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Lehigh senior Jessica DePalo displayed the same grace when she spoke as she had when she played Saturday afternoon. But she did it with tears in her eyes instead of a smile of her face. Her season-high 30 points had gone for naught because Lehigh squandered a 12-point lead with…
· Andre D. Williams
Read on mcall.com →Winning in the playoffs often comes down to who handles the pressure the best as well as who bumps and grinds the hardest. That’s what Lehigh senior Jessica DePalo, the Patriot League’s player of the year, kept doing until only one second remained in the tournament quarterfinals…
· Andre D. Williams
Read on mcall.com →Winning in the playoffs often comes down to who handles the pressure the best, and who bumps and grinds the hardest. That’s what Lehigh senior Jessica DePalo, the Patriot League’s player of the year, did until only one second remained in the tournament quarterfinals against…
· Andre D. Williams
Read on mcall.com →Lehigh senior forward Mary Frances Hynoski doesn’t seem like just a basketball player to her teammates or coaches. “Mary is a tank,” said junior Jenny Callan. “It’s kind of like a football game out there,” said Lehigh coach Sue Troyan. “She’s banging people around, pushing,…
· Andre D. Williams
Read on mcall.com →Lehigh coach Sue Troyan has finally earned the Patriot League Coach of the Year award that her star senior Jessica DePalo thought Troyan deserved four years ago. DePalo’s league-best 18.0 points per game, to go with her 5.4 rebounds and 47.9 percent field-goal shooting and…
· Andre D. Williams
Read on mcall.com →Marc Holum isn’t scoring points at Air Force like he did at Saucon Valley, but at least now he’s wearing the uniform that he had to turn in last year after leaving the academy to improve his grades. He returned home to the Lehigh Valley and attended DeSales University last year,…
· Andre D. Williams
Read on mcall.com →This time of the college basketball season, opinions on teams can vary from week-to-week, depending on how those teams play. Good teams don’t falter, suspect ones do. Last week, I touted Lafayette for having won two straight games. Then the Leopards got wiped out by a 71-33…
· Andre D. Williams
Read on mcall.com →Lehigh did not die easy. And Lafayette refused to die on its own court. The Leopards had an 11-point lead with 1:48 remaining, which dwindled down to one, before settling for an 81-76 victory Saturday afternoon at Kirby Sports Center. Lafayette had lost its previous game by 19…
· Andre D. Williams
Read on mcall.com →Freedom’s two-month wait for a new football coach may soon be over. According to two sources close to the Freedom football program, Jason Roeder has been offered the job. Roeder has to be approved at a Bethlehem Area School District school board Monday night before he can be…
· Andre D. Williams
Read on mcall.com →Teams that make postseason runs in March usually start to play harder and smarter and win more convincingly at this time of the season. Lafayette has done that in its last two Patriot League games. Teams that have short runs in March usually do what Lehigh has done over its last…
· Andre D. Williams
Read on mcall.com →The dancing shoes are no longer just on order. They are about to be shipped. Villanova appears headed back to the NCAA Tournament for the first time since 1999 after beating 17th-ranked Pittsburgh 80-72 Sunday. The Wildcats (17-7, 7-5 Big East) are a half-game behind Notre Dame…
· Andre D. Williams
Read on mcall.com →Lehigh coach Billy Taylor called on his reserves to try and help rescue the Mountain Hawks from defeat against Navy Saturday night at Stabler Arena. It almost worked, but almost isn’t good enough. Numerous inconsistencies were too much to overcome, resulting in Lehigh’s 76-75…
· Andre D. Williams
Read on mcall.com →Heartbreak City no longer has Lafayette as a tenant. Jamaal Hilliard, who ranks ninth in the nation in free-throw shooting, made sure of it. Hilliard made two free throws with 6.8 seconds left to clinch a 93-89 Patriot League overtime victory over American Saturday before a…
· Andre D. Williams
Read on mcall.com →Philadelphia Eagles wide receiver Todd Pinkston appeared to find Circuit City in Bethlehem Township more easily than he has found the end zone the last two seasons. A crowd of people was waiting Thursday night for Pinkston, who was on hand as part of Circuit City’s grand opening…
· Andre D. Williams
Read on mcall.com →Hockey season is not over for Luke Heckenberger, an 18-year-old senior at Central Catholic. He had a game Wednesday night, has practice tonight and will be traveling to Boston on Friday for a weekend tournament with the Lehigh Valley Ice Hockey traveling team, known as the…
· Andre D. Williams
Read on mcall.com →Drexel senior Danny Hinds experienced the worst drive to the basket of his life Monday night. He jump-stopped and was going up for a layup when his left knee buckled. Tears quickly welled in his eyes as he dropped to the floor during the second half of a Colonial Athletic…
· Andre D. Williams
Read on mcall.com →Saint Joseph’s is making another run at the NCAA Tournament. And the Hawks don’t even control Philadelphia. But that’s the beauty of college basketball because rankings and computers do not determine a team’s fate. Saint Joe’s (12-9) can advance to the “Big Dance” for the third…
· Andre D. Williams
Read on mcall.com →Syracuse forward Hakim Warrick celebrated his homecoming with a parade of dunks against Villanova Saturday afternoon before a sellout crowd at the Wachovia Center. At times it seemed Villanova’s best defense against Warrick was to foul him. Twice Wildcat players landed on…
· Andre D. Williams
Read on mcall.com →Lehigh senior Jessica DePalo kept moving through a crowded lane and begging for the ball. In the second half of Friday night’s Patriot League contest with Army at Stabler Arena, her teammates obliged. DePalo responded with bucket after bucket and helped lead the Mountain Hawks…
· Andre D. Williams
Read on mcall.com →With pens in hand and wearing broad smiles, four Liberty High football players signed letters of intent with Division I-AA and Division II schools Thursday afternoon in a conference room adjacent to Liberty’s main office. Brendan Van Ackeren, who made big plays on both sides of…
· Andre D. Williams
Read on mcall.com →Bucknell coach Pat Flannery did not allow his spirits to be dampened after losing to Lehigh 57-54 on a Joe Knight 3-pointer at the buzzer Sunday at Stabler Arena. Flannery had missed three games because of an undisclosed medical condition. He hated being out, hated not having to…
· Andre D. Williams
Read on mcall.com →Finally, Lehigh experienced a super Sunday in Patriot League play. Joe Knight helped make it that way by converting the last basket of the first half, and then sent Lehigh students pouring onto the Stabler Arena hardwood by sinking a 3-pointer at the buzzer in the Mountain…
· Andre D. Williams
Read on mcall.com →Lehigh guard Joe Knight drilled a 3-pointer from the corner that tied it at 50 with a little under seven minutes remaining. Then Lehigh center Jason Mgebroff scored off his own miss, Jose Olivero swished a deep 3, and Mgebroff scored again off a slick pass from Olivero. That was…
· Andre D. Williams
Read on mcall.com →Phillipsburg native Tom Brennan has reached a point in life where he’d rather spend his summers sailing on Lake Champlain in Vermont than recruiting players across the country for his Catamounts basketball program. Brennan, 55, announced his retirement as Vermont’s head coach on…
· Andre D. Williams
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