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The Lehigh Valley Conference has become more interesting thanks to Allen’s resurgence with consecutive victories over Freedom and Bethlehem Catholic. However, the Canaries (2-2) are in an uphill battle to advance to the PIAA Class 4A sub-regional playoffs because it’s difficult…
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Read on mcall.com →When Charles Irvin intercepted a pass at the 10-yard line with a little over five minutes remaining, he wanted to run for a touchdown, run out of the end zone, and if possible, run up into the Bethlehem Area School District stadium stands Friday night. In his dreams, his…
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Read on mcall.com →Liberty hopes to blow out Parkland in the same fashion it has its first three opponents. But it might not satisfy at least one Liberty High teacher. “One of my teachers said, “Can you make the games more interesting,’ but I said interesting games are usually the bad ones. The…
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Read on mcall.com →COLLEGES BRIGHAM YOUNG 1-1, 0-0 (Mountain West) Bye Joe Semanoff (Lehighton) So. RB, 5-10, 215. DELAWARE 2-0, 0-0 (Atlantic 10) Beat West Chester 42-21 Jeremy Kametz (Freedom) So. DL, 6-4, 243. Game: Did not play. Season: Three solo tackles, two for losses, two pass breakups.…
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Read on mcall.com →Teko Johnson has taught his Northampton players as much about how to deal with adversity as how to win football games. “He has a lot of phrases about life,” said Northampton quarterback Josh Harakal. “He talks about how everything is a test. He never stops teaching.” Johnson…
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Read on mcall.com →As a defensive end in the seventh grade, Alex Atiyeh found joy in chasing and tackling quarterbacks. Then in the eighth grade he became a quarterback, and his mind-set changed. “I love being a quarterback,” said Atiyeh, a junior who’s in his second season starting at Bethlehem…
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Read on mcall.com →A Lehigh Valley Conference opener between rivals turned into a halftime scare when Northampton coach Teko Johnson stumbled to the bench. He was later carried away by ambulance after experiencing upper-body pains. Parkland trailed by a point, but overwhelmed dispirited…
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Read on mcall.com →Jason Roeder’s hiring was heavily opposed by most Freedom players in February when he was chosen to succeed Jim Morgans as football coach. Roeder, 30, had never been a head coach and most of the players had developed a closeness to Michael Heimbach, who had been an assistant on…
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Read on mcall.com →Hold off on considering Liberty as the team to beat in Bethlehem. That’s because Bethlehem Catholic is again powerful and eager to continue proving that it may be the Christmas City’s best team. The Golden Hawks, sparked by punishing tackles by Joe Dancho and Cory McFadden,…
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Read on mcall.com →The memory of his own watery eyes and the disconsolate looks on his teammates’ faces as tears trickled down their faces has not faded from Liberty quarterback Dan Persa’s memory. He cannot walk into the weight room or the locker room without being reminded of that 14-7 loss to…
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Read on mcall.com →Brothers Oscar and Justin Rivera were so excited the first day they put on pads as 95-pound players for the Bethlehem Steelers’ football team that they went home and continued tackling. But not outside. Oscar and Justin, who now play for Liberty High School, plowed each other…
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Read on mcall.com →Bob Stem returns to coaching tonight against a man who admires him, but who’s also yet to beat him. That doesn’t mean that Northampton coach Teko Johnson has already conceded. It’s quite the opposite because Johnson’s Konkrete Kids, led by the multi-talented and dangerous Josh…
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Read on mcall.com →Central Catholic will never be just an average football program, because the coaching staffs and players dressed in Vikings gear will always think they’re as good, if not better, than everybody else. Even if the victories don’t equal the always-high expectations. The fact is…
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Read on mcall.com →Central Catholic made a goal-line theft to help clinch a non-league victory and ease the heartbeat of coach Donnie Roberts Saturday night at J. Birney Crum Stadium. The Vikings, ahead by 11 points entering the fourth quarter, were in danger of falling behind when Downingtown…
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Read on mcall.com →Bethlehem Catholic and Parkland entered the second half the way they began the first: scoreless. The only highlights had been crunching hits, topped by a sandwich of Bethlehem Catholic quarterback Alex Atiyeh by blitzing Trojans Owen Thomas and Matt Wasley to end the half. But…
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Read on mcall.com →Larry Holmes has finally put his guard down. One reason is because he now knows how well thought of he is by longtime boxing commentators Jim Lampley and Larry Merchant. And he now knows how one of the men he once bloodied en route to a 13th-round technical knockout in a…
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Read on mcall.com →Freedom High defensive star Colin Neely reeled off a long list of people whom he wanted to thank for helping him earn a scholarship to Michigan State. Then, the rising senior thanked the person who was most responsible for the strenuous work he has done on and off the field over…
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Read on mcall.com →Danny Hargrove, a former Morning Call All-Area player got his wish to play in front of Allentown fans again and he made the best of it Sunday in the championship game of the Adult-Mid Summer Basketball Classic at Roosevelt Park. Aaron Gray, the starting center at the University…
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Read on mcall.com →Haldeman Ford’s adult men’s basketball team is not expected to have a big advantage on the Roosevelt Park blacktop this weekend like it did last summer. That’s because Haldeman won’t have 7-foot center Aaron Gray to depend on as it tries to repeat as Adult Mid-Summer Basketball…
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Read on mcall.com →David Horton, a two-time Morning Call all-area player, was on the field in the final minutes of the 48th annual Big 33 Football Classic Saturday night. But it was not like old times. It was close and it was late. Throughout his Central Catholic career, the record-breaking…
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Read on mcall.com →Ryan Greiser rushed forward, planted and appeared ready to tackle Michigan State-bound tailback Javon Ringer. But Greiser, The Morning Call’s Player of the Year from Pennridge High, missed Ringer, which Ohio’s All-Stars made Pennsylvania defenders do often in the Big 33 Football…
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Read on mcall.com →In his senior season at Pennridge, Ryan Greiser rushed for 2,030 yards, scored 33 touchdowns and was selected as The Morning Call’s player of the year. He was also named to the Associated Press Class 4A All-State first team and invited to the Big 33 Football Classic. But Greiser…
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Read on mcall.com →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…
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Read on mcall.com →Domenique Price sat still and quiet, his body exhausted from a Tuesday morning workout with the other Pennsylvania all-stars in scorching heat at Hershey High. “I’m a little beat from two practices a day and it’s hot outside,” he said. “There is a lot of running around.” But he…
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