THE POST, FRIDAY, MARCH 7, 1952 PAGE NINE
Harter Takes Brilliant ‘Black Widows
ments to date.
Sixth grade Dallas and Shaver-
town are evenly matched, he says,
and give each other a real tussle.
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Harter High School coached by
Walt Hoynowski won its first Back
Mountain League championship with
f its thrilling last minute 55-52 defeat
of Westmoreland before an over-
flow crowd at Dallas Township gym
Monday night.
Bill Jones and Stan Pincofski,
both playing for their final tear,
wound up their high school careers
in a blaze of glory, each connecting
for 16 points to pace the champions.
Jack Richards, who also finished
up his league performances after
starring for four full seasOns, topped
the Westmoreland scorers with 15
points. Richards, notwithstanding
the brilliant play of Jones and Pin-
cofski, was perhaps the outstanding
player on the court. NOt only his
scoring, but his floor work, rebound-
ing, playmaking and defensive savvy
kept the Mustangs in the game
at times when they appeared to
flounder. .
Pincofski scored the final four
points for Harter, the first score
coming on a twisting two-hand jump
shot to put Harter in the lead 53-52
with 35 seconds remaining. The
| clincher came after (Westmoreland
in an attempt to score lost possession
and Harter took over. Jones at-
tempted a shot and missed and
then “Big Stan” tipped it in to
make it 55-52 with 6 seconds re-
maining. Either squad equally de-
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served the victory. Both played
hard and to win, and in doing so
turned Out a tense wellplayed ball
game,
Watkins, turned in a nice job in
keeping a tight ball game under
control, :
Either quint could have breezed
victory if it had even made a fair
percentage of its foul tries. Harter
sunk only a pitiful 3 out of 13 at-
tempts while Westmoreland was not
much better with 8 out of 17. While
Jones and Pincofski gave Harter its
mastery of the game, two unsung
players hit for some very important
points to offset the slow stanting
Harter offense. ICondu, with 11, and
Stewart, with 8, turned the trick
for ‘the visiting Blue and Gold. Condu
came through with the most spec-
tacular shot of the evening as he
twisted the ball while falling out of
bounds directly under the hoop
and gave it enough spin to pull
itself in for two points.
Richards played one of the best
games of his life and received ample
help from Bernie Sherin and Bill
Fine in their valiant but futle at-
tempt to overtake Harter. Sherin
finished with 13 pOints and Fine
with 8 but both did yeoman service
in rebounding on both boards
against a distinct height disadvan-
tage. Coach Bernard Rockavitch's
charges played with their usual
Both officials, George and"
Victory To Top League
verve and dash but missed more
than their usual amount of shots
and thusly lost out.
Harter built up an early lead on
successive goals by Stewart and
didn’t relinquish the lead until well
in the third quarter. Harter led 17-
13 at the end of the first quarter
and- held a 31-25 halftime advan-
tage. Westmoreland tied the score
at 39-39 in the third period and
from then on the lead changed
many times with Westmoreland
having slightly the better of it until
the final minute.
Sportlights
Bob Grose, Dallas, has received
a contract from the West [Palm
Beach club in the Florida Infter-
national League and plans to report
for spring training by March 20.
Bob, who has starred for three years
with the Pennington Gap nine in the
Mountain States League, feels that
he has a good chance to stick in this
jump to (Class B baseball. A stellar
shortstop with the [Dallas Legion
team before signing for professional
baseball, Bob made the grade im-
mediately and was approached with
many offers but unfortunatley his
team considered him too valuble
and refused to dicker until this sea-
son,
Dallas Township has accepted
an invitation to the Bloomsburg
Tourney and will start play
tomorrow evening at 8:00
against Butler Township in the
first series of elimination games.
Coach Bob Thomas’ crew feels
that they were much better
than their league record showed
and hope to prove this at the
tournament. The Redskins are
entered in Class’ C' and if they
can triumph in the first game
will probably be matched
against a local squad in the
semi-finals. Len Kozich, junior
center, is the nucleus of the
quint with seniors Bob Harris,
Lance Walker, Bill Miller and
Mike Lewis filing out the star-
ing starting five. :
Lew Disque, league’s top scorer
and Lehman’s brilliant center, broke
all existing league single game scor-
ing records with his amazing 46
points against Lake-Noxen last Tues-
day. Both his total of 14 goals and
18 foul points eclipse the record of
Jack Pesavento who cOllected a
total of 36 points for Kingston
Township last season. Disque set a
blistering pace in scoring this last
half of the season finishing with
78 points in his last two games
alone.
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Ends Season
Tomorrow Night
Shavertown And
Huntsville Tied
For Top Honors
Final games of the season will be
on tap tomorrow night at West-
moreland gym as the Back Moun-
tain - Church - Community League
winds up its regular season.
The schedule seems ready made
for the occasion as Shavertown
Methodist and Huntsville Christian
clash in the first game to decide
the league championship. The two
squads are tied and the victor in
this contest will also emerge as the
new league champion. The two
teams have battled for first place
all season, with Shavertown in the
driver's seat most of the way.
