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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…
· Andre D. Williams
Read on mcall.com →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…
· Andre D. Williams
Read on mcall.com →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…
· Andre D. Williams
Read on mcall.com →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,…
· Andre D. Williams
Read on mcall.com →The decision of where they wanted to play college football had long been made by Parkland’s Andre Williams, The Morning Call’s player of the year, and star quarterbacks Anthony Gonzalez of Liberty and Tyler Smith of Wilson. But there’s still nothing like the day of unrestrained…
· Andre D. Williams
Read on mcall.com →The decision of where they wanted to play college football had long been made by Parkland’s Andre Williams, The Morning Call’s player of the year, and star quarterbacks Anthony Gonzalez of Liberty and Tyler Smith of Wilson. But there’s still nothing like the day of unrestrained…
· Andre D. Williams
Read on mcall.com →The DeSales men are not among the nation’s ranked teams in Division III, but the Bulldogs are 7-0 in the Freedom Conference and have a two-game lead with seven to play. Which means, barring a collapse, the Bulldogs will win the Freedom title again and have homecourt advantage…
· Andre D. Williams
Read on mcall.com →The DeSales men are not among the nation’s ranked teams in Division III, but the Bulldogs are 7-0 in the Freedom Conference and have a two-game lead with seven to play. Which means, barring a collapse, the Bulldogs will win the Freedom title again and have homecourt advantage…
· Andre D. Williams
Read on mcall.com →The Muhlenberg women’s basketball team tips off its 2009-10 season in the Scotty Wood Tournament today ready to embark on a journey to top the 26-4 record they posted last season and advance further than the NCAA Division III Tournament’s Sweet 16. Five of the top eight scorers…
· Andre D. Williams
Read on mcall.com →Moravian College men’s basketball coach Jim Walker is four wins away from his 400th career victory, but the veteran coach hasn’t been able to focus on the approaching milestone. That’s because Walker, who’s in his 30th season at Moravian and 31st overall, doesn’t have an…
· Andre D. Williams
Read on mcall.com →In 19 seasons, DeSales women’s basketball coach Fred Ricther has become so accustomed to developing star players that he doesn’t dwell over losing dynamic players. LeighAnn Burke, a two-time Freedom Conference player of the year, averaged a school-record 20.4 points per game…
· Andre D. Williams
Read on mcall.com →No team in the Pennsylvania State Athletic Conference pushed the ball up the floor faster than the Kutztown men last season and that figures to be the case again. The Golden Bears, who averaged 87.7 points per game en route to a school-best 28-5 record, return senior guard…
· Andre D. Williams
Read on mcall.com →I t’s Easton vs. Liberty tonight at Cottingham Stadium in what could be the first of two meetings between the Lehigh Valley Conference powerhouses this season. They could meet again in come in the District 11-2-4 Class 4A subregional playoffs as they did in 2005 and 2006. Easton…
· Andre D. Williams
Read on mcall.com →Your football program is in serious trouble when its internal problems are just as heavy as its external ones, caused by bickering, losing, and parents trying to market their sons as if they’re free agents. That was the shambles Bethlehem Catholic was in while posting a 4-7…
· Andre D. Williams
Read on mcall.com →The fourth quarter was wild and entertaining, the kind of helter-skelter stuff that probably made first-year Bethlehem Catholic coach Mike Palos feel a lot older than 31 years old. Wait until next week when Bethlehem Catholic plays Central Catholic in the “Holy War” in…
· Andre D. Williams
Read on mcall.com →In the previous two seasons, Easton was not a serious contender for the Lehigh Valley Conference title. Last season, without four-year starter and four-year Morning Call all-area defensive back Jarred Holley — now a redshirt freshman at Pittsburgh — Easton didn’t even post a…
· Andre D. Williams
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…
· Andre D. Williams
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…
· Andre D. Williams
Read on mcall.com →Repeating as Patriot League champs and making it back to the NCAA Tournament is now the primary focus of the Lehigh women. It didn’t take long after the Mountain Hawks’ 85-49 loss to Auburn in an Oklahoma City Region first-round game on Saturday for coach Sue Troyan, the Patriot…
· Andre D. Williams
Read on mcall.com →Freedom High senior Eddie Mateo was down to the final days and his mind was about made up to sign a National Letter of Intent to attend NCAA Division II Bloomsburg University. All it took was just his signature on dotted lines during Wednesday’s Signing Day. Mateo, an Associated…
· Andre D. Williams
Read on mcall.com →Moravian women’s opponents need to be careful which Greyhounds player they foul when the game is on the line. Actually, not fouling at all is the safest bet. That’s because Moravian, under 400-plus game winner Mary Beth Spirk, is Division III’s top free throw-shooting team.…
· Andre D. Williams
Read on mcall.com →Brian Hunter is back to running the break, slashing down the lane and playing the type of quality minutes he never got the opportunity to play at Lehigh last season. But Hunter transferred to DeSales, a Division III program that appears to be a much better fit for the 6-foot-3…
· Andre D. Williams
Read on mcall.com →John Bedics wants one more graduation gift. Bedics, a starting offensive lineman for the North Carolina State Wolfpack and former Bethlehem Catholic standout, plays his final college game Monday night. North Carolina (6-6) meets Rutgers (7-5) in the PapaJohns.com Bowl in…
· Andre D. Williams
Read on mcall.com →With all five starters back, including all-conference preseason picks Stephen Dennis and Dave Ben, it appeared easy for Pennsylvania State Athletic Conference coaches to tab Kutztown as the team to beat. The Golden Bears were 19-9 last year, and with 80 percent of their offense…
· Andre D. Williams
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