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As the host city in 79 of 81 AAABA Tournament weeks, Johnstown has plenty of experience in the championship game, especially in the past decade.
It wasn't always that way. Since the implementation of the two-bracket system in 1981, the addition of the Johnstown-2 entry, and later with the introduction of pool play in 2016, Johnstown has fared much better.
Johnstown made only two appearances in the championship game over the tournament's first 50 years, finishing as runner-up in 1956 and 1995. Overall, the Johnstown franchise has won three championships (2018, 2023, 2025) and finished as runner-up eight times. Johnstown-2 has finished second three times since pool play began a decade ago.
Mainline Pharmacy faces New Orleans at 6 p.m. Saturday in the title game. Mainline Pharmacy beat New Orleans 3-2 in the 2023 championship contest.
A look at Johnstown's AAABA Tournament championship game history:
1956 Hahn Packing
On Aug. 21, 1956, Hahn Packing was Johnstown’s first AAABA Tournament finalist, playing in front of 9,000 fans at Point Stadium.
Federal Storage of Washington, D.C., rallied in the last two innings to defeat Hahn Packing 4-2 and win the championship. Manager Ken Keiper’s team would have had to beat Washington twice to claim the crown.
The final game was a pitchers' duel between left-hander Pete Pekich of Hahn’s and Tony Baker of Washington.
A 2017 AAABA Hall of Fame inductee, Pekich struck out 11 and walked four in a five-hitter. The Johnstown pitcher struck out 36 batters in 25 AAABA Tournament innings in ’56 and signed a contract with the Cleveland Indians right after the game.
Baker struck out 14 batters and walked three in a six-hitter for his second win of the tournament.
Johnstown led 2-1 entering the top of the eighth, but Pekich had a brief wild spell and walked three and the game-tying run scored. In the ninth, Federal Storage’s Gary Miller doubled down the right-field line to drive in the game-winning runs.
Six players on that Hahn Packing team played professional baseball, including Pekich, Tony Joseph, Jack Horvath, Barry Sipes, Ron Ling and Bob Kucher. George Hanna was offered a pro contract, but played at Division I Arizona State University instead.
1995 Sani-Dairy
Sani-Dairy had a knack for coming together to pull out win after win in the 1995 tournament. Manager Scott Close’s squad overcame a 7-0 deficit and beat Buffalo 17-15 to become the first Johnstown team to reach the championship game in 39 years.
Undefeated New Orleans’ Casey Cuntz, the tournament MVP a year earlier, hit a three-run homer in the first inning of the title game, which the Louisiana team won 12-2 in seven innings. Brian Hughes won 1995 MVP honors by going 16-for-24 for New Orleans.
Sani-Dairy was led by two-time league MVP Ross Kott, who had ties to New Orleans by playing at Delgado Community College, a team led by then-New Orleans manager Joe Scheuermann.
Scheuermann, like Kott, is a AAABA hall of famer.
Kott could have played for New Orleans in the summer of 1995, but opted to stay home. Brian Shipley and Brian Anderson each joined Kott among the tournament batting leaders. Gino Betta had two hits in the loss to New Orleans.
2001 Galliker Dairy
Manager Butch Odenthal’s Galliker Dairy team opened the tournament at 5-0 and had wins over perennial powers Washington and Baltimore along the way.
Galliker’s pitcher and tournament Most Valuable Player Anthony Zambotti pitched a gem in a 2-1 victory over Baltimore that sent Johnstown to the title round against Washington.
Washington won 6-3 on a Saturday night, forcing a decisive game on a Sunday afternoon. The Arlington Senators took the title with an 8-2 win.
Zambotti won two games, while striking out 29 batters in 17 innings with a 1.06 ERA. He won the 2001 Point Stadium Award for his win over Baltimore.
2003 Delweld
Manager Chris DelSignore told reporters after a 5-4 loss to the Washington Arlington Senators on the fifth day of the tournament that his team had played tentatively. He was quoted in print and on TV saying he was not impressed by the perennial powerhouse.
