Quest By LEE RICHARDS | Did a local Penn State { football player’s Father contact Florida State around this time last year about his son transferring? When will someone ask if this isn’t the best NBA team of all-time now that the 76ers finally the cap- tured title? Hasn’t the caliber of play in the USFL grad- ually improved from week to week as predicted? Will baseball be able to take a whole week without George Steinbrenner not around the Yankees? Will we ever see a heavyweight champion with the dignity and style demonstrated by all-time great, Jack Dempsey? Will The NBA set another record next season with number of players and coaches moving to dif- ferent teams? Aren’t the Philadelphia Stars only a couple of players shy from being the best team in the city of Brotherly Love? I’m curious as to how much of a factor was Stars prexy Carl Petersen in the Eagles’ overall success? Hasn't he done wonders with new USFL squad? Will the time ever come { when all of the foolishness ceases in recruiting colle- giate prospects? Will the day come when professional athletes stop receiving preferential treatment when they break the law? Will schoolboy sports revert back to being just ordinary if the PIAA puts the lid on all off-season { programs in Pennsyl- } vania? Isn’t some facets of the v PIAA’s proposed restric- tions on-high- school sports programs out of the cave- man era? Why is the PIAA over- loaded with people that are not sports oriented? CLIPBOARD NOTES: A lot of Lake-Lehman fans have called my attention to Jill Solinski. She’s a fine all-around athlete and one of best softball performers locally. I understand she Regatta Is The grand finale of the Harveys Lake Homecom- ing Festival will com- mence at dusk June 19 with the night regatta. Terry Jones, chairman of the event, announces that the regatta will include lighted sail . and power boats and a ‘party boat’ with live music fea- turing a five piece band. The regatta will form near the ‘Yacht Club and pro- ceed counter clock-wise around the lake. After the regatta has passed ions can hit the golf ball, too. I tip my hat to Irem’s Bob Valatka and Fox Hill’s Len Coleman on win- ning the recent member- guest golf tournament at Irem Temple. The two players combined for a five-under par 67 on the the conditions that was some mighty fine playing. Chet Blazick and Joe Hritzick finished second only a stroke back. Chet and Bob are two very steady players. Fox Hill’s defending club champ, Carlisle Robinson, appears to be on top of his game as usual. CR. is considered one of the best putters around and a where he tees up the ball. Lake-Lehman golf coach Mike Sharok tells me he’s going to be touring the courses in the poconos over the summer. Mike is doing a good job with the Knights. He’s got a knowl- edge of the basics. Dallas’ Steve Federici is going to concentrate on baseball when he heads to college in the fall. Steve was a rugged QB for the Mountaineers. Irem Pro Barry Flies and wife Sherry did a splendid job in running a smooth tournament despite the adversity of the weather. Jim Smith and Mark Howell kept all of the euipment for the players in tip-top shape, too. i Having recently played Water Gap Country Club, I still have to marvel at former golfing great Walter Hagen’s course record 65; seven under par, which he set during the Eastern Open in 1926. The remarkable Hagan and 67 for a 273 total to capture the title. His 65 is still the Gap’s course record. Dan Federici should have won a prize for best dressed in Irem member- rain in shorts, jogging shoes and rain jacket ready to play. Way to go, Dan! Planned Hanson’s Beach area, a fireworks display will be presented courtesy of the Harveys Lake Lions and Mr. and Mrs. Don Hanson. Boats must maintain a dis- tance of a minimum of 100 feet from the beach area. Mr. Jones encourages all shoreline property to be lighted. Prizes will be awarded in the category of ‘best decorated’ first, second, and third prize. All awards courtesy of Wil- liams’ Harveys Lake Bot- tling Company. Wrangler JEANS At Discount Prices Over 200 Styles BELT BUCKLES Leather BELTS 10% Off Western SHIRTS To $30.00 Values $1 700 MOCCASINS Drawstring Elastic