{"id":250706,"date":"2026-07-23T23:53:07","date_gmt":"2026-07-23T23:53:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/250706\/"},"modified":"2026-07-23T23:53:07","modified_gmt":"2026-07-23T23:53:07","slug":"a-town-throwdown-day-one-tips-off-sports","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/250706\/","title":{"rendered":"A-Town Throwdown day one tips off | Sports"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>ALLENTOWN, Pa. &#8211; The A-Town Throwdown tournament tipped off on Thursday with a pair of local high school basketball matchups taking place at Cedar Beach Park courts.<\/p>\n<p>On the women&#8217;s side, Emmaus took on Whitehall in a battle of cross-town rivals.\u00a0 The Green hornets buzzed through, winning 34-20 behind Alyiah Rosario, Camryn Harp and Olivia Haberl&#8217;s contributions.<\/p>\n<p>Emmaus won both mashups handedly during the scholastic season.<\/p>\n<p>Over on the men&#8217;s court, Salisbury battled with Freedom until victorious 30-24. Julian Makhoul led all scorers with 16 points.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"ALLENTOWN, Pa. &#8211; The A-Town Throwdown tournament tipped off on Thursday with a pair of local high school&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":250707,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[10],"tags":[4773,119,121,120,5956,6704,2496,726],"class_list":["post-250706","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-allentown","tag-_sports_top_stories","tag-allentown","tag-allentown-headlines","tag-allentown-news","tag-basketball","tag-high-school","tag-local_sports","tag-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/250706","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=250706"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/250706\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/250707"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=250706"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=250706"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=250706"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}