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Melissa Rich never got discouraged when she went from starting forward her sophomore and junior seasons at Lehigh to a backup role earlier this season. The former Parkland High star just believed that she’d eventually get her opportunity to deliver in the clutch for Lehigh. That…
· Andre D. Williams
Read on mcall.com →It’s Brown and White against Maroon and White. It’s Bethlehem against Easton. For the first time since 1997, it’s Lehigh against Lafayette for the Patriot League women’s basketball tournament title at 6 tonight at Stabler Arena. It seemed like an unlikely showdown when the…
· Andre D. Williams
Read on mcall.com →Led by a trio of pesky guards, Lehigh cranked it up and blitzed Army with 14 consecutive second-half points Sunday afternoon. That decisive run enabled the Mountain Hawks to turn a two-point deficit into a 12-point advantage in the Patriot League women’s tournament semifinals at…
· Andre D. Williams
Read on mcall.com →March is filled with Cinderella tales and Lafayette is writing its own in the Patriot League women’s tournament. Loser of 10 in a row entering the postseason, seventh-seeded Lafayette turned the seemingly improbable into a reality with its second consecutive win, a 62-55…
· Andre D. Williams
Read on mcall.com →The Lehigh women’s basketball team essentially climbed to the top of the mountain during the Patriot League’s regular season. Lehigh, led by first-team Patriot League guard Erica Prosser, went 12-2 in league play, which included a 7-0 mark at Stabler Arena. The league wins are…
· Andre D. Williams
Read on mcall.com →The men’s basketball teams at Lehigh and Lafayette both ended the regular season in a way coaches fret about and in a way players wish they could have back. Lehigh, considered a preseason Patriot League title contender, lost its final three games and lost six of its last eight…
· Andre D. Williams
Read on mcall.com →Lafayette has a young basketball team that has been on a seesaw ride all season. Four days after an emotional win over rival Lehigh, the Leopards missed a barrage of jumpers, layups and free throws against Army Wednesday night at Kirby Sports Center. The lethargic shooting — not…
· Andre D. Williams
Read on mcall.com →Lafayette has a young basketball team that has been on a seesaw ride all season. Four days after an emotional win over rival Lehigh, the Leopards missed a barrage of jumpers, layups and free throws against Army Wednesday night at Kirby Sports Center. The lethargic shooting — not…
· Andre D. Williams
Read on mcall.com →March is not here yet. It just seemed like it Sunday afternoon as rivals Lehigh and Lafayette played a March Madness-like game at Stabler Arena. It featured a momentum shifts galore, fierce scrambles for loose balls, five ties, six lead changes, and spirited taunts…
· Andre D. Williams
Read on mcall.com →It was a Lehigh and Lafayette women’s basketball game that had more falls than a professional wrestling battle royal Saturday afternoon at Kirby Sports Center. The roughhouse play better suited Lehigh, which relied on its height, bench and overall talent advantages to prevail…
· Andre D. Williams
Read on mcall.com →It’s imaginable to go undefeated in conference play. It just doesn’t happen too often on any level in college basketball. Which is why the Muhlenberg women, 16-0 in Centennial Conference play, are determined to win at Dickinson tonight and at Ursinus on Saturday to close out the…
· Andre D. Williams
Read on mcall.com →Even before Canadian-born Jared Mintz could crawl, his father, Irv, decided what sport his son was going to play. “My dad put the [basket]ball in my crib,” Mintz, now a Lafayette College sophomore, recalled. Mintz was not going to be a great hockey player, even though Canada has…
· Andre D. Williams
Read on mcall.com →Lafayette experienced a 10-minute stretch in the second half of its Patriot League contest against Holy Cross where shots did not fall, where defensive stops were not made, and where a game that was tied just got away Saturday afternoon in Easton. The Leopards, who played…
· Andre D. Williams
Read on mcall.com →Levi Brown, an all-state defensive lineman at Liberty, pointed jubilantly to the Temple Owls’ hat on his head, then smiled as he looked out into the standing room-only crowd inside the school’s Arts Gallery on Wednesday. Liberty football coach Tim Moncman then came up and rubbed…
· Andre D. Williams
Read on mcall.com →The final 10 seconds of a wild game between rivals Lehigh and Lafayette was decided by free throws Saturday in Easton. Lafayette’s Jared Mintz missed his two foul shots, but Lehigh’s Zahir Carrington converted his two attempts with 3.0 seconds left to lift the Mountain Hawks to…
· Andre D. Williams
Read on mcall.com →Lehigh and Lafayette are both winless on the road in Patriot League games and that does not bode well for Lehigh on Saturday afternoon, because that’s when the Mountain Hawks will visit the Leopards at Kirby Sports Center. Lafayette is 2-0 at home and beat expected Patriot…
· Andre D. Williams
Read on mcall.com →Lafayette drained the charge out of Navy in final three minutes with clutch shooting that included 8-for-8 perfection from the free throw line Saturday afternoon at Kirby Sports Center. Senior guard Andrew Brown closed out the Leopards’ 84-69 win with two free throws with 33…
· Andre D. Williams
Read on mcall.com →Everywhere Temple guard Dionte Christmas dribbled, Lafayette’s Jeff Kari seemed to be there Friday night. For the first 12 minutes, Kari’s relentless defense worked well because Christmas, a preseason All-Atlantic 10 player and All-American candidate, was scoreless. Kari was…
· Andre D. Williams
Read on mcall.com →Everywhere Temple guard Dionte Christmas dribbled, Lafayette’s Jeff Kari seemed to be there Friday night. For the first 12 minutes, Kari’s relentless defense worked well because Christmas, a preseason All-Atlantic 10 player and All-American candidate, was scoreless. Kari was…
· Andre D. Williams
Read on mcall.com →Lafayette coach Fran O’Hanlon usually likes to wait until January — when Patriot League games begin — to express what he likes and dislikes about his team and players. The Leopards improved to 2-0 with an 80-71 non-league win over Stony Brook in their home opener at Kirby Sports…
· Andre D. Williams
Read on mcall.com →One senior is better than none. Fortunately for Lafayette, its one senior is fourth-year starting guard Andrew Brown, who is one of the best players in the Patriot League. Brown led the Leopards in scoring last season at 15.9 points per game and he’ll have a bunch of baby-faced…
· Andre D. Williams
Read on mcall.com →Tammy Smith had been waiting for last season to come. She waited seven years for it. The Lafayette women’s basketball team was 14-16 in 2007-08, its best record in her tenure. It was a R-E-L-I-E-F. The Leopards were just 27-143 in Smith’s first six seasons, finishing in last…
· Andre D. Williams
Read on mcall.com →Lehigh returns with what no other Patriot League team has. Junior guard Marquis Hall and sophomore guard Rob Keefer have won the league’s last two Rookie of the Year awards. This season, the guard duo will be depended on to help the Mountain Hawks contend for the league title in…
· Andre D. Williams
Read on mcall.com →So much for playing easy non-league basketball games. The Lafayette College men’s and women’s basketball teams are not doing that. The men, despite losing three senior starters to graduation, will host defending Atlantic 10 tournament champion Temple on Nov. 21 at Kirby Sports…
· Andre D. Williams
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