We continue to receive a number of honorary listings from the past school year from our local administrators and league and district officials.

As such, we’d like to pass along that information to our viewers and Astound audience members to honor those student athletes in our coverage area.

First, we salute the boys and girls that were named Eastern Pennsylvania conference. All Stars for local girls and boys soccer…

2025 EPC Girls Soccer All-Stars

EPC 1st Team

*Most Valuable Player – Isabella Hallal

EPC 2nd Team

EPC 3rd Team

EPC Lehigh Division 1st Team

EPC Monroe Division 1st Team

EPC Northampton Division 1st Team

2025 EPC Boys Soccer All-Stars

EPC 1st Team

*Most Valuable Player – Luca Mannino

EPC 2nd Team

EPC 3rd Team

EPC Lehigh Division 1st Team

EPC Monroe Division 1st Team

EPC Northampton Division 1st Team

Next, we honor the EPC grillers field hockey on outstanding athletes from the past year…

2025 EPC Field Hockey All-Conference Team

1st Team 

2nd Team 

3rd Team 

Last but not least, we salute the members of the EPC all division and all conference teams for the past local football season…

2025 EPC Football All-Stars

View the Team PDFs for 2025 EPC Football All-Stars:

We still have a few more sports to recognize from the past school year and also have more highlights from recent broadcasts on ATVN. Check back to “The SportsTalk Shop,” or ATVN SportsTalk recordings over the next few days for more!

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Once again this summer, the Astound Television Network will be broadcast the deciding game(s) of this year’s Blue Mountain League baseball championship series. Even before we get to the final round, it’s been an interesting postseason thus far!

First, the Hellertown Royals under the direction of long-time manager Bob Zerfass had to make a furious run during the last week of the regular season just to qualify for the playoffs. “Coach Zerf” is in his 50th, and final, season as the team’s head coach, and the players have responded by trying to make sure this season runs as long as possible.

Winning its last three regular season games and then beating Easton in a tiebreaker, the Royals won jumped out a 1-0 series lead in their quarterfinal round.

ATVN SportsTalk: Honoring Coach Bob Zerfass

However, the Avengers had been trailing in the opposite direction. The team fell from first to third place during the last two weeks of the regular season and thereby cost themselves a first round bye. They did bounce back to win the next two games and advance into the semifinal round. They’ll face the top-seeded Orioles.

In the other playoff series, the Bulls defeated the Creekers two games to none and advance to play the Northern Yankees in their semifinal matchup.

Keep checking back to our website for more details on the playoffs. We’ll also post the location, time(s) and date(s) of upcoming broadcasts of the BML championship.

Meanwhile, check out highlights from some of our recent BML broadcasts along with exclusive interviews and comments from it’s 80-year history from League President Bob Varju….

ATVN SportsTalk: Reminiscing on the Competitiveness of the Blue Mountain League in the 80s

Astound TV Network Sports: Blue Mountain League Baseball; Martin’s Creek Creekers vs. Northern Yankees (7/26)

Astound TV Network Sports: Blue Mountain League Baseball; Berlinsville Braves vs. Hellertown Royals (7/26)

Astound TV Network Sports: Blue Mountain League baseball; Limeport Bulls vs. Easton Falcons (6/26)

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Today at The Shop, we continue our look back at honoring standout student athlete performances from the past school year for teams in the AstoundTVNetwork Lehigh Valley viewing area.
 

First, we salute the district girls and boys tennis champions:  

District XI 2A and 3A Girls Singles Semi-finals and Finals:   

2A Finals #1 | Bernadette Gasser (Allentown Central Catholic) defeated #2 Mallory Conner (Northwestern Lehigh) 6-3, 5-7, 6-0 
3A Finals #1 | Alexandria Warsing (Parkland) defeated #3 Sadie Pollard (Parkland) 6-0, 6-0  

District XI 2A and 3A Boys Doubles Semi-finals and Finals: 

2A Finals | #1 Adam Koscielniak / Oscar Woods (Notre Dame East Stroudsburg) defeated #3 Evan Burcik / Evan Bixler (Blue Mountain) 7-5, 6-3 

