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The action begins with five Class 4A games on Tuesday: CLASS 4A First round games on Monday: No. 13 East Stroudsburg South (9-12) at No. 4 Freedom (14-7) No. 12 Bangor (10-10) at No. 5 Liberty (13-7) No. 11 Pocono Mountain East (8-10) at No. 6 Emmaus (15-...

Four teams who won league championships were all rewarded with top seeds in the District 11 softball tournament, which will begin with five games in the 4A classification on Tuesday. Mountain Valley Conference champ Pleasant Valley joined Lehigh...

When the game and medal ceremony were over on Thursday night at Pates Park, Bethlehem Catholic softball coach Rich Mazza could catch his breath and express his admiration for his seniors. "They have no idea how much they've done for this program," he...

It was the coldest playoff night I can ever remember at Pates Park with the temperatures in the low 40s by the time Emmaus' 6-2 10-inning win over Northampton was complete. It was more crowded in the pressbox than usual as more people needed some...

An 11th LVC softball champion will be crowned Thursday night at Pates Park. Here's a look back at the past championship games. 2003: Nazareth 6, Parkland 4 2004: Parkland 9, Liberty 1 2005: Parkland 4, Easton 2006: Easton 5, Parkland 1 2007: Northampton...

Quality hitting runs in the family for Catasauqua senior softball player Paige Kogelman. Her brother, Anthony Recker, is a catcher for the New York Mets. But little sister may have one-upped big brother on Tuesday night at Pates Park. Kogelman had...

Lizzie Natiello did her share of damage at the plate for Emmaus in its Lehigh Valley Conference softball semifinal against Northampton on Monday night at Patriots Park, but it was a play she made about 12 feet away from the plate that may have put her...

H.S. BASEBALL DISTRICT 11 POWER RANKINGS Only teams with chance at District Playoff listed. Rank, School, W-L-T , Pwr. Rnk 1. *Parkland 18-2, 0.817208 2. *Whitehall 17-2 , 0.798339 3. *Stroudsburg 17 3 0 0.767481 4.* Emmaus 17 3 0 0.759227 5....

This is revised from earlier. For the first time ever, Palmerton is the No. 1 seed for the Colonial League softball tournament which is set to begin on Tuesday night at Pates Park. The Blue Bombers will play No. 4 seed Catasauqua in the second game of the...

Lehigh Valley Conference softball chairman Mike Kopp sent out a release this morning confirming what we anticipated. The LVC softball semis on Monday night will feature No. 1 seed Northampton against No. 4 Emmaus in the second game of a doublheader and...

Thanks to fireballing pitcher Marly Laubach, Northampton ranks as the favorite when the Lehigh Valley Conference softball tournament begins tonight at Pates Park. But as for the Colonial League tournament, which begins on Tuesday night, the four-team...

Whitehall softball coach Alexis Berg-Townsend is expecting her first child, a boy, in early July. The last thing she needed this season was a team to give her problems and add stress. Berg-Townsend said that these 2013 Zephyrs have been the perfect...