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In the 1970s, Artie Owens often gained inspiration to run hills and practice sprints from watching the Philadelphia Pioneers track team and U.S. Olympic speedster Bob Hayes on Wide World of Sports. The means of motivation worked as Owens went from a three-sport star athlete at…
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Read on mcall.com →The run for championship medals seems to bring out the best in Brianna Broyles when she’s down to her final attempts. At Allen High, Broyles won the 100-meter high hurdle title in the PIAA Track and Field Championships as a senior. It was her only state title in an illustrious…
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Read on mcall.com →During many of his long touchdown runs during the football season, Parkland senior Andre Williams got a good rest before going back out onto the field and trying to go the distance again. Not so in track and field when you run the 110-meter high hurdles and 100 dash, but…
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Read on mcall.com →A standout Liberty swimmer is headed to Duke and two star women’s basketball players have decided to extend their athletic and academic careers at Lehigh and Bloomsburg, respectively. The college decisions were announced at a press conference at Liberty’s art gallery Tuesday…
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Read on mcall.com →A standout Liberty swimmer is headed to Duke and two star women’s basketball players have decided to extend their athletic and academic careers at Lehigh and Bloomsburg, respectively. The college decisions were announced at a press conference at Liberty’s art gallery Tuesday…
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Read on mcall.com →Dave Brown has four daughters under the age of 10 and his wife, Sarah, is not open to the idea of having more kids. So, Liberty’s new football coach won’t get the opportunity to coach his own son one day. “I think we’re good. I think we’re going to wrap it up right where we are…
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Read on mcall.com →— Chanelle Price beat Usain Bolt around the Franklin Field track on Saturday. Amazing, huh? But Price, a sophomore distance standout with the University of Tennessee and former Easton All-American, got to take a victory lap an hour before Bolt after she helped lead the…
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Read on mcall.com →She was not vintage Chanelle Price. She was strategical. Competing in her first race since suffering a chest infection 10 days ago, Price ran a solid opening leg for Tennessee in the Championships of America 4×1,500-meter relay at the Penn Relays on Friday at Franklin Field. The…
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Read on mcall.com →“I’m 5-3, between 105, 109 pounds,” she said following a blowout win in the 400-meter dash in a tri-meet at Bethlehem Area School District Stadium Monday afternoon. A junior, Smith is in her first year running track and she has quickly gone from a sprinter nobody knew anything…
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Read on mcall.com →Quakertown High School athletic director Sylvia Kalazs considers new head football coach George Banas to be the perfect fit for the Panthers. Twenty candidates applied for the job, vacated in January by John Donnelly, who left to take over the same position at Central Bucks…
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Read on mcall.com →Liberty senior Stephen Lewis had an unusual Thursday by most early-season track and field standards. But Lewis has his own expectations and they are high and will rise even higher as the PIAA Track and Field Championship weekend nears. On Thursday, during a dual meet against…
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Read on mcall.com →Liberty’s girls track team is just plain loaded, Saucon Valley has a defending state sprint champion who’s even faster this year, Lehighton boasts a multi-event standout, and Whitehall features a vaulting sensation. And because of the all-around strength of defending Lehigh…
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Read on mcall.com →Liberty’s Stephen Lewis is lean and fast. Parkland’s Andre Williams is lean, fast and powerful. Both are outstanding senior hurdlers coming off top five finishes in the Class 3A 110-meter hurdles in the PIAA Track and Field Championships last year. Lewis was fourth in the 110 in…
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Read on mcall.com →Kutztown senior guard Stephen Dennis had a career-high 42 points on Jan. 13 against East Stroudsburg and many more highlights have come for the all-time leading scorer in school history. On Monday, the 6-foot-6 Dennis was named the 2009-2010 Daktronics Division II Men’s…
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Read on mcall.com →Kutztown’s Stephen Dennis went two-for-two in major awards on Wednesday, earning the Pennsylvania State Athletic Conference East and Daktronics NCAA Division II Atlantic Region player of the year awards. Now, the 6-foot-6 senior guard with the deceptively quick first-step…
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Read on mcall.com →Kutztown scrambled, hoping for a miracle run that never came. Indiana University of Pennsylvania was just too strong and poised under pressure in the Pennsylvania State Athletic Conference final Saturday night at East Stroudsburg University’s Koehler Fieldhouse. It was the…
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Read on mcall.com →East Stroudsburg guard Andy Heimbach’s 3-pointers looked good, felt good and six times swished through the net. Cheyney appeared helpless trying to stop Heimbach in a Pennsylvania State Athletic Conference quarterfinal game at Koehler Fieldhouse. “Once Andy made a couple, I had…
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Read on mcall.com →Lehigh freshman C.J. McCollum was rewarded for his end-to-end domination and Lafayette coach Fran O’Hanlon was honored for leading a team not expected to do well to a third-place finish in the Patriot League regular season. McCollum averaged a league-best 27.8 points over the…
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Read on mcall.com →E ast S troudsburg University coach Jeff Wilson didn’t have expectations four years ago that Andy Heimbach would provide highlight-reel dunks. Heimbach, a graduate of Central Catholic, is not that type of player. But he is a shooter, the best in East Stroudsburg’s history from…
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Read on mcall.com →Many of the 1,000-point scorers in East Stroudsburg’s history were honored on Saturday before the tip-off of the Warriors game against Cheyney at Koehler Fieldhouse. During a second-half scoring drought that lasted nearly nine minutes, East Stroudsburg coach Jeff Wilson probably…
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Read on mcall.com →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…
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Read on mcall.com →The decision of where they wanted to play college football had long been made by Parkland’s Andre Williams, The Morning Call’s player of the year, and star quarterbacks Anthony Gonzalez of Liberty and Tyler Smith of Wilson. But there’s still nothing like the day of unrestrained…
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Read on mcall.com →Respect is not something you’d think would have been hard for Plymouth-Whitemarsh, undefeated and the No. 1 team in the state before Sunday, to earn. But Plymouth-Whitemarsh, led by 6-10 St. Joseph’s-bound center C.J. Aiken, is not nationally ranked, probably wasn’t even given…
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Read on mcall.com →East Stroudsburg’s Robby Pines, nicknamed “Big Shot” was fouled by Mansfield’s Big Unit, 6-foot-6, 284-pound Yusseff Carr. Just five seconds in overtime remained. Calm and determined, Pines converted both free throws that clinched East Stroudsburg’s 67-65 victory Wednesday night…
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