The Dallas basketball squad repeated its first half win over GAR despite a poor shooting percentage by the score of 60-45, last Fri ay night at the Mountaineers’ home court. Neither team could manage to score until nearly half way through the first period when Tim Fannick broke the ice for the Mountaineers with a base line drive. Photo by Dave Kozemchak The Mountaineer defense held GAR to one shot each time down the floor as Novroski, Wallace and Fannick combined to dominate their defensive boards. On offense Dallas continued to get plenty of shots but failed to find the range and could only manage nine points through the first period. Both teams loosened up some in the second period as Dallas Because of an alarming number of snowmobile deaths throughout .the Commonwealth over the past weekend. Soeretoryiauiies K. Goddard, Department of Environmental Resources, has issued a war- ning against the careless use of these vehicles. **Like any other outdoor activity,”’ said Dr. Goddard, Thousands Enjoy Sports At Francis Slocum Park _ Approximately 3500 winter sports enthusiasts visited Frances Slocum State Park Sunday where they participated in ice skating, ice fishing, sledding, and snowmobiling. The week before, Jan 30, over 3700 enjoyed the facilities at the park, which continues to be a favorite spot for winter recrea- tion-minded people. op Lehman. For their Marywood of Scranton, “snowmobiling can be enjoyed in complete safety but to do this it requires ithe use: of common sense on the part of all par- ticipants. I am’ especially alarmed over the use of snowmobiles at night which can be especially hazardous even though the operator may be totally familiar = with his surroun- dings,” said Dr. Goddard. There are certain provisions - under Act 75 which prohibit the use of snowmobiles in a careless manner, at an unreasonable speed, or, while under the in- fluence of intoxicating liquor, narcotics or drugs; and the operator of any snowmobile involved in an accident resulting in injuries, death or property damage of $100, must within seven days after the accident report it in writing to the Department of En- vironmental Resources. Sin schedule, the. Laurie Wilkes, LCCC, Saraceno, outscored the Grenadiers 17-14, and led 26-19 at half. A press by Dallas in the final half increased their lead to 14 as they hit for 22 points while holding GAR to 15. The final period was nearly as low scoring as the first, but this time it was due to the slow-down offense employed by Dallas due to their 15 point lead. Greg Novroski, presently the Division, led the Mountaineers again as he connected on 10 field goals and three foul shots for 23 tallies. Fannick and Delaney added 10 each to aid the Mountaineer attack. Holup set the pace for the Grenadiers with 13 and was the lone GAR player to break double The J.V.’s won again as they nearly matched the varsity score by out-scoring GAR 61-45. Steve Meskers and Chuck Wilson combined for 43 of Dallas’ 61 by collecting 25 and 18 In other action last Friday, Hanover upset Plains to put Dallas and Seminary in a tie for the lead in the division with identical 2 and 0 records. Dallas has a bye tomorrow night and hosts Plains next Tuesday. The Mountaineers will be out to avenge their loss to the Plainsmen last month which knocked them out of the first half race. They will play at Plains. the Hawkeyes. Dallas Junior High matmen lost their last two meets—one to Coughlin by a close 37-36 and the second to. Hanover Hawkeyes by a big 53-8. Dierolf opened the match by pinning Patrizi (C) in 56 seconds to give Dallas 6 points. Lipfert made it 6-6 when he turned over Newell in: 3:34. McAndrew C) put his team ahead 10-6 on a 10-0 decision over D. Parrish. E. Lozier (D) outwrestied Walsh (C) 7-3 to make the score 10-9. Godwin put the young Mounts in front 12-10 on his 5-0 win over Bartley (C) and 105 J. Kasper (D) made it 15-10 by decisioning Kozempka in a close 8-7 bout. Dallas C. Samuels (110) added 6 points with a fast 40 second pin on R. Rich (C). D. Enslin (115) posted a score of 24-10 when he earned 3 points by outwrestling C. Thomas 5-0. J. Dickson (120) was turned to the lights byD. Benedicti (C) in 2:10 for 6 points. Coughlin made 24-17 when 125 1b. M. Engler lost a 7-2 decision to M. Guzzo (C) but the Mountaineers forged ahead to 27-19 on R. McDonald 6-3 bout against G. Hanzer. J. Paciotti clamped 138 1b. G. Ostrum (D) in 2:46 to put his crusader mates within 2 points Third row: Mary of the lead. The score see-sawed the entire match and S. Shook won a close 4-3 bout to give “Dallas a 30-25 lead. J. Griffith (154) gave back the lead to Coughlin when he was flattened by S. Sallitt in 1:56. Dallas’ P. Adams pulled the match ahead by pinning D. Gupko in 11 seconds. Hopes for the win di- minished as T. Himlin (180) turned up Schmidle in 51 seconds to give the Crusaders the match 37-36. Hanover match was a