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Wednesday, May 12, 2010
Bob Ford/times news Jim Thorpe's Oliver Schulz prepares to return the ball at the net during Tuesday's match with Saucon Valley. Schulz teamed with Josh Mohn at the No. 1 doubles position.

It wasn't a surprise that the Saucon Valley-Jim Thorpe tennis match went down to the wire.

What was a surprise – a very pleasant one for the Panthers – was how well their No. 1 doubles team delivered in the clutch.

Saucon Valley's Luis Devia and Gavin Coyne pulled out a 7-5, 6-4 victory over Jim Thorpe's Oliver Schulz and Josh Mohn to give their team a 3-2 win in the quarterfinals of the District 11 Class AA Team Tournament.

Wednesday, May 12, 2010
bob ford/times news Pleasant Valley's Kayla Dorney (right) and Angela Munoz of Pocono Mountain East battle for control of the ball.

The Pleasant Valley girls' soccer team completed their first task for the week.

Now, the Lady Bears can turn their focus to their second and final step.

Pleasant Valley won the rubber match with Pocono Mountain East Tuesday night, as the Bears defeated the Cardinals 2-0 in the Mountain Valley Conference semi-finals. The Bears scored twice in the first half, including one with 11 seconds left, and will now play for their sixth conference title in seven years.

Tuesday, May 11, 2010

May 11, 1956 Coaldale receives first-place finishes from both Lou Gregus and Joe DeMatto in the annual Southern Division track and field meet. Gregus wins the mile, breaking the tape in 4:53.5, while DeMatto claims the javelin with a throw of 160-5. Lansford's Russell "Bussy" Early competes in the 180 low hurdles for the first ever in a meet and comes away with gold. Other locals to earn first-place finishes include Summit Hill's Dick Ackerman (pole vault) and Tamauqua's Jack Zeigler (tie in high jump).

Tuesday, May 11, 2010
Bob Ford/times news Lehighton's Sarah Snyder slides safely back to first base before Megan Hardy (left) of Pleasant Valley can apply the tag.

Northern Lehigh scored a run in the 10th inning to defeat Catasauqua and clinch the Colonial League North Division championship.

In other action Monday, Northwestern and Tamaqua earned baseball wins while Pleasant Valley's softball team posted a victory.

BASEBALL

No. Lehigh-Catasauqua

Northern Lehigh clinched the Colonial League North Division title with a 3-2 extra-inning win over Catty.

Jake Kern delivered with the game-winning RBI-single in the top of the tenth. He finished the day 2-for-4 and also earned the save.

Tuesday, May 11, 2010
nancy Scholz/times news Jim Thorpe's Sam Lux tosses the ball in the air as he prepares to serve against Notre Dame.

ALLENTOWN - Zach Ligenza played in the No. 2 singles slot for the Jim Thorpe boys' tennis team this season.

During the last five days, however, Ligenza was on some unfamiliar ground as he was playing in the District 11 Class AA Doubles Tournament.

It was an adjustment Ligenza and his partner Sam Lux, the Olympians' No. 1 singles player, handled well together. So well in fact that the Jim Thorpe seniors walked away with the bronze medal after knocking off Notre Dame of Green Pond's Matt Crouse and Mike Antonis, 6-3, 6-4 in Monday's consolation match.

Tuesday, May 11, 2010
Bob ford/times news Lehighton's Matt Schaeffer makes the relay throw to first base after getting the force out of Pleasant Valley's Jake Chamberlain.

On paper, the Mountain Valley Conference baseball match-up between Pleasant Valley and Lehighton had playoff implications all over it.

Pleasant Valley entered yesterday's regular season game against the Tribe with an overall record of 14-3 and 8-1 in the MVC and was sitting atop the District 11 Class AAAA rankings.

Lehighton, on the other hand, had a 14-4 overall record, an 8-2 league record and was first in the District 11 Class AAA rankings.

Tuesday, May 11, 2010

BOYS

EVENT NAME AND SCHOOL PERFORMANCE DATE

100 M Trevor German, Northwestern 10.8 4/15

200 M Tim East, Northwestern 22.5 5/4

400 M Cody Matlock, Pleasant Valley 51.2 4/20

800 M Zach Fleming, Northern Lehigh 2:06.7 4/20

1,600 M Zach Fleming, Northern Lehigh 4:35.9 4/8

3,200 M Zach Fleming, Northern Lehigh 10:10.9 4/22

110 HH Jalen Blot, Pleasant Valley 15.2

300 IH Tim East, Northwestern 39.5 5/4

4x100 Jim Thorpe 43.7 5/7

4x400 Jim Thorpe 3:30.0 4/30

4x800 Jim Thorpe 8:39.0 5/7

Tuesday, May 11, 2010

Last year's Colonial League All-League Meet was a coming out party for Palmerton's Kelsey Hay.

Then a freshman, Hay ended up as the Colonial champion in both the shot put (32 feet, six inches) and javelin (109 feet) at the meet held at Bangor Memorial Park.

The Colonial championships return to Bangor on Thursday, and Hay is back as a sophomore to defend her league titles in both events.

"It was quite a feat for Kelsey to go out as a freshman and become a league champion in the shot and javelin like that," said Palmerton coach Mike Gombert.

Monday, May 10, 2010
AMY ZUBEK/TIMES NEWS PV Dart League top shooters The top 15 shooters of the Panther Valley Dart League were honored recently during the league's annual dart banquet, held at Kelly's Irish Pub in Lansford. Top shooters are, front, from left, Don Mantz, second; Rusty Marshall, third; Jamie Shelton, fourth; Matt Engler, seventh; and Matt Mateyak, eighth. Standing, Thomas Domarecki, ninth; J.C. Dietz, 11th; T.J. Rohlfing, 12th; Dan Polak, 13th; Gary Petrash, standing in for Paul Mateyak, 14th; Rick McHugh, 15th; and Mike Kokinda, Most Improved. Missing from photo are Mark Rohlfing, first; Ed Kanick, fifth; Perry Shelton Jr., sixth; and Joe Folk, 10th.
Monday, May 10, 2010

May 10, 1979 Roy Fredericks delivers a clutch two-run double in the bottom of the sixth inning to snap a tie and lift Tamaqua to an 8-6 Schuylkill League victory over North Schuylkill. Joe Seigenfuse finishes with three hits and two runs scored for the winners, who are coached by Frank Zlock. Fredericks ends with two hits while Don Becker contributes a two-run double, scores a run, and gets credit for the pitching win. Ed Valentine also chips in with a two-run single.