LV FLASHBACK
A look back at Lehigh Valley sports stories over the years from March 4.
2006: Amy Guylas scores 16 points and Central Catholic wins its seventh straight District 11 Class 3A girls basketball championship with a 50-33 triumph over Pottsville. The Vikettes (24-5) win their three district playoff games by an average of 25 points.
2000: King’s, which had lost to Allentown College a week earlier for the MAC women’s title, knocks the top-seeded Centaurs out of the NCAA Mid-Atlantic Regional with a 62-54 second-round victory.
1995: Stacy Perryman scores 31 points and hands out 10 assists to lead East Stroudsburg to an 80-71 win over Clarion, giving the school its first-ever PSAC women’s basketball championship and berth in the NCAA Division II tournament.
1991: Liberty’s Tyler Young, Parkland’s Greg Delong and Marian Catholic’s Joe Gillespie are selected for the Big 33 football squad that will play the Maryland all-stars on July 27 in Hershey. 1985: Mark Erb, Kutztown High School’s 7-0 center, scores 43 points and grabs 21 rebounds to lead the once-beaten Cougars to a 71-61 win over Hanover and into the District 3 Class 2A title game. 1985: Behind freshman Daren Queenan’s 31 points and 12 rebounds, and tournament
MVP Mike Polaha, Lehigh beats Bucknell 76-74 for the East Coast Conference title and an NCAA tournament berth.
1980: Steve Hrymack scores 38 points, including two free throws with 25 seconds left, and Phillipsburg (13-12) upsets defending New Jersey state
Group 3 champion Malcolm X Shabazz 88-86 in Newark in an opening-round sectional playoff game.
1970: Playing its seventh game in 13 days, Allen falls to unbeaten West Hazleton 68-64 in a District 11 Class A semifinal.
1961: Bethlehem crowns five individual champions and wins its record fifth District 11 wrestling tournament title outscoring runner-up Easton 57-43. Bernie Hart, Bob Taylor, Dave Clery, John Eckenrode and Joe Mucka each win titles for the Hurricanes.
1961: Muhlenberg, closing out its worst season (5-20) in school history, snaps a 25-game road losing streak with an 85-63 win at Franklin & Marshall behind Ron Druckenmiller’s 32 points.