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Bethlehem middleweight Rose Morales doesn’t want to be considered a sore loser. She just wants a few facts to be known about her July 22 North American Boxing Council middleweight title match in Bermuda. She was flown to the island on July 21 and flown out on July 23. Champion…
· Andre D. Williams
Read on mcall.com →Nobody from Nazareth wants to dwell on the last game of the season, a 13-3 loss to Nor-Gwyn on Friday night. There are too many good memories from the 28-game season. There’s the Northampton County title it won for the second straight summer, an accomplishment that followed a…
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Read on mcall.com →All-Big East Conference center Aaron Gray, former Colonial Athletic Association all-rookie guard Ray Barbosa and 2005-06 Morning Call boys basketball Player of the Year Terrence Roderick from Allen will play in the sixth annual Adult Mid-Summer Basketball Classic, which runs…
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Read on mcall.com →Nazareth pitcher Ronald Manning walked dejectedly off the mound, his hat pulled down and his jersey drenched. “I’m tired,” Manning later said. For four innings, he had been brilliant, using his fastball and off-speed pitches to stymie Boyertown batters in a Pennsylvania American…
· Andre D. Williams
Read on mcall.com →Nazareth pitcher Ronald Manning walked dejectedly off the mound, his hat pulled down and his jersey drenched. “I’m tired,” Manning later said. For four innings, he had been brilliant, using his fastball and off-speed pitches to stymie Boyertown batters in a Pennsylvania American…
· Andre D. Williams
Read on mcall.com →Where’s the eraser? North Parkland needs it before taking to Owls Field at Ted Palka Park this morning. Two Buffaloes pitchers were battered for seven runs in the top of the ninth inning Tuesday morning, enabling perennial powerhouse Boyertown to hammer out a 13-3 victory in the…
· Andre D. Williams
Read on mcall.com →Where’s the eraser? North Parkland needs it before taking to Owls Field at Ted Palka Park this morning. Two Buffaloes pitchers were battered for seven runs in the top of the ninth inning Tuesday morning, enabling perennial powerhouse Boyertown to hammer out a 13-3 victory in the…
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Read on mcall.com →Amy Heffner ignited the Parkland girls rally from an eight-point deficit with steals, deft passes and the type of all-around hustle that could help her get on the radar screen of Division I scouts. Her Trojans teammate, Erin Anthony, has already received D-I offers, and the 6-0…
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Read on mcall.com →John Babb’s lingering memory about his amateur boxing debut at SportsFest X will be over the decision he wasn’t awarded Saturday. Many fans may remember most the Scottish kilt and socks that Babb wore during his Pennsylvania Golden Gloves super heavyweight novice division bout…
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Read on mcall.com →SportsFest X figures to be about fun and adventure, so some people may think that John Babb is joking around when he fights in a kilt at Cedar Beach this afternoon. It won’t seem like a joke once the bell rings. Though his attire will be unusual, Babb plans to demonstrate his…
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Read on mcall.com →Liberty quarterback Dan Persa has made his college choice and is now focused on trying to lead Liberty to a state championship next season. “We got there last year,” he said. “We just need to finish the job this year.” Finish it, that is, before Persa, who established a…
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Read on mcall.com →Bethlehem Catholic’s Mike Bishop won’t have to search hard to find his biggest fan Thursday night. His brother Matt, 19, who also played at Bethlehem Catholic, plans to be boisterous in the stands at Nazareth’s Andy Leh Stadium. Mike Bishop will be playing linebacker for the…
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Read on mcall.com →Aaron Gray has a passion for everything in the city of Pittsburgh, except the Super Bowl-champion Steelers. “I was never an Eagles fan,” Gray said with laughter. “I was never a Steelers fan. I’m a Raiders fan.” But Gray loves the fans who cheer on the Steelers because a lot of…
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Read on mcall.com →Andres Morales bulled forward and rammed into one Ohio player after another. He was Pennsylvania’s starting fullback, and to a large degree, he handled his job well Saturday night. He even mouthed off a few times, but Morales has never been the quiet type. He was the vocal,…
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Read on mcall.com →Andres Morales is finally a day away from playing in HersheyPark Stadium for the first time. No need to ask if he’s ready. The Big 33 Football Classic is a game that Morales, Liberty’s all-state and Morning Call all-area linebacker, has always dreamed about. That’s why his heart…
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Read on mcall.com →Andrew Lee has been confronted with one big test after another since practice for the Big 33 Football Classic began on Saturday. He’s had to learn new defensive schemes and adjust to covering wideouts who are faster than he is. He’s also had to prove that he belongs on the same…
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Read on mcall.com →The passion that burns inside Princeton University professor Edward Belbruno when he’s not working on an aerospace or astronomy project is different than that of most men in their 50s. Table tennis and scuba diving? Done that numerous times. Golf? Not interested. Instead, the…
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Read on mcall.com →Rushane Scott is still running on clouds. He can’t help it because his emotions have remained high. Last Saturday, Allen’s standout senior accomplished what no Lehigh Valley sprinter had done in 41 years when he won the Class 3A 100-meter dash at the PIAA Track and Field…
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Read on mcall.com →To become a state champion in the 100-meter dash, Allen’s Rushane Scott had to spend countless hours running sprints, often in the most unfavorable conditions, Whitehall’s Andy Fahringer spent as many hours tossing around a disc, javelin, and heavy steel ball. The payoffs came…
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Read on mcall.com →Bethlehem Catholic did in 2003 what no Lehigh Valley team had ever done — win a PIAA Track and Field team title. Three years later, the Golden Hawks are boasted by a standout distance runner in Eric Yeager, a rising sprinter in Chris Carter and a top-seeded discus thrower in Joe…
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Read on mcall.com →Give Rushane Scott a paint brush — or anything else to draw with — and he’ll craft an image of exactly what he plans to accomplish at the PIAA Track and Field Championships. Allen’s star senior sprinter will paint a picture of himself winning the Class 3A title in the 100 and…
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Read on mcall.com →It didn’t take long for Tyrone Faverey to become one of the state’s top high jumpers. The Parkland senior track and field star won the PIAA Track and Field Class 3A high jump title last year at Shippensburg University in just his third year as a jumper. He’s considered a state…
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Read on mcall.com →Eric Yeager has eaten mostly pasta and has resisted the temptation for junk food since last Wednesday. He has also focused harder and trained harder. Now, a week later, the Bethlehem Catholic senior is set to close out one of the most successful distance running careers in…
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Read on mcall.com →Joe Kovacs will never win 12 district gold medals, which is what his mother, Joanna Rampulla, a standout thrower for Nazareth High in the late 1970s, did. But two weeks from now, the Bethlehem Catholic junior has a solid chance to accomplish something his mother never did. And…
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