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It’s time to run fast, throw far, jump and vault high. It’s time to be better than just good. It’s time to win a District 11 track and field medal, preferably gold. Sprinters Anthony Davidson of Wilson and Bethlehem Catholic’s Tevrin Brandon are confident they’ll achieve their…
· Andre D. Williams
Read on mcall.com →Combine the number of athletes on the Bethlehem Catholic, Liberty and Freedom track and field teams and it still wouldn’t equal the size of Parkland’s team. The Trojans have 368 male and female participants, a program record. It sometimes makes the Parkland squad look like a…
· Andre D. Williams
Read on mcall.com →Wilson’s Anthony Davidson had one race left and he faced a deficit in the final leg of the 1,600-meter relay on Thursday. Anticipation built as Davidson took the baton, seeking a fourth gold medal in the Colonial League Track and Field Championships at Bangor Memorial Park.…
· Andre D. Williams
Read on mcall.com →Make no mistake, Saucon Valley’s Alyssa Lombardo is young. Just not as young as she was listed in the program for the Colonial League Track and Field Championships on Thursday at Bangor Memorial Park. “They have me listed as a freshman” Lombardo said in a calm and composed…
· Andre D. Williams
Read on mcall.com →Motivated to carry her 3,200-meter relay team into her school’s record book, Emmaus senior Lindsey Graybill took the baton and raced the Green Hornets to a convincing victory in the Lehigh Valley Conference track and field championships at J. Birney Crum Stadium on Wednesday.…
· Andre D. Williams
Read on mcall.com →Whitehall’s Doug Henninger won with strength and Easton’s David Hightower won with speed and crisp hurdling. Then, there was Parkland’s Matt Gillette, who used long strides and a solid finishing kick to anchor the Trojans to victory in the 3,200-meter relay before closing out…
· Andre D. Williams
Read on mcall.com →Rich Sniscak listened in amazement as one inspiring story after another was told. Then Sniscak, the former star Dieruff High football-player-turned-Parkland High football coach/administrator, got his chance to tell stories Friday night at the Lehigh Valley Chapter of the…
· Andre D. Williams
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…
· Andre D. Williams
Read on mcall.com →Freedom senior Dan McLaughlin prepared for the Liberty-Freedom track and field meet Monday by isolating himself before heading to Bethlehem Area School District Stadium. “I went home, listened to my music, tried to get myself psyched for it,” he said. “I was trying to get myself…
· Andre D. Williams
Read on mcall.com →Anthony Gonzalez was in Liberty High’s weight room Tuesday afternoon when he was told to take a break by his coach. It ended up being the best break of his life. Three U.S. Army recruiters were waiting for him, very important paperwork in hand. Gonzalez’s teammates crowed…
· Andre D. Williams
Read on mcall.com →New York Giants quarterback Eli Manning didn’t have to give Phillipsburg quarterback Keith Kullman any tips. “Our guys had it going on,” Manning said Sunday, following Gatorade’s Replay football game between Easton and Phillipsburg at Lafayette College’s Fisher Stadium. Indeed.…
· Andre D. Williams
Read on mcall.com →A nip-and-tuck 3,200-meter relay turned lopsided once University of Tennessee freshman sensation Chanelle Price took the baton for the second leg Saturday. The former Easton High middle distance state and national champion has a history of racing away from the pack. Fueled by…
· Andre D. Williams
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…
· Andre D. Williams
Read on mcall.com →Take your pick, dual meets, tri-meets or relay carnivals. Dual meets involve athletes of all abilities, while relay carnivals, generally, are for the more talented athletes, athletes who have usually received an invitation to compete. Dual meets can be more draining, especially…
· Andre D. Williams
Read on mcall.com →Gatorade may have picked the right two high schools, the right two communities and the right time of year to stage a replay of a football game between Easton and Phillipsburg that ended in a 7-7 tie in 1993. Many players who competed to the disappointing deadlock in that…
· Andre D. Williams
Read on mcall.com →Editor’s note: Today is the final article in a weekly series of Q&As;, including video, with participants in Gatorade’s Easton-Phillipsburg Replay football game at 3 p.m. Sunday at Lafayette College’s Fisher Field. Gatorade required The Morning Call to submit questions to…
· Andre D. Williams
Read on mcall.com →Emmaus High football coach Joe Bottiglieri doesn’t think organizers of the Pennsylvania Scholastic Football Coaches Association All-Star game are trying to piggyback off the Big 33 Football Classic. It just looks like it since the ninth annual PSFCA game in Altoona will be…
· Andre D. Williams
Read on mcall.com →Editor’s note: Today is the third article in a weekly series of Q&As;, including video, with participants in Gatorade’s Easton-Phillipsburg Replay football game to be held at 3 p.m., April 26, at Lafayette College’s Fisher Field. Gatorade required The Morning Call to submit…
· Andre D. Williams
Read on mcall.com →Brian Westbrook recalled the one high school football game he wished he could play again. The Eagles running back also expressed envy over the Easton and Phillipsburg players who will get the chance to settle the score over their Thanksgiving Day game 16 years ago that ended in…
· Andre D. Williams
Read on mcall.com →Editor’s note: Today is the second article in a weekly series of Q&As;, including video, with participants in Gatorade’s Easton-Phillipsburg Replay football game at 3 p.m., April 26, at Lafayette College’s Fisher Field. Gatorade required The Morning Call to submit questions to…
· Andre D. Williams
Read on mcall.com →Nothing’s popping in track and field just yet. Many coaches prefer to keep it that way this early by not having any of their league- and district-title hopefuls pull muscles that could linger the entire season. The more serious meets are the Penn Relays April 23-25 and Allentown…
· Andre D. Williams
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 →For a guy who did not play in Penn State’s 67-59 NIT semifinal victory over Notre Dame Tuesday night, Will Leiner sure was happy. Then again, Leiner, a former starter at Whitehall High School, has been content ever since he made the Penn State team as a freshman walk-on in 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
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