After watching other Lehigh Valley football programs produce kickers capable of winning games from 40 yards away, Liberty coach John Truby longed for a similar player. Assistant coach Bob McLaughli…

FIRST-TEAM OFFENSE QUARTERBACK Ethan Parvel, Whitehall, Jr. 2017 stats: 2,133 passing yards, 31 TDs; 1,015 rushing yards, 14 TDs. RUNNING BACK Nasir Legree, Liberty, Jr. 2017 stats: 315 carries, 1,…

Justin Paz’s 2018-19 season, and perhaps his entire career, will be defined by two shots. His 45-foot fling from near halfcourt to beat Nazareth at the buzzer in the Eastern Pennsylvania Conf…

Kelli Gill doesn’t sit around much. When she isn’t playing basketball for the Freedom High freshman team, she is involved with swimming, ice hockey, softball, baseball and floor hockey.…

Andrew Sharga said he wasn’t really a Penn State guy growing up. He said his family wasn’t really big college football fans until his brother, Nick, first played at West Virginia Wesley…

Football coaches preach about unity and the need for their guys to come together. And the good teams truly do become a family. However, once a season ends, the players on even the tightest of teams…

Freedom played for District 11 football titles in 2016 and 2017. Coach Jason Roeder wasn’t satisfied with where his program stood. Roeder told players and reporters the same thing — he …

Parkland goalkeeper Brie Barraco’s diving, sliding, athletic style in goal earned her co-Most Valuable Player honors for the Eastern Pennsylvania Conference. The 9-10-1 Trojans lost to second…

Southern Lehigh’s Olivia Snyder had already been named all-state in girls basketball twice before by the Pennsylvania Sports Writers. This year, the senior guard, who finished her career with…

With the District 11 Class 6A football championship at stake Friday, Nazareth coach Tom Falzone called a play that took the ball from his all-league quarterback and placed it with Nathan Stefanik i…

Annika Herbine played the usual games that most grammar and middle school children play when she was growing up in Lower Macungie Township. A little bit of gymnastics and a little bit of soccer. A …

It was extremely difficult for opposing players to get their shots past Parkland senior goalkeeper Jake Varrato. But at age 8, it actually wasn’t too hard for girls of that same age to rip sh…

Whitehall football has long considered itself one big family and it’s especially true when it comes to Trey, Talon and Tanner Dogmanits who are all members of the Zephyrs’ District 11 5…

Marissa Rotz said that she was not that into sports when she was in elementary school in the late 1980s and early 1990s, but one of her teachers at Union Terrace Elementary in Allentown changed her…

Nazareth High graduate Sammy Sasso was named the Big Ten wrestler of the week after scoring two impressive wins for Ohio State. Sasso, a freshman at 149 pounds, defeated two of the nation’s t…

Hailey Cook, a junior on the Emmaus High School field hockey team, found out she had leukemia during the team’s state tournament run. She died Sunday.

She stands just 4-foot-101/2, but when it comes to generating power at the plate no one stood taller than Nazareth’s Serena Smith. The Blue Eagles shortstop hit .563 with 25 of her 45 hits go…

Parkland’s Nick Coval finished with 2,123 career points, but wants to be remembered for team accomplishments more

The Northampton boys volleyball team relished being the underdog. Heading into the spring, the Konkrete Kids felt they were a respected team, but still slightly overlooked. All of that changed when…

Caleb and Malek Mims are two of the greatest players in Freedom boys basketball history. The Mims brothers entered Saturday night’s District 11 6A championship game against Northampton second…

What’s the most important score to come out of the PIAA football playoff weekend? It’s not the 58-20 margin of victory of Bethlehem Catholic’s win over Pottsgrove Friday night and…