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Liberty is bent on trying to make it back to Hershey and finally win the PIAA Class 4A title, but first must earn its stripes against Easton and other tough Lehigh Valley Conference opponents. That’s because the LVC season figures to be another series of weekly dogfights.…
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Read on mcall.com →Aaron Gray has his first fan in Chicago, and it’s a guy who for 24 years had held the distinction of being the last Lehigh Valley athlete drafted into the NBA. Now 46 years old and with a surgically repaired left knee that prevents him from playing basketball anymore, former…
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Read on mcall.com →Thaddeus Young had a curfew that extended past midnight when he was in high school in Memphis, Tenn. But don’t think the 76ers’ first-round draft pick (12th overall) was out doing something wrong. Quite the contrary. Young, who turned 19 on June 21, could be found in the…
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Read on mcall.com →Aaron Gray waited while Ohio State’s Greg Oden, Florida’s Joakim Noah, China’s Yi Jianlian and four other 7 footers were drafted into the NBA in the first and second rounds Thursday night. Gray, a 7-2 center from Emmaus High and the University of Pittsburgh, had been projected…
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Read on mcall.com →Aaron Gray is on board with draft analysts, who are predicting Ohio State’s Greg Oden and Texas’ Kevin Durant to go No. 1 and 2 in tonight’s NBA draft. “They can play basketball and they will be great,” Gray said. “They will be the No. 1 and 2 picks in the draft, let’s face it.”…
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Read on mcall.com →Bethlehem Catholic’s Joe Kovacs is committed beyond the norm to playing in McDonald’s Lehigh Valley Football All-Star Classic at 7 tonight at Parkland Stadium in Orefield. If he wasn’t, Kovacs would be in Puerto Rico, perhaps tanning, eating spicy food and enjoying the scenery.…
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Read on mcall.com →What happened last December at Hersheypark Stadium is still fresh in the mind of Wilson’s Adam Thomas and Sean Monahan. Chris LaBatch, their teammate, also still has great memories of the Warriors’ 29-28 win over Jeannette that earned the school its first PIAA Class 2A title.…
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Read on mcall.com →Aaron Gray is now two days away from a new basketball home. The 7-2 center from Emmaus High School and the University of Pittsburgh has traveled all over the country since the first week of June to work out for NBA teams. He makes his last stop today in Utah, and then he’ll fly…
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Read on mcall.com →Wilson quarterback D.J. Lenehan came alive in the second half of the PSFCA East West All-Star Game, rifling passes all over the field that led to touchdowns and stirred memories of his many feats last season. But the ending Saturday night wasn’t as rewarding as last December,…
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Read on mcall.com →Lehighton’s Robbie Frey has the speed, Bethlehem Catholic’s Terrell Dobbins the power. Together, they hope to be double-trouble tailbacks in the the seventh annual PSFCA East-West All-Star Game tonight in Altoona. Kickoff is at 7 p.m. at Mansion Park Stadium. Frey and Dobbins,…
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Read on mcall.com →Before this week, only Parkland teammates of the Trojans’ dominating offensive lineman Michael Fay had seen his humorous side. That’s because Fay, a Morning Call All Area first team pick and second-team Associated Press Class 4A selection, doesn’t play around when he’s…
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Read on mcall.com →Wilson quarterback D.J. Lenehan isn’t ready to be reminded of what it’s like to lose a football game. He hasn’t lost a game since Dec. 10, 2005, and that was in the PIAA Class 2A title game. Since that defeat, Lenehan has gone 16-0 as a starter, winning each game during a…
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Read on mcall.com →Liberty quarterback Dan Persa plays his final game at Hersheypark Stadium tonight, hoping to help Pennsylvania win its second straight game against Ohio in the Big 33 Football Classic. Kickoff is at 7 p.m. It’s the 50th anniversary of the all-star game that has often been…
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Read on mcall.com →Aaron Gray didn’t attempt a 3-point field goal in his college career at the University of Pittsburgh, except in practice. But he seemed comfortable shooting from beyond the arc in a four-player workout before Philadelphia 76ers’ assistant coaches Thursday in the team’s practice…
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Read on mcall.com →Aaron Gray is not out to prove anybody wrong, especially mock draft experts, who each week post on Web sites their predictions of where players will likely be drafted in next month’s NBA draft. Gray is not out to prove them wrong because he doesn’t care what they think. “If you…
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Read on mcall.com →There are hurdlers who have been affected by the cold, windy and rainy weather, which seems to dampen the start of the track and field season each spring. Northampton senior Ryan Wagner, however, has not been slowed. That’s because inclement weather doesn’t bother him, and it…
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Read on mcall.com →Pittsburgh went perfect from the free throw line in the final minute, allowing star center Aaron Gray to breathe a big sigh of relief after the Big East Tournament semifinals Friday night at Madison Square Garden. The 7-0 Gray, a senior and Emmaus High graduate, had one of his…
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Read on mcall.com →It’s hard to move a mountain, which is what Marquette must have thought Pittsburgh center Aaron Gray represented in the paint Thursday night at Madison Square Garden The 7-0 Gray, a senior and Emmaus High graduate, was at times guarded by Marquette’s 7-0 Mike Kinsella, but Gray…
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Read on mcall.com →American University guard Andre Ingram is one of those players who seems like he’s been playing college basketball for a lot longer than just four years. Lafayette probably wishes Ingram, a senior, had already graduated. That’s because once again the Leopards couldn’t contain…
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Read on mcall.com →Aaron Gray was unstoppable at the start of the game and in the opening minutes of overtime for No. 6 Pittsburgh Sunday afternoon. In both stretches, the Panthers’ 7-0 senior center from Emmaus High scored over smaller Marquette players with baby hooks, spin moves and just by…
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Read on mcall.com →Dan Persa’s postseason awards parade continued Thursday night. The Liberty High senior, who led the Hurricanes to a second straight PIAA Class 4A runner-up finish last month, was named winner of the Maxwell Football Club’s 22nd annual Jim Henry Award as the best high school…
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Read on mcall.com →Steve Aponavicius is looking to make big news again for the Boston College football team. His walk-on-to-stardom story — going from Easton High star soccer player who never played football to the starting placekicker at Boston College — was a national story. And he made his…
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Read on mcall.com →Sports events that are rich in spirit and tradition can help ease the mind and soothe the heart when it is pained from personal tragedy. Perhaps, the 100th Thanksgiving Day meeting between Easton and Phillipsburg Thursday at Lafayette College’s Fisher Field will do that for…
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Read on mcall.com →College football has a Cinderella story that’s far more appealing than the ugliness that was the brawl between Miami and Florida International players last Saturday night. The story is the one about walk-on kicker Steve Aponavicius, the baby-faced Boston College sophomore who…
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