LEHIGH VALLEY FLASHBACK

A look back at Lehigh Valley sports stories over the years from Sept. 12.

1997: The Emmaus field hockey team’s East Penn Conference winning streak reaches 50, and its EPC unbeaten streak 89, in a 4-0 win over Whitehall.

1992: Dave Bagelman’s 35-yard field goal with 23 seconds left lifts Lehigh to a 16-14 win over Fordham and the program’s 500th victory. 1987: Moravian records nine quarterback sacks and limits Lebanon Valley to 152 total yards in a 17-3 college football victory that marks the debut of Greyhounds coach Scot Dapp. Dapp coached Moravian from 1987 to 2010, compiling a record of 144—103—1. 1987: Three days after Steve Moore resigned to take a job in his home state of Ohio, Muhlenberg names assistant coach Dave Madiera as the school’s new men’s basketball coach. 1976: A 3-0 setback to Stephensville, Tennessee, knocks the host Allentown Patriots from the ASA National Fastpitch Softball tournament at Bicentennial Park, but Larry Bergh’s two-hitter and two home runs help the defending champion Billard Sunners stay alive with a 14-4 winner over Buchanan, New York.

1967: In the first athletic event in school history, Luis Ramos scores two goals to lead Freedom to a 2-0 boys soccer victory over Hellertown. One day later, the school announces a vote of the student body during the first week of classes chooses Patriots to be the school nickname by a slight margin over Minutemen.

1966: Pitching for Reading’s

Rising Sun Hotel at the ASA World Tournament in Springfield, Missouri, Allentown’s Ty Stofflet strikes out 33 batters in 15 innings but drops a 2-0 decision to Cedar Rapids.