Two days later, Delweld stunned two-time defending champion Washington 6-3 in a rematch to earn a spot against Baltimore in the title game.
Baltimore won 19-0 in the lopsided championship game to start a string of six consecutive titles by the Orioles.
Future major league pitcher Kevin Hart of Baltimore was named MVP of the tournament.
The Orioles scored seven runs in the first inning, and Hart’s grand slam in the bottom of the fifth inning was a big blow to Delweld, which was led by Brandon McCreary (.423) and Brandon Bowser (.406) in the tournament.
2010 Delweld
Baltimore pitcher Francis Brooke tossed a six-hit shutout as Youse’s Maryland Orioles defeated the Johnstown franchise 4-0. Baltimore dominated the tournament while going 6-0 and outscoring teams by a combined 41-6.
Delweld was led by standouts such as Drew Westover (.423), George Roberts (.417) and Matt Donaldson (.308), who each batted over .300 in the tournament.
Carter Lehman was 2-0 with a 0.56 ERA, and Matt Skoner went 1-0 with a 0.14 ERA. Bobby Carbaugh had a tournament-high 14 innings pitched with 10 strikeouts.
2013 Delweld
Delweld beat Baltimore 7-5 on the fourth day of the tournament and opened 5-0 after a victory over Cleveland in the semifinals.
Baltimore beat New Orleans in an elimination game to meet Delweld in the title round.
The Orioles won 12-5 to force a second game, which Baltimore won 13-3 to claim the crown.
Baltimore used a six-run first inning in the title-game rematch to put Johnstown in a deep hole.
Ryan Ripken, the son of National Baseball Hall of Fame member Cal Ripken Jr., had 13 RBIs in the 2013 tournament and was named the most valuable player.
2016 Paul Carpenter Capital Advisors
Johnstown-2 Paul Carpenter advanced through Pool B with a 2-1 record as the 2016 tournament used a pool play format for the first time.
Paul Carpenter, led by Dave Sheriff and his son, GM/assistant coach Tayler Sheriff, defeated Brooklyn 16-10 in the single-elimination play on Thursday after advancing out of its pool.
The ticket to the championship game came in historic fashion as Paul Carpenter’s Patrick Ferguson smashed a mammoth, three-run home run in the bottom of the eighth inning to propel the Johnstown-2 squad to a comeback 7-6 win over Cleveland.
Left-handed-hitting pinch-hitter Ferguson’s home run to right field went over the stands and past the rotunda before landing in the Stonycreek River after leaving the stadium.
The next day, Tayler Sheriff made his way into the Stonycreek to retrieve the historic baseball, which landed in shallow water.
The Cinderella tale ended in the championship game for one team and had a storybook ending for another.
The Zanesville Junior Pioneers defeated Paul Carpenter 8-2 in the title game in front of an estimated 4,000 fans at Point Stadium.
It was the Ohio city’s first AAABA Tournament crown in its first championship game appearance. Ironically, Zanesville finished 1-2 in Pool D and would have been eliminated under the previous double-elimination format.
2017 Paul Carpenter Capital Advisors
The Johnstown-2 team became the city’s first franchise to appear in back-to-back title games.
New Orleans starter Jonathan Ebersole threw six-plus strong innings and reliever Chris Turpin retired nine of the 10 batters he faced as the Boosters shut down a hot-hitting Paul Carpenter team in a 4-1 title game victory in front of 3,500 fans at the Point.
New Orleans finished 6-0 behind a staff that had a 1.26 ERA in 50 innings pitched.
The Boosters gave up eight runs during the tournament.
Paul Carpenter center fielder Raven Beeman, of Somerset, earned AAABA Tournament MVP honors with a tourney-best .619 batting average (13-for-21).
2018 Martella’s Pharmacy
Manager Jesse Cooper’s team made Martella’s Pharmacy’s first appearance in the title game after the franchise had been playing for 20 seasons as either the Johnstown Grays or Martella’s.
