{"id":252579,"date":"2026-07-26T22:13:11","date_gmt":"2026-07-26T22:13:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/252579\/"},"modified":"2026-07-26T22:13:11","modified_gmt":"2026-07-26T22:13:11","slug":"action-from-second-day-of-a-town-throwdown-sports","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/252579\/","title":{"rendered":"Action from second day of A-Town Throwdown | Sports"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>ALLENTOWN, Pa. &#8211; Reading took on Allentown Central Catholic and Hamburg took on Catasauqua during day two of the A-Town Throwdown taking place at Cedar Beach Park.<\/p>\n<p>ACC and Reading went into double-overtime thanks to a Yolanda Velez game-tying bucket at the end of regulation. Nyla Nunez got the game-winning basket in sudden death for Reading, defeating Allentown Central 36-35.<\/p>\n<p>Catasauqua took the second game of the day over Hamburg, 23-19. Javaeha Lafond accounted for a crucial five-point swing in crunch time to deliver the win.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"ALLENTOWN, Pa. &#8211; Reading took on Allentown Central Catholic and Hamburg took on Catasauqua during day two of&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":252580,"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-252579","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\/252579","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=252579"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/252579\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/252580"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=252579"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=252579"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=252579"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}