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Hornets Go Back to Drawing Board
Atlanta's record rout makes the home opener a question, and Reid is not it.
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Both Sides of the Trade Win Opening Night
Swapped for each other in June, LaMelo Ball and Naz Reid both delivered for their new teams on the season's second night.
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Opening Night Collects Old Debts
Both of June's finalists lose at home to open the season, the crown gets heavy fast.
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Women’s basketball coach: Lafayette will run and press
Ten seconds. That’s the freelance time new Lafayette women’s basketball coach Dianne Nolan said she gives to her players at the start of games. Her system is helter-skelter after that. “We like to say that we pack 60 minutes into it,” she said. Run and press are the blueprint as…
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SportsFest to put greater emphasis on health
That’s because the Lehigh Valley SportsFest, entering its 14th summer, has never had a mission, in writing, to promote health and fitness. It does now and SportsFest president and founder Ray Atiyeh believes that all bases are now covered in his growing effort to promote the…
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Lehigh wants to take next step in tournament
Bruised at heart, the Lehigh women now seek to ease the pain from another lopsided NCAA Tournament loss by preparing for next season. Topping the list goals is winning the Patriot League title a third straight year, extending its 33-game home winning streak, and beating teams…
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Dennis top player in D-II
Kutztown senior guard Stephen Dennis had a career-high 42 points on Jan. 13 against East Stroudsburg and many more highlights have come for the all-time leading scorer in school history. On Monday, the 6-foot-6 Dennis was named the 2009-2010 Daktronics Division II Men’s…
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Mountain Hawks battle No. 1 before falling, 90-74
History will have to wait for at least another year. But Lehigh, unruffled by powerhouse Kansas, gave a good shot Thursday night at trying to become the first 16th seed to beat a No. 1 seed in the NCAA Tournament. But the the Mountain Hawks, champions of the Pariot League,…
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Lehigh’s run ends in Oklahoma
Lehigh had plenty of fight, but was ultimately wobbled, fatigued and defeated tonight by top-ranked Kansas, 90-74 in an NCAA Tournament Midwest Region first-round game at the Ford Center. Kansas just had too much size, too much second-half kick and denied Lehigh its bid to…
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Lehigh plans to ‘leave it all on the court’
Lehigh boarded a plane from Philadelphia to Oklahoma City on Tuesday morning, wondering not what powerhouse Kansas will do to it in the NCAA Tournament. But what it can do to Kansas. The Midwest Region first-round matchup Thursday night at the Hart Center, after all, is a…
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Alums share Hawks’ pride in making NCAA field
Pride and jubilation extended from one former Lehigh 1,000-point scorer to another Sunday night during the NCAA Selection Show. Ed Cahn, 1955 Lehigh graduate and the first 1,000-point scorer in school history, stood off to the side, his eyes focused on the big screen television…
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Smith guards way to repeat Lehigh championship
In the sea of Lehigh students, most dressed in brown, some bare-chested, a spirited group known as “Tricia’s Militia” bounced around with a life-size poster of senior guard Tricia Smith. Just the way Smith, a fifth-year defensive workhorse, plays. It’s a relentless stye that her…
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Lehigh’s Hall, Carrington leaders on and off the court
One game, albeit the biggest of their careers, will not define Lehigh seniors Marquis Hall and Zahir Carrington, All-Patriot League players and all-around good guys away from the court. Sure, Hall and Carrington want to lead Lehigh (21-10) to a victory over Lafayette (19-12) in…
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It’s down to Lafayette, Lehigh
Lafayette’s Jared Mintz was barefooted, Ryan Willen in flip flops, and their coach, Fran O’Hanlon, had his tie loose. It was easy to be relaxed after what the Leopards accomplished in the Patriot League semifinals on Sunday before a packed and spirited crowd at Kirby Sports…
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Kutztown comes up short in PSAC title game
Kutztown scrambled, hoping for a miracle run that never came. Indiana University of Pennsylvania was just too strong and poised under pressure in the Pennsylvania State Athletic Conference final Saturday night at East Stroudsburg University’s Koehler Fieldhouse. It was the…
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Army’s Anthony, Lehigh trio attain Patriot League women’s basketball honors
She’s a double-double performer on the court, an academic scholar off it, and one day Army junior forward Erin Anthony aspires to make good use of her civil engineering degree by helping to build roads or buildings. Right now, she’s building a legacy at West Point. On Tuesday,…
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Muhlenberg women play the waiting game
It was a run of futility. Muhlenberg scored just one field goal over the final 5 minutes, 11 seconds and was outscored 18-2 by McDaniel in the Centennial Conference women’s championship game Sunday at Memorial Hall. Layups, jumpers, free throws were missed, some on airballs. Bad…
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Lehigh grabs share of regular-season title
Lehigh had no problem with perimeter defense against Bucknell and no letdown in its biggest home game in six years Wednesday night. Freshman C.J. McCollum scored 12 consecutive points during one stretch and seniors Marquis Hall and Zahir Carrington got what they’ve coveted their…
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CCHS grad Heimbach continues to shoot up ESU scoring list
E ast S troudsburg University coach Jeff Wilson didn’t have expectations four years ago that Andy Heimbach would provide highlight-reel dunks. Heimbach, a graduate of Central Catholic, is not that type of player. But he is a shooter, the best in East Stroudsburg’s history from…
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Mountain Hawks face Bison in key Patriot League game
The numbers 94, 81, 85 and 90 were not pulled out of a lottery drawing. They represent the trials of defeat for the Lehigh men in Patriot League play. The Mountain Hawks gave up those point-totals in their four league losses. Lehigh also has eight league wins, tops with…
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Leopards take it to Lehigh
Lafayette guard Jeff Kari did not write a Senior Day script for Sunday’s Patriot League matchup against Lehigh. It just seemed that way during a second-half stretch where Kari, energized by the crowd, drilling three straight 3-pointers. The Kirby Sports Center crowd went crazy.…
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Mountain Hawk women on a mission
T he Lehigh women own Stabler Arena and, seemingly, every team that visits. A 31-game home winning streak validates it and the Mountain Hawks have no intentions on losing on Saturday night against Lafayette in their final regular-season home game. Lehigh (23-3 overall, 10-1…
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Kutztown, ESU resumes strong enough for NCAA bids
E very year about this time bracketology talk begins in reference to Division I teams who appear in, out of, and on the NCAA Tournament bubble. It’s tough to do such a thing in Division II. But it should not be difficult to determine that Kutztown (20-3) and East Stroudsburg…
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Globetrotters: Fun is the General idea
N ow that it’s known that I will be playing against the Harlem Globetrotters, it has resulted in e-mails and calls from people saying, “Don’t get dunked on” or “You had better score.” Never mind that just playing on the same court as the world-famous Globetrotters is honor…
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