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Saucon Valley High School recently lost its boys and girls varsity swim coach, and with a new season set to begin Nov. 18 supporters of the program say it is urgent that a new head coach is found as soon as possible.
Saucon Valley Cross Country held a meet Tuesday in which 321 runners from eight schools participated in three 5K races. The other participating schools included Moravian Academy, Notre Dame-East Stroudsburg, Notre Dame-Green Pond, Palmerton, Palisades, Northern Lehigh and Northwestern.
A host of young athletes from St. Michael the Archangel School in Upper Saucon Township took home gold, silver and bronze medals from the end-of-season Catholic Youth Organization (CYO) district championships Sunday at the Emmaus High School track.
Southern Lehigh School District officials said Thursday that an incident involving members of the school’s football team that occurred last fall involved “inappropriate behavior,” but did not involve hazing or any type of sexual assault.
A reported hazing incident involving members of the Southern Lehigh High School Spartans football team is currently under investigation by school officials, Saucon Source has learned.
Recent Panther high school sports victories were a cause for celebration in Hellertown Monday. A number of outstanding winter season student-athletes from Saucon Valley High School received special recognition from Hellertown Mayor David Heintzelman and borough council members at the start of council’s Monday night meeting.
The story “Baseball for Blood: Hellertown and Macungie Teams in Hot Rivalry” was originally published in The Bethlehem Globe newspaper on Sept. 1, 1903. It was reprinted in the 1972 booklet “Hellertown Centennial, 1872-1972.”
After defeating Blue Mountain in another emotional nailbiter Tuesday, third-seeded Saucon will face off against unbeaten number one seed Northwestern at Emmaus on Thursday, Nov. 1 at 7 p.m.
Moravian College is fielding a new comprehensive sports medicine team in collaboration with St. Luke’s University Health Network, the region’s largest sports medicine provider, covering more than 100,000 athletes.
It wasn’t mentioned in his obituary, published on Saucon Source on Jan. 29, but in addition to his World War II heroism, his career at Western Electric and many other accomplishments, the late Joseph ‘Joe’ Charles Sopko had another claim to fame.
