Kleinfelter commits to play baseball at JMU

Lancaster High senior Matthew Kleinfelter signed a letter of intent to play baseball at James Madison University last week. Participating in the ceremony, from left, were his parents Tom and Denise Kleinfelter, Kleinfelter and LHS baseball coaches Welby Saunders and Scotty George. Photo by Lisa Hinton-Valdrighi

by Lisa Hinton-Valdrighi

Lancaster High School senior Matthew Kleinfelter will play baseball for Division 1 James Madison University next year.

Kleinfelter signed his letter of intent to play at JMU before friends and family November 16 on LHS’s home baseball field at Dream Fields in Kilmarnock.

Kleinfelter has spent a lot of his successful baseball career at the complex, playing four years of varsity baseball for the Red Devils, as well as the Lancaster County Little League and most recently American Legion baseball.

“It’s been great watching…