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FROM KEITH GROLLER
The all-area boys basketball team got strong representation today on our "Calling All Sports" radio show from Stooges.
Most of the guys were there, which was impressive considering the holiday weekend, and the fact that All-area basketball, april 7 029some of them like Easton's Noel Hightower and Bangor's Justin Ringland had a decent distance to travel.
In addition to the usual array of awards, we gave out a special award to Parkland coach Andy Stephens.
In what we hope will become an annual award, we gave out the first Dave Davis Memorial Good Guy Award to Stephens.
Davis was the owner of Willow Tree Grove who died a few weeks ago in an accident. He was known for being unselfish and giving to others without anyone knowing the full extent of his contributions and generosity.
And that's the kind of guy Andy Stephens is. He does a great job with three young children and with helping to take care of his parents in addition to doing an oustanding job running the Parkland basketball program.
Stephens has done a good job at first Emmaus and then Parkland for several years and perhaps deserves more attention than he receives.All-area basketball, april 7 034
Andy (shown at right with me and Roger Pence) is not in the business for his own ego. He is a quality coach and person and we at "Calling All Sports" wanted to make it known that we appreciate his class, his consideration and his unselfish contributions to his family and the sport of basketball.
In the pictures below No. 1 is All-area basketball, april 7 013Lloyd Irons and Jason Weaver; No. 2 is Austin Beidelman; No. 3 is All-area basketball, april 7 017Noel Hightower with Easton assistant coach Jim Filipovits; No. 4 is D.J. Brown and Joe Lococo; No. 5 is Justin Ringland with Greg Noack and No. 6 is PBS 39 writer/producer Laura McHugh who stopped by to talk about the debut of her documentary IronPigs: Fan-tastic on PBS 39 Monday night at 9.
Now on to the rest of the all-area winners:
Team of the year: Easton.
Coach of the year: Jason Weaver, Salisbury.
Player of the year: Greg Bobal, Emmaus.
All-Area players:
Matt Wiseley, Emmaus
Muhammad Ali Abdur-Rahkman, Central Catholic
Lloyd Irons, Salisbury
Joe Lococo, Freedom
D.J. Brown, Allen
Justin Ringland, Bangor
Greg Noack, Liberty
Noel Hightower, Easton
All-area basketball, april 7 023Austin Beidelman, Parkland
Rob Dvoracek, Parkland
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