LEHIGH VALLEY FLASHBACK
A look back at Lehigh Valley sports stories over the years from Nov. 26.
2004: Pius X scores 47 points but gets mercy-ruled in a PIAA Class A quarterfinal by two-time defending champion Southern Columbia, which sets a new national record by rushing for 770 yards in a 76-47 win at Selinsgrove High School. Future
NFL player Henry Hynoski runs for a state playoff-record 409 yards and scores five touchdowns for Southern Columbia, which finished with 805 total yards. Cole Hildabrandt throws for 350 yards and four touchdowns for the Royals.
1994: Central Catholic’s 26-game football winning streak, the longest in Lehigh Valley-area history, comes to an end in a 29-18 loss to Berwick in the PIAA Class 3A Eastern final before 12,000 at Lehigh’s Goodman Stadium. The win by legendary coach George Curry’s Bulldogs avenges a loss in the same game the previous season that had snapped their 28-game winning streak and propelled the Vikings to the state championship.
1964: Greg Seifert’s 10-yard pass to Mike Marino 10 seconds before halftime gives Phillipsburg a 7-0 win over archrival Easton before 20,000 fans at Lafayette’s Fisher Field, capping an unbeaten (8-0-1) season and a Big Five football championship for the Stateliners.
1964: For the first time since 1955 Northampton is denied at least a share of the Lehigh Valley League championship, but the Konkrete
Kids extend their Thanksgiving Day winning streak over Catasauqua to 20 with a 32-6 win. Catasauqua, which finishes winless (0-9) for the first time, is within 13-6 in the third quarter before George Oplinger blocks a Roughies punt to spark a second-half K-Kids surge.
1964: Pennridge (10-0) finishes with its second unbeaten season in eight years and wins its fifth Bux-Mont League title with a 20-0 victory over Quakertown.
1959: Northampton scores 27 second-half points to pull away from Catasauqua 34-0 in their Thanksgiving Day showdown, capping another unbeaten season for the Konkrete Kids. Dick Derkits scores two touchdowns for Northampton, which records its 40th straight Lehigh Valley League victory while winning its fifth straight league title and 16th in 21 years. The win is also Northampton’s 17th straight since a 1958 loss to Phillipsburg that ended the K-Kids’ area-record 24-game winning streak.