LEGION Baseball:Tonight's games decide final playoff berth

While Yardley-Western Post 317 clinched the Lower Bucks American Legion League (LBALL) regular season championship on Monday, the rest of the league is still up for grabs.
Yardley-Western, Falls Legion Post 834 and Bristol Post 382 have three of the league's playoff spots locked up, Falls and Bristol are still battling for second place. Both have identical 13-9-1 records and both are playing tonight.
The last playoff berth will go to either Yardley-Morrisville or Northampton. The teams are tied with 20 points each, though Y-M has an additional win at 10-13, compared to Northampton's record of 9-12-2.
After wrapping up the league title Monday night with a 5-3 win over Falls, Post 317 opens postseason play Wednesday, July 8 at Conwell-Egan Catholic against an undetermined opponent.
The league is awaiting results of tonight's games which pit Northampton vs. Newtown, Yardley-Morrisville vs. Bristol and Yardley-Western vs. Falls.
At 9-14 in league play, Newtown cannot get in but they can play spoiler by beating Northampton tonight at Council Rock North. Bristol plays host at Harry S Truman High, Falls at Pennsbury.
Yardley-Morrisville gave itself playoff life by beating Newtown last Friday in a doubleheader, edging Post 440 in a pair of 1-run games at Philly Biblical College. Newtown eliminated Lower Southampton, last year's regional runner-up, when it defeated LoSo twice in last Sunday's doubleheader. Post 440 also defeated Bristol on Saturday.
Yardley-Morrisville would own the tiebreaker in a lock with Newtown, having defeated Post 440 in all four games this season. Y-M split its four-game series with Northampton.
--Steve Sherman