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Dallas Mountaineers
came in second in their
second annual invitational
tournament last week at
the senior high school gym.
For the second con-
secutive year the Wyoming
Area Warriors took the
honors by - defeating: the
host team. The Warriors
took a 39-26 first half lead
and went on to defeat
Dallas 78-65
Mountaineer Paul
Jobson was top scorer for
Dallas with 25 points
making 12 goals from the
court and one free shot. His
teammate Walter Weir
pontributed 22 points
Rossing eight through the
‘making six good from the
foul line. :
With the Warriors
| leading by 13 at the half
both teams scored 21 points
Coach Larry Schuler’s
grapplers came in second
behind a strong Selin-
Mountaineers were Andy
Pinter (132), who defeated
Dave DeMarco of Mt.
Carmel 5-0 then decisioned
Troy Dagle of Selinsgrove
3-2; Sean Kavanaugh (155)
(@leteating Selinsgrove Ken
““Long 4-0 to advance to the
finals where he took Dave
Fegley of Mount Carmel
19-10; and Jim Gemberling
(167) who took a 4-1
decision from J. Iwanski of
Mount Carmel, then went
on to decision Mike File of
Selinsgrove 6-4.
Mark Carter (112) drew
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sgrove team in the
Lewisburg tourney
Saturday night. ’
Champions for the
in the third period and the
Mountaineers pulled to
within seven points in the
fourth period before three
Dallas players fouled out.
Dallas coach Clint
Brobst complimented
Wyoming on their great
playing. He said the
Mounts poor shooting in the
first half did the damage as
the teams played even in
the second half, 21 each in
the third period and 18 each
Scott Yeomans paced the
Warriors with 23 points and
was named the tour-
nament’s most valuable
player. Also scoring in the
double figure column were
the Warriors’ Bill Hoover
with 19 points, Don Casey
14 points and C. Mec-
Dermott 12 points.
The Mountaineers and
a bye the first round but
lost in the finals to Tom
Reicheneack who over-
turned him in 4:33.
Three Dallas grapplers
took thirds with Rick
Rogers (119) losing to T.
Hendricks - of Selinsgrove
who flattened him in :55
but in’ the consolations
Rogers pinned Jay Bailoni
of Mount Carmel in 5:24.
Scott Rosenberg (126) lost
8-2 to Mark Kreider of
Selinsgrove but defeated
Guy Stello of Mount Car-
mel 5-3 in the consoletions.
Wrestling at
heavyweight Jeff Sodrosky
lost 1-0 to R. Hoke of
Selinsgrove but placed
third by turning over R.
Lewis in 2:58.
(Continued on p. 9)
Warriors advanced to the
finals with Wyoming
defeating West Side Tech
and the Mountaineers
taking Lackawanna Trail
91-65.
In the Dallas-
Lackawanna Trail contest
the Mountaineers took a
half-time lead of 45-24
using an aggressive, fast-
breaking offense.
Weir and Jobson were
the spark plugs of the
aggressive offense as they
combined for 44 points to
lead the Mounts to victory.
Jobson collected 23 points
hitting the nets from the
court 11 times and dum-
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ping one in from the
charity stripe. Weir put in
nine from the field for 18
points and ‘added three
more from the foul line. S.
Keller went into the double
figure column with 15
points, seven two-pointers
through the nets and one
from the free line.
Brobst put in his second
string in the third period as
the Mountaineers rode to
an easy victory.
In the consolation game
between West Side Tech
and Lackawanna Trail, the
third place in the tour-
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Lake-Lehman Knights
dumped in 20 of 34 free
shots and put 22 through
the nets for 64 points while
the Crestwood Comets
collected 26 goals and only
six free throws for 58 points
to .give Coach Tim
Lukachik’s Black Knights
the title in the Crestwood
Invitational Tourney last
Thursday and Friday.
Tony DeCesaris, who
'! was named most valuable
player of the Comets
Seventh Annual Tourney,
collected 17 points for the
Lake-Lehman cagers
putting five goals from the
floor and dumping in
seven from the foul line. Ed
Lozo was high scorer for
the Knights with 18 points.
He put six through the nets
from the court and then
added six by taking a
bullseye aim six times
from the free, stripe.
The Knights were down
44-43 at the end of the third
period but rallied the final
quarter to outscore the
(Continued on p. 11)
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The Lake-Lehman
Knights defeated Elk Lake,
76-48, Dec. 23 in the
championship game of the
First Annual Mike ‘‘Red”
Wallace Memorial
Basketball Invitational to
come home with the title.
In a closely-fought game
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in the first half which
ended with a 36-36 tie, John
Coulton and Tony
DeCesaris tore loose in the
second half in a tough zone
defense and outscored the
host club 16-2 for the third
period.
Coulton tossed in 22
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points, 11 goals from the
court and DeCesaris put in
18, seven from the court
and four-for-four from the
free stripe to collect 40 of
the total. D. Penkrot hit the
double figures with 14, six
from the court and two-for-
two from the free line.
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The Black Knights ad-
vanced to the finals by
taking Wyoming Seminary
73-60 in the opening round ;
of the tourney, Friday,
Dec. 22.
Sem’s Blue Knights held
a 22-18 lead at the end of the
first period but Lake-
Lehman took control in the
second quarter and out-
scored the Blue Knights 21-
8 to take a 39-30 half-time
lead.
Sem cut the margin to
seven points at the end of
the third period but the
Black Knights rallied in the
fourth and scored 17 to the
Blue Knights 11 to to win
by the 13 point edge.
T. DeCesaris was top
scorer for all with 25
points, eight through the
nets and nine dumped in
from the foul line. E. Lozo .
collected 18, seven goals
from the floor and four
from the free stripe and J.
Coulton hit for 16, eight
goals from the court. D.
Penkrot dipped in 11 points
making four from the floor
and dumping in three from
the charity line.
High scorers for
Seminary were S.
Parkhurst 22, Robbins 20,
and Musto 10. DeCesaris
was named the tour-
nament’s most valuable
player.
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