If you are a fan of Allentown High School sports, you will want to check out our SportsTalk show the next two weeks on ATVN!

Coming up on Thursday, July 2nd, we will have members of this spring’s EPC and District 11 6A champion Allen baseball team in our studio.

ATVN personality, Tony Ortiz will co-host with me as we will interview multiple people with the team and provide stories that no other local media outlet can survive about this great success story this past spring… and one of the most positive storylines in Lehigh Valley sports in years!

Next Thursday, July 9th at 7:00 p.m., we will have a celebration of the 70th anniversary of the last Allen undefeated football team in school history.

Several key members of that team will be in in studio to talk about the legacy of their program, their great stories from their special season and more thoughts on Allen sports history.

It will be a special 2 weeks for anyone who cares about Canary sports … be sure to tune in to Astound TV Network or watch on our YouTube channel!

Now, here’s highlights and post-game comments of some recent sports action as seen on ATVN, including our exclusive interview with one of the state baseball champions head coaches…

First…Let Me Take A Selfie!

Have A Day, Noah Kline!

Neshaminy Head Coach Dan Toner

Northampton Pitcher Rylee Gable

Southern Lehigh’s Isabella Germani

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As the 2025-26 school year comes to a close in our Lehigh Valley coverage area, we begin to receive local representatives’ listings, revealing their respective All-Star listings for different teams and sports. 

Today at The Shop, we start by featuring the top athletes from the Eastern Pennsylvania Conference all-league field hockey teams’ players, as well as both the girls and boys top soccer players from the EPC from this past school year. 

2025 EPC Boys Soccer All-Stars 

EPC 1st Team 

EPC 2nd Team 

EPC 3rd Team 

EPC Lehigh Division 1st Team 

EPC Monroe Division 1st Team 

EPC Northampton Division 1st Team 

2025 EPC Girls Soccer All-Stars 

EPC 1st Team 

EPC 2nd Team 

EPC 3rd Team 

EPC Lehigh Division 1st Team 

EPC Monroe Division 1st Team 

EPC Northampton Division 1st Team 

2025 EPC Field Hockey All-Conference Team 

1st Team 

2nd Team 

3rd Team 

Keep checking back to our website over the next several weeks as we receive more All-Star listings as well as other local sports athletes’ accolades from this past school year. 

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It looks as though there will be a lot of similar teams atop the Blue Mountain League baseball standings in 2026 as there have been the last few years. 

Both the Orioles and the Bulls, the two teams that have competed in the championship the last 2 years, look to be among the teams to beat this summer. Many key players returned to both of these teams. The Northern Yankees and Avengers also continue to be strong this year. 

All four of these franchises built their team with solid pitching depth, good all-around athletes and players who can play a bunch of different positions, which is especially key over the summer when player personnel can sometimes be an issue. 

Two teams that had nice bounce back seasons a year ago, the royals and the dodgers, are also featuring multiple players back this year. Look for their turnarounds to continue in 2026. 

As always, you don’t know what’ll happen on any given night in the BML. Be sure to tune into the Blue Mountain League baseball game of the week every Tuesday night on Astound TV Network.  Also, be on the lookout for representatives of the league to be on an upcoming edition of SportsTalk live, seen on ATVN on Thursday nights!

Now, here’s a look back and highlights from last year’s games featured on Astound TV Network… 

Astound TV Network Sports: Liberty vs Freedom (10/25) 

Astound TV Network Sports: Bethlehem Catholic vs. Pottsville (10/25) 

Astound TV Network Sports: Bethlehem Catholic vs. Allentown Central Catholic (11/25) 

Astound TV Network Sports: Baseball – Northwestern Lehigh vs. Saucon Valley (5/26) 

Astound TV Network Sports: Softball – Emmaus vs. Northampton (5/26) 

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The spring season ended abruptly for many of our teams in the ATVN coverage area.

For the first time in a long while (maybe ever?), we lost all eight baseball and softball teams. competing and the state playoffs in the very first round.

All of our local lacrosse teams also had a very early exit and only two local volleyball teams advanced into the second round, with only one of those teams making it through to the quarterfinals.

We will have a special live edition of ATVN SportsTalk next Thursday at 7pm as we will feature long-time/retiring District 11 Secretary Ray Kinder, who will be in our studio to talk about all of his experiences in his several decades of service to local high schools and also address current sports issues.

