LV FLASHBACK

A look back at Lehigh Valley sports stories over the years from April 10.

2006: Lafayette men’s basketball coach Fran O’Hanlon announces he will remain on College Hill and not seek the position at Penn vacated when Fran Dunphy, O’Hanlon’s former boss at Penn, left to become coach at Temple. O’Hanlon has a 161-154 record in 11 years with the Leopards.

1996: Three-time state cross country champion and state track champion Janelle Thomas of Liberty signs a letter of intent to attend Georgetown on a track scholarship. 1987: Central Catholic senior Monica McCaffrey is named to the first team of the Pennsylvania Girls Basketball Coaches Association all-state team after averaging 23.9 points a game for the 31-1 PIAA Class 3A champions.

1985: Playing before 1,300 fans, the largest crowd at Limeport Stadium in 27 years, the minor league Reading Phillies beat the Limeport All-Stars 3-0 in a preseason tune-up to the Eastern League season.

1979: Salisbury’s Rick Brobst, who no-hit Wilson five days earlier, throws his second straight Colonial League no-hitter, hurling a perfect game for 61/3 innings before issuing a pair of walks in a 9-0 win against Saucon Valley. Brobst, who strikes out 19, also hits two homers and knocks in four runs in the win. His no-hit streak finally comes to an abrupt halt in the first inning of his next outing at Bangor when he allows three runs.

1972: The New York Knicks select Lafayette’s Tracy Tripuka in the seventh round of the NBA draft.

1970: Future Notre Dame All-American John Shumate scores 37 points and picks off 18 rebounds to highlight the first night of action in the 11th Allentown Jaycees Basketball Classic.

1962: Larry Hillegas strikes out 17 and scatters two hits to lead Emmaus to a 6-0 nonleague baseball win over Northwestern.

1959: Doctors remove a bone chip and a small sac from the left arm of Curt Simmons, a procedure that will keep the ex-Whitehall High star and then Phillies lefthander sidelined for at least the first month of the National League season. The surgery is the result of pain that has lingered since the end of the 1958 season. 1957: All-staters Bob Heffner of Allentown and Bob Mlkvy of Palmerton play on the same side when the Salvation Army All-stars lose to a team of local college all-stars 75-72 in overtime in a fundraising game before 2,200 at the Little Palestra in Allentown. Heffner scores 18 points, Mlkvy 16 and Bill Cramsey 12 for the Salvation Army, which also features players from the city league.

1957: Allentown’s Bob Heffner and Palmerton’s Bob Mlkvy are named to Scholastic Magazine’s 30-man All-American high school basketball team, headed by Ohio standout Jerry Lucas.