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Northern Lehigh used a bruising defense and two first-half scoring plays by all-purpose star Ryan Hluschak to take all the pop out of Springfield (Montco) in a District 11 Class 2A subregional semifinal playoff game Saturday night in Slatington. It was the type of grinding and…
· Andre D. Williams
Read on mcall.com →Northern Lehigh coach Jim Tkach has been getting more “kicks” out of Colonial League games this season than ever before. That’s because junior kicker Aaron Mill has thrilled Tkach, his teammates and Bulldogs fans with his field goal accuracy. Even on rainy nights and muddy…
· 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 →Parkland tailback Austin Scott did not want to be hounded by bandwagon jumpers the rest of the season, especially since his heart has been set on playing for Penn State since his sophomore season. The senior Trojans star will make his choice official today by making an oral…
· Andre D. Williams
Read on mcall.com →Real or not? Not many of the fans crowded around the grandstands events area at Allentown’s Cedar Beach for the World Extreme Wrestling show Friday night seemed to care. The bottom line is that it was funny, at times thrilling, and best of all, free. That’s the way every event…
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Read on mcall.com →Darryl Dawkins has been a professional basketball player and head coach, and now some of the Pennsylvania ValleyDawgs hope he is promoted one more level. Veterans Ronnie Fields and Cory Hightower, who helped the team win the franchise’s first United States Basketball League…
· Andre D. Williams
Read on mcall.com →The Pennsylvania ValleyDawgs spent about as much energy trying to beat the Adirondack Wildcats as Lehigh University officials probably used trying to keep Stabler Arena cool Sunday afternoon. Cool play that included slashes through the lane for baskets and high-flying dunks were…
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Read on mcall.com →A bruised left leg, hip and sore butt suffered during a fall in a road race in St. Paul, Minn., did not slow Olympic sprint champion Marty Nothstein in his homecoming Friday night at the Lehigh Valley Velodrome. No, the man nicknamed “The Blade” was aggressive and blazing as…
· Andre D. Williams
Read on mcall.com →The tag team of professional cycling — with coordination, slick moves and ever-present speed — will all be on display in the featured racing event tonight at the Lehigh Valley Velodrome in Trexlertown. Young, blazing riders such as 19-year-old Bobby Lea of Mertztown and Kyle…
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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 →Three players with impressive athletic backgrounds have been sold on Lehigh University and men’s basketball coach Billy Taylor. Lehigh, despite having authored only one winning season since going 19-10 in 1991, has become the choice of 6-1 transfer guard Austen Rowland and of…
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Read on mcall.com →Evander Holyfield used nothing but his fists, padded with boxing gloves. But it seemed like the former four-time heavyweight champion was using a baseball bat against another former heavyweight champion, Hasim Rahman, Saturday night before a crowd of 9,831 at the Boardwalk Hall.…
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Read on mcall.com →Lehigh University’s rookie men’s basketball coach Billy Taylor has quickly found out how much of a demanding job it is to maintain cohesiveness in a Division I program. Taylor, 28, has also come to understand that there are some things that he just can not control. Like…
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Read on mcall.com →The United States Basketball League’s decision to hold games on Mother’s Day didn’t help the Pennsylvania ValleyDawgs at the Stabler Arena ticket window on Sunday. But, despite playing in front of only 712 fans, the ‘Dawgs (4-4) mustered up enough “Maxey” and execution in clutch…
· Andre D. Williams
Read on mcall.com →They were searching for answers, looking for a win, and despite periods of sloppiness, the defending United States Basketball League champion Pennsylvania ValleyDawgs achieved their goal. Being pretty had won them nothing in three previous games, so in their home opener the…
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Read on mcall.com →The Pennsylvania ValleyDawgs are starting to look more like the “Breakfast Club” with the way their roster has been scrambled the last two weeks. No lineup has worked. No point guard has impressed coach Darryl Dawkins. No big man outside of 6-9 shot-blocker/rebounding horse…
· Andre D. Williams
Read on mcall.com →Outside of the Franklin Field stadium where a record-crowd of 50,827 cheered, clapped and waved Jamaican and American flags on Saturday, Lehigh University’s Patrick Dugan and Lafayette College’s Ethan Blose captured a piece of Penn Relays glory in the javelin event. Dugan’s…
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Read on mcall.com →A Penn Relays race that Southern Lehigh senior Tim Erickson sat in the stands of Franklin Field and prayed for for more than three hours Friday, was going fine after two laps. But keeping pace in the studded field of high school boys’ mile runners in Day 2 of the 108th running…
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Read on mcall.com →Off to the side, Mark Lesko stood. Other players were loafing around, some were showboat dunking, throwing the ball off the back wall inside the Lehigh Carbon Community College gymnasium, catching it and then jamming. Others were swishing jumpers from way out. But some of those…
· Andre D. Williams
Read on mcall.com →He’s 28 years old, personable, vigorous on the recruiting trails, and he’s the first African-American head coach at Lehigh University. He’s also married with a baby girl due in early June. Billy Taylor is also much more than that to University of North Carolina-Greensboro head…
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Read on mcall.com →Lehigh University batters rode the slight breeze around and twice out of Moravian College’s Gillespie Field in a 11-5 nonleague victory Wednesday afternoon. The first Lehigh batter to jack a ball over the fence was sophomore third baseman Jesse Novalis, whose 350-foot-plus shot…
· Andre D. Williams
Read on mcall.com →Victory, the best ever in the history of the University of Maryland men’s basketball program, had just been accomplished. An NCAA championship-game win over Indiana had finalized a 32-4 season on April Fool’s Day. What followed was disheartening to me and many other Maryland…
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Read on mcall.com →Welterweight champion Andrew “Six Heads” Lewis sat at Wednesday’s press conference at the Sovereign Center and listened as both the challenger and the challenger’s manager predicted that Lewis is going to get knocked out. Lewis just smiled, his teeth glistening like the diamonds…
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Read on mcall.com →Pat Brogan played as a freshman at Lafayette College in the mid-1980s, then got cut the next season. Now, he’s Fran O’Hanlon’s top assistant coach at Lafayette. If a similar pattern follows at Lehigh, then Brogan will end up being the Engineers’ next head men’s basketball coach.…
· Andre D. Williams
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