Flashback

A weekly look back at local sports -- in anniversaries in multiples of five -- in the Lehigh Valley.

AUG. 4

1989 -- Freemansburg reaches the championship game against Boyertown in the American Legion Baseball Region II tournament at Temple by beating the hosts 5-2 and Hamburg 8-5, giving the Northampton County League champions three wins in less than 24 hours. The stretch takes its toll the following day when Freemansburg, which fell into the losers bracket after a 17-7 second-round loss to the Bears, loses again to Boyertown, 17-0.

1984 -- Bob Drumbore knocks in three runs with a pair of hits and holds Shillington to one run over the final six innings to lead Quakertown to a 10-6 win at Freemansburg and the team's first American Legion Region II tournament championship. Drumbore scatters 11 hits and improves his record to 12-0.

1974 -- Allen High and Lehigh grad Kim McQuilken makes his professional football debut in an NFL exhibition game in Philadelphia, completing 10 of 22 for 143 yards and two touchdowns in Atlanta's 23-7 win over the Eagles. The game, picketed by striking NFL veterans, draws only 15,379.

1974 -- Richard Petty survives a risky pit stop under yellow to win the rain-shortened Purolator 500 before 50,000 fans at Pocono International Raceway. Leading the race when rain brings out a caution flag, Petty decides to pit for fuel, giving up the lead to Bobby Allison, but is in danger of losing the race when the race is halted after lap 123. It resumes after an 82-minute rain delay, and Petty is able to reclaim the lead before the race is ended after 480 miles.

AUG. 5

1974 -- Bob Reinert, Bernie Kaminski and Joe Hudak hit home runs to power West Bethlehem to a 15-1 win over North Parkland and the American Legion Baseball Region I championship. Hudak knocks in four runs with four hits and also is the winning pitcher with a six-hitter for West Bethlehem, which advances to the state tournament at Freeport.

AUG. 7

1984 -- District 11 announces it will sponsor football championship games in the fall, joining District 7 (WPIAL) and District 3 as the only PIAA districts to hold football playoffs. Under the new format, the top two teams in each of the three classes will meet in a one-game playoff.

AUG. 8

1984 -- Former Easton and Lehigh University wrestling star Bobby Weaver records a pin and a 12-0 victory to reach the 48-kilogram (105.5-pound) finals of the Olympic freestyle wrestling tournament in Los Angeles. Weaver pins Germany's Reiner Huegabel in 2:56 after building a 12-0 lead, then easily handles Gao Wenhe of China in a bout stopped with 28 seconds left in the first period.

AUG. 9

1994 -- Over the objections of Emmaus, host Whitehall announces it has shifted its football game with the Green Hornets from its normal Thanksgiving Day slot to Thanksgiving Eve in an attempt to boost sagging attendance in the one-time heated rivalry game.

1984 -- Former Easton and Lehigh University star Bobby Weaver wins the 48-kilogram gold medal of the Olympic freestyle wrestling tournament by pinning Japan's Takoshi Irie at 2:58 of the first period. Weaver had qualified for the 1980 U.S. Olympic team but lost his chance to compete when the U.S. boycotted the games in Moscow over the Soviet Union's invasion of Afghanistan.

Also, Dieruff grad Joe Atiyeh, who holds dual U.S.-Syrian citizenship, wins his first match at 100 kilograms (220 pounds), pinning Romania's Vaile Puscasu at 1:18 of the second period. Earlier, Atiyeh had been selected to carry the Syrian flag during the Opening Ceremonies at the Los Angeles Coliseum.