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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...

Patriots Park will welcome 12 Colonial League teams and their fans over the next two days. The annual "Colonial League Play Day" will bring folks from Palmerton to Palisades to south Allentown for a peek at the area's most renowned softball facility....

Friday, January 27, 2012 BOYS BASKETBALL BRUNSWICK, Md. — Jordon Fortson buried a 3-pointer with four seconds in regulation and Smithsburg went on a 13-5 run in overtime to beat Brunswick 64-56 Friday night in an MVAL Antietam game. Fortson...

The local softball community lost two of its all-time greats last week with the passing of Harold Stofflet and Ernie Rohrbach. Stofflet, who was 92, was the father of legendary softball pitcher Ty Stofflet. "Harold was a figure-eight pitcher and was a...

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...

I was distracted by softball last Sunday. And then sore, very sore, on Monday. We lost our benefit softball doubleheader to the Pates Oldtimers Blue. I think the scores were 13-11 and 18-14. My memory is vague because I got knocked to the ground by one of...

We had five games involving local high school softball teams on Tuesday night in the District 11 tournament and four of them were decided by one run. That's how competitive, how hard-fought the games were. Maybe the hot weather brings out the best in...

First thing you have to note about the first round of the state softball tournament this year is that those "piece of cake" matchups with District 12 teams are gone. Outta here. What am I talking about? Well, in 2010, Palisades beat Franklin Towne...