Martella’s Pharmacy left-handed pitcher Brady Walker pitched a gem in the title game against perennial power New Orleans Boosters, throwing 8 2/3 innings, and reliever T.J. Adams recorded the final out with a swinging strikeout as Johnstown won the AAABA Tournament for the first time in the host city’s history, 3-2 over the New Orleans at Sargent’s Stadium at the Point.
New Orleans had the bases loaded, and Adams pitched to a 3-2 count before recording the out that set off a wild celebration at the Point and led to a parade and Central Park rally the following week.
Johnstown plated three runs in the second inning, which was highlighted by Boston Bradley’s run-scoring single.
New Orleans’ Blake Freeman hit a towering solo home run over the brick wall in deep center field to make it 3-1.
The Boosters rallied for a run on two hits, a hit batsman and a walk in the top of the ninth. New Orleans’ Brandon Briuglio earned AAABA Tournament MVP honors.
Johnstown’s Omar Ward was the tournament RBI leader with 11. Walker was presented The Tribune-Democrat Award to the local franchise’s MVP.
2019 Martella's Pharmacy
For the first time in the tournament's history, the hometown franchise entered the title game as the defending champion.
This time, New Orleans Boosters won the rematch of the historic 2018 title game. The Boosters didn't score until the final two innings of play, but made those runs count in a 5-2 victory over Johnstown Martella's Pharmacy. It was the 250th win in New Orleans franchise history.
Third baseman Grant Schulz, playing in his third tournament in Johnstown, earned most valuable player honors. Schulz went 2-for-4 in the title game with a double, a walk, two runs and a run batted in.
Martella's Pharmacy brought a 1-0 lead into the eighth, as local Pete Vuckovich Award winning left-hander Joel Colledge threw seven scoreless innings before New Orleans' comeback.
2022 Paul Carpenter Capital Advisors
New Orleans used a three-run eighth inning to break open a one-run game in a 5-1 victory over Paul Carpenter Capital Advisors. The Boosters won their third straight AAABA Tournament title, 18th crown overall and fifth in the past seven tournaments.
Boosters pitcher Chris Olivier and center fielder Bryan Broussard shared AAABA Tournament most valuable player honors.
Paul Carpenter's Christian Zilli had two hits in the title game, including a home run over the screen in left field. Zilli was named Tribune-Democrat local franchise MVP after batting .500 (8-for-16).
2023 Mainline Pharmacy
A two-run homer from Devon Boyles in the bottom of the first inning helped Mainline Pharmacy jump out to an early lead and hold off three-time defending champion New Orleans 3-2. In its fifth season as a franchise, Mainline Pharmacy won the city's second tournament title in front of 2,528 fans.
Mainline Pharmacy's Lincoln Pack singled home a run in the third, his team’s final hit of the game.
Johnstown starting pitcher Rodney Shultz, the local Pete Vuckovich Award winner, gutted through 5 2/3 innings with an uncharacteristic six walks and three strikeouts. Reliever Griffin Madden moved from right field to pitch with the bases loaded and two outs in the sixth. Madden got a quick out, and then he pitched three more scoreless innings.
The game ended on a called third strike on New Orleans slugger Casey Artigues, sparking a celebration among the crowd, which already was on its feet for most of the ninth inning.
New Orleans starter Luke Barbier struck out 11 batters over seven innings.
2025 Martella's Pharmacy
Martella's Pharmacy became the third Johnstown-2 representative to advance to the championship game. The local squad went a perfect 3-0 in Pool B play, beating Schenectady (6-1), Butler (14-0) and Buffalo (2-1) before falling 5-0 to Mainline Pharmacy in the all-Johnstown final.
Jace Irvin provided three hits and three RBIs in a 9-0 win over 2024 champion Columbus in a quarterfinal. Ben Ryan added three knocks and two RBIs as the local team racked up 14 hits. Garrett Emerick and Hunter Krotzer combined on a seven-hit shutout. Martella's Pharmacy battled back from a 3-0 first-inning deficit to New Orleans and won 5-4 in a semifinal. Hunter Smith hit his third homer of the tournament. Boden Fernsler (three hits) produced a two-run single, and Mateo Cepullio added a two-RBI double to give Martella's Pharmacy the lead for good.
