LV FLASHBACK

A look back at Lehigh Valley sports stories over the years from Aug. 5. 2007: Kurt Busch leads for all but 25 of the 200 laps, a track record, and eases to a 4.1-second win over Dale Earnhart Jr. in the Pennsylvania 500 at Pocono.

2000: Competing in her last race as a junior rider, 17-year-old Bethlehem Catholic grad Ashley Kimmet captures the silver medal in the Junior World Track Cycling Championship at Fiorenzuola, Italy, becoming the first U.S. junior female medalist since 1992. 1995: Behind Eric Spadt’s two-hitter, Northampton beats Boyertown 2-0 at Reading’s George Field to win the team’s first American Legion Region 2 tournament. Northampton becomes the first Northampton County team to beat Boyertown in a regional game, and the league’s first state qualifier since West Bethlehem in 1974 while sending the Bears home this early for the first time since 1974.

1985: Coplay denies Boyertown the Region 2 American Legion baseball championship for the first time in 11 years with a 12-9 win over the Bears behind home runs by tournament MVP Joe Marushok and Tim Peifley. 1982: Shut out and trailing by nine runs after six innings, Lehigh Township rallies for a 14-12 win over Northampton to stay alive in the Region II American Legion tournament in Laureldale. The winners score six runs in the sixth, four in the seventh, two in the eighth and two in the ninth, the last two on Todd Fisher’s two-run triple with two out to break a 12-12 deadlock.

1975: The Phillies trade Whitehall

High grad Dave Schneck to Cincinnati for infielder John Vukovich. Schneck had been obtained from the Mets the previous winter in a deal that also brought future World Series hero Tug McGraw to Philadelphia. Schneck spent the current season at Triple-A Toledo where he was hitting .217 with six home runs and 25 RBIs in 93 games.

1972: Larry Holmes’ Olympic dreams end when he is disqualified for clinching in the third round of his Olympic heavyweight qualifying bout with Navy quartermaster Duane Bobick at West Point, New York.“He moves good, I’ll give him credit for that, and he hit me with a good right hand,” Bobick, 92-9 with 56 knockouts in his amateur career, said of the future heavyweight champion from Easton.

1972: Mitch Lukevics strikes out 20 and allows just one hit for Banko’s in a 4-0 victory over Valley View in the opening game of the American Legion state regional qualifying series, but the Northampton County champs lose the next two games and are eliminated.