LEHIGH VALLEY FLASHBACK

2007 — Salisbury, which had lost its first three games of the season, picks off seven Tyler Smith passes and Brian Ernst throws three touchdown passes as the Falcons stun defending state Class 2A champion Wilson 28-0, snapping the Warriors’ 19-game winning streak and handing them their second loss in 32 games.

2000 — A poor dismount from the balance beam knocks Pen Argyl’s Kristen Maloney out of the top 10 and to a 20th-place finish in the all-around gymnastics competition at the Olympics in Sydney.

1992 — Catasauqua names 31-yearold Eric Snyder as the school’s new boys basketball coach.

1990 — Palmerton’s Elmer Valo, a .282 hitter in 20 major-league seasons, is inducted into the Philadelphia Baseball Hall of Fame.

1987 — Easton’s Alison Riffert scores with 2 minutes, 52 seconds left to lift the Red Rovers to a 1-0 East Penn Conference field hockey victory over Emmaus, the Green Hornets’ first regular-season loss since 1983.

1985 — Underdog Michael Spinks becomes the first light heavyweight to beat a heavyweight champion when he scores a unanimous decision over Larry Holmes in Las Vegas. The “Easton Assassin” suffers his first loss in 49 pro fights and falls one short of tying Rocky Marciano’s record for victories by an undefeated champion. Spinks then beats Holmes again on April 19, 1986.

1969 — Mario Andretti’s win in a 200-mile race in Trenton gives the Nazareth resident his third USAC national championship in five seasons. It is Andretti’s seventh win of the season and 97th in his career, secondmost in USAC history to A.J. Foyt.

1957 — A reported crowd of 20,000, standing as many as five or six deep around the track, watches Boyertown’s Johnny Thomson lead from start to finish and win the 20-lap big-car feature on the final day of the Allentown Fair.