LV FLASHBACK

A look back at Lehigh Valley sports stories over the years from April 4.

2002: Joe Determan’s tworun second-inning double and Dan Jennings’ three-hitter lead East Stroudsburg South to a 20 Mountain Valley Conference baseball win over Pleasant Valley, snapping the Bears’ 43-game regular-season winning streak and their 39-game MVC winning streak.

1998: Bethlehem Catholic graduate Dan Kendra, a junior quarterback at Florida State, suffers a torn ACL in his right knee during the Seminoles’ spring game. Kendra, due to inherit the starting job after two seasons as backup to Thad Busby, undergoes surgery three days later and is lost for the season, giving the job to sophomore Chris Weinke.

1996: With the help of a 9-1 victory by Bethlehem Catholic graduate Pat Santoro over Igor Kaupeev, the U.S. beats Russia 23-17 in a pre-Olympic wrestling match before 3,133 fans at Stabler Arena.

1993: Nazareth resident Mario Andretti becomes the oldest man (53) to win an IndyCar race when he takes advantage of two accidents on the final 38 laps to win the Valvoline 200 in Phoenix. Running in third, Andretti moves up when Paul Tracy crashes on the 162nd lap and Emerson Fittipaldi on the 172nd lap. The win snaps a 75-race, nearly five-year winless drought for Andretti and is his 100th major racing victory. The 1990s also mark the fourth straight decade that Andretti, who is second in IndyCar victories with 52, wins an IndyCar race and the fifth straight decade he records a racing victory.

1968: Bob Moriarity hurls a complete game and Moravian presents baseball coach Harry (Gil) Gillespie with his 300th career victory with a 6-3 win at Franklin & Marshall. Gillespie is 300-135-5 for his career.

1961: Nesquehoning football coach Tony Messz announces his retirement after 29 years, during which he compiled a 147-100-1 record.