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Lafayette College senior guard Andrew Pleick saved his best scoring game for his final home game at Kirby Sports Center Sunday. He also handled the ball with exceptional care and did a good job distributing it to his teammates, much like he has all season. But when the Leopards’…
· Andre D. Williams
Read on mcall.com →About the only thing that kept Justin DeBerry from practicing in those scorching Tucson, Ariz., summers was a dust storm. Outside of that, the Lafayette College guard shot jumpers in his backyard for hours, unconcerned about heat stroke despite 100-degree temperatures. “You get…
· Andre D. Williams
Read on mcall.com →Justin DeBerry and Winston Davis, two players Lafayette College needs to have solid performances in most games to have a chance to win, both struggled shooting Friday night against Bucknell at Kirby Sports Center. Without either in peak form, Lafayette couldn’t keep pace with a…
· Andre D. Williams
Read on mcall.com →In normal games, Lafayette College guard Justin DeBerry could probably keep track of his rebounds in his head. But the 6-3 junior was scrapping so hard to get position and yank down boards in the Leopards’ 57-43 Patriot League victory over Army Wednesday night at Kirby Sports…
· Andre D. Williams
Read on mcall.com →The 197th meeting between rivals Lehigh and Lafayette tipped off with enough fireworks to light up the city of Bethlehem Friday night. That’s because Lehigh and Lafayette went full-throttle at each other in a Patriot League game before a loud crowd of 3,892 at Stabler Arena. It…
· Andre D. Williams
Read on mcall.com →The Lehigh men’s basketball coach who seemed to be tailor-made for the position will have the opportunity to prove himself and his team to the man who taught and motivated him back in Illinois. Dennis Taylor, whose son Billy is in his first season as Lehigh’s coach, will make…
· Andre D. Williams
Read on mcall.com →Lafayette College scrapped back with a much-improved offense, a hustling defense that forced turnovers, and just about everything else it had left over the final 10 minutes of the second half against the University of Pennsylvania Tuesday night at Kirby Sports Center. But…
· Andre D. Williams
Read on mcall.com →Lafayette College gets a break from its Patriot League schedule tonight, but the Leopards’ 7:30 home game against the Ivy League’s University of Pennsylvania is a step up in competition. It could be considered a level higher than the Leopards’ games against Arizona State on Nov.…
· Andre D. Williams
Read on mcall.com →Lafayette threw everything it had at Patriot League heavyweight Holy Cross, except a knockout blow, Saturday afternoon at Kirby Sports Center. For Lafayette, there were guards Justin DeBerry and Winston Davis popping 3-pointers from way out. There was 6-10 center Rob Dill…
· Andre D. Williams
Read on mcall.com →Coaching on the big-time level has brought big-time thrills to former Lafayette College assistant coach Pat Brogan, who is in his first season as an assistant coach at Penn State. But Brogan has not forgotten the eight seasons he spent coaching at Lafayette, a period that ended…
· Andre D. Williams
Read on mcall.com →Going to the playground to play basketball was a chance for “Slim” to throw down dunks that often impressed the older players in Tampa, Fla. “I remember a few times where the old guys would be like, “Slim, you have the highest ups on our team, you have to give us something,’ so…
· Andre D. Williams
Read on mcall.com →Those who wondered whether 28-year-old Billy Taylor could rescue the Lehigh men’s basketball team from the cloud it has been under for so long have their answer. Ten games into Taylor’s rookie season as a coach, Lehigh has confidence, better chemistry, and — best of all — a 6-4…
· Andre D. Williams
Read on mcall.com →The only person walking around Lafayette College’s Kirby Sports Center with a mask on was the school’s mascot in Monday nights nonleague game against Albany. But it seemed as if the Leopards’ 6-10 center Rob Dill was also wearing a different face, one that was downright mean,…
· Andre D. Williams
Read on mcall.com →The losing streak is over. Thank the schedule makers for setting up a date for Lafayette with Division III Ursinus Tuesday night at Kirby Sports Center. Lafayette, winless in its previous five games, took advantage of the many weaknesses from the undersized and overmatched Bears…
· Andre D. Williams
Read on mcall.com →Winston Davis, the slasher, and Justin DeBerry, the shooter, are not so concerned that Brian Burke is no longer around to dial up 3-pointers with the game on the line for Lafayette. Neither is point guard Andrew Pleick or forward Mike Farrell, who, like Davis and DeBerry, would…
· Andre D. Williams
Read on mcall.com →Billy Taylor was a man trying to adjust to a different environment in his first head coaching job, and to top it all off, he had to win over some of his emotionally depleted players — players who had just lost their coach and agonized through a 5-23 season. He also had a student…
· Andre D. Williams
Read on mcall.com →The search for new players to fill the void left by graduating seniors and transfers led Lafayette men’s basketball coach Fran O’Hanlon into the European talent pool. O’Hanlon found two 6-7 forwards who, he said, are athletic but need work. In other words, Miran Omanovic, a…
· Andre D. Williams
Read on mcall.com →The closest highway is a short walk from College Hill in Easton, and Lafayette College coach Fran O’Hanlon doesn’t mind telling any player disgruntled with his role in to take that highway — Route 22 — and not worry about coming back. Simply put, it’s O’Hanlon’s way or the…
· Andre D. Williams
Read on mcall.com →This was for Ivy League bragging rights and the chance to make history. Shooting-wise, it was not a classic. Too many clanks off the rim early on to call the regular-season finale between Penn and Princeton that Tuesday night before an emotionally intoxicated crowd of 8,700-plus…
· Andre D. Williams
Read on mcall.com →This was for Ivy League rank and the chance to make history, a classic in the making. Shooting-wise, though, it was not a classic. There were too many clanks off the rim early on to call the regular-season finale between Penn and Princeton a classic. But that didn’t stop the…
· Andre D. Williams
Read on mcall.com →– Lafayette’s Brian Burke didn’t have it until the end. Teammate Winston Davis had it all game, especially when he soared for rebounds. Davis grabbed a career-high 12 rebounds Saturday afternoon, but the Leopards blew a 17-point lead before surviving a suspenseful finish to beat…
· Andre D. Williams
Read on mcall.com →I stopped by Lafayette College’s Kirby Sports Center on Monday and was amazed at the skinny kid with the braids gliding effortlessly through the air, doing windmill dunks and several other impressive slams. It was Leopards sophomore Winston Davis. I said to myself: “Why is this…
· Andre D. Williams
Read on mcall.com →American University hung around close enough to be a total pest to Lafayette Saturday afternoon at Kirby Sports Center. But Lafayette controlled the clock, the tempo, and in the end, the scoreboard thanks to a game-winning 3-pointer by Brian Burke. Burke’s 25-footer with 1.3…
· Andre D. Williams
Read on mcall.com →Some may remember the ugly stuff — the errant passes, wild shots, hard falls and maybe even the Lehigh University mascot crawling underneath the back stage at one point. Others may remember the seven ties and five lead changes in the second half of the Lehigh-Lafayette Patriot…
· Andre D. Williams
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