{"id":187634,"date":"2026-05-08T23:25:07","date_gmt":"2026-05-08T23:25:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/187634\/"},"modified":"2026-05-08T23:25:07","modified_gmt":"2026-05-08T23:25:07","slug":"sammy-barona-sr-to-take-over-as-bethlehem-catholic-boys-basketball-head-coach-sports","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/187634\/","title":{"rendered":"Sammy Barona Sr. to take over as Bethlehem Catholic boys basketball head coach | Sports"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>BETHLEHEM, Pa. &#8211; Sammy Barona Sr., an assistant on former coach Scott McClary\u2019s staff, has been elevated to head coach of the Bethlehem Catholic boys basketball program.<\/p>\n<p>McClary stepped down in March after eight seasons leading the Golden Hawks program.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Coach Barona brings over 20 years of basketball as both a professional player and highly respected coach, with a proven record of player development, program building and competitive success at every level,&#8221; Bethlehem Catholic stated in a release.<\/p>\n<p>The Golden Hawks finished last season with a 12-11 overall record and qualified for the District 11 Class 4A tournament.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"BETHLEHEM, Pa. &#8211; Sammy Barona Sr., an assistant on former coach Scott McClary\u2019s staff, has been elevated to&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":187635,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[14],"tags":[153,83687,155,154,83686,28604],"class_list":["post-187634","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-bethlehem","tag-bethlehem","tag-bethlehem-catholic","tag-bethlehem-headlines","tag-bethlehem-news","tag-sammy-barona-sr","tag-scott-mcclary"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/187634","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=187634"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/187634\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/187635"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=187634"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=187634"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=187634"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}