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Since last season ended, the East Stroudsburg women’s basketball team has been in disarray. Jackie Yandrisevits, the all-time leading women’s basketball scorer at the college, graduated in May, and then on Aug. 20 school officials announced that head coach Julienne Simpson had…
· Andre D. Williams
Read on mcall.com →Coming off an eight-win season, Lafayette seniors Jeff Kari, Mike Gruner and Marek Koltun figured they needed to try different measures to improve. They also need to bond. So they moved in together and spent much of the day and night together in the summer. “We live about 20…
· Andre D. Williams
Read on mcall.com →Deep and talented and once again favored to win the Patriot League tournament title, the Lehigh women enter the 2009-10 season determined to be better than last season. To do that, the Mountain Hawks will have to win an NCAA Tournament game, something no Patriot League team has…
· Andre D. Williams
Read on mcall.com →Lehigh senior guard Marquis Hall, the Patriot League preseason men’s basketball player of the year, has added muscle, which is a good thing because he’ll have more weight on his shoulders this season. Hall joins senior forward Zahir Carrington in a quest to lead the Mountain…
· Andre D. Williams
Read on mcall.com →Tipoff to the 2008-09 men’s and women’s basketball season for Lafayette comes Friday in a doubleheader at Kirby Sports Center. On Monday night at Lafayette’s basketball media day, men’s coach Fran O’Hanlon and women’s coach Tammy Smith, shared thoughts on the upcoming season and…
· Andre D. Williams
Read on mcall.com →The final score, Villanova 110, Kutztown 84 was not anything for the Golden Bears to be disappointed about Thursday night at the Wachovia Center. There were too many other positives, starting first with just having the opportunity to play a scrimmage in a 20,000-seat arena…
· Andre D. Williams
Read on mcall.com →Two of the area’s top men’s basketball players, Lehigh senior guard Marquis Hall and Kutztown senior guard Stephen Dennis, earned preseason honors on Thursday. Hall, a former Patriot League rookie of the year, was named the preseason player of the year and will try to join…
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Read on mcall.com →Former high school quarterbacks from Emmaus and Parkland will meet for the first time in college on Saturday in Orono, Maine. A major streak will be on the line. Defending Football Championship Subdivision champion Richmond (5-0 overall, 3-0 Colonial Athletic Association) enters…
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Read on mcall.com →Kyle Pochek and Matt Stengel became stepbrothers when they were 6 years old. Helped by a mutual interest in football, bonding became easy. They competed on the same teams through high school at Southern Lehigh, and tonight they’ll compete as all-stars on the Lehigh, Carbon and…
· Andre D. Williams
Read on mcall.com →Top-seeded Emmaus unleashed shots on goal fast, building a 6-0 lead before the concession stand had even opened up Wednesday at J. Birney Crum Stadium. The Green Hornets stayed on strong attack, led by Dan Kinek and Will Scott, to bombard Easton 15-4 in a District 11 boys…
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Read on mcall.com →Fresh off being named a conference’s coach of the year, Scott McClary now has the job he’s long dreamed of holding. A former Muhlenberg College assistant men’s basketball coach, McClary was named Dave Madeira’s successor on Friday. Madeira retired on March 10 after completing…
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Read on mcall.com →It was Tennessee’s Chanelle Price, then Villanova’s Frances Koons, one former Lehigh Valley high school track and field All-American following another. Both had memorable runs in the college women’s distance medley Championship of America relay Thursday at the Penn Relays. It…
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Read on mcall.com →Jamelle Cornley set the tone for Penn State early with his hustle, scoring, relentless defense and the heart of a lion Thursday night at Madison Square Garden. Talor Battle, scoreless in the first half, came on in the second half, but Penn State’s 69-63 win over Baylor for the…
· Andre D. Williams
Read on mcall.com →Th ousands of Penn State fans roared throughout and Talor Battle and his Nittany Lions teammates responded with a near first-half knockout of Notre Dame Tuesday night at Madison Square Garden. Back in the NIT semifinals for the first time since 2000, Penn State treated its fans…
· Andre D. Williams
Read on mcall.com →Repeating as Patriot League champs and making it back to the NCAA Tournament is now the primary focus of the Lehigh women. It didn’t take long after the Mountain Hawks’ 85-49 loss to Auburn in an Oklahoma City Region first-round game on Saturday for coach Sue Troyan, the Patriot…
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Read on mcall.com →— Auburn All-American DeWanna Bonner has deceived a lot of people over her ability to dominate a game because of her skinny figure. That’s why Lehigh coach Sue Troyan made sure that her players would not be fooled when they matched up against the 6-foot-4 senior in NCAA…
· Andre D. Williams
Read on mcall.com →The Lehigh University women’s basketball team went on a sightseeing tour of New York City Thursday night. Something unexpected happened. “We went to David and Buster’s and watched American play Villanova,” said sophomore guard Erica Prosser with a sparkle in her eyes on Friday…
· Andre D. Williams
Read on mcall.com →Lehigh’s Sue Troyan is a a two-time Patriot League coach of the year who takes more pride in being an even better mom. Her husband, Fran, Lehigh’s softball coach, and her three children can attest to that. The players she coaches, mentors, and is essentially a second mom to…
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Read on mcall.com →The greatest men’s basketball season in Kutztown University history can be extended — or ended — tonight in the NCAA Division II Atlantic Region final at Gannon University’s Hammermill Center in Erie. Coach Bernie Driscoll says it comes down to whether the Golden Bears can…
· Andre D. Williams
Read on mcall.com →It seemed like Lehigh sophomore guard Erica Prosser was standing at the free-throw line, her team down a point with one second left. But she instead was sitting in front of a large television screen among teammates, coaches, school administrators and media watching the NCAA…
· Andre D. Williams
Read on mcall.com →Twenty-two years ago, Dave Madeira made a bold pitch to become the head men’s basketball coach at Muhlenberg College. And it came with a promise that Madeira made sure he never broke. It’s a story that Madeira proudly told Tuesday night, hours after announcing to his players…
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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 →It’s Brown and White against Maroon and White. It’s Bethlehem against Easton. For the first time since 1997, it’s Lehigh against Lafayette for the Patriot League women’s basketball tournament title at 6 tonight at Stabler Arena. It seemed like an unlikely showdown when the…
· Andre D. Williams
Read on mcall.com →Led by a trio of pesky guards, Lehigh cranked it up and blitzed Army with 14 consecutive second-half points Sunday afternoon. That decisive run enabled the Mountain Hawks to turn a two-point deficit into a 12-point advantage in the Patriot League women’s tournament semifinals at…
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