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They are the Bethlehem Towers, each tall and solid. Their potential appears to be limitless. Division I football scouts must think so because they have been hawking Freedom High two-way lineman Ryan Ehrie and Bethlehem Catholic two-way standouts John Bedics and Kyle Newell.…
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Read on mcall.com →Liberty High survived last week, beating Pleasant Valley 35-28 in double overtime. Now comes a bigger team, a bigger task. Parkland’s visit to Bethlehem Area School District Stadium to play Liberty at 7 p.m. Saturday will be the Hurricanes’ biggest home game in years. Parkland…
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Read on mcall.com →Bethlehem Catholic High’s national ranking in USA Today will be gone this week. The Golden Hawks’ chase for the District 11 and PIAA Class 4A titles will still continue. But the Golden Hawks’ offense needs to iron out several wrinkles and the ballyhooed defense needs to have its…
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Read on mcall.com →The stadium lights will be turned on and the blocking, tackling, passing, punishing and juking between the lines will commence throughout the Lehigh Valley this weekend as the high school football season kicks off. Lehigh Valley Conference powers Parkland, Bethlehem Catholic and…
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Read on mcall.com →It did not matter whether it was first, second or third down. Pennsylvania just could not move the ball — until the final five minutes of play. By then it was too late, but Bethlehem Catholic quarterback Adam Bednarik’s 17-yard draw for a touchdown put Pennsylvania on the…
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Read on mcall.com →Austin Scott, the record-breaking Parkland High tailback who’ll begin his college career at Penn State next month, will have plenty of star company in the PNC Big 33 Classic at 7 tonight at Hersheypark Stadium. But will Scott be the biggest star? The run-and-shoot offense that…
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Read on mcall.com →Adam Bednarik had a celebrated high school football season at Bethlehem Catholic last fall, throwing for 27 touchdowns and over 2,300 yards. He was named to the Associated Press Big School first team and was The Morning Call’s all-area quarterback. He was also selected to the…
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Read on mcall.com →There is a no-blitz rule for the PNC Big 33 Classic Saturday night at Hersheypark Stadium. But defensive players can hit quarterbacks, wideouts and running backs as hard as they want. And Freedom defensive star Jeremy Kametz can’t wait to make contact with an offensive player in…
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Read on mcall.com →Phillipsburg High tailback Leonard Brice waited too late to get serious in the classroom, and that cost him a chance of earning a Division I scholarship. Fortunately, Brice still has a chance to achieve his goal. He just has to go to Hutchinson Junior College in Kansas before…
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Read on mcall.com →So much for the Gold team all-stars’ speed and the hope of it being unleashed in a mighty way. The Red team all-stars, led by a defensive backs that blanketed wideouts and defensive linemen that created havoc, dampened the aspirations of fans looking for a shootout in the 33rd…
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Read on mcall.com →Following the third straight year that the McDonald’s Lehigh Valley Football Classic has been postponed because of inclement weather, Bethlehem Catholic coach Chuck Sonon recalled a fitting joke he heard on a New York City sports radio station. “What do you call the day after…
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Read on mcall.com →Like all the players in the McDonald’s Football Classic, Bethlehem Catholic quarterback Adam Bednarik will wear his school’s helmet for the final time at 7 tonight at Nazareth High. It just won’t be the same Golden Hawks helmet he wore during the season, the one that was loaded…
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Read on mcall.com →He was in the middle of a game with Emmaus High when his helmet clamped down awkwardly, resulting in a nasty gash on his face. “It was painful,” said Parkland High senior Nick Pinchek. But Pinchek finished the game and continued to play through the discomfort of the gash until…
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Read on mcall.com →The Allentown Sports Festival’s Web site had 44,955 hits from July 1 to July 13 last year. “The athletes go on the Web a lot,” said SportsFest chairman Ray Atiyeh, adding, “And we have a pretty good webmaster [Kathy Moyer]. She lists all the winners, even from past years. It’s…
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Read on mcall.com →How small was Bethlehem Catholic sprinter Brandon Carter when he was a freshman? “I don’t know if his head came up to a hurdle,” said Golden Hawks track and field coach Gary Mohylsky. “I was pretty tiny,” admitted Carter, who was 5-2 as a freshman. He’s a shade under 5-8 now,…
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Read on mcall.com →Confetti will not be dropped from the rafters and fireworks won’t be fired off in the building. No big-named musician will sing the National Anthem. The Pennsylvania ValleyDawgs just want to open their home season at Stabler Arena, please the fans with dunks, long-range…
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Read on mcall.com →Tony Lattimore is an assistant track & field coach at Easton and the father of one of the area’s top female sprinters. But he doesn’t brag much about daughter Danielle. Sure, he’s always happy about her accomplishments in high school and the Junior Olympics. But Tony is just as…
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Read on mcall.com →Parkland High’s Garrison Rausch wanted to drive Bethlehem Catholic pitcher Adam Bednarik off the mound. When the chance came, Rausch did just that, lining a three-run double to center field in the bottom of the fifth inning that put the Trojans ahead by three runs en route to a…
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Read on mcall.com →Parkland senior Austin Scott had many breakaway runs en route to a 53-touchdown football season last fall. Often, he seemed on the verge of being off to the races the second he took handoffs. But a change of season has brought a different result for Scott. His football feats…
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Read on mcall.com →Undisputed middleweight champion Bernard Hopkins has been to a place he called the “bottom of the world.” Listen up. It’s a place Hopkins said he is not willing to be exiled back to, not by Frenchman Mourade Hakkar, whom he’ll defend his WBA, WBC and IBF titles against Saturday…
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Read on mcall.com →Jameer Nelson, the magnificent Saint Joseph’s point guard, wants the ball in his hands and T.J. Ford of Texas in his face. He wants to prove in the NCAA Tournament that he can easily dribble through traps, as he has done all season, set up teammates with unbelievable passes, and…
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Read on mcall.com →Drexel sophomore Danny Hinds patiently waited, towel often resting on his shoulder, and his jaws working hard as he chewed gum. His first national postseason tournament game was coming to a close. Hinds was disappointed because he believed that he had not done enough to help…
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Read on mcall.com →The game moved faster than Lafayette College probably would have liked Sunday night. So did American. As a result, Lafayette coach Fran O’Hanlon doesn’t have to worry about trying to get any more miles out of his players. American saw to that, using its speed on both ends of the…
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Read on mcall.com →Parkland running back Austin Scott and Bethlehem Catholic quarterback Adam Bednarik will rush and pass as high school players on the same football field one more time. Finally, it will be as teammates. They have been selected to the Pennsylvania All-Star team that will play the…
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