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As the top of the ninth inning was about to start in Game 6 of the World Series, Bill Tress turned to his mother, who was sitting among nervous Phillies fans, and blurted out, “Let’s go baby, No. 27,” at Pizza Como USA 50 Yard Line Sports Bar in Bethlehem. A night of emotional…
· Andre D. Williams
Read on mcall.com →Lorena Ochoa looks so young that she could pass for a teenager. Not an ordinary one, of course, because not many teenagers can afford to walk around wearing an expensive diamond ring, chain and earrings. But Ochoa has earned the finer things in life. She has was a star golfer in…
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Read on mcall.com →Philadelphia Force assistant general manager Erin Statmore is looking for a big sparkle in her life. She’ll have it if the Force win the National Pro Fastpitch league championship tournament in Kimberly, Wisc. this weekend. “I’m looking to fly back with a diamond ring on the…
· Andre D. Williams
Read on mcall.com →Like Yankee Stadium, Fenway Park and Wrigley Field, the Lehigh Valley’s Limeport Stadium has created lasting memories for baseball fans. Cozy Limeport Stadium, which resembles a miniature big league stadium from an era gone by, will celebrate its 75th anniversary in grand style…
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Read on mcall.com →Jesse Sell would prefer to smash a volleyball over crashing the books any day of the week. But the Emmaus senior never lost sight of the fact that he needed to be successful in both. On Wednesday, Sell was rewarded for his hard work in both at the Lehigh Valley Conference…
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Read on mcall.com →DeSales junior Phil Stricker waited until money time to go to the bank Tuesday night. Stricker, who was bothered by foul trouble throughout the game, opened up and scored all eight of his points in the final five minutes to help lift DeSales to a 71-63 non-league win over…
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Read on mcall.com →Nobody from Nazareth wants to dwell on the last game of the season, a 13-3 loss to Nor-Gwyn on Friday night. There are too many good memories from the 28-game season. There’s the Northampton County title it won for the second straight summer, an accomplishment that followed a…
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Read on mcall.com →Don’t put too much stock in the theory that walking on a scorching summer day is good for you. Nazaerth’s first two pitchers walked nine Southern Area batters through the first four innings Thursday at Owls Field at Ted Palka Park. But Southern Area scored only three runs and…
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Read on mcall.com →Nazareth pitcher Ronald Manning walked dejectedly off the mound, his hat pulled down and his jersey drenched. “I’m tired,” Manning later said. For four innings, he had been brilliant, using his fastball and off-speed pitches to stymie Boyertown batters in a Pennsylvania American…
· Andre D. Williams
Read on mcall.com →Nazareth pitcher Ronald Manning walked dejectedly off the mound, his hat pulled down and his jersey drenched. “I’m tired,” Manning later said. For four innings, he had been brilliant, using his fastball and off-speed pitches to stymie Boyertown batters in a Pennsylvania American…
· Andre D. Williams
Read on mcall.com →Where’s the eraser? North Parkland needs it before taking to Owls Field at Ted Palka Park this morning. Two Buffaloes pitchers were battered for seven runs in the top of the ninth inning Tuesday morning, enabling perennial powerhouse Boyertown to hammer out a 13-3 victory in the…
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Read on mcall.com →Where’s the eraser? North Parkland needs it before taking to Owls Field at Ted Palka Park this morning. Two Buffaloes pitchers were battered for seven runs in the top of the ninth inning Tuesday morning, enabling perennial powerhouse Boyertown to hammer out a 13-3 victory in the…
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Read on mcall.com →Muhlenberg senior Kristen Piscadlo has always enjoyed setting up her teammates, either with a dribble move and pass, or with something more sizzling, such as a pinpoint pass in transition. Whatever it has taken to get the job done, Piscadlo has delivered passes better than any…
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Read on mcall.com →The amazing Grace of the Harlem Diamonds professional women’s softball team and the team’s star pitcher use Ray Charles’ famous phrase, “I’m going to make it do what it do, baby.” They and their teammates will display their talents at Pates Park in Allentown Sunday evening. But…
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Read on mcall.com →The International Olympic Committee has struck out with players, coaches and other supporters of baseball and softball in the Lehigh Valley. That’s the response to the IOC’s decision to eliminate baseball and softball from the 2012 Olympic Games in London. “It’s actually very…
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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…
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Read on mcall.com →Please, not another inning. Nobody from Birches yelled that out, but shortstop Brendon O’Connor sure thought it a few times against Boyertown in the American Legion Region 2 Tournament semifinals Friday night at Hackett’s Park in Easton. He probably wasn’t alone. After all,…
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Read on mcall.com →It was a Thursday night of humor. It was also an evening where punishment was administered and blood spilled. After all, it was a professional boxing show with club-style fighters banging for a few hundred dollars of pay. That’s what Easton middleweight Russell Snyder did in his…
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Read on mcall.com →Boom! Five hits, five runs, all in the bottom of the third inning for the Philadelphia Phillies. Then more frustrations than thrills the next six innings on an overcast Friday night. So what looked as if it might be a walk in the park against the Cincinnati Reds turned into a…
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Read on mcall.com →Lehigh University batters rode the slight breeze around and twice out of Moravian College’s Gillespie Field in a 11-5 nonleague victory Wednesday afternoon. The first Lehigh batter to jack a ball over the fence was sophomore third baseman Jesse Novalis, whose 350-foot-plus shot…
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