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Just four regular-season games remain and DeSales men’s coach Scott Coval is three wins shy of his 300th victory. He seems guaranteed to reach the milestone this winter. If he doesn’t, then the close to his 17th season in Center Valley will be a bad one. But the chances are…
· Andre D. Williams
Read on mcall.com →Star guard Alex Chili had been silenced and Muhlenberg, ranked No. 9 by d3hoops.com, trailed rival DeSales by 15 points in the second half. The alarm clock then sounded. Chili, a sophomore who turned down Division I offers to come to Muhlenberg, got on target and stayed…
· Andre D. Williams
Read on mcall.com →Star guard Alex Chili had been silenced and Muhlenberg, ranked No. 9 by d3hoops.com, trailed rival DeSales by 15 points in the second half. The alarm clock then sounded. Chili, a sophomore who turned down Division I offers to come to Muhlenberg, got on target and stayed…
· Andre D. Williams
Read on mcall.com →The Kutztown men are back in the NCAA Division II basketball tournament for the first time since 1988, and hope to stick around for a while. In Division III, the DeSales men and Muhlenberg women have reached the “Sweet 16” and hope to continue playing on. The Golden Bears,…
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Read on mcall.com →She had game highs in points, rebounds, assists and blocked shots. As if that wasn’t dominant enough, College of New Jersey’s 6-foot-3 All-American candidate Hillary Klimowicz also made more free throws (7) than DeSales attempted (5) in an NCAA Division III tournament…
· Andre D. Williams
Read on mcall.com →She felt it from beyond the arc, felt it off drives, was on target at the free throw line. DeSales senior guard LeighAnn Burke just felt like she could score every time she had the ball in her hands in the second half against Delaware Valley Tuesday night at Billera Hall. Held…
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Read on mcall.com →February essentially is the nitty-gritty time of the college basketball season. Every game carries significantly more magnitude than the previous one. Every win enhances NCAA Tournament aspirations and top seeding possibilities for teams who are nationally ranked, including the…
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Read on mcall.com →The DeSales women do not slack off during practice. Senior guards LeighAnn Burke and Kim Rarick, and junior forward Caitlyn Miller won’t allow it. “They only know how to work hard,” DeSales coach Fred Richter said. “We give a practice player of the week [award] out. You might…
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Read on mcall.com →A game of one tenacious defensive stop after another got final separation on a 3-point from the corner by DeSales junior Kim Rarick that bounced once, twice and then hung on the rim before falling through the nets. You can call it a lucky bounce, but it was just a good player…
· Andre D. Williams
Read on mcall.com →Here’s another good news/bad news situation. The DeSales and Muhlenberg women won their conference tournaments to earn automatic NCAA Division III Tournament bids. That’s the good news. The bad news is that DeSales (24-3), champion of the Freedom Conference, has to play…
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Read on mcall.com →It was a Monday filled with elation for the Muhlenberg women, surprise for the Moravian men and disappointment for the DeSales men’s and women’s teams. The NCAA Division III Selection Committee has a history of making decisions that leave coaches and players from around the…
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Read on mcall.com →Perfection on the basketball court is hard to achieve, which is why DeSales junior Kim Rarick chose to give her team a “B” as a midseason grade. The Bulldogs, under veteran coach Fred Richter, are 11-3 and considered a contender for the Freedom Conference championship. “Nobody…
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Read on mcall.com →Recently, DeSales University senior Kirby Lutz and her parents laughed at length as they watched a videotape of Lutz when she played at Pen Argyl High School. “The game, overall, was so much slower, and my game, overall, was so much slower,” Lutz said. “We played a zone…
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Read on mcall.com →Debate continues as to whether college women’s basketball teams should be allowed to use male practice players. It probably wouldn’t be that much of a big deal now, if it were not for the NCAA Committee on Women’s Athletics calling for ban on male practice players in December.…
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Read on mcall.com →“February Madness” has arrived for local teams at DeSales, Moravian and Muhlenberg. That’s because playoff seeds and berths are on the line. The DeSales women (14-9, 8-4) will have their chance to punch a Freedom Conference playoff ticket with a road victory over Delaware Valley…
· Andre D. Williams
Read on mcall.com →Mercy rules do not exist in college basketball. That suited DeSales University women’s coach Fred Richter just fine against Delaware Valley Tuesday at Billera Hall in Center Valley. Richter, who is bidding for his sixth NCAA appearance with the Bulldogs, paced the sidelines and…
· Andre D. Williams
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