In 2025, Mainline Pharmacy took five out of the seven regular-season meetings against Martella's Pharmacy. Mainline Pharmacy won the championship series 3-1.
2025 Mainline Pharmacy
The 2025 Johnstown Collegiate Baseball League regular-season and playoff champions won the historic first-ever all-Johnstown AAABA Tournament title to claim the city’s third championship overall and second by Mainline in three years.
Manager Chance Osborne’s team shut out Martella’s Pharmacy squad 5-0 in front of 3,004 fans at Sargent’s Stadium in the 80th AAABA Tournament.
Left fielder Brody Roberts took MVP honors after batting .444 (12-for-27) with three RBIs, nine runs and four stolen bases on as many tries. Johnstown second baseman Teague Hoover tied New Brunswick’s Derek Smail for the tournament RBI title.
Mainline Pharmacy went 2-1 in Pool D. Johnstown beat Cleveland 15-7 in the opener and lost 5-1 to Altoona-1 ******* Motors in the second game. Needing a win to advance, Mainline Pharmacy defeated New Brunswick 5-1 as Bryce Madden struck out eight over six innings. Brody Roberts tallied three knocks. Teague Hoover provided two hits, including a triple, and three RBIs.
Mainline Pharmacy beat Brooklyn 11-2 in a quarterfinal. Jacob McCoy and Bradyn Jarvis combined to allow seven hits and two unearned runs. Brody Roberts supplied three hits. David Kessler contributed two knocks, including a triple, and two RBIs. Calvin Iseminger and Teague Hoover each collected two RBIs.
Mainline Pharmacy came back from a 4-0 deficit to beat New Brunswick 5-4, including three runs in the bottom of the eighth. Bryce Roberts totaled two hits and a run batted in, and Brody Roberts netted two knocks. Hoover added a two-run triple to right and came in on Conner McTighe's RBI single. McTighe contributed three hits.
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It wasn't always that way. Since the implementation of the two-bracket system in 1981, the addition of the Johnstown-2 entry, and later with the introduction of pool play in 2016, Johnstown has fared much better.
Johnstown made only two appearances in the championship game over the tournament's first 50 years, finishing as runner-up in 1956 and 1995. Overall, the Johnstown franchise has won three championships (2018, 2023, 2025) and finished as runner-up eight times. Johnstown-2 has finished second three times since pool play began a decade ago.
Mainline Pharmacy faces New Orleans at 6 p.m. Saturday in the title game. Mainline Pharmacy beat New Orleans 3-2 in the 2023 championship contest.
A look at Johnstown's AAABA Tournament championship game history:
1956 Hahn Packing
On Aug. 21, 1956, Hahn Packing was Johnstown’s first AAABA Tournament finalist, playing in front of 9,000 fans at Point Stadium.
Federal Storage of Washington, D.C., rallied in the last two innings to defeat Hahn Packing 4-2 and win the championship. Manager Ken Keiper’s team would have had to beat Washington twice to claim the crown.
The final game was a pitchers' duel between left-hander Pete Pekich of Hahn’s and Tony Baker of Washington.
A 2017 AAABA Hall of Fame inductee, Pekich struck out 11 and walked four in a five-hitter. The Johnstown pitcher struck out 36 batters in 25 AAABA Tournament innings in ’56 and signed a contract with the Cleveland Indians right after the game.
Baker struck out 14 batters and walked three in a six-hitter for his second win of the tournament.
Johnstown led 2-1 entering the top of the eighth, but Pekich had a brief wild spell and walked three and the game-tying run scored. In the ninth, Federal Storage’s Gary Miller doubled down the right-field line to drive in the game-winning runs.
Six players on that Hahn Packing team played professional baseball, including Pekich, Tony Joseph, Jack Horvath, Barry Sipes, Ron Ling and Bob Kucher. George Hanna was offered a pro contract, but played at Division I Arizona State University instead.
