Saturday, November 3, 2012
As Freedom Patriots and Liberty Hurricanes compete on the gridiron this afternoon, students from both schools will cooperate to collect donations for the Red Cross.
Last year’s annual meeting of Liberty and Freedom high school football teams meant not only Christmas City bragging rights, but a slot in the PIAA Class 4A playoffs. In a classic nail-biter, the Patriots won 45-42, its first victory over the Hurricanes in nine years, on a dramatic game-winning field goal by Sean Wrobel with less than 30 seconds left to play. With Freedom at 4-5 and Liberty at 2-7, both teams have not had the seasons they hoped for going into this year’s annual tilt, which will be played today at BASD Stadium at 1 p.m. It nonetheless carries great significance for Bethlehem. Yes, it’s a rivalry game between two teams that share a city and a school district. Liberty holds the historic edge, having won 29 of 44 previous …
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Sunday, September 30, 2012
Missed extra point in fourth quarter preserves 14-13 win for Golden Hawks over Liberty Hurricanes. Freedom Patriots lose in Nazareth. Notre Dame beats Northwestern Lehigh.
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Sunday, September 30, 2012
A mixed extra-point try in the fourth quarter was the difference between two winless crosstown football rivals as Bethlehem Catholic defeated Liberty 14-13 Friday night at Frank Banko Field. A scoreless tie was broken in the third quarter when Golden Hawks running back Michael McDaniel scored on a 38-yard carry, according to The Express Times box score. Hurricanes quarterback Derek Byrd answered with a 1-yard plunge to paydirt. The fourth quarter followed a similar script, with McDaniel carrying one in from the 15 and Byrd answering with a 1-yard keeper, but BeCa maintained the lead when the conversion failed. Meanwhile in Nazareth, the Freedom Patriots could not control the Blue Eagles no-huddle offense in a 42-21 loss at Andrew Leh …
Saturday, September 15, 2012
49-42 final score leaves Hurricanes winless in three games. Freedom, BeCaHi and Notre Dame also all lose Friday night.
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Saturday, September 15, 2012
Liberty High School’s freshman quarterback Doug Erney threw four touchdowns, three to wide receiver K.J. Williams, but it wasn’t quite enough for the Hurricanes to overcome Nazareth’s high-powered offense in the team’s home opener. The 49-42 final dropped Liberty to 0-3 on the season, while the Blue Eagles remain undefeated. It was not a good night on the gridiron for any of Bethlehem’s teams, as The Express-Times’ scoreboard shows. In the Lehigh Valley Conference, the Freedom Patriots lost at Whitehall 42-21 and are now 1-2, while Bethlehem Catholic’s Golden Hawks also fell to 0-3, losing at Easton, 48-14. In the Colonial League, the Notre Dame Crusaders lost to visiting Pen Argyl, 22-7.
Saturday, September 8, 2012
Patriots come from behind, while Hurricanes fall to 0-2 in Whitehall. Game time for Bethlehem Catholic moved up today because of weather forecast.
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Saturday, September 8, 2012
Christian Negron scored three touchdowns – his last with 1:43 left in the game – to lead the Freedom Patriots to a 24-20 come-from-behind win over Allentown Central Catholic at Bethlehem Area School District Stadium on Friday night. Lehigh Valley Live had summaries and scores of all the regional high school football, which included the first contests between Lehigh Valley Conference rivals. In other LVC action, the Liberty Hurricanes dropped to 0-2 on the season with a 38-19 loss to the Zephyrs in Whitehall. In the Colonial League, the Crusaders of Notre Dame lost to Northern Lehigh 12-7. Bethlehem Catholic hosts Emmaus at BASD Stadium this afternoon at 1:30. The game had originally been scheduled for 7 p.m., but was rescheduled in …
Tuesday, November 15, 2011
New state law is similar to policy already in place for student athletes who suffer head injuries.
The Bethlehem Area School District won't have to change much to comply with the new state law designed to protect student athletes from suffering long-term damage from concussions. “We've already been working on it,” said BASD Athletic Director Dean Donaher. “It's in our policy. We are on the side of the student.” The district already requires that any athlete that suffers a head injury be cleared by a medical professional before they can return to the field of play, he said. Additionally, the district provides extra testing annually to athletes in high-risk sports, such as football, he said. “It's a (computerized) baseline test. It's done at the beginning of the season,” Donaher said. The new law will require the district to keep more …
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Saturday, November 5, 2011
Winner of this afternoon's game between Freedom and Liberty clinches a playoff berth.
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Saturday, November 5, 2011
The yearly gridiron meeting between cross-town rivals Freedom and Liberty is always something special. But this year, the annual regular season finale – which will be played at 1 p.m. this afternoon at the Bethlehem Area School District Stadium – has much more at stake than Christmas City bragging rights. As reported in preview stories in both The Morning Call and The Express-Times, the winner of today’s game gains a berth in the PIAA AAAA playoffs. The losing team will likely be relegated to the Eastern Conference playoffs. It is a bit more personal for rival team quarterbacks, Freedom junior Brian Uliana and Liberty senior Jim McCarthy who were Legion baseball teammates this past summer and have been good friends since they were both …
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