It’s been 14 years since a Berks team won a state baseball title. Gov. Mifflin (23-5) hopes to end that drought Friday when it plays in the PIAA Class 5A championship game against Hollidaysburg (17-5) at 4:30 p.
m. at Penn State’s Medlar Field. Conrad Weiser, in dramatic fashion no less, was the last Berks team to win a state championship, beating Hershey 6-2 in the Class 3A title game.
But it was in the semifinals that the Scouts pulled out one of the most memorable wins in Berks sports history, against BCIAA rival Twin Valley. The Scouts, who were playing Twin Valley for the fifth time that season, trailed heading into the seventh inning in the semifinal game at FirstEnergy Stadium in Reading. Conrad Weiser’s Tanner Lutz sent the game to extra innings with a groundout to tie the game.
And then in the eighth inning, before 3,000 fans, Aaron Price blasted a game-winning home run for a thrilling 5-4 victory and a trip to the state title game against Hershey. Four nights later in Altoona, the Scouts beat Hershey, becoming only the fourth Berks County team to win league, district and state titles in the same season. After a 3-3 start in which the Scouts lost three straight after opening the season with three wins, they didn’t lose a game the rest of the way.
“It was long overdue,” pitcher Mike Weinhold said in 2020 in a story marking the 10-year anniversary of the state title. “We always thought we had a really good team and a really good group of guys. We knew we c.
