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Track & Field
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Price’s decade of dominance **Easton grad owns Pa., national high school records, part of world-record relays in college. **2000 – 2009 THE DECADE **DARK DAYS AND BRIGHT MOMENTS **FEMALE ATHLETE OF THE DECADE

Chanelle Price won with grace and speed. She won everywhere, except the 2008 U.S. Olympic Trials. But Price, the greatest female track and field athlete to ever come out of the Lehigh Valley, will likely get another chance at the Olympics in 2012. “I want to run 1:56, 1:57,”…

EastonChanelle Price

· Andre D. Williams

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Football
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Looking ahead could be very costly **With rivalry week looming and playoffs berths on the line, teams can’t afford to lose focus.

Trap games do exist in high school football. Emmaus, Easton and Liberty will try to avoid them tonight in Lehigh Valley Conference matchups that have District 11-2-4 Class 4A subregional playoff implications. Next week is the traditional rivalry showdowns, featuring Emmaus…

ParklandEmmaus

· Andre D. Williams

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Football
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Sticking it to Buckeye State ** Ex-Rovers star Holley picks off 2 passes, makes TD-saving stop to lead Pa. to third straight win.

Jarred Holley could have been mistaken for Krazy Glue on a hot Saturday night at Hersheypark Stadium. The Easton High defensive back started at left cornerback for Pennsylvania against Ohio in the Big 33 Football Classic and made two sensational plays in the end zone — one an…

ParklandEaston

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Track & Field
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Fahringer, Kovacs: They’re tops in this field ** District 11’s best throwers could contend for state gold. ** Boys Track Preview

Seniors Andy Fahringer of Whitehall and Joe Kovacs of Bethlehem Catholic headline the top returning boys track and field performers in District 11 this spring. Both are standout throwers. Fahringer is the defending PIAA Track and Field Class 3A discus champion. Fahringer, who’s…

LibertyWhitehall

· Andre D. Williams

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Track & Field
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Returning stars abound on area track teams ** Parkland, Liberty, Northern Lehigh, Becahi boast some of the best. ** Boys Track and Field Preview

The deans of area track and field coaches are back. Freedom’s Ray Herman returns for his 41st season and Southern Lehigh’s Brian Souerwine is back for his 34th. While not a lot has changed since last spring, a whole lot has changed in general over the years. “It’s amazing,” said…

ParklandLiberty

· Andre D. Williams

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Football
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Horton feels at home among the All-Stars ** The Richmond-bound wideout might also be seeing time at d-back.

David Horton has drawn up a few plays in his mind, plays he hopes to execute in the Big 33 Football Classic Saturday night in Hersheypark Stadium. They are plays that involve catching, running, eluding, and, of course, scoring a touchdown as Horton did so often throughout his…

Allentown Central CatholicPenn State

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Track & Field
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Becahi peaking at right time ** Golden Hawks hope to dominate in the 2A 1,600 and 3,200 relays. ** D-11 Boys Track Preview

Bethlehem Catholic still has speed in the 100- and 200-meter dashes, just not the best around. That’s because former Becahi standouts Brandon Carter and Eddie Scipio have graduated and the area’s fastest boys runner is Allen’s Rushane Scott, who’s been timed at 10.6 in the 100…

Bethlehem CatholicParkland

· Andre D. Williams

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Basketball
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Lady Lions heading to Sweet 16 ** Penn State gets physical and tosses South Carolina from the women’s NCAA Tournament.

South Carolina tried to bump and hold, but Penn State retaliated with roughhouse play of its own in a women’s basketball NCAA Mideast Region second-round game Tuesday night at the Bryce Jordan Center. Penn State also had offensive punch, led by Kelly Mazzante. Tanisha Wright led…

Penn StateTanisha Wright

· Andre D. Williams

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Football
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Muhlenberg men about to begin life after Lesko ** The graduationof their All-American leaves the Mules searching.

It’s not surprising that the Muhlenberg College men received 11 first-place votes in the coaches’ pre-season Centennial Conference poll. The Mules have won or shared the title eight out of the last nine years. However, those votes may have been based more on reputation than on…

MuhlenbergMoravian

· Andre D. Williams

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Basketball
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Taylor looking for improvement, not just wins ** Lehigh’s new coach will challenge players to make them better.

First-year Lehigh men’s coach Billy Taylor decided he’d rather have his wits and the moxie of his players tested the second game of the season with a road trip to Big Ten power Illinois Saturday night than to play Wagner. The Engineers played Wagner the second game of the season…

LehighLafayette

· Andre D. Williams

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Football
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Can Golden Hawks soar over new LVC? ** Becahi could be the cream of the 12-team league. But watch for Parkland, Freedom.

The swagger is still there, though the players who figure to be leading the Bethlehem Catholic charge are different. The speed is also there, maybe more so than in the past. Look out for a junior named Brandon Carter. There is a new team leader, senior quarterback Adam Bednarik,…

ParklandFreedom

· Andre D. Williams

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Football
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Canaries, Huskies hit books before sleds ** Allen and Dieruff coaches are putting a great emphasis on their players’ studies.

Kevin Easterling was selected to play in the 1984 Big 33 Football Classic after rushing for nearly 1,200 yards his senior year at Dieruff, and he believes his son could have similar success at the Colonial League school he currently attends. But Easterling is worried that the…

AllenDieruff

· Andre D. Williams

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Football
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Sitting down together again

They are all back together in competition, old rivals, longtime friends, fans who want to engage in rah-rah chants, and coaches who want to outfox other coaches by any means possible. Most of them have been separated for four calender school years, leaving Allen deprived of a…

ParklandEmmaus

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Basketball
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Sixers kick it up a notch ** Needing a confidence booster, Philly withstands a late New York rally and wins a playoff-style matchup.

Tight, thuggish, heart-thumping. Get used to it. That’s what playoff basketball will be like. A preview of it was shown to a national television audience and a sellout crowd of 20,699 at the First Union Center, Sunday. The Sixers-New York Knicks IV was the final meeting between…

76ersAllen

· Andre D. Williams

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