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Domenique Price sat still and quiet, his body exhausted from a Tuesday morning workout with the other Pennsylvania all-stars in scorching heat at Hershey High. “I’m a little beat from two practices a day and it’s hot outside,” he said. “There is a lot of running around.” But he…
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Read on mcall.com →The Harlem Diamonds lost their first game of the summer and in their first appearance at Pates Park on Sunday night. But the all-African-American women’s softball team pleased fans with their humor, tricks and overall skill level. They also received an invitation from Allentown…
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Read on mcall.com →Easton’s Raymere Palmer talked himself up and believed he could back it up in the ring. The judges just didn’t see it that way. Palmer lost to Camden’s Mike Anderson in an action-packed 178-pound novice division title bout on a sizzling Sunday afternoon at Cedar Beach. The fans…
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Read on mcall.com →John Vinikoor’s plan was to step up to the arm wrestling table, grip hands with his opponent, focus and then try to finish off the match as quickly as possible. It’s not an easy task in a sport where solid technique and body control contribute more to victory than strength.…
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Read on mcall.com →SportsFest chairman Ray Atiyeh did not frown when Mother Nature dampened the Cedar Beach blacktops and grass with rain Saturday afternoon. Because not many people left the park. After the rain stopped more people began showing up, helping make the Day 3 crowd the largest in the…
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Read on mcall.com →The amazing Grace of the Harlem Diamonds professional women’s softball team and the team’s star pitcher use Ray Charles’ famous phrase, “I’m going to make it do what it do, baby.” They and their teammates will display their talents at Pates Park in Allentown Sunday evening. But…
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Read on mcall.com →The International Olympic Committee has struck out with players, coaches and other supporters of baseball and softball in the Lehigh Valley. That’s the response to the IOC’s decision to eliminate baseball and softball from the 2012 Olympic Games in London. “It’s actually very…
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Read on mcall.com →Cedar Beach was packed Thursday evening. And not everybody was playing games. Or walking. Or running. There were a lot of people grabbing free food in the overcrowded SportsFest hospitality tent. On the blacktop, there were high school basketball teams playing their hearts out…
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Read on mcall.com →SportsFest chairman Ray Atiyeh plans to sleep on the couch in the hospitality tent at Cedar Beach starting tonight. That will be his home through Sunday night, as it has been for the last eight years the popular sports festival for amateur athletes of all ages has been held. He…
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Read on mcall.com →David Horton made playing in the Big 33 Football Classic a personal goal last July. He just needed to have a breakout senior season that would increase his chances of getting selected to the Pennsylvania team that will meet Ohio’s best July 23 at Hersheypark Stadium. The former…
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Read on mcall.com →The big dog — at least the biggest one on the University of Pittsburgh’s basketball squad — wanted the ball a whole lot more last season. It just didn’t happen. But 7-foot Aaron Gray, the former Emmaus High standout center, won’t have to beg for the ball much next season. Gray…
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Read on mcall.com →Canadian Travis Smith moved into the lead with two laps to go in the men’s keirin final and then relied on his breakaway speed to carry him to victory over one of the world’s fastest sprint cyclists Friday night at the Lehigh Valley Velodrome. His victory was a fitting…
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Read on mcall.com →Screen passes, draws, inside handoffs and trap plays were in the playbooks of both all-star teams in the 35th annual McDonald’s Lehigh Valley Football Classic Thursday night. They were just not called much in a wide-open game that featured 742 yards of offense and 75 points at…
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Read on mcall.com →Big Keith Weaver has never been asked to return kickoffs during a game. But the Palisades two-way lineman got his chance to try it during a light practice Tuesday at Nazareth’s Andrew S. Leh Stadium. “Hey, Keith stay back there and receive the kickoff,” Northampton Gold team…
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Read on mcall.com →Todd Kresge will have one more chance to make his mark on a Lehigh Valley football field Thursday night at Nazareth’s Andrew S. Leh Stadium. But he won’t get a chance to do it on defense, which was where he made one of the most memorable plays in Easton football history last…
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Read on mcall.com →Darryl Dawkins is going across the ocean and Iraqi lines, where more than 1,600 American soldiers have died since President Bush deployed troops there in March of 2003. Dawkins is going there to crack jokes, raise spirits, and lace up his super-sized sneakers to conduct clinics.…
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Read on mcall.com →The bigger the meet, the tougher the competition, the faster Justin Gaymon runs. He’s winning gold medals and breaking his own Phillipsburg High track and field records. “The thing now is he knows he has the potential to be pretty good,” said Phillipsburg coach Bill Hurst.…
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Read on mcall.com →Bob Goffredo was on the sidelines waiting to be transported to the hospital in his last high school football game, an all-star classic at Catasauqua in 1982. But he was cognizant enough to know the outcome. “Yeah, we won,” said Goffredo, now the Pius X football coach. “The boys…
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Read on mcall.com →Tyrone Faverey reached down and touched the surface, rose up and leaped high into the air. He landed, stretched his back, glared forward and, after a few seconds of deep concentration, the Parkland junior sprinted toward the high jump pit and the destiny that awaited him…
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Read on mcall.com →Emmaus senior Nate Gilbert didn’t need his sunglasses until after his fifth jump. By then, he needed them to block the sun and to hide the tears he thought he was about to shed. He had one jump left and his heart was pumping faster than ever, because he had already clinched the…
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Read on mcall.com →John Carelli doesn’t worry about the stares he often gets from more-imposing athletes, the ones he has to compete against in the high jump. He just does his thing. Often, that’s win. He’s just 6-feet tall, and many of the athletes the Parkland High junior has beaten in the long,…
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Read on mcall.com →Lehigh coach Billy Taylor’s recruiting ability continues to be impressive. Otherwise, Lehigh would not be getting a 7-foot center who NCAA runner-up Illinois and powerhouse Oklahoma State were both recruiting. But John Gourlay, a 250-pound standout from Hot Springs Village,…
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Read on mcall.com →Kyle Newell has plowed and leaped over other athletes on the football field. He has rebounded, intimidated and dunked with ease on the hardwood. And he has been named to several all-star teams in his four years at Bethlehem Catholic. But Newell doesn’t consider himself any…
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Read on mcall.com →Allen junior Rushane Scott was slightly behind out of the blocks, but he was way ahead at the tape. He’s closed many 100-meter dashes in the same fashion this spring. The stakes were higher in the Class 3A final in the District 11 track and field championships, but Scott easily…
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