FLASHBACK: Dieruff's 13-game football unbeaten steak ended

FROM THE MORNING CALL

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

AUG. 30

2000 — On the eve of his senior season at Parkland, all-state football player Tim Massaquoi announces he will attend the University of Michigan.


1990 — The Bicentennial Stars continue their Blue Mountain League baseball dynasty by beating Lehigh Township 15-2 in the fifth and deciding game of the championship series. It is Bicentennial's seventh title and 10th championship series appearance in the franchise's 11-year-history.

1980 — Despite one rushing touchdown and two TD passes by quarterback Andre Reed, Dieruff's 13-game unbeaten streak comes to an end when the Huskies drop a 28-20 non-league decision at Berwick.

AUG. 31

2000 — The San Francisco Giants call up former Kutztown University standout Ryan Vogelsong from the team's Double-A affiliate in Shreveport.

2000 — By a narrow and divisive 5-4 vote, the Whitehall School Board accepts Todd Painton's resignation as the school's girls basketball coach. Painton, hired a year earlier to bring discipline to a program that had suffered several off-court incidents in recent years, posted a 21-4 record in his only season but resigns as pressure from disgruntled parents grew over the summer.

1985 — Bob Heller's 79-yard interception return provides the game's only score as Palisades ends a 30-game winless streak (0-28-2) with a 7-0 victory at Kutztown.

SEPT. 1

2000 — Andre Reed, who signed with Denver seeking more playing time after the Buffalo Bills told the veteran he would have a reduced role, leaves the Broncos after coach Mike Shanahan tells the 36-year-old receiver he would be deactivated for the upcoming season opener. Denver ultimately releases the Allentown native.

2000 — In one of the longest road trips ever by a Lehigh Valley high school team, Bethlehem Catholic travels to Denver, Colo., where the Golden Hawks fall to nationally ranked Mullen Prep 34-13.

1995 — Upper Perkiomen junior Kyheim Tripp runs for 286 yards and two touchdowns in his first varsity start to help the Indians beat Quakertown, 22-15.

1995 — John Andretti, Mario's nephew and Michael's cousin, earns his first Winston Cup pole with a Southern 500 qualifying lap record of 167.379 mph at Darlington Speedway. Andretti would finish 12th in the race.

1980 — The Washington Redskins release former Allen and Lehigh star quarterback Kim McQuilken, who threw four passes in 1979 as Joe Theismann's backup.

1975 — Ty Stofflet allows two hits and strikes out 33 batters in Rising Sun Hotel's 2-1, 19-inning victory over Fox Hill in Hopewell, Va., a win that qualifies the Sunners for the upcoming ASA National Tournament in Hayward, Calif.

SEPT. 2

2005 — Junior Robbie Frey, making his first varsity start, sets a new Lehighton single-game rushing record with 324 yards on 27 carries in a 35-21 win at Marian Catholic. Frey, who had two touchdown runs, including one of 92 yards, breaks Joe Semanoff's 4-year-old mark of 315.

1955 — Billy McGhee's home run and seven RBIs help Allentown to a 15-4 win over Albany and assure the Redbirds their first-ever Eastern League playoff berth.

SEPT. 3

2005 — Bethlehem Catholic graduate Mark Borda ties Lehigh's school record with six touchdown passes in a 54-26 win over Monmouth, the Mountain Hawks' eighth straight season-opening win. Borda completes 22 of 31 passes for 399 yards.

1985 — Kevin Mikuta's hat trick leads Salisbury to a 5-2 soccer victory over Pleasant Valley, the 100th win by Falcons coach Jeff Person.


1960 — Allentown keeps its Eastern League playoff hopes alive with a 7-6, 3-2 sweep of Williamsport at Hess Stadium, the second of four straight doubleheaders the A-Sox will play to close out the season. Two days later, Allentown's playoff bid ends in a 5-4, 11-inning defeat at Springfield in the first game of a Labor Day doubleheader. The holiday crowd of 1,297 at Hess Stadium witnesses the last professional baseball game in Allentown for 37 years, until the Allentown Ambassadors begin play in the independent Northeast League in 1997.

SEPT. 4

1995 — Marty Nothstein suffers a fractured right patella during a training crash at the Lehigh County Velodrome, an injury that puts his status for the upcoming World Cycling Championships in jeopardy. Three weeks later, however, Nothstein is cleared to compete in the championships, which begin Sept. 26 in Bogota, Colombia.

SEPT. 5

1990 — After leading Lafayette to its first NCAA baseball tournament appearance in 24 years, Joe Hindelang leaves College Hill for Happy Valley, becoming Penn State's head coach. In eight seasons under Hindelang, the Leopards were 158-152-1.

1985 — After he leads the team with nine catches including four for touchdowns in the preseason, Buffalo names rookie Andre Reed a starter for the Bills upcoming regular-season opener against San Diego. The former Dieruff and Kutztown University star catches one pass for 35 yards in Buffalo's 14-9 loss.

1985 — Freedom ends Bethlehem Catholic's 91-match winning streak in girls volleyball with a 15-10, 8-15, 15-12 victory.

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