LV FLASHBACK

A look back at Lehigh Valley sports stories over the years from May 29. 2008: The Colonial League dominates the District 11 softball finals with three first-time winners. In Class 4A, Amanda Whitford allows three hits, strikes out 24, and knocks in the only run with a single in the bottom of the 14th to lift Bangor to a 1-0 upset of Northampton. Whitford retires the last 18 batters she faces while running her postseason shutout streak to five games and 42 innings, during which she’s struck out 91 hitters. In Class 2A, freshman Deleila Schriner tosses a 3-hit shutout and Pen Argyl (18-6) uses three Northwestern errors to score five first-inning runs in an 8-0 win over the defending champion Tigers (19-6). Finally, in 3A, Ellie Giovino hit a two-run single in the top of the seventh inning to lift Palisades (13-9) to a 3-1 win over Bethlehem Catholic (12-10). 2008: After beating No. 1 Parkland in the quarterfinals and outlasting Emmaus in 15 innings in the semifinals, Whitehall rallies twice for an 11-10 win over Liberty to win its third District 11 Class 3A baseball title in five years. Little-used reliever Brock Costenbader gets a strikeout in the bottom of the seventh with the tying run on first to preserve the fourth straight one-run playoff victory for the Zephyrs, who began the season with a 1-3 record. 2005: Michael Andretti finally gets to Victory Lane at the Indianapolis 500 — but as an owner, not a driver, when Dan Wheldon wins the Memorial Day weekend classic. Andretti, son of one-time Indy champion Mario Andretti, was 0-14 as a driver and0-1 in his first season as co-owner of Andretti Green Racing. 2004: Easton sophomore Lindsay Regan becomes the first female pole vaulter to clear 13 feet in the PIAA track and field championship meet, taking the Class 3A gold with a vault of 13-0 and helping the Red Rovers finish fourth.