LEHIGH VALLEY FLASHBACK

A look back at Lehigh Valley sports stories over the years from Oct. 23.

2006: The Phillies re-sign Jamie Moyer to a two-year, $10.5-million contract after the Souderton native went 5-2 with a 4.03 ERA in eight starts. The Phillies traded for the 43-year-old left-hander on Aug. 20.

2001: Northampton’s Beth Marushak fires a two-day total of 140 to win the PIAA girls golf tournament by three strokes. Whitehall’s Sean Szerencsits finishes second in the boys tournament with a two-day

141 to finish three back of the champion.

2001: Hoping to lure a big-name manager in an effort to generate enough interest in his team to get public support for a new stadium, team owner Peter

Karoly demotes Allentown Ambassadors manager Joe Calfapietra to bench coach after two years as manager. Calfapietra accepts the move but later leaves the independent Northern League East baseball team to become manager of Gary, Indiana, in the Northern League Central.

1995: Jim Thorpe’s 22-game Mid-Penn Conference winning streak ends when the Olympians fall 17-6 to Cardinal Brennan. 1995: Southern Lehigh wins its ninth straight Colonial League soccer title and completes a 22-0 regular season with a 3-0 win over Catasauqua in the tournament title match. The Spartans’ field hockey team also finishes a

22-0 regular season when Devon Searfoss’ overtime goal gives it a 2-1 win over Moravian Academy in the tournament final.

1995: Upper Perkiomen’s Kyheim Tripp runs for a school-record

351 yards on 33 carries, missing the Pioneer Athletic Conference mark by four yards, in a 35-0 win over Owen J. Roberts.

1986: After nearly 50 years, racing at Dorney Park comes to an end when Jerry Fried, who has promoted modified and latemodel stock-car races on asphalt oval since 1962, announces that the park’s owners and South Whitehall Township have come to an agreement to halt racing at the site.