LEWISTOWN — All the Babe Ruth World Series are over for the 2025 season. Mifflin County lost to all three Mid-Atlantic champions.

Williamsport’s West End lost in the national finals (15-16-year-olds) to the host team, Branson, Missouri, 5-3.

It marked the 13th time in the 71-year history of the league that a Mifflin County team has eventually lost to a national champion or national runner-up. Mifflin County has lost to the national champion seven times.

On the 14-year-old level, Northern New Jersey went undefeated in pool play, but lost in the first round of single elimination. Northern New Jersey defeated Mifflin County twice in the regionals including the regional finals.

At the 13-year-old level, Mifflin County was winless in the regional including a loss to Broomall-Newtown. Mifflin County did not play Broomall, which won the state tournament, in the state playoffs, but did lose to them in the regionals.

Broomall went 2-2 in pool play, but lost in the first round of single elimination. Broomall and North New Jersey were tied for fifth in the nation.

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There was a celebration of life for the late Gary Stimely of McVeytown on August 15, at the Armagh Memorial Field. One statistic on Gary that should not be overlooked. Gary was one of just three men to be president of a Babe Ruth league in Pennsylvania that won a national title. Mifflin County won the 13-year-old national title in 2016. The other national winners were Levittown (13-year-olds) and Broomall-Newtown, which won two in 2014, 13 and 15-year-olds.

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Brody Keefer, a 13-year-old, scored Mifflin County’s lone run in the last All-Star game in Old Bridge, New Jersey, a 7-1 loss to Southern New Jersey. It was Mifflin County’s 8,900th run. Mifflin County needs 100 runs to get 9,000 next summer. Landon Eichhorn scored Mifflin County’s 8,000th run in Altoona in 2019 in the Mid-Atlantic 13-year-old Regional tournament.

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The Mifflin County Babe Ruth League will hold a fall ball league with teams from Strodes Mills, Lewistown, Belltown, Reedsville, Belleville and Juniata County.