1995 Sani-Dairy
Sani-Dairy had a knack for coming together to pull out win after win in the 1995 tournament. Manager Scott Close’s squad overcame a 7-0 deficit and beat Buffalo 17-15 to become the first Johnstown team to reach the championship game in 39 years.
Undefeated New Orleans’ Casey Cuntz, the tournament MVP a year earlier, hit a three-run homer in the first inning of the title game, which the Louisiana team won 12-2 in seven innings. Brian Hughes won 1995 MVP honors by going 16-for-24 for New Orleans.
Sani-Dairy was led by two-time league MVP Ross Kott, who had ties to New Orleans by playing at Delgado Community College, a team led by then-New Orleans manager Joe Scheuermann.
Scheuermann, like Kott, is a AAABA hall of famer.
Kott could have played for New Orleans in the summer of 1995, but opted to stay home. Brian Shipley and Brian Anderson each joined Kott among the tournament batting leaders. Gino Betta had two hits in the loss to New Orleans.
2001 Galliker Dairy
Manager Butch Odenthal’s Galliker Dairy team opened the tournament at 5-0 and had wins over perennial powers Washington and Baltimore along the way.
Galliker’s pitcher and tournament Most Valuable Player Anthony Zambotti pitched a gem in a 2-1 victory over Baltimore that sent Johnstown to the title round against Washington.
Washington won 6-3 on a Saturday night, forcing a decisive game on a Sunday afternoon. The Arlington Senators took the title with an 8-2 win.
Zambotti won two games, while striking out 29 batters in 17 innings with a 1.06 ERA. He won the 2001 Point Stadium Award for his win over Baltimore.
2003 Delweld
Manager Chris DelSignore told reporters after a 5-4 loss to the Washington Arlington Senators on the fifth day of the tournament that his team had played tentatively. He was quoted in print and on TV saying he was not impressed by the perennial powerhouse.
Two days later, Delweld stunned two-time defending champion Washington 6-3 in a rematch to earn a spot against Baltimore in the title game.
Baltimore won 19-0 in the lopsided championship game to start a string of six consecutive titles by the Orioles.
Future major league pitcher Kevin Hart of Baltimore was named MVP of the tournament.
The Orioles scored seven runs in the first inning, and Hart’s grand slam in the bottom of the fifth inning was a big blow to Delweld, which was led by Brandon McCreary (.423) and Brandon Bowser (.406) in the tournament.
2010 Delweld
Baltimore pitcher Francis Brooke tossed a six-hit shutout as Youse’s Maryland Orioles defeated the Johnstown franchise 4-0. Baltimore dominated the tournament while going 6-0 and outscoring teams by a combined 41-6.
Delweld was led by standouts such as Drew Westover (.423), George Roberts (.417) and Matt Donaldson (.308), who each batted over .300 in the tournament.
Carter Lehman was 2-0 with a 0.56 ERA, and Matt Skoner went 1-0 with a 0.14 ERA. Bobby Carbaugh had a tournament-high 14 innings pitched with 10 strikeouts.
2013 Delweld
Delweld beat Baltimore 7-5 on the fourth day of the tournament and opened 5-0 after a victory over Cleveland in the semifinals.
Baltimore beat New Orleans in an elimination game to meet Delweld in the title round.
The Orioles won 12-5 to force a second game, which Baltimore won 13-3 to claim the crown.
Baltimore used a six-run first inning in the title-game rematch to put Johnstown in a deep hole.
Ryan Ripken, the son of National Baseball Hall of Fame member Cal Ripken Jr., had 13 RBIs in the 2013 tournament and was named the most valuable player.
2016 Paul Carpenter Capital Advisors
Johnstown-2 Paul Carpenter advanced through Pool B with a 2-1 record as the 2016 tournament used a pool play format for the first time.
Paul Carpenter, led by Dave Sheriff and his son, GM/assistant coach Tayler Sheriff, defeated Brooklyn 16-10 in the single-elimination play on Thursday after advancing out of its pool.
