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Lehigh got its transition game in gear in the second half and had little trouble running away from Holy Cross Friday night at Stabler Arena. Senior guard Austen Rowland, who shot just 2-for-11 from the field, keyed a second-half surge with his passing, defense, poise and…
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Read on mcall.com →Austen Rowland’s mother saw him play for the first time in a Lehigh University basketball uniform Saturday afternoon. M. Michele Rowlands picked the perfect game to attend. She just had to wait a while for the game to end, but it was worth it as Lehigh relied on the one-two…
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Read on mcall.com →Villanova showed Allen High football star Eugene Clay the town and got what it wished for in return. Clay, a two-time Morning Call All-Area selection and Associated Press PIAA Class 4A second-team pick at wideout in December, announced Tuesday that he had orally committed to the…
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Read on mcall.com →Lehigh coach Billy Taylor has established himself as a disciplinarian in his first two seasons. And nobody is openly complaining. Maybe that’s because Taylor has proven himself to be a good coach who is winning games, even when the odds appear to be against the Mountain Hawks.…
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Read on mcall.com →Whitehall has effectively used a slow-down brand of basketball to frustrate and topple many teams over the years. Remember the Zephyrs’ 33-29 overtime victory over Central Catholic earlier in the season? Just boring. “Yes it was,” said Whitehall guard Jason Greene. But the…
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Read on mcall.com →A couple months ago, Salisbury forward Matt Bubba didn’t get many chances to dribble, shoot and score. That’s because he was the goalie on the Falcons’ boys soccer team that won the District 11 Class 2A title and a game in the first-round of the PIAA playoffs before losing in…
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Read on mcall.com →You’ve probably seen the Hollywood movies where the former water boy grows up to to earn a position on the high school football team. Rarely is that position as a starter. Hardly ever does the water boy become the star. But in a real life story, Northampton senior Jeff Pammer is…
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Read on mcall.com →Salisbury played a controlled, patient game of basketball that included simple passes, slick cuts that resulted in open jumpers and layups against Wilson Tuesday night. Simple was almost perfect from the outset as the Falcons built a 15-1 advantage and executed the basics en…
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Read on mcall.com →The Temple Owls found a way to prevent all their feathers from being ruffled by South Carolina in a non-league game Monday night at the Liacouras Center. But just barely. After building a 20-point second-half lead with 7:41 remaining, the Owls succumbed to South Carolina’s…
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Read on mcall.com →Some interceptions alter games, but the first interception of Bethlehem Catholic defensive lineman John Bedics’ career did more than that. His 42-yard interception return for a touchdown in the third quarter against Parkland in last year’s season-opener increased his confidence…
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Read on mcall.com →Aliquippa High’s multi-purpose star Darrelle Revis had breakaway speed and open-field moves, which he used to keep breaking the back of Northern Lehigh’s defense Sunday in the PIAA Class 2A championship football game at Hersheypark Stadium. “He has special giddy-up,” said…
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Read on mcall.com →Northern Lehigh needed one last touchdown to cap off the greatest season in school history with the most memorable comeback Sunday in the PIAA Class 2A Championship game at Hersheypark Stadium. But the dreams of the Bulldogs players and estimated 3,500 fans were shattered along…
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Read on mcall.com →This morning, the Easton football players should be able to stare in the mirror and feel proud. The reflection will be of players who demonstrated more vigor, drive and fight than seemed humanly possible considering they played two games against immensely talented and fast teams…
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Read on mcall.com →Easton senior Mike Easterday has enjoyed the blocking and growling up front with other offensive linemen over the years, even though he has always had a wide receiver-type body. Even now, the 6-0, 205-pound Red Rovers center is slim and apparently athletic enough to be catching…
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Read on mcall.com →All anyone had to do was look into the watery eyes of the Easton players and coaches to understand how passionate the Red Rovers were about their annual Thanksgiving Day game against Phillipsburg Thursday at Lafayette College’s Fisher Field. The game meant the world to the…
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Read on mcall.com →All anyone had to do was look into the watery eyes of the Easton players and coaches to understand how passionate the Red Rovers were about their annual Thanksgiving Day game against Phillipsburg Thursday at Lafayette College’s Fisher Field. The game meant the world to the…
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Read on mcall.com →Now that Easton has played it’s all-important Thanksgiving Day game against Phillipsburg, losing 26-23, the Red Rovers (11-2) appear headed for an extremely difficult mission Saturday night. Up next is high-powered and defensively stingy North Penn (13-0) in the PIAA Class 4A…
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Read on mcall.com →North Penn junior quarterback Adam Hearns was the only Knights player left on the field on a brisk Tuesday night, but it was not by choice. He still had running to do. Again, it was not by choice. It was by demand of coach Dick Beck that Hearns did a series of flexibility drills…
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Read on mcall.com →Easton High was undersized at the line of scrimmage, but was mightier than Cumberland Valley everywhere else in the PIAA Class 4A football quarterfinal playoff game Friday night at HersheyPark Stadium. The Red Rovers’ might came from senior Brad Piperata and junior Ovid…
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Read on mcall.com →Easton senior tailback Brad Piperata rumbled to the outside, plowed over a defender, maintained his balance on the sidelines and then rumbled even harder toward the end zone Friday night at HersheyPark Stadium. More Cumberland Valley defenders tried to converge and make…
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Read on mcall.com →Marcus Millen’s right wrist wouldn’t stop throbbing after he made a second-quarter tackle against Nazareth Oct. 3. But the Easton standout and son of former NFL star Matt Millen stayed in the game and continued to make plays. After the game, he found out his wrist was broken. “I…
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Read on mcall.com →Lehigh’s basketball game on Dec. 2 isn’t highlighted or circled on the Mountain Hawks’ schedule. But the game against Connecticut, led by center and projected NBA lottery pick Emeka Okaforare, will mark the first time in school history that the Mountain Hawks have played the…
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Read on mcall.com →The green light that will allow players to race up and down the court and shoot at will, will be on just about every time the Kutztown University men’s basketball team takes to the hardwood this season. “We want to push the ball up and down the court, get the game into the 80s,”…
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Read on mcall.com →Easton still owns Parkland in the playoffs. More importantly, Easton now also owns the District 11 Class 4A title for the first time since 1993. The Red Rovers improved to 4-0 against the Trojans in the playoffs with a 23-15 victory before a crowd of 5,800 Friday at Cottingham…
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