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It might have seemed like Easton had brought a bulldozer to Bethlehem Area School District Stadium the way it was plowing up and down the field Sunday afternoon. But the Red Rovers were simply using an overpowering rushing attack to punish the Liberty defense, paving the way to…
· Andre D. Williams
Read on mcall.com →Two possessions to open the game, two straight punts. That wasn’t Bethlehem Catholic football. Neither was recovering a fumble at the 12-yard line and then failing to score any points against Ohio powerhouse St. Xavier Saturday night at Bethlehem Area School District Stadium.…
· Andre D. Williams
Read on mcall.com →Billy Taylor was a man trying to adjust to a different environment in his first head coaching job, and to top it all off, he had to win over some of his emotionally depleted players — players who had just lost their coach and agonized through a 5-23 season. He also had a student…
· Andre D. Williams
Read on mcall.com →The Easton Red Rovers are going on a shopping spree at Bethlehem Area School District Stadium for the second week in a row when they play the Liberty Hurricanes in a Lehigh Valley Conference matchup at 7 tonight. And the thing the Red Rovers (3-2, 3-1) will be looking for most…
· Andre D. Williams
Read on mcall.com →All that counts to Parkland High senior Nick Pinchek is that he’s happy and the Trojans are winning. Never mind the fact that Pinchek won’t come anywhere close to the 1,321 yards he rushed for last season as the Trojans’ featured tailback. Never mind that he was moved to…
· Andre D. Williams
Read on mcall.com →Easton and Freedom made their own case for Lehigh Valley Conference Game of the Year Friday night at Bethlehem Area School District Stadium. Only their thrilling finish did not involve overtime. If it had, both teams might have been too beat and emotionally overwhelmed to…
· Andre D. Williams
Read on mcall.com →And now the Lehigh Valley Conference race thickens. No more easy games, at least on paper. Though powerhouse Bethlehem Catholic and Austin Scott-led Parkland appear headed for Dream Match II in the District 11 Class 4A playoffs, Allen, Freedom and Liberty each have a 4-1 overall…
· Andre D. Williams
Read on mcall.com →A soft pillow should have been among the requirements for players signing up for the Pius X football team this season. It would have been put to good use. The Royals, a Class 1A school in Roseto, will log 2,500 miles on six away games. On Friday they traveled to Shamokin, losing…
· Andre D. Williams
Read on mcall.com →Bethlehem Catholic got more gifts than it could have expected from Glen Mills on Homecoming Saturday. And most of them were huge in the Golden Hawks’ 46-22 rout at Bethlehem Area School District Stadium. They started when defensive back Kyle Horton recovered a Glen Mills fumble…
· Andre D. Williams
Read on mcall.com →The Liberty defense was being attacked by air and surrendered a first down to Dieruff on fourth-and-11 with less than two minutes to go at Bethlehem Area School District Stadium. Pop, pop, another first down for Dieruff. But junior defensive back Jeremy Kittek intercepted…
· Andre D. Williams
Read on mcall.com →Last week, the Allentown public schools had Bethlehem’s number on the football field. In one game, Dieruff rallied from a 14-point fourth-quarter deficit to edge Freedom, 25-24 on a Brian Scholl 20-yard field goal with time expiring at J. Birney Crum Stadium. In Bethlehem, Allen…
· Andre D. Williams
Read on mcall.com →Bethlehem Catholic quarterback Adam Bednarik notices the passing statistics of all the area’s other top quarterbacks. He was impressed by Friday night’s air shows of 258 yards yards by Allen’s Michael Bernhard against Liberty and the 269 yards Dieruff’s Richard Ocelus torched…
· Andre D. Williams
Read on mcall.com →Wide receiver Antonio Freeman used to go diving into a pack of cheese heads after scoring touchdowns during his seven standout years with the Green Bay Packers. Now, Freeman is with the Philadelphia Eagles and the wall at Veterans Stadium did not look that easy to scale Sunday…
· Andre D. Williams
Read on mcall.com →Donovan McNabb was rarely stopped when he passed or ran the ball and the Philadelphia Eagles defense roughed up a mistake-prone Dallas Cowboys offense Sunday afternoon in the home opener at Veterans Stadium. The crowd of 65,537 had roared long before kickoff and Dallas could not…
· Andre D. Williams
Read on mcall.com →Allen quarterback Michael Bernhard might have become eligible for a free flight at nearby Lehigh Valley International Airport, if such a thing existed, because of the passing yardage he piled up against Liberty in a 28-6 Canaries victory Friday night. He was that on-target in…
· Andre D. Williams
Read on mcall.com →The Liberty Hurricanes know they’re not facing a cupcake in the Allen Canaries, who visit Liberty for a Lehigh Valley Conference game tonight at 7. But the Hurricanes aren’t buckling at the knees. They want to prove their mettle against a good team. “As long as everybody plays…
· Andre D. Williams
Read on mcall.com →Central Catholic went from enjoying early-game heroics to experiencing second-half nightmares in a 45-19 non-league loss to Downingtown Saturday night at J. Birney Crum Stadium. The Vikings (1-2) had worked so hard to build a 19-7 lead early in the second half with Nick Bet…
· Andre D. Williams
Read on mcall.com →The immediate future of Easton football should be fine, as long as underclassmen Ovid Goulbourne and Brad Piperata get their hands on the ball. The Red Rovers’ defense is always strong and stingy. All were effective in Easton’s 14-7 Lehigh Valley Conference victory over Dieruff…
· Andre D. Williams
Read on mcall.com →Parkland tailback Austin Scott did not want to be hounded by bandwagon jumpers the rest of the season, especially since his heart has been set on playing for Penn State since his sophomore season. The senior Trojans star will make his choice official today by making an oral…
· Andre D. Williams
Read on mcall.com →The mind games started as early as 4 a.m. when Dieruff wide receiver Joel Rupp’s father had him running 40-yard sprints. “I tell him you have got to be ready to run whenever the coaches ask you,” said Rupp Sr. The mind games also extended from 20 feet away when Rupp’s father…
· Andre D. Williams
Read on mcall.com →Parkland tailback Austin Scott helped cure all that had been aching the Trojans the best way he knows Friday night in Orefield. Scott’s way was to just break loose, tire, frustrate and outslick the defense. He seemed to get better with each carry, confounding Central Catholic…
· Andre D. Williams
Read on mcall.com →Victoria Abadia, a 24-year-old professional boxer with plenty of potential, fought in the main event for some alphabet championship belt, but his relative cakewalk to victory hardly roused the crowd the way Easton welterweight Derrick Parks had Thursday night at the Days Inn and…
· Andre D. Williams
Read on mcall.com →Junior featherweight Victoria Abadia will get his second chance this year to prove that he can win a championship fight. But he’s going to have to take out a knockout puncher in Francisco Tejedor to accomplish his goal. The International Boxing Council junior featherweight title…
· Andre D. Williams
Read on mcall.com →Division I recruiters have been looking at Bethlehem Catholic quarterback Adam Bednarik since last season, probably drooling over his beautiful spirals and the distance he can throw. Shouldn’t they also be looking at Allen quarterback Michael Bernhard and Dieruff QB Richard…
· Andre D. Williams
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