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The final score, Villanova 110, Kutztown 84 was not anything for the Golden Bears to be disappointed about Thursday night at the Wachovia Center. There were too many other positives, starting first with just having the opportunity to play a scrimmage in a 20,000-seat arena…
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Read on mcall.com →Two of the area’s top men’s basketball players, Lehigh senior guard Marquis Hall and Kutztown senior guard Stephen Dennis, earned preseason honors on Thursday. Hall, a former Patriot League rookie of the year, was named the preseason player of the year and will try to join…
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Read on mcall.com →SportsFest XIII begins today — and the creator and chairman of the amateur athletics and entertainment event, Ray Atiyeh, is ready to roll. Nothing new. This is his baby, known as Allentown SportsFest before having A-Town removed for Lehigh Valley a couple years ago to give the…
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Read on mcall.com →Fresh off being named a conference’s coach of the year, Scott McClary now has the job he’s long dreamed of holding. A former Muhlenberg College assistant men’s basketball coach, McClary was named Dave Madeira’s successor on Friday. Madeira retired on March 10 after completing…
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Read on mcall.com →Jamelle Cornley set the tone for Penn State early with his hustle, scoring, relentless defense and the heart of a lion Thursday night at Madison Square Garden. Talor Battle, scoreless in the first half, came on in the second half, but Penn State’s 69-63 win over Baylor for the…
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Read on mcall.com →Penn State has been to Madison Square Garden four times since 1990 and has three semifinal losses and one championship game defeat to show for it. This year, the Nittany Lions are hoping for a more memorable experience. Senior forward Jamelle Cornley doesn’t see how it will not…
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Read on mcall.com →The DeSales men’s and women’s basketball programs earned a piece of the national spotlight over the weekend during the NCAA Division III’s championship weekend. Darnell Braswell, the ex-Allen High star, wished that it would have been because of what he and his teammates…
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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…
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Read on mcall.com →— Auburn All-American DeWanna Bonner has deceived a lot of people over her ability to dominate a game because of her skinny figure. That’s why Lehigh coach Sue Troyan made sure that her players would not be fooled when they matched up against the 6-foot-4 senior in NCAA…
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Read on mcall.com →The Lehigh University women’s basketball team went on a sightseeing tour of New York City Thursday night. Something unexpected happened. “We went to David and Buster’s and watched American play Villanova,” said sophomore guard Erica Prosser with a sparkle in her eyes on Friday…
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Read on mcall.com →Lehigh’s Sue Troyan is a a two-time Patriot League coach of the year who takes more pride in being an even better mom. Her husband, Fran, Lehigh’s softball coach, and her three children can attest to that. The players she coaches, mentors, and is essentially a second mom to…
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Read on mcall.com →The greatest men’s basketball season in Kutztown University history can be extended — or ended — tonight in the NCAA Division II Atlantic Region final at Gannon University’s Hammermill Center in Erie. Coach Bernie Driscoll says it comes down to whether the Golden Bears can…
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Read on mcall.com →It seemed like Lehigh sophomore guard Erica Prosser was standing at the free-throw line, her team down a point with one second left. But she instead was sitting in front of a large television screen among teammates, coaches, school administrators and media watching the NCAA…
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Read on mcall.com →The final buzzer sounded and DeSales junior guard Darnell Braswell froze near half-court. Seconds later, the Bulldogs leading scorer and inspirational leader lifted up and bit hard on his jersey as he walked slowly off Franklin & Marshall’s Mayser Center court. A spectacular…
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Read on mcall.com →The Kutztown men are back in the NCAA Division II basketball tournament for the first time since 1988, and hope to stick around for a while. In Division III, the DeSales men and Muhlenberg women have reached the “Sweet 16” and hope to continue playing on. The Golden Bears,…
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Read on mcall.com →It’s Brown and White against Maroon and White. It’s Bethlehem against Easton. For the first time since 1997, it’s Lehigh against Lafayette for the Patriot League women’s basketball tournament title at 6 tonight at Stabler Arena. It seemed like an unlikely showdown when the…
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Read on mcall.com →Led by a trio of pesky guards, Lehigh cranked it up and blitzed Army with 14 consecutive second-half points Sunday afternoon. That decisive run enabled the Mountain Hawks to turn a two-point deficit into a 12-point advantage in the Patriot League women’s tournament semifinals at…
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Read on mcall.com →She had game highs in points, rebounds, assists and blocked shots. As if that wasn’t dominant enough, College of New Jersey’s 6-foot-3 All-American candidate Hillary Klimowicz also made more free throws (7) than DeSales attempted (5) in an NCAA Division III tournament…
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Read on mcall.com →The Lehigh women’s basketball team essentially climbed to the top of the mountain during the Patriot League’s regular season. Lehigh, led by first-team Patriot League guard Erica Prosser, went 12-2 in league play, which included a 7-0 mark at Stabler Arena. The league wins are…
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Read on mcall.com →The DeSales men’s and women’s basketball teams, the Muhlenberg and Moravian women’s teams, are all NCAA Division III Tournament-bound. The DeSales men and women and Muhlenberg women earned automatic berths by winning their conference tournaments over the weekend. The Moravian…
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Read on mcall.com →Hold nothing back, finish strong. That was the message from Muhlenberg coach Ron Rohn to his players with less than two minutes remaining in the Centennial Conference championship game Sunday afternoon at Memorial Hall. Erin McSherry, the 6-foot-1 senior center, then made a…
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Read on mcall.com →There’s no reason a student-athlete with a burning passion to play college basketball has to give up on his dreams just because he does not have the money to attend a four-year institution, or needs to improve his academics before making that important jump. That’s what…
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Read on mcall.com →Lafayette has a young basketball team that has been on a seesaw ride all season. Four days after an emotional win over rival Lehigh, the Leopards missed a barrage of jumpers, layups and free throws against Army Wednesday night at Kirby Sports Center. The lethargic shooting — not…
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Read on mcall.com →Lafayette has a young basketball team that has been on a seesaw ride all season. Four days after an emotional win over rival Lehigh, the Leopards missed a barrage of jumpers, layups and free throws against Army Wednesday night at Kirby Sports Center. The lethargic shooting — not…
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