It hasn't been the best of football seasons for Liberty and Freedom.

Yet, just as is the case in Allentown with Allen and Dieruff and many other area rivalries, the records don't matter. The two Bethlehem public schools get all pumped up for spirit week.

This year, there's a new event to boost those spirits in Bethlehem.

The Liberty and Freedom faculties will do battle in a flag football game at 7 p.m. Wednesday at Bethlehem Area School District Stadium to support the Race For Adam Foundation.

Adam Recke, a freshman student at Freedom, has been battling a rare and deadly disease called Niemann Pick Type C.

The school district is uniting to rally around Recke and create awareness about his disease with what figures to be a special night.

This is reminiscent of last April's Allen-Dieruff alumni powderpuff game at J. Birney Crum Stadium to support the fight against pancreatic cancer.

And just as was the case with the older Canaries and Huskies, the teams involved want to put on a good show for a cause.

Joe Stellato, the Freedom boys basketball coach who helped to establish the popular student section called the "Riot Squad," was asked to coordinate the fundraiser.

"We've got some former athletes like Adam Bednarik and Dan Kremus, who used to play at Northampton, on our Freedom team and Liberty has some athletes on their side as well," Stellato said. "Some of the guys are in pretty good shape and some have been dropping like flies at the practices."

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Liberty and Freedom faculty members to take the field for a good cause