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Allen Holloway doesn’t look that tough on the football field. He’s just 5-10, 150 pounds. But Easton’s senior free safety had opposing offensive players wondering last season, “Did you catch that number?” Holloway was everywhere, making plays, sticking hard. “He has some real…
· Andre D. Williams
Read on mcall.com →A record-breaking high school football season by Parkland High’s Austin Scott was followed by a spring of mistakes, one that resulted in him being expelled from the school in April and forced to attend a private school the rest of the school year. Scott hung out with the wrong…
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Read on mcall.com →Calvin Robinson Jr. saw the opening and took advantage quickly, cheers almost guiding him as he dribbled toward the basket at Allentown’s Roosevelt Park two Sundays ago. It had been four years since he had people rooting for him so loudly. But with the game clock winding down in…
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Read on mcall.com →News that the Black Heritage Tournament and Festival would not be contested this summer stunned Chuck Rockmore a month ago. Not long after hearing that bad news, Rockmore heard speculation that the Stellar Construction adult tournament, widely considered the granddaddy of…
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Read on mcall.com →Faith Robinson, 9, was seemingly hopeless on the track and field surface at Villanova Stadium last April. She was running fast, but most of the other young athletes were running faster. For Robinson, a fourth-grade pupil at Cheston Elementary School in Easton, the experience was…
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Read on mcall.com →Four years after deciding to quit the Easton High football team because so many factors were against him — including being outweighed by 23 pounds by the kicker — Nathan LaBuda was engaged in a high-stakes collegiate boxing match against a defending national champion. LaBuda, a…
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Read on mcall.com →On June 9, 1978, Larry Holmes stopped having to prove himself. That’s the day he punished Ken Norton to win the heavyweight championship He proceeded to hold onto a portion of that title for the next 7 years. Now, at age 51 and riding a four-fight winning streak, Holmes says…
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Read on mcall.com →The celebrating team was jumping around, hugging, and shouting at halfcourt. It wasn’t a scene many Central Catholic players could watch without having heavy hearts. That’s because it was the Franklin Knights dancing around, perhaps long into Friday night, following a 58-50…
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Read on mcall.com →Bill Hager’s coaching milestones are not hard to remember. Win No. 100 came in a playoff game against Kennedy Christian, No. 200 while he was at Maple Wood, No. 300 in his one season in Jamestown, N.Y., and No. 400 in his oldest son Nathan’s senior season at Franklin High in…
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Read on mcall.com →The father of the star player began jumping and waving his arm in the stands at Reading High’s Geigle Complex with a little under two minutes remaining, and the frenzied Central Catholic student body began shouting, “We smell Hershey.” For Kenny Hinds, the father of Vikings…
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Read on mcall.com →Bishop Hannan guard Gerry McNamara had an open floor to dribble and nobody in his way. Big thoughts entered his mind as he moved closer to the basket before rising up and failing miserably on a dunk attempt. “Actually, I didn’t know what to do,” said McNamara, the Golden…
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Read on mcall.com →The quarterback stood in the locker room, drying himself off, reflecting back on the pass he had attempted to complete down court. Unlike the football season when he often had to drop back or scramble to get loose, Bethlehem Catholic junior Mark Borda had nobody guarding him.…
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Read on mcall.com →With the game over, fans standing and cheering, Parkland junior Adam Lane took the ball and tossed it up into the air, nearly reaching the rafters inside Allen High’s Sewards Gymnasium Saturday night. An even greater outburst of joy and laughter followed for Lane, his teammates,…
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Read on mcall.com →The hardwood floor at Memorial Gymnasium opened up like the runway at nearby Lehigh Valley International Airport for Central Catholic’s Daniel Hinds in the second half Tuesday night. With the lanes to the basket more clear, his passion to score and take command of the game…
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Read on mcall.com →The black arm bands worn by the Emmaus High boys basketball team were a tribute to their former classmates and swim team members Tom Gray and Matt Kush, who were killed in an automobile accident early last Saturday morning. The game, an East Penn Conference tournament semifinal…
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Read on mcall.com →Wilson’s horror show of missing fourth-quarter free throws lasted until the final 21/2 minutes of this Colonial League game Tuesday night at Catasauqua’s Lincoln Gymnasium. That’s when senior guard Joe Templeton, Wilson’s coolest and most accurate shooter, stepped to the fore to…
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Read on mcall.com →A thrilling game between Northwestern and Wilson came down to a foul that wasn’t made, a charge that wasn’t called, and a winning basket by Northwestern’s Aaron Foulk that set off an emotional display by players, coaches and rowdy fans. Foulk’s banker with 1.3 seconds left broke…
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Read on mcall.com →The Bethlehem Catholic defensive scheme is to force its opponent to wilt from its 1-3-1 trapping zone, and then lure that opponent to sleep with its patient offense. If you are Allen and you like to run and rely on your athleticism to carry you to victory, then you are in…
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Read on mcall.com →Ray Barbosa was the creator and Jon Brown the finisher. Get used to it because they have more years to go, more games in which to dominate, more dramatic finishes to enjoy. They are the foundation of the Allen boys basketball team — Barbosa the sophomore guard and Brown the…
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Read on mcall.com →Dieruff could have picked any one of 10 players on the Central Catholic roster that have played significant minutes, and it’s unlikely the Huskies would have figured Jim Birkhead to be the one to bust them up. In fact, most Central Catholic opponents would probably think the…
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Read on mcall.com →Allen sophomore Raymond Barbosa came to the free throw line, his cheeks blown up as he stared at the basket inside Central Catholic’s Rockne Hall. He was about to attempt two free throws with 35 seconds left in overtime that, if converted, could lift Allen to its fourth straight…
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Read on mcall.com →Building blocks and gaining a measure of respect and perhaps develop an identity to be reckoned with by Mountain Valley Conference opponents the rest of the season is all Easton had to work for in the second half. The Red Rovers are in the midst of another down season and they…
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Read on mcall.com →More truths will be told as the high school basketball season ages and teams mature and settle on an identity. Right now, Emmaus doesn’t appear to be one of those teams searching for anything. The Green Hornets know what they are about, and they have victories over Parkland,…
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Read on mcall.com →Playing with a sizeable lead is something Liberty has not adjusted to just yet. It did not cost Liberty Tuesday night, but the Hurricanes’ 52-44 victory was aided by an Easton team that went through too many cold stretches in a meeting of Mountain Valley Conference teams at…
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