LV FLASHBACK

A look back at Lehigh Valley sports stories over the years from April 12. 1995: Lehigh names Sue Troyan, the school’s successful softball coach, its new women’s basketball coach and fills her previous post with her husband, Fran, a volunteer assistant for his wife.

1994: A Lehigh Valley promoter announces plans to hold what would be the first national high school football all-star game June 26 in Allentown. Dale Dougherty, the executive director and founder of the All-American Bowl, says he has commitments from 63 of the 66 toprated football players from across the country for the game, to be televised nationally on ESPN2. Central Catholic coach Jim Morgans and his staff will lead the East team.

1989: Lafayette, which has fielded a wrestling team since 1924, announces it will drop the sport immediately to begin a women’s soccer program in the 1989-90 school year. The school is reportedly the 46th NCAA member to cancel its wrestling program in the past 10 years.

1980: After going 81-44-6 in 12 seasons, Wayne Grube resigns as Easton’s football coach to take a position on John Whitehead’s staff at Lehigh.

1979: Eddie Mast scores 26 points but Rochester eliminates the Allentown Jets from the Continental Basketball Association semifinals with a 142-132 victory at Allen’s Physical Education Center. It’s the final game for the Allentown Jets, who change their name to the Lehigh Valley Jets and play two more seasons in various gyms across the Lehigh Valley before folding following the 1980-81 season to end their 23-year run as a minorleague basketball franchise.

1957: After Larry Hillegass belts a leadoff triple and steals home, Allentown’s Bob Heffner retires the next 21 Emmaus batters, 18 by strikeout, in a 6-1 win at Emmaus.

1956: Former Whitehall star Curt Simmons agrees to a one-year contract with the Phillies that includes a pay cut after a season in which he went 8-8 with a 4.92 ERA in 130 innings.