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Amateur hour Keystone Games pits athletes in a variety of sports By Jim Lewis Press And Journal Staff The Keystone State Games, an annual four-day competition of amateur athletes young and old, will open Thursday, Aug. 1 – and several events will be held in the Middletown area. Athletes will compete in 23 sports, everything from archery to tennis, including baseball, figure skating, judo, powerlifting, fencing, wrestling and track and field, among others. Many events will be held at Harrisburg’s Farm Show Arena and Zembo Shrine Event Center and venues in Hershey, York and a number of local high schools and colleges. Middletown will host every match in the table tennis competition, with athletes facing off at the MCSO Building. Matches will be played beginning at 4 p.m. Friday, Aug. 2 and 9 a.m. Saturday, Aug. 3 and Sunday, Aug. 4. There will be amateur singles matches at various skill levels and doubles matches. Some youth basketball games will be played at the Main Street Gym at times
yet to be determined on Friday, Aug. 2; Saturday, Aug. 3; and Sunday, Aug. 4. A final schedule was not available yet on the Games’ website. Field hockey games will be played at the Lower Dauphin Field Hockey Complex, Hummelstown, beginning at 7 a.m. on Thursday, Aug. 1 through Sunday, Aug. 4. Tennis matches will be played at Penn State Harrisburg and Central Dauphin High School from Thursday, Aug. 1 through Sunday, Aug. 4. Four Middletown Area High School baseball players have been named to the Capital Region’s baseball team and junior division team. Nathan Ocker, Zack Sims and Jordan Flowers were named to the scholastic team, while Fitzpatrick, who will be a freshman in the fall, was named to the junior division team. Games will be played at several baseball fields in central Pennsylvania, including Penn State Harrisburg’s field. Penn State Harrisburg will host the gold medal game at 1 p.m. on Sunday, Aug. 4. Jim Lewis: 717-944-4628, or jimlewis@pressandjournal.com
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Three Raiders named to All-Star team Photos by Jodi Ocker
Middletown pitcher Nathan Ocker led the Blue Raider pitching staff with 77 strikeouts last season.
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hree Middletown Area High School baseball players were named to the Mid-Penn Conference Keystone Division allstar team, while a fourth earned an honorable mention. The Blue Raiders’ Dylan Bower, Nathan Ocker and Zack Sims were named to the all-star first team. Jordan Flowers received the honorable mention. Ocker, Sims and Flowers – all three pitch and can play another position – will return next year. Bower, an infielder, was a senior last season, and has graduated. Middletown’s young baseball team finished 9-10 last year, 7-7 in Keystone Division, narrowly missing the District 3 Class AAA playoffs. The Raiders found themselves in 20th place in the district power rankings, with the top 16 teams qualifying for the playoffs. The season finale against against Steelton-Highspire was cancelled because
of rain, potentially preventing Middletown from earning enough ratings points to qualify for the postseason. Bower batted .326 last season, collecting 15 hits and 5 RBIs; Ocker, a sophomore pitcher and infielder, had a 2-3 record with an ERA of 2.30 and broke a school record by striking out 24 of 27 Palmyra batters he faced in an extra-inning game; Sims, a sophomore last season, had a 2.70 ERA and struck out 73 batters, walking only 12; Flowers, a sophomore outfielder, batted .296. The Patriot-News named Ocker and Sims to its “All Underclassmen Team.’’ Ocker, Sims and Flowers were named to the Capital Region baseball team that will compete in the Keystone State Games in early August. Middletown’s Jimmy Fitzpatrick was named to Capital Region’s junior team, for players in grades 9 and 10 next year. Fitzpatrick will be a freshman next fall.
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