3A Finals | #1 Manav Patel / Jacky Zhang (Parkland) defeated #2 Vansh Singhal / Lorinc Von Platen (Nazareth) 6-3, 6-3   

District XI 2A and 3A Girls Doubles Semi-finals and Finals:    

2A Finals | #2 Laura Li/ Vicky Guo (Moravian Academy) defeated #1 Madelyn Groff/ Valentina Munoz (Allentown Central Catholic) 3-6, 6-4, 6-3 

3A Finals | #1 Sonia Lee/ Sadie Pollard (Parkland) defeated #2 Sophia DiGiacinto/ Lydia Moyer (Nazareth) 3-6, 6-4, 6-1   

And now the full district brackets and pictures honoring the winning athletes… 

• 2025-26 District XI Girls Tennis- 2A Singles
• 2025-26 District XI Girls Tennis- 3A Singles
• 2025-26 District XI Boys Tennis- 3A Doubles

Lastly, we salute the Eastern Pennsylvania conference tennis champions… 

1st Singles | Lexie Warsing (Parkland)
2nd Singles | Sadie Pollard (Parkland)
3rd Singles | Sonia Lee (Parkland)
2nd Doubles | Kiana Miles & Yihan Li (Parkland)
3rd Doubles | Fiona Harvey & Zoe Santana (Emmaus)
4th Doubles | Elizabeth Alvarado & Michaela Durie (Allentown Central Catholic)

Check back to our website again soon for more “end of the school year” accomplishments, awards and championship listings.

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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. 

The views expressed in this blog are those of the author and do not necessarily reflect the official policy or position of Astound or any other agency, organization, employer or company.

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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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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The SportsTalk Shop will be joining the ATVN sports crew working on special projects and staying busy getting ready for the final few games of the regular sports season and our expanded coverage this year of the spring post-season.

As we do that, Astound TV Network will be running some of the most requested recent ATVN SportsTalk programs over the next few Thursdays. Be sure to tune in to see which of your favorite episodes pop up before our high school post-season coverage gets underway!

In the meantime, we would like to present the top girls and boys basketball players from the Eastern Pennsylvania Conference as those lists were released, honoring all of our standout student athletes from our coverage area.

2025-2026 Eastern Pennsylvania Conference

Boys Basketball All-Stars

1^st Team

KJ Coles – Senior – Pocono Mountain West (MVP)

Blake Nassry – Junior – Parkland

Jake Pukszyn – Senior – Liberty

Noah Walakovits – Senior – Northampton

Tiheed Wise, Jr. – William Allen

2^nd Team

Alphy Deris  – Senior – Dieruff

Yariel Gonzalez – Junior – Allentown Central Catholic

Logan Hahn – Senior – Nazareth

Seth Hoderewski – Senior – Whitehall

Gavin Kershner – Senior – Nazareth

3^rd Team

Tyler Beck – Senior – Parkland

Tae El-Bassiouni – Sophomore – Stroudsburg

Parker McClary – Senior – Bethlehem Catholic

Jacob Ross – Junior – Emmaus

Brady Simock – Senior – Northampton

Teddy Stiehler – Sophomore – Pocono Mountain West

Girls Basketball All-Stars 

1st Team 

Aliyah Brame – Senior – Bethlehem Catholic

 Alexa Davis – Senior – Nazareth

Gabby DeVita – Senior – Emmaus

Ava Kopetskie – Senior – Liberty (MVP)

Jayla Rosario – Senior – Dieruff

2nd Team 

Leah Ault – Senior – Bethlehem Catholic

Kam Gallis – Freshman – Bethlehem Catholic

Aniya Holder – Senior – Dieruff

Karly Leszcynski – Sophomore – Nazareth

Gabby Wismer – Junior – Easton

3rd Team 

Natalie Amato – Senior – Easton

Isabella Hallal – Senior – Parkland

Sara Kokolus – Senior – Freedom

Aneri McGalla – Senior – Parkland

Olive Whitney – Senior – Emmaus

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