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By Tony Zonca -- MikeDragoSports.com senior contributor In the early 1970s, when girls basketball in Berks County was still taking baby steps, Jean Frey emerged as an exemplar of the game. She was the head coach at Exeter from…

By Tony Zonca -- MikeDragoSports.com senior contributor It was a February night in 1978 and the basketball crowd had decided to show up early for the high school double-header at Reading High. The Geigle, especially back then,…

By Tony Zonca -- MikeDragoSports.com senior contributor How many people living in Berks County would you guess have heard of the Hamburg Bullets basketball team? Fifty? Twenty? Just me? Let me fill you in: …

By Tony Zonca -- MikeDragoSports.com senior contributor For longtime Reading High basketball fans, one team has caused the most heartaches -- Chester. The Clippers always seemed to be the roadblock on the path to gold. In…

By Tony Zonca -- MikeDragoSports.com senior contributor OK, Berks County sports trivia fans, you shoot to the top of the heap if you can identify the role Gerald Fulcher played in county sports history. We'll give you three…

Tony Zonca Tony Zonca has written about Pennsylvania sports for more than half a century, covering the Philadelphia and Reading Phillies, the Philadelphia Eagles and 76ers, Penn State football, professional tennis, Berks high…

For years Tony Zonca considered Reading High's 1982-83 team his personal favorite among the 50 or so Red Knights basketball teams he has watched. The team included Pat Tulley, Charlie Chisholm and Rodney Hodge; it was coached by…