PAGE 11 {Forman Tue DALLAS POST Sports High school basketball season is winding down Lake-Lehman girls season ends while Mountaineer boys continue to roll Lake-Lehman's Carol Mosier wrestles for control of the ball. i | ] BILL TARUTIS PHOTOS/ FOR THE DALLAS POST Lake-Lehman's Emily Sutton, left, grabs a rebound ahead of Nanticoke Area's Katie Wolfe in the WVC Division 3 girls championship game. LL girls defeated Nanticoke broke open a one- point game midway through the third quarter to defeat Lake-Leh- man, 60-42, in the Wyoming Val- ley Conference Division III girls basketball championship Mon- day at Holy Redeemer High School. There were four lead changes and three ties in a tightly-contest- ed first half. The game stayed close well into the third quarter, and the Black knights (17-67) worked a five-point play to cut the Nanticoke lead to 25-24. Emily Sutton put home an of- fensive rebound and earned a free throw which she sank. On the en- suing inbound play, a miscom- munication between the Troja- nettes put the entry pass directly into Nikki Sutliff’s hands for an uncontested layup. The miscue sparked Nanti- coke, which scored 14 of the next 17 points and the Nanticoke lead was extended to 37-25. Sutton paced Lake-Lehman with 14 points and had seven re- bounds. Cayle Spencer added 12 points and eight rebounds and Sutliff posted 11 points. Carol Mosier had six rebounds for the lady Black Knights. SPORTS BRIEFS Lacrosse clinic planned a free Youth Girls (first to third grade) Lacrosse Clinicis is being sponsored by King’s Col- lege Head Women’s Lacrosse Coach Laura Patton and the King’s lacrosse team from 4:30 to 6:30 p.m. today, Feb. 26 at King’s College Scandlon Gym- nasium, 134 N. Main St, Wilkes- Barre. Interested participants will need to wear something com- ortable (athletic clothes), neakers, mouth guards, goggles (not required but are recom- mended) and sticks (loaners available). Also a waiver will be required and can be completed at the clinic seeking players DHS lacrosse plans Night at the Races Dallas High School Lacrosse will host a Night at the Races on Saturday, March 3 at the Fran- klin Twp. Fire Hall, Orange. Doors open at 6 p.m. with the first race set to begin at 7 p.m. Admission of $7 includes food and beverage while admission of $10 including food, beverage and a horse. For ticket information, call 239-4896. Deadline for program entries is Feb. 20. Softball organization Wyoming Valley Vipers travel softball organization is looking for a few players. Pitching is a plus. If interested, contact Jim Dunn at 333-4398 or 332-8027. BMYS hosts futsal soccer league Back Mountain Youth Soccer will host an indoor Futsal/ Soccer league continuing through March for ages U6 to high school age at the Penn State/ Wilkes-Barre campus gym. FIFA futsal ball and rules will be used. Games will be played on weekends. More information and sign up sheets are available online at www.bmysa.org. PETE G. WILCOX PHOTOS/ THE DALLAS POST Mountaineer Don Behm maneuvers his way through several Tunkhannock defenders. boys advance Dallas had three players re- ach double figures to defeat Tunkhannock, 49-45, to cap- ture the Wyoming Valley Conference Division II boys basketball title Tuesday night at Lake-Lehman High School. Dallas (14-8) overall won its first WVC divisional title in a very long by winning the first-half title and then stum- bling to a 30-4 finish in the second half of the season. The latter allowed Tunkhan- nock (14-9) to gain second- half honors. Dallas senior guard Paul Brace and Bob Saba led Dal- las with 12 points each while Jason Simonovich added 11 more. Saba played a more impor- tant role defensively as he shut down Tunkhannock freshman Austin Yanora, who had 25 points, including eight three-pointers when the two teams had met four days earlier. In Tuesday’s game, he had a lone three-pointer and attempted only two shots. Tunkhannock’s big guy, 6- foot-10 senior James Hawk, dominated early. Less than four minutes into the game, he had six points and three rebounds. By halftime, he had eight points and nine boards. After that, his lone second- half field goal attempt was an outside jumper with 1:48 re- maining and the Tigers trail- ng 448 kt Behm yet didn’t get the ball. AJ Brennan. Hawk finished with a dou- ble-double —- 10 points and 12 rebounds. Doug Miller sin- gled out Christ Ostrum’s de- fense on the Tunkhannock center but there were a few times when Hawk was guard- ed solely by 6-foot Donnie Shane Dunn goes high for a shot attempt over Tunkhannock's Both teams were scheduled to resume their seasons Fri- day in the District 2 Class 3A playoffs. Tunkhannock was set to play North Pocono at Pittston Area High School while Dallas planned to travel to Carbondale High School to play Abington Heights.
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