differ- ent story as the Hawkeyes put together four pins, 9 decisions and one tie for a 53-8 win. Pape (80) and Narcum (85) took the first two bouts for Hanover by besting Dierolf and R. Newell. Dallas took the next two E. Lozier (90) and M. Cook (95) for the only two wins of the match. Both boys won on 4-0 de- cisions. The 100, 105, 110, 115 bouts went to Hanover on decisions as Photo by Bob Saffian An ideal time of year for youths to take a hunter safety course is during the winter. Now that hunting season activity is out of the way and less pressing activities, a number -of hunter safety courses are being scheduled. Despite months of pleading by the Game Commission for youths to complete their hunter safety training early last year, there were thousands in Sep- Hunting Licenses Are Still Available Unsold 1971-72 Pennsylvania hunting licenses have been returned by license issuing agents to the Game Commis- sion, but licenses can still be purchased by sportsmen. Hunting licenses are still available from any county treasurer’s office in the state. Godwin lost 4-0, Hislop (D) dropped a 12-5 bout, Samuels dropped a closely fought 2-0 bout, and Kaminski beat out D. Enslen 4-0. With the score 18-6 Hanover, their 120 Rovinski flattened J. Dickson for 6 points. From that point it was Hanover all the way with the exception of the 180 lb. bout which ended in a 3-3 tie, giving each team two points. Hanover’s Bleich decisioned 125 Engler 8-2; Jarpovich (130) bested R. MacDonald 4-2; LaCorte took G. Ostrum 4-0 to post a score of 33-6. Brokenshire (D), M. Crane, and T. Schmidle, Dallas gave up 18 points when they were turned over by their Hawkeye opponents in first, second and third periods re- spectively. D. Jones and C. Feldman brought the match to a close with a 3-3 draw giving each team 2 points and a final score of 53-8. Dallas cagers opened their second half of Wyoming Valley League play with a 85-67 win over Hanover at Dallas. Hanover kept it close with some good outside shooting from their leading scorer Your- ren, as he connected on several. long jumpers from the top of the key. Dallas proved to be too much for Hanover’s man-to-man. de- fense as P.J. Delaney enjoyed his finest-game of the year for the Mountaineers. His penetra- ting drives, which accounted for most of his eight baskets, pulled the Hawkeye defense out allow- ing him to collect nine assists as well. Dallas gradually continued to increase its lead through the third quarter despite a one-man come back launched by Your- ren who accounted for seven of his team’s 11 points. Both teams displayed good balance as five Mountaineers and four Hawkeyes broke double figures. Yourren ended up as the game’s high scorer with 23. He was followed by Chaspasko with 16, Long with 11 and Fagula with 10. Greg Novroski tallied 20 for the winners and was aided by P.J. Delaney, Tim Fannick and Bob Wallace with 16, 16 and 14 points respectively. Jack Wolin- ski added 11 points to the Moun- taineer attack after coming off the bench in relief. The JV game also went to Dallas as they outdistanced Hanover 80-69. Chuck Wilson hit the first 10 points for the Moun- taineers and totaled 32 for the game. Steve Meskers hit for 20 points, most of them in the offense. Dallas wrestlers added two to their win column last week by defeating Nanticoke and Central Catholic. Last Wednesday night, the Mountaineers traveled to Nanticoke where they took a decisive 47-11 win in an exhibition match. Dallas piled up a 21-0 lead in the first four bouts on three pins and a decision before Nanticoke picked up 3 points. Pinter (5) clamped Cobb (N) in 1:33; then Wybersky decisioned Nanticoke’s 103 Weiss 5-2 to add three to the Dallas side of the scramblers. Siegel (112) turned over Knafla (N) in 1:55 and D. Longmore (120) posted his eighth win and fourth pin as he put Wright (N) on his back in 1:31. Simone (127) gave Nanticoke their first score when he took a close 3-2 bout from T. Musto. 133 Ib. D. Puchalsky put Coach Bamrick’s team in front 27-3 when he garnered 6 points on a default from Dolney. Kasper (138) added 6 more by pinning J. Tucker (N) in 4:25. Johnson (145) followed suit by showing M. Rudawski the lights in 5:40. Natitus (154) made it 42-3 by. outwrestling J. LaWall (N) 6-0 for three. Young Kaschenbach looked good as he decisioned 165 Kaspryck (N) 8-0 to add 3 points to the Mounts score. Thrasher (180) and Dalmas (N) wrestled an exciting bout that ended 3-3 ° giving each school 2 points. With the score 47-5 for Dallas, Bamrick took no chances with B. Spears and forfeited the match to Nanticoke and their heavy heavyweight for a final score of 47-11. tember, October and November who still had not completed the course and found they were ineligible to purchase hunting licenses. Fortunately, voluntary hunter safety instructors were able to take care of most requests for training last fall. However, some