afin PAGE NINE d ( Great team effort and sharp shooting by three Mountaineers kept the Dallas cagers in the battle for first place in their home Holiday Invitational Tournament, Thursday night, as they trounced Lackawanna Trail, 85-49, in the opening round of the three-day event. ‘Even though both teams | were evenly matched on paper, Lackawanna Trail with a 4-4 record and Dallas, 5-5, I was confident our boys could win going into the game and decided to play as many as possible,” said Coach Clint Brobst. We started clearing the bench in the first quarter when we had a six point with Scott Keller and Andy Manusky’s inside players and they ap- peared to get stronger as the game went on. “The boys shot a cold 37 first half. “The second half the boys shot a red hot 67 percent from the field and while maintaining a nine point lead at halftime. Jobson’s outside shooting \ their defense could shift. Weir went to the boards and connected for nine of 10 attempts. Keller continued to score and pass off from the pivot. Jobson swished four for seven from the corners and wings. : *£Tim Brennan, returning to the lineup after being out several games due to illness, was the player who con- tributed to many of the scores with his quick passes inside. Raef Fah- my did a good job helping Weir, Jobson and Keller. “The Lions tried to press us throughout the game but this only resulted in easy scores for the Mountaineers. We shot 49 percent for the game.” Weir hit 13 from the field for 26 points and pulled in 13 rebounds. Jobson connected for nine from the court and dumped in two from the free line while pulling down 12 rebounds. Keller hit the nets seven times from the floor and dumped in five of seven from the line. He collected 10 rebounds. The Dallas Jayvees also won by a 53-31 score the young Lions. Jim Thomas and Brian Muldoon did not dress for the game due to injuries but Brobst expected them to be ready for the game against Tunkhannock for the tournament title set for last Saturday night. Nora Barlow, freshman at Elizabethtown College, is among the 11 members of the women’s basketball team who will spend two weeks of their semester break in Hawaii. The team is scheduled for \ competition with military \ teams there. \ Eight wrestlers of the college squad also will go on the two-week tour. Wrestling coach D. Kenneth Ober and women’s basketball coach Yvonne Kauffman with soccer coach Owen L. Wright will accompany the students on the self- financed tour which will be for vacation and competition. The women’s basketball team, with an 8-3 record and averaging 68 points per game, is scheduled for three games with teams at Hickam Air Force Base. Additional games may be scheduled after the team arrives in Hawaii. Ms. Barlow is the daughter of Mr. and Mrs. James J. Barlow of Maplewood Avenue, Dallas. She graduated in the spring of 1979 from Dallas Senior High School where she was a member of the girls softball team and also played out- standing basketball for the girls varsity team. Dallas wrestlers went to Easton last weekend to compete in the Easton Holiday Tournament and returned home with a fifth place standing, just one and a half points out of third place which was copped by Meyers. Easton won the tour- nament with 151 points, Hazleton had 107, Meyers 85, Northwestern Lehigh 84, and Dallas 83%. Other chools participating Allentown Dieruff, Hunterdon, N.J. “lI wasn’t too happy with our performance,” said Coach Larry Schuler. “I thought that the boys could have done better. In several instances I know and our men didn’t perform to their potential.” In the 98-lb. bout Bill Ruddick lost 13-10 to Bob Tarses of Wilson Boro. Jerry Ross was pinned 105-1b. Curt Wentz of Northwestern Lehigh in 3:25. Wentz was runnerup in his weight class in the tournament. Mount Rod Kaye lost his 112-lb: bout 8-0 to Dan Worth of Wilson Boro and 119-1b. Rick Rogers was flattened by Greg Stewart of Northwestern Lehigh in 3:09. In the consolation bout, Rogers lost to Bob Kuhl of Meyers. The two were tied 4-4 at the end of the regulation bout but Rogers lost 4-0 in over- time period. 126-Ib. Nick Giordano overturned Jeff Aher of Allentown Dieruff in 2:40 and in semi-finals was clamped by Meyers Jay Patterson in 3:32. Pat- terson won the Out- standing Wrestler Trophy in the tournament. Giordano lost to Gary Kascak of Hazleton, 4-1, in the consolation bout. Dallas’ 132-1b. Scott Paul Johnson of Meyers 12-2 in his first match and in the semi-finals out- wrestled Scott Barr of Wilson Boro, 6-4, but in the finals he was out- wrestled 8-2 by Easton’s Pete Stoelzel. Mount Andy Pinter shut out 138-1b. Scott Gordon of Wilson Boro 8-0 but in the semi-finals he was clamped by Easton’s champ, Barry Rutt, in 5:37. In the consolation bout, Pinter flattened Dave Holecz of Allentown Dieruff in 2:17. Mount Bob Eyet clamped 145 Bob Herring of Northwestern Lehigh in a fast 27 seconds and in the semi-finals decisioned Nelson VanHorn of Wilson Boro 9-7 before being pinned in the first period of the finals by Carmen Delese of Hazleton. 155-1b. Jim Gemberling by Northwestern Lehigh’s Wally Frisch and in the consolation match he was clamped in 2:30 by Barry Lobitz of Hazleton. Mountaineer Sean Kavanagh drew a bye in the opening round of the 167-1b competition. In the semi-finals-he pinned Don Haas of Northwestern Lehigh in 1:22 and copped the 167-1b. title by defeating Rich Gimbor of Allentown-Dieruff 9-4. 185-1b, Ed Yakabovich was pinned in 1:15 by Scott Fox of North Hunterdon, N.J. and in the consolation he was Chuck Reiss in 3:40. Heavyweight Jeff Sodrosky got off to a good start by pinning Rich Laduca of Wilson Boro in 1:35 and shutting Mike Delia of North Hunterdon, N.J. 10-0. Sodrosky let up decision to Dennis Atiyeh of Allentown-Dieruff. EE (Photo by Mark Moran) Dallas Varsity and Junior Varsity cheer- leaders returned home from Pocono Sports Cainp with the Most Spirited Award, three excellent and two outstanding ribbons, and the Super Squad Award. In the CYC competition, the varsity cheerleaders took fourth place in a field of 15 squads in the cheer- leading competition and second place in the pom- pom routine. The jayvee cheer- leaders plackd second among the 10 squads competing in the JV competition. Following the com- petition, the judges told the Dallas cheerleaders advisor, Mrs. Carole Morris, that the local squad was one of the most spirited they had seen in a long time. The judges said the squad’s appearance and coordination were outstanding and the gymnastic fantastic. Although they placed fourth, only five points separated first and fourth places. The jayvee squad placed second only one point behind the winning squad. The three judges were professional cheerleading judges from Philadelphia, one of them the coach for the Philadelphia Eagles cheerleaders. Moran) ji bi o ” A&) ns
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