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Every year at Pates Park, I ask trivia questions over the PA system in which the winner gets a hot dog, Coke (or a similar beverage) and a bag of chips. Many of the questions pertain to Colonial League softball history and many come from Colonial League...

The District 11 softball schedule and official seeding will be announced later today. What we do know on this Sunday morning is that as league champs, these teams have clinched the top seeds in their respective classes: Pleasant Valley (4A), Bethlehem...

It's now official. The District 11 softball tournament will begin with two games on Tuesday -- Northampton at Easton and Nazareth at Stroudsburg. But the heart of the tournament begins on Thursday with four quarterfinal games in 4A, three each in 3A and...

I am disappointed that rain forced the Lehigh Valley Conference and Colonial League softball semifinals to be played on the same night at different sites. I would have liked to see all four games tonight. As it is, I will be at Parkland for the Lehigh...

To no one's surprise, the Colonial League softball semis have been postponed tonight and moved to Wednesday. The games are still set for Pates Park with Saucon Valley playing Palmerton at 5 and Pen Argyl facing Northwestern at 7. The winners return to...

Easton's win over Liberty on Friday changed the seeding for the Lehigh Valley Conference tournament on Monday night. Parkland is now the No. 1 seed, Liberty No. 2. So, here are Monday's matchups at Pates Park: #2 Liberty vs. #3 Emmaus ------- 5 pm All...

It's the final week of the regular season in softball, and, as so often happens at this time of year, Mother Nature is proving to be more dominant than any player on any team. A batch of games with playoff implications have been postponed today. In the...

Brian Neefe, the legendary Southern Lehigh softball coach, will go for his 700th career victory on Saturday night when his Spartans play Wilson at Pates Park as part of the Colonial League's "Play Day" weekend at the park. Neefe, in his 42nd season as...

Believe it or not, we're at the halfway point of this 2011-12 boys basketball regular season. They began playing games on the weekend of Dec. 9-10 and they will finish the regular season slate on Feb. 10 and here we are on Jan. 10. We came into this...

Northampton routed Freedom 10-0 in five innings and Nazareth surprised Bethlehem Catholic 9-6 in the two early games here at Pates Park during the Lehigh Valley Conference "Play Day." Konkrete Kids improved to 7-3 and dropped Freedom to 3-7 with their...

Erin Wilson pitched a no-hitter against Whitehall on Tuesday and then had a rout outing against Parkland on Thursday in what turned into a 17-5 rout. The Liberty senior was back on the right track on Saturday at Pates Park, tossing a perfect game in the...

It's 9 a.m. Sunday and I am scrambling to get the NFL picks done before preparping for The Morning Call's benefit softball games today against the Patriots Oldtimers at Pates Park. We are about as large an underdog against this juggernaut Pates team as...