High School All-Stars 2020 (Round 1)
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The local principals, athletic directors and, in some cases, the newly created “High School Coaches Association” have given permission to release information on the first set of high school sports all-stars from the past winter sports season. The High School Coaches Association was formed by local coaches after the Colonial League administrators chose not to participate in creating league all-star teams this year.
First, here are the All-Star basketball team members for the Colonial League:
1st team
*Abe Atiyeh (Moravian Academy), *Brendan Boyle (Notre Dame-Green Pond), *Daryl Coleman (Southern Lehigh), *Kody Kratzer (Palmerton), Nate Owens (Bangor), Jihad Range (Wilson)
(* identifies unanimous choice)
Note: Saucon Valley high school declined their votes.
2nd team
Chris Andrews (Southern Lehigh), Patrick Foley (Salisbury), Justin Hosier (Palmerton), CJ Miles (Bangor), Zach Moyer (Northern Lehigh), Derek Troxell (Catasauqua)
Honorable Mention
Liam Carey (Palisades), Connor Fehr (Pen Argyl), Luke Hallman (Northwestern), Nick Henry (Northwestern), Kyle Hoff (Southern Lehigh), Jared Jacobs (Notre Dame-Green Pond), Derelle McKinney (Wilson), Abel Saft (Moravian Academy), Bobby Snyder (Palisades), Quintin Stephens (Salisbury).
Here is the Eastern Pennsylvania Conference’s All-Star listing for local wrestling…
| Weight | Team | Wrestler Name | School | Grade |
| 106 | 1st | Charlie Bunting | Nazareth | 9 |
| 106 | 2nd | Cael McIntyre | Bethlehem Catholic | 9 |
| 106 | 3rd | CJ Horvath | Freedom | 9 |
| 113 | 1st | Luis Vargas | Freedom | 12 |
| 113 | 2nd | Andreo Ferraina | Nazareth | 11 |
| 113 | 3rd | Andrew Harmon | Bethlehem Catholic | 9 |
| 120 | 1st | Luis Vargas | Freedom | 12 |
| 120 | 2nd | Andreo Ferraina | Nazareth | 11 |
| 120 | 3rd | Andrew Harmon | Bethlehem Catholic | 9 |
| 126 | 1st | David Kreidler | Central Catholic | 11 |
| 126 | 2nd | Matt Mayer | Bethlehem Catholic | 11 |
| 126 | 3rd | Noah Reichelderfer | Northampton | 11 |
| 132 | 1st | Dagen Condomitti | Northampton | 9 |
| 132 | 2nd | Patrick Noonan | Stroudsburg | 12 |
| 132 | 3rd | Evan Gleason | Bethlehem Catholic | 11 |
| 138 | 1st | Kenny Herrmann | Bethlehem Catholic | 12 |
| 138 | 2nd | Steven Storm | PM East | 12 |
| 138 | 3rd | Ethan Szerencsits | Northampton | 12 |
| 145 | 1st | DaShawn Farber | Nazareth | 12 |
| 145 | 2nd | Matt Lackman | Bethlehem Catholic | 12 |
| 145 | 3rd | CJ Fritz | Northampton | 10 |
| 152 | 1st | Cole Handlovic | Bethlehem Catholic | 12 |
| 152 | 2nd | Jagger Condomitti | Northampton | 11 |
| 152 | 3rd | Jake Dressler | Nazareth | 12 |
| 160 | 1st | Nathan Stefanik | Nazareth | 12 |
| 160 | 2nd | Kai Clark | Whitehall | 12 |
| 160 | 3rd | Jamir Jiminez | Bethlehem Catholic | 11 |
| 170 | 1st | Lenny Pinto | Stroudsburg | 11 |
| 170 | 2nd | Connor Herceg | Nazareth | 12 |
| 170 | 3rd | Dominic Falcone | Easton | 11 |
| 182 | 1st | Caden Wright | Emmaus | 12 |
| 182 | 2nd | Isaiah Reinert | Easton | 11 |
| 182 | 3rd | Drew Clearie | Nazareth | 11 |
| 195 | 1st | Isaac Kassis | Dieruff | 12 |
| 195 | 2nd | Jon Owens | PM West | 11 |
| 195 | 3rd | Joe Capobianco | Nazareth | 11 |
| 220 | 1st | Stephen Schott | Nazareth | 12 |
| 220 | 2nd | Matthew Cruise | Easton | 10 |
| 220 | 3rd | Makei Hubert | Northampton | 10 |
| HWT | 1st | Blake Lambert | Northampton | 12 |
| HWT | 2nd | Karam Chakif | Dieruff | 12 |
| HWT | 3rd | Sebastian Khamis | Stroudsburg | 11 |
| EPC Conference Wrestling MVP | Cole Handlovic | Bethlehem Catholic | ||
Congratulations to all the local wrestling for their honors this year.
I will continue reaching out to athletic directors and league and district administrators over the next few weeks trying to recognize as many All-Stars as we can in our Pennsylvania and DC markets.
Keep checking back to “The Sports Talk Shop” each week for those lists!
PROGRAMMING NOTE:
For this Thursday’s edition of “Sports Talk,” we are going to bring back one of the most popular spring sports shows we’ve ever done. It will be our “Former High School Baseball Coaches” show, featuring some of the winningest baseball managers in eastern Pennsylvania history. I know I had a lot of fun hosting this program and our guests told me after the show they had a ball being on. (One coach just thanked me again for having him on when I saw him a few weeks ago at a basketball playoff game.)
If you missed this program when it originally aired or wanted to hear some great stories involving some really good baseball coaches and players, be sure not to miss it.
