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Lehigh senior Jessica DePalo displayed the same grace when she spoke as she had when she played Saturday afternoon. But she did it with tears in her eyes instead of a smile of her face. Her season-high 30 points had gone for naught because Lehigh squandered a 12-point lead with…
· Andre D. Williams
Read on mcall.com →Winning in the playoffs often comes down to who handles the pressure the best as well as who bumps and grinds the hardest. That’s what Lehigh senior Jessica DePalo, the Patriot League’s player of the year, kept doing until only one second remained in the tournament quarterfinals…
· Andre D. Williams
Read on mcall.com →Winning in the playoffs often comes down to who handles the pressure the best, and who bumps and grinds the hardest. That’s what Lehigh senior Jessica DePalo, the Patriot League’s player of the year, did until only one second remained in the tournament quarterfinals against…
· Andre D. Williams
Read on mcall.com →Lehigh senior forward Mary Frances Hynoski doesn’t seem like just a basketball player to her teammates or coaches. “Mary is a tank,” said junior Jenny Callan. “It’s kind of like a football game out there,” said Lehigh coach Sue Troyan. “She’s banging people around, pushing,…
· Andre D. Williams
Read on mcall.com →Lehigh coach Sue Troyan has finally earned the Patriot League Coach of the Year award that her star senior Jessica DePalo thought Troyan deserved four years ago. DePalo’s league-best 18.0 points per game, to go with her 5.4 rebounds and 47.9 percent field-goal shooting and…
· Andre D. Williams
Read on mcall.com →This time of the college basketball season, opinions on teams can vary from week-to-week, depending on how those teams play. Good teams don’t falter, suspect ones do. Last week, I touted Lafayette for having won two straight games. Then the Leopards got wiped out by a 71-33…
· Andre D. Williams
Read on mcall.com →Lehigh did not die easy. And Lafayette refused to die on its own court. The Leopards had an 11-point lead with 1:48 remaining, which dwindled down to one, before settling for an 81-76 victory Saturday afternoon at Kirby Sports Center. Lafayette had lost its previous game by 19…
· Andre D. Williams
Read on mcall.com →Teams that make postseason runs in March usually start to play harder and smarter and win more convincingly at this time of the season. Lafayette has done that in its last two Patriot League games. Teams that have short runs in March usually do what Lehigh has done over its last…
· Andre D. Williams
Read on mcall.com →Lehigh coach Billy Taylor called on his reserves to try and help rescue the Mountain Hawks from defeat against Navy Saturday night at Stabler Arena. It almost worked, but almost isn’t good enough. Numerous inconsistencies were too much to overcome, resulting in Lehigh’s 76-75…
· Andre D. Williams
Read on mcall.com →Heartbreak City no longer has Lafayette as a tenant. Jamaal Hilliard, who ranks ninth in the nation in free-throw shooting, made sure of it. Hilliard made two free throws with 6.8 seconds left to clinch a 93-89 Patriot League overtime victory over American Saturday before a…
· Andre D. Williams
Read on mcall.com →Saint Joseph’s is making another run at the NCAA Tournament. And the Hawks don’t even control Philadelphia. But that’s the beauty of college basketball because rankings and computers do not determine a team’s fate. Saint Joe’s (12-9) can advance to the “Big Dance” for the third…
· Andre D. Williams
Read on mcall.com →Lehigh senior Jessica DePalo kept moving through a crowded lane and begging for the ball. In the second half of Friday night’s Patriot League contest with Army at Stabler Arena, her teammates obliged. DePalo responded with bucket after bucket and helped lead the Mountain Hawks…
· Andre D. Williams
Read on mcall.com →With pens in hand and wearing broad smiles, four Liberty High football players signed letters of intent with Division I-AA and Division II schools Thursday afternoon in a conference room adjacent to Liberty’s main office. Brendan Van Ackeren, who made big plays on both sides of…
· Andre D. Williams
Read on mcall.com →Bucknell coach Pat Flannery did not allow his spirits to be dampened after losing to Lehigh 57-54 on a Joe Knight 3-pointer at the buzzer Sunday at Stabler Arena. Flannery had missed three games because of an undisclosed medical condition. He hated being out, hated not having to…
· Andre D. Williams
Read on mcall.com →Finally, Lehigh experienced a super Sunday in Patriot League play. Joe Knight helped make it that way by converting the last basket of the first half, and then sent Lehigh students pouring onto the Stabler Arena hardwood by sinking a 3-pointer at the buzzer in the Mountain…
· Andre D. Williams
Read on mcall.com →Lehigh guard Joe Knight drilled a 3-pointer from the corner that tied it at 50 with a little under seven minutes remaining. Then Lehigh center Jason Mgebroff scored off his own miss, Jose Olivero swished a deep 3, and Mgebroff scored again off a slick pass from Olivero. That was…
· Andre D. Williams
Read on mcall.com →Bethlehem Catholic senior two-way tackle Matt Kushner appeared to be an unlikely Division I product before last season. He’d made just 12 tackles in two previous seasons. He had played mostly as an offensive lineman and pancake blocks are not listed on any stats sheets. But…
· Andre D. Williams
Read on mcall.com →Lehigh’s failure to inbound the ball with three seconds remaining against Holy Cross cost the Mountain Hawks more than just a shot at overtime Sunday at Stabler Arena in front of 2,104 fans. Lehigh’s 58-56 loss to Holy Cross prevented the Hawks from moving into a three-way tie…
· Andre D. Williams
Read on mcall.com →Drexel University senior Danny Hinds is not about to let a fractured left wrist keep him out of the Dragons’ starting lineup. He’s worked too hard to get into it, so he’s not about to let discomfort in his non-shooting hand spoil his last season. Besides, Drexel coach Bruiser…
· Andre D. Williams
Read on mcall.com →It’s no surprise that “The Sopranos” is Lehigh senior Nick Monserez’s favorite television show. He’s just tough, especially when he defends and rebounds as emphatically as he did in the Mountain Hawks’ 63-45 Patriot League victory over Army Friday at Stabler Arena. “He’s…
· Andre D. Williams
Read on mcall.com →Jessica DePalo appeared suited to be more than just a student-athlete before coming to Lehigh on a basketball scholarship four years ago. Lehigh coach Sue Troyan found that out on a recruiting trip to DePalo’s hometown of Rumson, N.J. that lasted longer than the normal working…
· Andre D. Williams
Read on mcall.com →Villanova’s non-league schedule had been nothing to boast about, except for games against Big 5 rivals Temple and Pennsylvania. But Saturday, the Wildcats took a break from from the Big East to play second-ranked Kansas at the Wachovia Center. There wasn’t supposed to be…
· Andre D. Williams
Read on mcall.com →Lehigh’s Patriot League opponents are not having many good nights trying to contain Mountain Hawks junior guard Joe Knight. The 6-1 transfer from High Point University has turned into a clutch late-game performer, hitting the game-winning shot with 25.4 seconds left in a 56-53…
· Andre D. Williams
Read on mcall.com →Neither Lehigh nor Lafayette won style points on offense, but they might have impressed a boxing promoter with the way they battled in their first Patriot League meeting of the season Wednesday night in Stabler Arena. In one fierce second-half flurry, Lehigh’s Nick Monserez and…
· Andre D. Williams
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