youngsters were left out and couldn’t go hunting. It would ease the minds of both instructors and youths if the 1972 classes could be completed before the ‘‘last minute.” The Game Commission reminds youths that no hunting license will be issued to any person under the age of 16 years unless the applicant presents either (a) a certificate of competency showing that he has successfully completed a course of instruction in the safe handling of firearms and bows and arrows, or (b) a hunting license from Pennsylvania or another state from a prior year. Dallas Jayvess did not fare as well as they went down in defeat to the Nanticoke squad 28-15. It looked like the young Mounts as D. Konnick (95) took a decisive 9-0 bout from Bukowski for 3 points. Nan- ticoke’s Kasprzyk (103) came right back to give his team 3 points by decisioning T. Wilson 7-3. The Nanticoke grapplers went out in front on a 112 lb. points when Kasprzuk took a super 12-2 decision from Shelby for 4 points making the team score 13-3 Nanticoke. Davis (N) turned over 127 Ib. Sappe in 3:52 for 6 points. The Mounts picked up 6 when Bridle (135) clamped Hazleton in 2:15. 138 1b. Monk (D) made the score 19-12 on his 9-0 decision over Kovsonski but Petraccini (154) gave away 3 points to Nanticoke when he lost to Young 4-0. With their opponents in front 22-12, Dallas hopes for a win disap- peared when Phillips was able to earn only a decision over Figlerski (N) and Gramps (Hwt) was turned over by O’Connor (N) in 1:42 for a final score of 28-15 Nanticoke. The Mountaineers ran their league record to 4-2 by stopping Central Catholic 28-19 in a-home meet Saturday night. The going looked rough for Dallas as Central took the first three bouts to post a 10-0 score. 95 Pinter lost out on a 6-2 decision to Santyana. Pat Evans picked up a super 12-2 decision by outwrestling 103 Wyberski all the way. G. Siegel wrestled well and managed two escapes but gave a take down and a reversel to Burkhardt who also had time advantage for a 5-2 decision. Longmore (120) had no op- portunity to wrestle when Central Catholic forfeited at that weight and gave the Mounts 6 points. 127 lb. D. Wasserott came from behind in the third "period and earned time advantage to decision J. Asher 3-2. D. Puchalsky (133) put Coach Bamrick’s Mounts out in front 13-10 by outwrestling O'Neill 12- 2 for a big 4 points. M. Kasper (138) picked up 6 points when Central’s Coach Kilduff for- feited the bout. R. Johnson (145) took B. Baur 7-1 for 3 points and F. Natitus (154) added 3 points by earning a big 6-0 decision over T. Finley. With Dallas in the lead 25-10, excitement mounted and fans were on the edge of their seats as Central Catholic added 6 points when their 165 lb. S. Lawrence clamped J. Kaschenbach in 3:39 and P. Lipski (180) took a 5-1 decision from R. Thrasher to run the score to 25-19. Heavyweight B. Spears made it a sure Dallas victory by pulling two reversals. and a predicament in the second period for six and earning one for time for a 7-3 deciion over G. Bellack. Official for the varsity meet was T. Bienowski. The Dallas Jayvees tapped the Central Jayvees 20-8 in the preliminary meet. Dierolf (95) gave Dallas three in a 2-0 bout with Podminick. T. Wilson (95) added another 3 for Dallas by taking-Reino (CC) in a close 2-1 decision. Konnick (D) wrestling 103 gave Central 3 points on a tough 1-0 loss to Hanko. Boyes (120) made it 9-3 Dallas by taking Borton 4-0. Central Catholic came within three points of the lead when Rattigen lost a close 3-2 decision to Wallison (127). Bridle (133) and Brown (CC) were well matched and fought to a 1-1 draw, giving each team 2 points for 11-8 Dallas. Monk (138) scored a takedown and predicament in the first period for 4 points, a reversal and near fall for 5 more in the third period to take Hogan (CC) 9-0. Boltz (145) earned 2 for a takedown and 2 for a reversal to decision Petrowski (CC) 4-0 and put the Dallas Jayvees in the lead 17-8. After two scoreless periods, Gramps (Hwt) reversed Wash- cahlis (CC) and put him in a predicament to take the bout 4-0 and post a final score of 20-8. Game Warden Gdosky Addresses Lions Club Game Warden Edward Gdosky of the Pennsylvania Game Commission, Dallas, gave the program at a recent meeting of the Kingston-Forty Fort Lions Club. A resident of Dallas, Dr. D. Craig Aicher, was in charge of the program. Officer Gdosky, a veteran of 14 years service with the Commission, showed a color film on ‘The Whitetail Deer.” In remarks prior to the showing, Officer Gdosky noted there are more deer now in the Commonwealth than in Indian days. He pointed out that almost as many deer are killed by vehicular accidents in Penn- sylvania as are killed by licensed hunters in some other states. A question and answer period followed the film presentation. has two pins to his credit.
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