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Saucon Valley Karate Academy, which is located in Hellertown, had 44 competitors who collectively took home 56 medals participate in a recent multi-state championship in the Poconos. Academy owner Master Philip J. Geiter was promoted to 5th degree Master at the championship.
Two teenagers from Lower Saucon Township are about to begin an exciting journey to North Carolina, where they have been chosen to compete with the Northeast Team in the elite USA Baseball NTIS 15U Cup later this month.
A local boys soccer team is making headlines. The LVU 2000 Black U19 Boys team recently shut out two-time defending National Champion Baltimore Celtic 1-0 in overtime to claim the title of 2019 National Champion.
Saucon Valley’s Tej Laliwala helped make school history Thursday when he won the District 11 Singles Tournament at Lehigh University’s Indoor Tennis Center, beating Moravian Academy’s Robbie Shaff 6-1, 6-3, in what boys head tennis coach Joann Ochse said was “a very well-played match by both players.”
Congratulations to all the Panther varsity players and the coaches on an amazing undefeated season that culminated with a 14-0 victory in the Colonial League championship game.
It’s never a good idea to discount the underdog. And that’s exactly what the Northwestern Lehigh Boys Soccer team discovered Thursday night. They didn’t count on the determination of the Saucon boys.
This week’s playoff contest was moved to Sunday morning and played on a surprisingly decent condition field at Dimmick Park in Hellertown. It featured the only remaining Panther team–the 120 Pound Varsity team–vs. the Bangor Slaters.
After going undefeated in the Colonial League regular season with 11 wins, no losses and a tie, the Saucon Valley girls soccer team fell 1-0 to the Southern Lehigh Spartans in the Colonial League championship semifinal on the turf at Salisbury High School Tuesday.
It didn’t take long for freezing Panther fans attending the District 11 championship game at Nazareth Area High School Friday night to realize Saucon Valley was outgunned by their opponent–the Bethlehem Catholic Golden Hawks.
For the fifth year in a row Coach Chad Shirk and Company will be heading west on I78 to the Giant Center in Hershey for the PIAA team championships. With all that experience and a second place finish last year, the Panthers enter very familiar territory.
Winning 10 of the 14 bouts last night, Saucon Valley qualified for the state tournament as the #1 seed out of District XI with a lopsided 51-18 victory over the Wilson Warriors.
