Corky Blake

2 days ago | dailyitem.com | Corky Blake

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2 days ago | lehighvalleylive.com | Corky Blake

Just one swing ... that’s all it took. Just one swing ... and the Liberty High School baseball team is in the PIAA Class 6A semifinals. Senior catcher Franklin Pichardo’s two-out home run over the left field fence in the bottom of the sixth inning lifted the Hurricanes to 1-0 victory over District 3 champion Governor Mifflin, considered by many the top team in Pennsylvania, in the Class 6A quarterfinals early Thursday afternoon at DeSales University’s Butz Field at Weiland Park.

1 week ago | lehighvalleylive.com | Corky Blake

The Northwestern Lehigh High School softball team faced its recent woeful District 11 championship history head on and did something about it with an emphatic 11-1 mercy-rule victory over North Schuylkill in the Class 4A title game Tuesday at Parkland High School. Freshman third baseman Samantha Boyer’s two-run single to chase home senior Shelby Mitman and sophomore Ainsley Behler ended the game in the bottom of the sixth inning and set off a Tigers celebration that had been long in the making.

1 week ago | dailyitem.com | Corky Blake

The Northwestern Lehigh High School softball team faced its recent woeful District 11 championship history head on and did something about it with an emphatic 11-1 mercy-rule victory over North Schuylkill in the Class 4A title game Tuesday at Parkland High School. Freshman third baseman Samantha Boyer ’s two-run single to chase home senior Shelby Mitman and sophomore Ainsley Behler ended the game in the bottom of the sixth inning and set off a Tigers celebration that had been long in the making.

2 weeks ago | dailyitem.com | Corky Blake

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