Huntsville had finally caught up and
now on this last game will hinge
the result of the entire season’s
play. :
St. Therese’s vs. St. Paul’s
St. Therese’s meets St. Paul's in
another natural game at 8:30. Both
squads have been in the thick of
the pennant scramble all season and
at present are still fighting over the
runnerup spot. A victory will as-
sure St. Therese's of a second place
tie, while St. Paul's will tie for
third if it is able to triumph. Or-
ange and Trucksville Methodist will
play the flnal game of the night and
although neither is in the pennant
race a top notch game may be ex-
pected as both squads are on any
given night the equal of many of the
teams placed higher above them.
STANDINGS
W.. L.. - Pet.
Shavertown Methodist 9 = 5 .615
Huntsville Christian . 9 5 .613
St. Therese’s RC 8 6 571
St. Paul’s Lutheran 7 . 7 .500
Orange Methodist 6 | .8.. 42
Trucksville Methodist 3 11 .21<
Schedule
Saturday, March 8, Westmorelanc
Gym.
7:15—Shavertown Methodist vs
Huntsville Christian
8:30—St. Therese’s vs. St. Paul's
9:30—Orange vs. Trucksville ‘Meth
Last Week’s Games
Only one team, Huntsville Chris-
tian, of the top three teams—Hunts-
ville, Shavertown Methodist and St.
Therese’s—was able to stay on thc
rosy victory path during last Sat
irday night's games in’ the Back
Mountain Church-Community
League., Last place Trucksville up-
set St. Therese’s following a pattern
set in the first game of the evening
when Orange turned the tables or
uap-to-then top place Shavertowr
Methodist. Huntsville toppled St
Paul's in the final game to salve
some of the wounds suffered by the
frst division squads.
Shavertown bowed for the fourth
time in this last half of the seaso
with Orange the team turning in
the victory. The combination of
Jim Knecht’s shooting and Bob Ber-
lew’s rebounding turned the trick
on the undermanned Shavertown
team,
Trucksville put the skids on St
Therese’'s first place aspirations
with a neat four point triumph in
the second tilt of the evenine
Ralph Anthony hit consistently and
with varied scoring on the part of
his teammates this was enough to
defeat St. Therese’s which could find
no possible way of putting the ball
through the hoop. Carl Sherinski
Play Wildcats
6th, 7th, 8th Grades
Have Formed League
The whistle blows, and two small
but tense athletes leap for the ball.
Saturday morning at Dallas Bor-
ough gym is under way.
Sixth, seventh and eighth grade
boys of Dallas Borough - Kingston
Township Joint Schools meet on
Saturday morning at 9:15 in Dallas
Borough Elementary School gymna-
sium under guidance of Robert
Becker, Physical Education instruc-
tor for Westmoreland, to play bas-
ketball.
Standings In The Leagues
SIXTH GRADE
Pts. Opp. W. IL.
Dallas Braves 30-14% 3/0
Shavertown 26. 2112."
Trucksville 9.14 aD
Dallas “Bs 38..210.: 3
SEVENTH GRADE
Eagles 14 2.310
Wildcats al 23. 1 2
Black Widows 16: 10 Xx 2
Jay [Birds 3 203 2
Tigers 0 3193
EIGHTH GRADE
Indians 60.-.18 3 #0
Morons 40: 30: 72 4-1
Wildcats 36:34 1. 12
Devilrats 32:.66:..0: 3
Overtime Periods:
Sixth Grade:
Shavertown vs. Dallas Braves,
Three overtime periods. Game won
by Dallas Braves.
Eighth Grade:
Wildcats vs. Morons. One over-
time period. Game won by Morons.
Exhibition Games: If a team does
not show up by game time, exhibi-
tion games are played. Shavertown
edged out Dallas Braves in one such
game.
The program of intra-mural activ-
ity was inaugurated February 2, will
close March 15, with a play-off game
between winners in the League on
March 22.
Two tenth grade students, John
Bauer and William Allabaugh, as-
sist in the program. Henry Welch,
custodian, is invaluable, and de-
serves much credit for taking on
extra work. A
Girls are interested, also fourth
and fifth graders who turn out to
cheer their chosen teams.
Except in the case of three sixth
grade teams which represent their
own schools, personnel is scrambled,
with boys from all three schools
playing together on teams of their
own choosing,
Names of teams run from Morons
to Black Widows and Devilrats.
All players have opportunity to
play. Games are split into halves of
nine minutes for sixth and seventh
graders, ten for eighth grade teams.
Mr. Becker encourages showers aft-
er the game.
What the players lack in tech-
nique, Mr. Becker says, they make
up in enthusiasm. With players
sensing that they are there for fun,
there have been no fights or argu-
was the top scorer for St. Therese’s.
Huntsville had little trouble with
St. Paul's as it took an early lead
and made it last throughout the
contest. This much needed victory
placed Huntsville in a first place tie |
with Shavertown Methodist. St.
Paul's threatened a number of times
but Huntsville had enough reserve
left to pull away in each instance.
i
Seventh grade Eagles are very hot.
Eighth grade Indians average twen-
ty points a game.
Winners of sixth grade league
will play winners of seventh grade
league March 22, Winners of eighth
grade league will play a team of
ninth grade boys.
Entertains Workers
Oscar Weissman entertained
workers for the Back Mountain Red
Cross campaign, along with others
from the Valley, at tea in the
Weissman Recreation rooms on Ter-
race street, Wilkes-Barre, when
plans for the drive were outlined
and a social hour enjoyed.
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