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Basketball
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Leopards need to get healthy, and then they could get hot ** The promise on College Hill needs time to heal, mature and heat up.

The guessing game doesn’t work on College Hill. So don’t ask Lafayette men’s basketball coach Fran O’Hanlon to pick a number of games he might win in the 2001-02 season. He can’t do it. He doesn’t want to do it. Besides, a fair prognostication cannot be made now. The Leopards…

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Basketball
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Hinds, Showers receiving early lessons ** It hasn’t been easy for the Drexel frosh. And Hinds has been sidelined by a high ankle sprain.

Danny Hinds, the 2000-01 Morning Call Player of the Year in boys basketball, lasted one day in practice at Drexel University last weekend. Now, he’s on the Dragons’ disabled list. But his new coach, James “Bruiser” Flint, told him he must make a fast recovery, even though the…

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Football
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Flowers has blossomed as quarterback for Bears ** When Josh Warren was injured, the redshirt freshman stepped right in.

The major topic of discussion when Kutztown redshirt freshman Rob Flowers gets together with his cousins during the holidays is football. They have so much to share since most of them play or have played college football in the past. Most of them, though, didn’t have to play…

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Basketball
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Ardent Mentesana says Lehigh is ready for next step ** Engineers coach has worked toward a winning season for five years.

You can look at the 102 losses in five seasons and wonder why Sal Mentesana continues to have passion for his job as coach of the Lehigh men’s basketball team. “I’ve never questioned what I do,” the 53-year-old Mentesana said. “I love this. My passion for the game has not…

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Basketball
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Burke is ready for his senior season on College Hill ** The ECAC also honored Lafayette’s co-captain for his return from a serious injury.

It was the 11th day of December last year, a trial-filled day that Lafayette senior guard Brian Burke couldn’t stop thinking about as he stood at the podium accepting the ECAC Award of Valor on Oct. 2 in Hyannis, Mass. Stories of players returning to play Division I basketball…

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Football
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Big plays help Zephyrs topple Trojans ** A sack and punt return for a TD help Whitehall win, 16-7; snaps 4-game skid vs. Parkland.

More than just one game was on the line Friday night before a Homecoming crowd of 7,600 at Parkland High’s football stadium. Both Parkland and Whitehall needed to win in order to remain tied with Easton for first-place in the Mountain Conference Valley Division and extend…

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Football
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Easton scores early and often vs. Freedom ** Red Rovers put the Patriots through 37 plays of misery in an MVC Valley Division shutout.

The Easton Red Rovers have turned Friday night football games into hammer time. They bring it all, suffocating opponents with a quick-pursuing defense and rolling up points behind an offense that clicks running and passing. Good opponent or mediocre, it hasn’t mattered. The…

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Combat Sports
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Vikings fight way past Mount Carmel ** CCHS overcomes itself and Tornadoes on a TD pass by Csencsitz to Sipics.

Central Catholic entered homecoming Saturday with a 1-3 record and riding on the District 11 playoff bubble. One more loss would have put the Vikings in serious jeopardy of not qualifying for the playoffs. Opponents of CCHS may be in a rush for that to happen, but the Vikings’…

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Football
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Nazareth dominant in 28-7 win over Freedom ** Dionne Jones kicks an extra point for Blue Eagles, the first female player ever at Nazareth.

Dionne Jones wanted to score just as much as Freedom, only her one point put her into the Nazareth record books. As for Freedom, scoring one touchdown was far from enough in a Mountain Valley Conference crossover game that Nazareth dominated en route to a 28-7 victory Friday…

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Football
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Pinchek enjoys spot as a leader ** He has taken over as the lead running back for Parkland with the injury to star Austin Scott.

“Go, Nick, go.” That’s a cheer Parkland junior Nick Pinchek has waited two years to hear more regularly than just a few times a game when he would be given token handoffs. No, the game plan has changed at Parkland. Pinchek is now a key part of the game plan, the running back on…

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Football
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Kutztown reinstates QB Warren, two others for this week’s game ** It’s not a given that Warren will start. Backup Rob Flowers has played well.

Josh Warren, the junior who was projected to be Kutztown’s starting quarterback, has been reinstated following a two-game suspension for violating the team and school’s alcohol and drug policy. Three other Kutztown players have also been reinstated. Wide receiver Phil Washington…

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Football
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His comeback idled, Scott seeks better news on his knee ** Parkland star was cleared to play after surgery, but a new MRI finds problems.

Austin Scott waits and wonders, hoping that he will play high school football for Parkland again this season. One doctor says no. Another will give his opinion on Monday. Tonight, however, Scott will sit and watch. His nerves may be unsettled when the Trojans play host to Pocono…

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Track & Field
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Her confidence bounds with her abilities ** Eighth-grader Brianna Broyles of Allentown is a dashing 5-footer who is on the fast track to success as a runner.

The atmosphere at Madison Square Garden can be overwhelming for any first-time visitor. You might expect it to be especially so for a 10-year-old from Allentown who has never competed outside Pennsylvania. But to Brianna Broyles, an eighth grader at St. Francis of Assisi School…

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Football
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Kotarsky sets up Castiglioni’s run for redemption ** ESU beats Clarion in PSAC nonleague opener at East Stroudsburg High.

First came the mad rush, the feet of defensive linemen rumbling in the direction of East Stroudsburg quarterback Jeremy Palm. Then came “Tick,” the nickname by which Warriors wide receiver John Kotarsky has gone since his freshman year. Next came the catch, Kotarsky breaking…

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