{"id":199738,"date":"2026-05-22T11:00:09","date_gmt":"2026-05-22T11:00:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/199738\/"},"modified":"2026-05-22T11:00:09","modified_gmt":"2026-05-22T11:00:09","slug":"freedom-volleyball-eyes-district-11-run-lehigh-valley-press","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/199738\/","title":{"rendered":"Freedom volleyball eyes District 11 run \u2013 Lehigh Valley Press"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Published May 21. 2026 11:13AM<\/p>\n<p class=\"article__body\">It was an old fashioned city rivalry in the opening round of the District 11 3A tournament, as Freedom and Liberty squared off in Tuesday\u2019s quarterfinals.<\/p>\n<p class=\"article__body\">The Pates entered the tournament as the second seed and hosted the seventh seeded Hurricanes on a night that was past Press deadlines.<\/p>\n<p class=\"article__body\">Freedom is looking to make a return trip to the D11 finals this year and if they win on Tuesday they\u2019ll most likely have to get through third seeded Emmaus in Thursday\u2019s semifinals at Catasauqua.<\/p>\n<p class=\"article__body\">The Hornets battle sixth seeded Northampton in Tuesday\u2019s opening round.<\/p>\n<p class=\"article__body\">The other side of the bracket features top seeded Parkland facing eighth seeded Dieruff. The other pairing features fourth seeded Whitehall hosting fifth seeded Nazareth.<\/p>\n<p class=\"article__body\">Both semis are Thursday at Catty with the finals set for May 26 at 6:45 p.m. back at Catty.<\/p>\n<p class=\"article__body\">In 2A, top seeded Southern Lehigh plays fourth seeded Bethlehem Catholic in Wednesday\u2019s semifinals.<\/p>\n<p class=\"article__body\">Notre Dame and Lincoln Leadership square off in the two-three matchup.<\/p>\n<p class=\"article__body\">Finals are at 5 p.m. on May 26 at Catty.<\/p>\n<p>Carter Peters and the rest of the Patriots are looking for a run to the District 11 title and it starts with a game against rival Liberty.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Published May 21. 2026 11:13AM It was an old fashioned city rivalry in the opening round of the&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":199739,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[14],"tags":[153,155,154],"class_list":["post-199738","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\/199738","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=199738"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/199738\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/199739"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=199738"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=199738"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=199738"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}