at Middletown Area High School was fun, but it didn’t seem like an opening to a high school championship.

Kapenstein, a sophomore, beat another teammate to earn a spot as the third of three singles players on a Blue Raiders team that was 1-9 last year and hadn’t recorded a winning season in years.

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These one-run games are threatening to push Middletown baseball Coach Mike Carnes right over the edge.
All three of his team’s games last week ended in single-run differences, finishes that have occurred on a regular basis throughout the 2013 season.