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The Bethlehem Catholic 400-meter relay fell behind early, rallied to gain the lead over the next two legs and then closed with the six other anchor-leg runners looking at the back of Golden Hawks junior Brandon Carter. Carter was focused on the finish line, rousing the crowd as…
· Andre D. Williams
Read on mcall.com →As he prepared to try to vault to a personal-best height, Catasauqua junior Allan Fatzinger paid no attention to the deceptively positive omens that appeared. There was a rainbow to his left and the sun had just broken through the clouds on his right. But Fatzinger focused only…
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Read on mcall.com →Jameer Nelson, the magnificent Saint Joseph’s point guard, wants the ball in his hands and T.J. Ford of Texas in his face. He wants to prove in the NCAA Tournament that he can easily dribble through traps, as he has done all season, set up teammates with unbelievable passes, and…
· Andre D. Williams
Read on mcall.com →Saint Joseph’s sophomore Pat Carroll and his brother Matt, a senior at Notre Dame, have practiced shooting 3-pointers for years. Their grandfather, Don Graham, the coach at North Catholic High in Pittsburgh, would open up the gym and let them play until their arms got tired.…
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Read on mcall.com →Austin Scott turned into Kid Scott on Tuesday afternoon at the Wyndham Franklin Plaza Hotel grand ballroom. He just couldn’t believe that he was in the same room with athletes and coaches he has seen so often on television. Nor could Scott believe that later Tuesday the Maxwell…
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Read on mcall.com →Making the adjustment from the high school to college game has been, at times, a smooth experience for Lehigh freshmen Chris Stephenson and Mitch Gilfillan. At times, however, it’s also seemed dreadful. Like the games where neither plays much or scores any points. Stephenson, a…
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Read on mcall.com →The woeful experiences Temple has had for most of the season seemed to have lightened once February arrived. It’s the month the Owls under coach John Chaney normally play better, The Owls, who were drubbed 78-59 by Saint Joseph’s on Feb. 13, rebounded two nights later with a…
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Read on mcall.com →Once Billy Taylor decided to pass up the 9-to-5 job and start coaching basketball, it seemed likely he’d rise quickly from assistant coach to Division I head coach. That’s what Fran McCaffery thought. The former Lehigh coach, now in his fourth season as coach of the University…
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Read on mcall.com →Cleaning off the glass with solid rebounding is something Lehigh senior Anne Tierney had considered a part of her job throughout her college basketball career. Tierney’s biggest rebounding job has been helping the Engineers (7-10, 4-1 Patriot) come back from a 1-7 start. It was…
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Read on mcall.com →The 197th meeting between rivals Lehigh and Lafayette tipped off with enough fireworks to light up the city of Bethlehem Friday night. That’s because Lehigh and Lafayette went full-throttle at each other in a Patriot League game before a loud crowd of 3,892 at Stabler Arena. It…
· Andre D. Williams
Read on mcall.com →The 197th meeting between rivals Lehigh and Lafayette tipped off with enough fireworks to light up the city of Bethlehem Friday night. That’s because Lehigh and Lafayette went full-throttle at each other in a Patriot League game before a loud crowd of 3,892 at Stabler Arena. It…
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Read on mcall.com →The Lehigh men’s basketball coach who seemed to be tailor-made for the position will have the opportunity to prove himself and his team to the man who taught and motivated him back in Illinois. Dennis Taylor, whose son Billy is in his first season as Lehigh’s coach, will make…
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Read on mcall.com →The Woodland Hills High football team has three 300-plus-pound starting offensive linemen and a safety in Ryan Mundy, who is being recruited by Pittsburgh, Penn State, Michigan, Virginia and Notre Dame. In essence, it’s the type of talent pool that veteran Wolverines coach…
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Read on mcall.com →Down, set, hike. The former high school and college quarterback is being rushed from all points, but he is not running anywhere. Parkland coach Rob Melosky is just standing there, taking all the shots and handling the pressure just as he used to do when he was taking snaps from…
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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…
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Read on mcall.com →Running on playing fields as hard as concrete was more fun than swimming for high school football stars Austin Scott of Parkland and Freedom’s Afa Anaoi and Jeremy Kametz on a Monday where temperatures neared 100 degrees. Each player said he had eagerly awaited the opening day…
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Read on mcall.com →The post-Bethlehem Catholic High football careers of Eddie Scipio and Pat Bedics have become more challenging and enjoyable since they arrived here on July 1. They’re in town to practice with the Pennsylvania All-Stars in preparation for the Big 33 Football Classic at 7 p.m.…
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Read on mcall.com →Lehigh University’s rookie men’s basketball coach Billy Taylor has quickly found out how much of a demanding job it is to maintain cohesiveness in a Division I program. Taylor, 28, has also come to understand that there are some things that he just can not control. Like…
· Andre D. Williams
Read on mcall.com →He’s 28 years old, personable, vigorous on the recruiting trails, and he’s the first African-American head coach at Lehigh University. He’s also married with a baby girl due in early June. Billy Taylor is also much more than that to University of North Carolina-Greensboro head…
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Read on mcall.com →Pat Brogan played as a freshman at Lafayette College in the mid-1980s, then got cut the next season. Now, he’s Fran O’Hanlon’s top assistant coach at Lafayette. If a similar pattern follows at Lehigh, then Brogan will end up being the Engineers’ next head men’s basketball coach.…
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Read on mcall.com →Wilson’s horror show of missing fourth-quarter free throws lasted until the final 21/2 minutes of this Colonial League game Tuesday night at Catasauqua’s Lincoln Gymnasium. That’s when senior guard Joe Templeton, Wilson’s coolest and most accurate shooter, stepped to the fore to…
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Read on mcall.com →In a fitting closing highlight to a Colonial League boys basketball game that had moved at a crowd-pleasing, up-tempo pace, Salisbury’s George Hoffman broke loose on a two-on-one fastbreak. Instead of finishing off the advantage himself as he had done so marvelously throughout…
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Read on mcall.com →Less than two seconds remained in overtime when Notre Dame freshman Jeff Dailey had the ball kicked out to him in the corner, just inside the 3-point line. A fastbreak thriller, the type of game fans enjoy and players have more fun with, was just an 18-foot jump shot away from…
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