Now, our attention turns to our summer Blue Mountain League baseball coverage. We will have a preview of the 2026 season coming out on our next entry here at the “SportsTalk Shop.”

In the meantime, here’s a look back and highlights from last year’s BML games featured on Astound TV Network…

Astound TV Network Sports: Blue Mountain League – Northern Yankees vs. Hellertown Royals (6/25)

Astound TV Network Sports: Blue Mountain League – Egypt Orioles vs. Limeport Bulls Championship (8/25)

Astound TV Network Sports: Blue Mountain League – Easton Falcons vs. Limeport Bulls (7/25)

Astound TV Network Sports: Blue Mountain League – Egypt Oriels vs. Limeport Bulls (8/24)

Astound TV Network Sports: Blue Mountain League – Egypt Orioles vs. Limeport Dodgers (7/25)

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Following all the excitement of some tremendous district championship baseball, softball and lacrosse on our Network, it’s time to take a little bit of a breather. 

All teams in our coverage area went down to defeat this past Monday, which means our spring sports season… and for that matter, our entire “school year”… has come to an end.  

While we will continue posting some of the top highlights from this past season over the next few weeks (more of those highlights are below), we start to change the page and get ready for our summer sports season.  

Traditionally, our first event for the summer is the McDonald’s All-Star football classic to be played on Thursday, June 11th that will start at 7:00 p.m. at its traditional location at Nazareth High School’s Andrew Leh Stadium. 

As is our custom and in the interest of encouraging people to go out to the game and make donations to support the Ronald McDonald charities, we will only be broadcasting the game on a delayed basis. 

You can contact the ATVN studio to purchase a link to the broadcast if you’d like to keep it as a keepsake, which senior football player sometimes do, as it’s often the last time local sports athletes play in a formal game. 

Check back to The Shop next week for more details on our upcoming summer sports schedule along with other local sports coverage will be bringing you on Astound TV Network and on our blogs. 

Astound TV Network Sports: Parkland vs. Whitehall (10/25) 

Astound TV Network Sports: Freedom vs. Liberty (11/25) 

Astound TV Network Sports: Emmaus vs. Easton (10/25) 

Astound TV Network Sports: Nazareth vs. Easton (10/25) 

Astound TV Network Sports: Southern Lehigh vs. Northwestern Lehigh (10/25) 

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Our championship covered on Astound TV Network this past week bringing you, more baseball and softball title games along with the opening rounds of the state playoffs.  

Below are highlights and some of the interviews from our telecasts. Remember, copies of complete game broadcast and more exclusive interviews are available for purchase by contacting the ATVN studio. 

William Allen District Champion Manager Rob Leskosky 

Player of the Game Wally Cartagena 

Northwestern Lehigh’s District Championship Players of the Game 

Northwestern Lehigh Wins District 11! 

ATVN Sports/District XI 6 A Championship: Allen vs Stroudsburg (5/26) 

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One of the great things about our job at Astound is broadcasting championship games for girls and boys high school sports in our coverage area.

After a long hard season, great to see the victors getting gold and silver metals placed around their necks and racing the championship trophy.

Some schools have participated in this honor multiple times over the last few years.

Elsewhere, teams are earning their first trip to the state tournament in 12 years for one school… and another winning their first championships in 31 years!

As coaches will say, that special feeling never gets old, and it’s our pleasure to bring these special moments to our viewers in multiple sports each season.

We have a few of this spring special highlights and interviews below.

Meanwhile, our championship coverage continues with the start of the PIAA State baseball playoffs: on Monday, June 1st, we will be broadcasting Neshaminy versus Alan live at 6:00 p.m. on ATVN. Check back to our broadcast page here on the website for more information as our local teams win in advance to see if we are able to broadcast your favorite team’s games!

Southern Lehigh Head Coach Eric Tesche

Southern Lehigh Wins 6th Straight District 11 Title!

The Crusaders REPEAT as District 11 Champs!

Notre Dame Winning Pitcher Matt Shields

William Allen Holds Off Stroudsburg for District Gold!

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It was certainly an interesting turn-of-events for the District XI girls lacrosse championships! 

Despite an ominous forecast, the decision was made to go ahead with the title game last Wednesday.  It seemed to be the correct decision as a quick thunderstorm blew through the game site 20 minutes before the scheduled start of the game and the radar looked like it was going to allow both contests to be played with a delayed start. 