The ticket to the championship game came in historic fashion as Paul Carpenter’s Patrick Ferguson smashed a mammoth, three-run home run in the bottom of the eighth inning to propel the Johnstown-2 squad to a comeback 7-6 win over Cleveland.
Left-handed-hitting pinch-hitter Ferguson’s home run to right field went over the stands and past the rotunda before landing in the Stonycreek River after leaving the stadium.
The next day, Tayler Sheriff made his way into the Stonycreek to retrieve the historic baseball, which landed in shallow water.
The Cinderella tale ended in the championship game for one team and had a storybook ending for another.
The Zanesville Junior Pioneers defeated Paul Carpenter 8-2 in the title game in front of an estimated 4,000 fans at Point Stadium.
It was the Ohio city’s first AAABA Tournament crown in its first championship game appearance. Ironically, Zanesville finished 1-2 in Pool D and would have been eliminated under the previous double-elimination format.
2017 Paul Carpenter Capital Advisors
The Johnstown-2 team became the city’s first franchise to appear in back-to-back title games.
New Orleans starter Jonathan Ebersole threw six-plus strong innings and reliever Chris Turpin retired nine of the 10 batters he faced as the Boosters shut down a hot-hitting Paul Carpenter team in a 4-1 title game victory in front of 3,500 fans at the Point.
New Orleans finished 6-0 behind a staff that had a 1.26 ERA in 50 innings pitched.
The Boosters gave up eight runs during the tournament.
Paul Carpenter center fielder Raven Beeman, of Somerset, earned AAABA Tournament MVP honors with a tourney-best .619 batting average (13-for-21).
2018 Martella’s Pharmacy
Manager Jesse Cooper’s team made Martella’s Pharmacy’s first appearance in the title game after the franchise had been playing for 20 seasons as either the Johnstown Grays or Martella’s.
Martella’s Pharmacy left-handed pitcher Brady Walker pitched a gem in the title game against perennial power New Orleans Boosters, throwing 8 2/3 innings, and reliever T.J. Adams recorded the final out with a swinging strikeout as Johnstown won the AAABA Tournament for the first time in the host city’s history, 3-2 over the New Orleans at Sargent’s Stadium at the Point.
New Orleans had the bases loaded, and Adams pitched to a 3-2 count before recording the out that set off a wild celebration at the Point and led to a parade and Central Park rally the following week.
Johnstown plated three runs in the second inning, which was highlighted by Boston Bradley’s run-scoring single.
New Orleans’ Blake Freeman hit a towering solo home run over the brick wall in deep center field to make it 3-1.
The Boosters rallied for a run on two hits, a hit batsman and a walk in the top of the ninth. New Orleans’ Brandon Briuglio earned AAABA Tournament MVP honors.
Johnstown’s Omar Ward was the tournament RBI leader with 11. Walker was presented The Tribune-Democrat Award to the local franchise’s MVP.
2019 Martella's Pharmacy
For the first time in the tournament's history, the hometown franchise entered the title game as the defending champion.
This time, New Orleans Boosters won the rematch of the historic 2018 title game. The Boosters didn't score until the final two innings of play, but made those runs count in a 5-2 victory over Johnstown Martella's Pharmacy. It was the 250th win in New Orleans franchise history.
Third baseman Grant Schulz, playing in his third tournament in Johnstown, earned most valuable player honors. Schulz went 2-for-4 in the title game with a double, a walk, two runs and a run batted in.
Martella's Pharmacy brought a 1-0 lead into the eighth, as local Pete Vuckovich Award winning left-hander Joel Colledge threw seven scoreless innings before New Orleans' comeback.
2022 Paul Carpenter Capital Advisors
New Orleans used a three-run eighth inning to break open a one-run game in a 5-1 victory over Paul Carpenter Capital Advisors. The Boosters won their third straight AAABA Tournament title, 18th crown overall and fifth in the past seven tournaments.