Waist SWEAT PANTS -MVP, boys softball. LEGION LOSES Coach R. Monk and Coach Ted Wilson’s Back Mountain Legion nine dropped their opening game 7-1 last week when the boys were unable to solve Pittston’s hurler Mark Ambrose. Ambrose hurled a two hit ball game for the Pitts- ton nine while fanning: 14 on Pittston’s Atlas Field in West Pittston. Back Mountain scored its lone run in the sixth inning. Steve Federici hit a double and Jerry Roll- man sent him home with single. They were the only hits the local nine col- lected off Ambrose who hurled a perfect game until that point. HAWKS WIN BIG Coach Chip Sorber’s Back Mountain Hawks pounded Novak for 13 hits to take a big 13-6 win over Mifflinburg last week. IN the Tri-County Baseball League. Sorber drove in three runs for the Hawks and Hitchcock and Yanchick collected two each. HALL LONE WINNER Lake-Lehman’s Giro Hall was the lone Back Mountain cinderman to take a first at this year’s State Track Competition. Black Knight Giro Hall and Dallas’ Felicia Tucker were the only two Back Mountain athletes to advance to the finals in the Friday semi-finals at Ship- pensburg State College the weekend of May 27-28. KNIGHTS LOSE Meyers Mohawks defeated the TL.ake-L.ehman Knights 7-4 to force Bishop Hoban into a playoff for the title in the Wyoming Valley High School Base- ball League. The Mohawks drive out four homeruns in picking up the win. They took a 3-0 lead in the first inning sparked by a Knight error which put Dave Amory on second base. Amory scored on J. Zupa’s single to the outfield and Joe Irvin knocked out the Mohawks first homer to give Meyers a 3-0'lead. In the second inning Zupa drove out a. homerun to give the Mohawks a 4-0 lead. He hit has second home run in the game when he led off in the fourth. LADIES END SEASON Lake-Lehman’s Lady Black Knights ended the 1983 softball season with wins over Bishop O'Reilly and Meyers to take the Wyoming Valley confer- ence title with a 16-0 record. The Lady Knights took the Queenswomen 12-7 behind Jill Solinski’s 12 strikeouts in five innings of relief pitching and Billi Jo Sorber’s two strikeouts in the first two innings. The two hurlers gave up only four: hits between them. Both Sorber and Solinski gave up eight walks each. LL GIRLS LOSE Lake-Lehman’s Lady Knights picked up their game with Bishop O’Hara last Thursday afternoon with one out and a runner on third in the top of the fifth inning but went on fo lose 1-0 to the Bruins. The Back Mountain girls fell behind 1-0 in the third inning when Bishop O’Hara scored on Jill Solinski’s wild pitch. O’Hara girls went without a hit for four and one-third inning oft the Lady Knights star hurler. Solin- ski struck out seven during that time but gave up eight walks. On Thursday afternoon, Solinski gave up only one hit to O’Hara, who was unable to push across another run. LAWN TRACTORS & WALK-BEHIND © OR RIDER MOWERS THE Tourney Is Set The Harveys Lake Bass- masters will be hosting a pro tournament Saturday, June 18 from dawn to 2 p.m: Ed Straka, a member of the Harveys Lake Bass- masters, has announced that weigh-in for this tour- nament will be at 2 p.m. at the access area at Sandy Beach. An amateur bass tourna- ment will be held Sunday, June, 19, starting at 8 a.m. and ending at 2 p.m. This tournament will be for the young fisherman 12 to 15 years of age, male and female, and 11 years of age and under male and female. Weigh-in will be at 2 DI m. at the access area. ’ Algmingm Siding Gutters % #1 Drywall - Windows - Ceilings DISCOUNT- SR. CITIZENS Free Estimates—Insured REDEVELOPMENT WORK Call 823-5524 or 735-5884 Lite Bee r Run The countdown has begun for Sunday’s Back Mountain Lite Beer Run to be held at College Miseri- cordia in Dallas, The featured 10-mile race and a four-mile event will start at 10 am. and a one-mile run for children 11 years and under will get More than 800 partici- summer. Let us bud one for your backyard. Easy bank hnancing svviaiis. pants are expected to enter the event, sponsored by Premium Brands. One dollar from the $4 entry fee in the one-mile feature will be donated to the Wyoming Valley Chil- dren’s Museum. 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