Published February 04. 2026 12:37PM<\/p>\n
Freedom and Liberty\u2019s girls basketball teams met in a city rivalry match on Jan. 30 when the Hurricanes topped the Patriots, 62-39.<\/p>\n
Liberty had a 20-point lead at halftime after a 14-0 run to end the second quarter.<\/p>\n
Freedom took over the third quarter with five straight points followed by an 8-0 run on a combination of points by Sara Kokolus, Payton Besecker, Saige Carter, and Gabby Sena.<\/p>\n
With momentum on Freedom\u2019s side, the Patriots were about to force a turnover when Liberty coach Jarrett Carnes quickly called a timeout as Christina Ramos dribbled down the sideline.<\/p>\n
Liberty\u2019s Chloe Rumelhart and Ava Kopetskie then combined for five points to end the third quarter and regain momentum for the Hurricanes.<\/p>\n
The Patriots were without senior Kate Assad who was injured during Freedom\u2019s game against Northampton on Jan. 9.<\/p>\n
Kokolus had 11 points for the Pates.<\/p>\n
Kopetskie had a game high 25 points, and Rumelhart added 14 points.<\/p>\n
Liberty will have taken on Nazareth to end its regular season on Feb. 2, and Freedom will have faced Northwestern Lehigh on Feb. 3.<\/p>\n
Freedom defeated Northampton Monday night 48-43.<\/p>\n
Kokolus led the way with 12 points in the win. Assad returned for this contest and added 11 points.<\/p>\n
Saige Carter and Olivia Haas each had seven points.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Published February 04. 2026 12:37PM Freedom and Liberty\u2019s girls basketball teams met in a city rivalry match on…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":1834,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[14],"tags":[153,155,154],"class_list":["post-107107","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-bethlehem","tag-bethlehem","tag-bethlehem-headlines","tag-bethlehem-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/107107","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=107107"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/107107\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1834"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=107107"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=107107"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=107107"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}