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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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Allen product Broyles starring for Pitt
The run for championship medals seems to bring out the best in Brianna Broyles when she’s down to her final attempts. At Allen High, Broyles won the 100-meter high hurdle title in the PIAA Track and Field Championships as a senior. It was her only state title in an illustrious…
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Parkland’s Andre Williams speedy back-to-back
During many of his long touchdown runs during the football season, Parkland senior Andre Williams got a good rest before going back out onto the field and trying to go the distance again. Not so in track and field when you run the 110-meter high hurdles and 100 dash, but…
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Liberty athletes pick their colleges LETTERS OF INTENT
A standout Liberty swimmer is headed to Duke and two star women’s basketball players have decided to extend their athletic and academic careers at Lehigh and Bloomsburg, respectively. The college decisions were announced at a press conference at Liberty’s art gallery Tuesday…
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Liberty athletes pick their colleges
A standout Liberty swimmer is headed to Duke and two star women’s basketball players have decided to extend their athletic and academic careers at Lehigh and Bloomsburg, respectively. The college decisions were announced at a press conference at Liberty’s art gallery Tuesday…
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Price helps Vols grab gold in 4×800
— Chanelle Price beat Usain Bolt around the Franklin Field track on Saturday. Amazing, huh? But Price, a sophomore distance standout with the University of Tennessee and former Easton All-American, got to take a victory lap an hour before Bolt after she helped lead the…
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Price recovers from illness to win relay
She was not vintage Chanelle Price. She was strategical. Competing in her first race since suffering a chest infection 10 days ago, Price ran a solid opening leg for Tennessee in the Championships of America 4×1,500-meter relay at the Penn Relays on Friday at Franklin Field. The…
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TRACK AND FIELD: Danielle Smith is Whitehall’s speedy flyweight.
“I’m 5-3, between 105, 109 pounds,” she said following a blowout win in the 400-meter dash in a tri-meet at Bethlehem Area School District Stadium Monday afternoon. A junior, Smith is in her first year running track and she has quickly gone from a sprinter nobody knew anything…
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Liberty’s Lewis threatening records
Liberty senior Stephen Lewis had an unusual Thursday by most early-season track and field standards. But Lewis has his own expectations and they are high and will rise even higher as the PIAA Track and Field Championship weekend nears. On Thursday, during a dual meet against…
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Talent abounds on area girls track teams
Liberty’s girls track team is just plain loaded, Saucon Valley has a defending state sprint champion who’s even faster this year, Lehighton boasts a multi-event standout, and Whitehall features a vaulting sensation. And because of the all-around strength of defending Lehigh…
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Hurdlers point toward states
Liberty’s Stephen Lewis is lean and fast. Parkland’s Andre Williams is lean, fast and powerful. Both are outstanding senior hurdlers coming off top five finishes in the Class 3A 110-meter hurdles in the PIAA Track and Field Championships last year. Lewis was fourth in the 110 in…
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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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Lehigh men planning a return trip
No tears trickled, no heads hung. A daunting task for Lehigh Thursday night was over in Oklahoma City. Overmatched inside the paint and simply not as gifted as No. 1 Kansas, Lehigh failed in its attempt at history and succumbed like every other No. 16 seed in the history of the…
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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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History in the making?
The spotlight belonged to Lehigh. The Mountain Hawks were the last team to meet the media and the last team to practice at the Ford Center on Wednesday. But tonight, the Patriot League champions hope to make history by becoming the first 16th seed to beat a No. 1 seed in the…
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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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Lehigh holds final practice before meeting Kansas
Less than an hour ago, Lehigh practiced for the final time in preparation for its NCAA Tournament first-round game against Kansas Thursday night at the Ford Center. Barring the biggest upset in tournament history it was the last practice of this season, but the Mountain Hawks…
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Lehigh draws No. 1 Kansas in NCAA Tournament
Fear did not enter into the hearts of Lehigh players. Never mind the mammoth challenge ahead in Oklahoma City. Excitement still reigned at Goosey Gander in Bethlehem on Sunday when the Patriot League champion Mountain Hawks (22-10) discovered they will play Kansas (32-2) in the…
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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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Dennis tops in PSAC and region
Kutztown’s Stephen Dennis went two-for-two in major awards on Wednesday, earning the Pennsylvania State Athletic Conference East and Daktronics NCAA Division II Atlantic Region player of the year awards. Now, the 6-foot-6 senior guard with the deceptively quick first-step…
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Mountain Hawks roll over American in semis
LEHIGH79 AMERICAN57 Lehigh senior Dave Buchberger was on from downtown. Freshman C.J. McCollum was on from everywhere. Then, there was senior guard Marquis Hall simply playing an all-around smooth game and senior forward Zahir Carrington rebounding with force. The sensational…
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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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