ALLENTOWN – A defensive slugfest at PPL Center as Easton took on Bethlehem Catholic in the EPC girls championship game.<\/p>\n
Not surprising in a matchup featuring two Northampton Division opponents who know each extremely well and split a pair of regular season contests.<\/p>\n
The Golden Hawks led 10-8 after one quarter but the Red Rovers fought back behind seven second quarter points from Nat Amato to grab a 20-18 lead at intermission.<\/p>\n
In the third quarter, Bethlehem Catholic’s Leah Ault feeds Kam Gallis on the wing and she buries the three-pointer and the Hawks go back in front 30-28 heading into the fourth quarter.<\/p>\n
Each team had only one field goal in the final eight minutes and Beca ties the score at 30-30 on an Aliyah Brame layup with nine second left. Laura Lewis fouls Eva Jordan with three seconds remaining and she sinks the second free throw to give coach Dave Lutz’s squad a 35-34 victory<\/p>\n
“I’m really proud of my team,” said Jordan. “We played really hard all four quarters. We kept our poise and it feels good. It’s definitely a good feeling, we worked really hard all year. I’m really proud of our team, I feel like we deserve this.”<\/p>\n
Melina Cole, who scored in double figures in each of Easton’s wins at PPL Center, was named tournament MVP.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"ALLENTOWN – A defensive slugfest at PPL Center as Easton took on Bethlehem Catholic in the EPC girls…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":112707,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[14],"tags":[153,155,154,53866,52979,52977,31290,53865,32635,53867,53868,558],"class_list":{"0":"post-112706","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-bethlehem","8":"tag-bethlehem","9":"tag-bethlehem-headlines","10":"tag-bethlehem-news","11":"tag-dave-lutz","12":"tag-eastern-pennsylvania-conference","13":"tag-eva-jordan","14":"tag-kam-gallis","15":"tag-laura-lewis","16":"tag-leah-ault","17":"tag-melina-cole","18":"tag-nat-amato","19":"tag-ppl-center"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/112706","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=112706"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/112706\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/112707"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=112706"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=112706"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=112706"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}