LEHIGH VALLEY FLASHBACK

A look back at Lehigh Valley sports stories over the years from Oct. 20. 2005: The National Pro Fastpitch League announces it will put a professional women’s softball team, the Philadelphia Force, at Patriots Park for the 2006 season.

2005: Christina Bortz becomes the fifth Emmaus field hockey player to reach 100 career goals when she scores twice (100, 101) in the Green Hornets’ 11-1 drubbing of Nazareth. 2001: Holy Cross and Lafayette combine for 17 touchdowns, three on interception returns, and 1,132 yards of offense in a wild 63-53 Patriot League win by the Crusaders in Worcester, Massachusetts. Holy Cross finishes with 642 yards, the Leopards 490, including 329 yards passing by Marco Glavic.

1991: Twenty-nine-year-old Michael Andretti, of Nazareth, wins his first PPG Indy Car seasonal championship in grand style by going wire-to-wire to win the season-ending Champion Spark Plug 300 at Monterey, California. Andretti, who needed only to finish in the top five to win the title, ends a season in which he won eight races, started on the pole eight times, led 965 total laps and earned $2.4 million in prize money. In addition, younger brother Jeff is named the circuit’s rookie of the year.

1990: Perkiomen School ends a 40-game losing streak with a 14-7 football victory over Lower Moreland. 1961: Al Trotter’s 2-yard touchdown run and Larry Nicholas’ 1-point PAT run with 2:10 left lifts Dieruff, which trailed 13-0, to a 14-13 win over Allen, the Huskies’ first over the Canaries in three meetings.

1960: The Boston Red Sox promote Bob Heffner, who was 16-9 with a 3.23 ERA in 206 innings with the Allentown A-Sox during the season, to its major league roster. The Allentown native reaches the big leagues again in 1963 with the Red Sox and appears in

102 games over the next three years before an arm injury all but ends his career.