LV Summer League nears postseason
The Lehigh Valley Summer Basketball League is scheduled to wrap up its regular season schedule this week. The league playoffs are slated to be played Tuesday, July 18 through Thursday, July 20.
While some loose ends still need to be tied before playoff teams are determined in the Big School Division, the league’s Small School Division has its top four teams set for the postseason.
Bethlehem Christian earned the top seed in the division and will take on No. 4 Lehighton in the first round of the playoffs. Upper Perkiomen tied Salisbury for second place, but the Indians beat the Falcons in the regular season and earned the tiebreaker for the No. 2 seed. They will face the No. 3 Falcons in the first round.
Here’s a look at last week’s scores and standings through games played on Thursday, June 29.
Tuesday, June 27
Small School Division
Salisbury 52, Lehighton 33 (Drew Petrie 22)
Roberto Clemente 66, Bethlehem Christian 60 OT (Robert Baker 19)
Upper Perkiomen 2, Catasauqua 0
Large School Division
Muhlenberg 41, Dieruff 31 (Shermar Killen 10)
Executive Education 75, Freedom 52 (Gabe Hornberger 23)
Northampton 50, Southern Lehigh 29 (JJ Kolumber 14)
Emmaus 58, Palmerton 39 (Jametric Harris 12)
Liberty 49, Reading 46 (Jake Pukszyn 10)
Parkland 68, Nazareth 55 (Robbie Ruisch 13)
Allen 41, Bangor 34 (Manny Polanco 14)
Quakertown 69, Whitehall 50 (Myles Longacre, Sam Wilkin 17 each)
Thursday, June 29
Small School Division
Salisbury 49, Roberto Clemente 31 (Drew Petrie 14)
Bethlehem Christian 55, Upper Perkiomen 49 (Gabe Transue 27)
Catasauqua 47, Lehighton 42 (Aiden Riley 12)
Large School Division
Emmaus 60, Quakertown 50 (Jametric Harris 18)
Muhlenberg 52,Easton 49 (Mikey Miller 17)
Whitehall 44, Allen 39 (A.J. Hines 17)
Parkland 76, Reading 67 (Nick Coval 27)
Liberty 61, Freedom 51 (Blake Hargrove 18)
Notre Dame GP 40, Central Catholic 34 (Isaiah Miles 13)
Saucon Valley 50, Southern Lehigh 41 (Eli Miller 11)
Executive Education 81, Palmerton 27 (Rylan Muniz 24)
Standings
Small School Division
Team W-L
Bethlehem Christian 9 - 2
Upper Perkiomen 8 - 4
Salisbury 8 - 4
Lehighton 5 - 6
Catasauqua 3 - 9
Roberto Clemente 2 - 10
Large School Division
Team W-L
Parkland 11 - 1
Executive Education 10 - 2
Emmaus 9 - 2
Wilson West Lawn 9 - 2
Whitehall 8 - 2
Central Catholic 9 - 3
Reading 8 - 4
Liberty 7 - 4
Muhlenberg 6 - 4
Northampton 6 - 4
Notre Dame GP 6 - 5
Dieruff 5 - 6
Easton 5 - 7
Freedom 5 - 7
Quakertown 5 - 7
Exeter 4 - 7
Allen 4 - 8
Nazareth 3 - 8
Southern Lehigh 2 - 10
Saucon Valley 1 - 9
Palmerton 1 - 10
Bangor 0 - 11
Standings through games played Thursday, June 29
Small School Division Playoffs
#1 Bethlehem Christian vs. #4 Lehighton
#2 Upper Perkiomen vs. #3 Salisbury
Playoff dates, times to be determined