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Rich Sniscak listened in amazement as one inspiring story after another was told. Then Sniscak, the former star Dieruff High football-player-turned-Parkland High football coach/administrator, got his chance to tell stories Friday night at the Lehigh Valley Chapter of the…
· Andre D. Williams
Read on mcall.com →Freedom senior Dan McLaughlin prepared for the Liberty-Freedom track and field meet Monday by isolating himself before heading to Bethlehem Area School District Stadium. “I went home, listened to my music, tried to get myself psyched for it,” he said. “I was trying to get myself…
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Read on mcall.com →Anthony Gonzalez was in Liberty High’s weight room Tuesday afternoon when he was told to take a break by his coach. It ended up being the best break of his life. Three U.S. Army recruiters were waiting for him, very important paperwork in hand. Gonzalez’s teammates crowed…
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Read on mcall.com →A nip-and-tuck 3,200-meter relay turned lopsided once University of Tennessee freshman sensation Chanelle Price took the baton for the second leg Saturday. The former Easton High middle distance state and national champion has a history of racing away from the pack. Fueled by…
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Read on mcall.com →It was Tennessee’s Chanelle Price, then Villanova’s Frances Koons, one former Lehigh Valley high school track and field All-American following another. Both had memorable runs in the college women’s distance medley Championship of America relay Thursday at the Penn Relays. It…
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Read on mcall.com →Editor’s note: Today is the second article in a weekly series of Q&As;, including video, with participants in Gatorade’s Easton-Phillipsburg Replay football game at 3 p.m., April 26, at Lafayette College’s Fisher Field. Gatorade required The Morning Call to submit questions to…
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Read on mcall.com →Nothing’s popping in track and field just yet. Many coaches prefer to keep it that way this early by not having any of their league- and district-title hopefuls pull muscles that could linger the entire season. The more serious meets are the Penn Relays April 23-25 and Allentown…
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Read on mcall.com →Jamelle Cornley set the tone for Penn State early with his hustle, scoring, relentless defense and the heart of a lion Thursday night at Madison Square Garden. Talor Battle, scoreless in the first half, came on in the second half, but Penn State’s 69-63 win over Baylor for the…
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Read on mcall.com →Th ousands of Penn State fans roared throughout and Talor Battle and his Nittany Lions teammates responded with a near first-half knockout of Notre Dame Tuesday night at Madison Square Garden. Back in the NIT semifinals for the first time since 2000, Penn State treated its fans…
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Read on mcall.com →Parkland two-sport star Jaleel Clark added another all-state honor to his remarkable high school resume Monday. Clark, the 6-foot-5 centerpiece of the Trojans’ 26-4 team that advanced to the PIAA Class 4A quarterfinals, was named to the Associated Press Class 4A third team. The…
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Read on mcall.com →Penn State has been to Madison Square Garden four times since 1990 and has three semifinal losses and one championship game defeat to show for it. This year, the Nittany Lions are hoping for a more memorable experience. Senior forward Jamelle Cornley doesn’t see how it will not…
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Read on mcall.com →Wilson senior Anthony Davidson, the 2008 PIAA Class 2A track and field champion in the 400-meter dash, and Palmerton senior Austin Cseh, the state runner-up to Davidson, headline the top boys returners this spring. Newcomer Andre Williams, a junior at Parkland who transferred…
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Read on mcall.com →The DeSales men’s and women’s basketball programs earned a piece of the national spotlight over the weekend during the NCAA Division III’s championship weekend. Darnell Braswell, the ex-Allen High star, wished that it would have been because of what he and his teammates…
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Read on mcall.com →The Lehigh University women’s basketball team went on a sightseeing tour of New York City Thursday night. Something unexpected happened. “We went to David and Buster’s and watched American play Villanova,” said sophomore guard Erica Prosser with a sparkle in her eyes on Friday…
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Read on mcall.com →The greatest men’s basketball season in Kutztown University history can be extended — or ended — tonight in the NCAA Division II Atlantic Region final at Gannon University’s Hammermill Center in Erie. Coach Bernie Driscoll says it comes down to whether the Golden Bears can…
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Read on mcall.com →The final buzzer sounded and DeSales junior guard Darnell Braswell froze near half-court. Seconds later, the Bulldogs leading scorer and inspirational leader lifted up and bit hard on his jersey as he walked slowly off Franklin & Marshall’s Mayser Center court. A spectacular…
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Read on mcall.com →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…
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Read on mcall.com →Twenty-two years ago, Dave Madeira made a bold pitch to become the head men’s basketball coach at Muhlenberg College. And it came with a promise that Madeira made sure he never broke. It’s a story that Madeira proudly told Tuesday night, hours after announcing to his players…
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Read on mcall.com →The Kutztown men are back in the NCAA Division II basketball tournament for the first time since 1988, and hope to stick around for a while. In Division III, the DeSales men and Muhlenberg women have reached the “Sweet 16” and hope to continue playing on. The Golden Bears,…
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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…
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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…
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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…
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Read on mcall.com →For spring break entertainment the Muhlenberg women’s team gets to take a 430-mile bus trip to Brunswick, Maine, for at least one NCAA Division III tournament game Friday. “Outside of maybe going to Alaska, I’m not sure if there is a place farther away that they would not want…
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Read on mcall.com →If one finger roll doesn’t work, try another and another. That’s what Kutztown’s high-scoring backcourt duo, senior Dave Ben and junior Stephen Dennis, did in the final 20 seconds of the Golden Bears’ 97-86 win over Mansfield in the Pennsylvania State Athletic Conference…
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