Boosters pitcher Chris Olivier and center fielder Bryan Broussard shared AAABA Tournament most valuable player honors.
Paul Carpenter's Christian Zilli had two hits in the title game, including a home run over the screen in left field. Zilli was named Tribune-Democrat local franchise MVP after batting .500 (8-for-16).
2023 Mainline Pharmacy
A two-run homer from Devon Boyles in the bottom of the first inning helped Mainline Pharmacy jump out to an early lead and hold off three-time defending champion New Orleans 3-2. In its fifth season as a franchise, Mainline Pharmacy won the city's second tournament title in front of 2,528 fans.
Mainline Pharmacy's Lincoln Pack singled home a run in the third, his team’s final hit of the game.
Johnstown starting pitcher Rodney Shultz, the local Pete Vuckovich Award winner, gutted through 5 2/3 innings with an uncharacteristic six walks and three strikeouts. Reliever Griffin Madden moved from right field to pitch with the bases loaded and two outs in the sixth. Madden got a quick out, and then he pitched three more scoreless innings.
The game ended on a called third strike on New Orleans slugger Casey Artigues, sparking a celebration among the crowd, which already was on its feet for most of the ninth inning.
New Orleans starter Luke Barbier struck out 11 batters over seven innings.
2025 Martella's Pharmacy
Martella's Pharmacy became the third Johnstown-2 representative to advance to the championship game. The local squad went a perfect 3-0 in Pool B play, beating Schenectady (6-1), Butler (14-0) and Buffalo (2-1) before falling 5-0 to Mainline Pharmacy in the all-Johnstown final.
Jace Irvin provided three hits and three RBIs in a 9-0 win over 2024 champion Columbus in a quarterfinal. Ben Ryan added three knocks and two RBIs as the local team racked up 14 hits. Garrett Emerick and Hunter Krotzer combined on a seven-hit shutout. Martella's Pharmacy battled back from a 3-0 first-inning deficit to New Orleans and won 5-4 in a semifinal. Hunter Smith hit his third homer of the tournament. Boden Fernsler (three hits) produced a two-run single, and Mateo Cepullio added a two-RBI double to give Martella's Pharmacy the lead for good.
In 2025, Mainline Pharmacy took five out of the seven regular-season meetings against Martella's Pharmacy. Mainline Pharmacy won the championship series 3-1.
2025 Mainline Pharmacy
The 2025 Johnstown Collegiate Baseball League regular-season and playoff champions won the historic first-ever all-Johnstown AAABA Tournament title to claim the city’s third championship overall and second by Mainline in three years.
Manager Chance Osborne’s team shut out Martella’s Pharmacy squad 5-0 in front of 3,004 fans at Sargent’s Stadium in the 80th AAABA Tournament.
Left fielder Brody Roberts took MVP honors after batting .444 (12-for-27) with three RBIs, nine runs and four stolen bases on as many tries. Johnstown second baseman Teague Hoover tied New Brunswick’s Derek Smail for the tournament RBI title.
Mainline Pharmacy went 2-1 in Pool D. Johnstown beat Cleveland 15-7 in the opener and lost 5-1 to Altoona-1 ******* Motors in the second game. Needing a win to advance, Mainline Pharmacy defeated New Brunswick 5-1 as Bryce Madden struck out eight over six innings. Brody Roberts tallied three knocks. Teague Hoover provided two hits, including a triple, and three RBIs.
Mainline Pharmacy beat Brooklyn 11-2 in a quarterfinal. Jacob McCoy and Bradyn Jarvis combined to allow seven hits and two unearned runs. Brody Roberts supplied three hits. David Kessler contributed two knocks, including a triple, and two RBIs. Calvin Iseminger and Teague Hoover each collected two RBIs.
Mainline Pharmacy came back from a 4-0 deficit to beat New Brunswick 5-4, including three runs in the bottom of the eighth. Bryce Roberts totaled two hits and a run batted in, and Brody Roberts netted two knocks. Hoover added a two-run triple to right and came in on Conner McTighe's RBI single. McTighe contributed three hits.
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