As the winds and sheets of rain picked up however, the Lehigh University’s stadium lights and scoreboard blew out and it quickly became apparent that the facility was without power (the teams and officials were locked down in a completely dark room with no windows as the rain and winds howled outside). 

After a 90-minute wait (and no indication the power would be fixed anytime soon), the decision was made to delay the games 24 hours. When the games were eventually played, there were even more fireworks. 

Southern Lehigh won a record setting sixth consecutive district championship in the 2A title game.  In the 3A nightcap, Nazareth held a 10-5 lead with roughly 8 minutes left in the third quarter before Rylee Rath took over the game.  She not only dominated the draw controls for the remainder of the night but she ended up with seven goals (and two assists), as Pleasant Valley won the championship in overtime. (The Blue Eagles actually trailed by a goal late before they tied the game and forced OT.) 

Be sure to keep watching ATVN for more exciting postseason action and check out some of the exciting highlights and Astound exclusive postgame interviews, below.  Full game presentations, including the moment the stadium lights went out, plus even more interviews could be seen live for Astound TV customers.  Copies are available for purchase by contacting the ATVN studio. 

Astound TV Network Sports: Lacrosse – Saucon Valley vs. Southern Lehigh (5/26) 

Astound TV Network Sports: Lacrosse – Pleasant Valley vs. Nazareth (5/26) 

Pleasant Valley Coach Hanna Doerner 

Rylee Rath Discusses Bears’ Comeback 

Alli Denzel Talks Title 

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The local district baseball and softball playoffs just (tried) to get underway this week, but so far Mother Nature is putting a damper on things. 

As of blog press time, there are still teams in our area that have not been able to complete the first round of the district playoffs, meanwhile, other team semi-final games are also scheduled to be played later Friday.  

Meanwhile, when you look ahead to the forecast and see a greater than 50% chance of rain for this Saturday, Sunday and Monday, next week’s district championship plans are very much up in the air for both of these two sports. 

As of now, the Astound TV Network is planning to broadcast live coverage of the District 11 3A, 4A, 5A and 6A baseball championships and the district 5A and 6A softball title games as well.  

Obviously, if games are moved, this will affect our broadcast schedule. Another factor this time of year which limits television coverage are the sites that are selected for playoff games — a decision which is made beyond our control. 

Keep checking back to the ATVN website and we will try to keep you posted on all of our local teams playoff games and will also let you know which of our broadcast will be airing and when. 

In the meantime, I hope everyone has a wonderful Memorial Day weekend… and don’t forget to say ” hi ”  when you see me out at semifinal baseball and softball games all weekend! 

Now, here’s a look at game highlights along with special interviews as seen on our Network covering local sports in our coverage area…. 

Southern Lehigh Pitcher Chase Woodring 

Gabe Moscato After Solehi’s Semifinal Win 

Astound TV Network Sports: Lehighton vs Southern Lehigh (5/26) 

Astound TV Network Sports: Catasauqua vs. Pen Argyl (10/25) 

Astound TV Network Sports: Easton vs. Freedom (10/25) 

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It was a memorable week on several fronts this past week as Astound TV Network covered the Eastern Pennsylvania Conference and Colonial League baseball championships. 

Allen won its first baseball title of any kind in over 30 years, with a freshman starting pitcher, Alejandro cartagena, combining to throw a no-hitter against Whitehall in the EPC title game (highlights from that game are below). 

Last Thursday, an emotional win for Southern Lehigh Head Coach Todd Miller and his team over Leighton (see also below). Both the Canaries and the Spartans will be the top seed in the District 11, 6A and 5A playoffs, respectively. ATVN will have all the local baseball championships broadcast live the following week after Memorial Day. 

Before we get to that point, astound will be broadcasting the 2A and 3A district girls and boys lacrosse championship games this upcoming week starting at 5:00 p.m. on Wednesday and Thursday evenings. 

Check back to ATVN’s The SportsTalk Shop for exclusive interviews recapping those games along with previews of the upcoming baseball championship games. 

Now, here’s recent highlights and interviews of some of the top teams and players in the ATVN coverage area…. 

History: Allen Canaries Throw A NO-HITTER To Win First EPC Title in 30 years! 

Astound TV Network Sports Game Highlight: Boys’ Baseball – Allen vs. Whitehall (5/26) 

ATVN SportsTalk Show Feature: Liberty HS Baseball 2026 

Southern Lehigh Wins the Colonial League Championship! 

Southern Lehigh Manager Todd Miller 

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