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Easton, Liberty and Parkland are coming off 41-, 42- and 48-point victories. Just as telling is the fact that their opponents did not score. So, after three weeks, the “Big Three” have established themselves as the teams to beat in the Lehigh Valley Conference. Bethlehem…
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Read on mcall.com →For years, Jeremy McCullough got away with being a really good football player and just an average student. The latter changed after he graduated from Liberty High in 2002. Forced to improve his grades before he could attend Division I-AA Duquesne, McCullough attended Wyoming…
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Read on mcall.com →COLLEGES ARMY 1-1 (Independent) Beat Kent State 17-14 Marcus Millen (Easton) Jr. DE, 6-1, 230 Did not play. Julius Meyers (Pennridge) Sr. LB, 6-2, 232. Did not play. Jake Walsh (Liberty) So. DT, 6-4, 259. Did not play. BYU 1-1 (Mountain West) Beat Tulsa 49-14 Joe Semanoff…
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Read on mcall.com →You cannot be considered a winner until you’ve done it on a consistent basis. Like year-after-year. And against elite opponents. The latter is why, despite starting 2-0, Freedom doesn’t have many jumping on its bandwagon just yet. The Patriots started last season by routing two…
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Read on mcall.com →Bethlehem Catholic senior Mark Scattene closed out the first and second quarters by thwarting Central Catholic with his hands, moves and speed Saturday night. Terrell Dobbins, the Golden Hawks’ bulldozing tailback, stymied the Vikings even more with breakaway touchdown runs that…
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Read on mcall.com →Easton coach Steve Shiffert will not be surprised if he’s visited soon by a ghost in his sleep. If it happens, he knows exactly who it will be, and why it will happen. For the first time in school history, Easton had a girl suit up and play, and senior Brittany Ryan played a…
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Read on mcall.com →There might be a traffic jam around Emmaus High tonight. Perennial Lehigh Valley Conference powerhouse Easton, led by star defensive back Jarred Holley and hard-hitting linebacker Ryan Hartzell, will be playing in Emmaus for the first time since Sept. 26, 1997. “It’s a big game…
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Read on mcall.com →Every down of every game, one thought will be running through the minds of Nazareth players. “Nobody will give up on the guy next to him,” said senior Shawn Sylvainus. “We’ll never give up.” It was not that way last season, which opened with the Blue Eagles losing 9-0 to Blue…
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Read on mcall.com →COLLEGES ARMY (Independent) Sept. 7 at Arkansas State Marcus Millen (Easton) Jr. DE, 6-1, 230. Last season: Did not play. Jake Walsh (Liberty) So. DT, 6-4, 259. Last season: Did not play. BRIGHAM YOUNG (Mountain West) Sept. 7 at Arizona Joe Semanoff (Lehighton) Jr. RB, 5-11,…
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Read on mcall.com →Way too much attention has been given to the players who transferred from Bethlehem Catholic, and not enough praise has been given to the star wideout who stayed put after last season. But stay tuned. Golden Hawks senior Mark Scattene may soon play his way into some headlines.…
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Read on mcall.com →Make no mistake about it, Bethlehem Catholic senior Terrell Dobbins wanted to punish every Whitehall player who came his way Sunday afternoon. It was about making a statement, first for himself and then for his team, in a Lehigh Valley Conference season-opening game at Bethlehem…
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Read on mcall.com →The questions were so annoying. “The whole offseason people were asking me, how are we going to replace Charles [Irvin]?” said Liberty quarterback Dan Persa. “How are we going to replace Hoagie [linebacker Andres Morales] ? How are we going to replace all those seniors that we…
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Read on mcall.com →Whitehall linemen Austin Recker and Eric Schoeneberger can eat, no doubt about it. But they’re quick to point out that they are not both six feet-plus and 300 pounds just because they throw down at every meal. Recker, a 6-4, 305-pound senior who’s receiving Division I-A interest…
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Read on mcall.com →The stadium lights will be on tonight from Allentown to Easton as Lehigh Valley Conference teams begin play. What should be expected? “I’ll let you know around 9:30,” Easton coach Steve Shiffert said a few days ago. “It’s a lot different when you have 3,000 fans out there,” said…
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Read on mcall.com →COLLEGES ARMY (Independent) Sept. 7 at Arkansas State Marcus Millen (Easton) Jr. DE, 6-1, 230. Last season: Did not play. Jake Walsh (Liberty) So. DT, 6-4, 259. Last season: Did not play. BRIGHAM YOUNG (Mountain West) Sept. 7 at Arizona Joe Semanoff (Lehighton) Jr. RB, 5-11,…
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Read on mcall.com →Harold Bellis has experienced every aspect of the Easton-Phillipsburg rivalry for the last 73 years. Now 90 years old, Bellis is the oldest living man to have played and coached at Phillipsburg. “I saw my first game when I was 10 years old, 1926, and ever since then I’ve been at…
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Read on mcall.com →As the 100th Thanksgiving Day meeting between Easton and Phillipsburg draws nearer, memories of the rivalry’s greatest games, players, and coaches come flooding back. There have been scoreless ties in 1944 and 1967, unexpected blowouts, like Easton’s 31-0 victory in 2004 in a…
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Read on mcall.com →Nobody is going to overlook Whitehall this season. The Zephyrs have too much size to be ignored as a contender for the Lehigh Valley Conference title, along with Liberty, Easton and Parkland. “We think we have kids who can be competitive and that are powerful,” said Whitehall…
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Read on mcall.com →Leyon Azubuike, a former two-way standout at East Stroudsburg South, recently passed a test that Tour de France champion Floyd Landis and 100-meter dash co-world record holder Justin Gatlin both failed. And he had to get up at 5 a.m. on the first day of Temple’s practice to…
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Read on mcall.com →John Babb and the rest of his Lehigh Valley Rugby Football Club teammates have left the East Coast heat and humidity for the national rugby championships in Ferndale, Wash. And they have the perfect game plan. “The idea is to intimidate, hit them, hit them hard,” said Babb, a…
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Read on mcall.com →Star quarterback Alex Atiyeh may have thrown his final high school pass. Atiyeh, a junior quarterback at Bethlehem Catholic last year, has transferred to Allen and had hoped to take over in the Canaries’ wide-open offensive set this season. But the District 11 Athletic Committee…
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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 →Finally, after a mostly frustrating game of overthrown passes, Whitehall quarterback Mike Gnall settled down. Less than a minute remained. Game tied, first-and-10 with 43 yards to go for a touchdown Thursday night at Nazareth’s Andy S. Leh Stadium. Pressure? Not for Gnall, who…
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