HANOVER - The Campbelltown American Legion baseball team is rarely lacking in confidence. But Saturday afternoon was truly a humbling experience for the young men from C-town.

 At Hanover's Diller Field, Campbelltown was knocked down a few pegs by a 10-1 loss to Upper Dauphin in the opening round of the eight-team, double-elimination Region Four Tournament. Upper Dauphin, the Dauphin County champion, set the stage for the rout with a four-run top of the first inning, and C-town simply couldn't compete with UD stud pitcher Tyler Herb.

 With the setback, the Lebanon County champion slipped to 17-2 overall and into the loser's bracket of the event. Campbelltown will take on Strasburg/Willow Street on Sunday at 9:30 a.m. back at Diller Field, with their season on the line.

 It was the first loss in a month for Post 831, which was without the services of regulars Dustin Stuck and Tyler Carberry.

 "I kind of expected something like this," said Campbelltown skipper Tim Morgan. "It's unfortunate to run into one of the best pitchers (Herb) in the Mid-Penn in your first game. The kid's good. It's not like the pitching we saw in our league.

 One gets the distinct impression that the Campbelltown American Legion baseball team is accutely aware of what it has accomplished this season. One also get the sense that, while deeply gratified, C-town wants more.

 On Tuesday night at 'In The Net' sports complex, Campbelltown capped a great season by capturing the championship of the Lebanon County American Legion Baseball League with a 7-6 victory over defending champ Fredericksburg. The win made Campbelltown 17-1 on the summer and gave it its first league title since 1998.

 Zach Stuart's three-run homer to leftfield staked the circuit's most valuable player, right-hand pitcher Kyle Weary, to a 5-0 lead. Then after Fredericksburg came roaring back to tie it, Campbelltown scratched out a couple of eventual-winning runs.

 "Things went the way any coach would like them to go for five innings, up five runs," said Campbelltown manager Tim Morgan. "But before I knew it, it was a tie game and we were strugging. Fredericksburg came to play. They tied it up five-five. And it was like, 'We've got to suck it up now.'

 "The emotions were really high," Morgan added. "We overcame adversity. They (his players) accomplished what they wanted to accomplish. When Stuart hit a three-run homer, we were up five runs and people thought it was over."

 Campbelltown's reward for the title was a chance to prove themselves all over again.