Sports
i THE DALLAS POST, WEDNESDAY, AUGUST 3, 1983 13
Dallas Post Dallas Post/Ed Campbell
Teamwork
Laura Poynton, above left, and Brett Gauntlett, above right, show their form in last Thursday’s
minor league title game at the Dallas Little League Field. Laura and Brett, members of the Reds
team, helped their team to a 3-1 victory over the Phillies for the minor league championship in
the Back Mountain Little League. Laura, one of two girls on the Reds team and one of three
girls in the Minor Leagues, is the catcher for the Reds. Brett picked up the victory from the
| ‘Menendez leads
Plains Stars past
Back Mountain
Plains hurler Chris Menendez was wild on the mound,
walking eight batters in the first three innings of his
team’s All-Star game against the Back * Mountain
National team last week.
Menendez, however, made up for his mistakes in the
top of the fourth inning when he hit a homer over the
centerfield fence to break a 1-1 tie to give Plains a 2-1
win and the District 16 B title.
Back Mountain was unable to take advantage of the
walks and left nine men stranded on base in the first
three innings.
With one out in the third, Dave Kelly came in as relief
for Menendez and gave up a single to the first man he
faced. That was his last as he settled down and turned
Dallas Post/Dan Walsh
All-Star style
Charlotte Slocum, above left, coach of the Back Mountain Nationals Girls All-Star. team is
caught in a pensive moment during last week's game against the Canton All Stars. At right,
Kelly Wandel is shown heading to third base while a member of the Canton team awaits the
throw from a teammate. The Back Mountain Girls picked up an 8-0 victory over Canton prior to
winning the Section 3 championship in Shippensbury on Saturday.
' Back Mountain girls
win Section 3 title
advanced the local girls to
Saturday’s game with
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as catcher. Suzie played a
The local girls scored
great game.
three runs in the top of the
Back Mountain National
All Stars Girls Softball
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team took the Section 3
championship last Satur-
‘day afternoon by picking
up an 8-7 come-from-
‘behind victory over Ship-
‘pensbury.
“It was a great game,”
said Coach Charlotte
Slocum. ‘‘The girls prac-
ticed hard all week for it
and never quit: I' wouldn't
let them quit ~ they had
worked too hard to win
this one. Now they go into
the State Competition,
Aug. 4, 5 and 6, at West
Point.
“I’m not sure which
West Point as yet, there’s
one out near Pittsburgh
and one near Lansdale but
we’ll be there Aug. 3.”
Irem aids
Red Cross
Irem Temple pool par-
ticipated in this year’s Red
Cross Swim-A-Cross event
Valley Chapter, American
Red Cross.
The special event is a
week-long fund raising
event in which each of the
participating pools is
scheduled for one day of
swimming during the week
grams.
Top dollar raisers will
receive great prizes
donated by local busi-
nesses. This year’s grand
prizes are the following:
20” High Rise Huffy Bike;
2 Great Adventure tickets
including Safari donated
by Cameo Travel & Tour
Inc.; Academy Broadway
Tanning Mattress from
Stroud’s; Set of
McDonald’s Glasses
donated by McDonald's
Restaurants; $25 Gift Cer-
tificate from Hess’s; Rear
Bike Pack donated by
Sickler Bike Shop; Par-
chessi Game from Pome-
roy’s; Othello Game
donated by Pomeroy’s;’
$10 Gift Certificate at
Lewis and Duncan; 10”
Portable Black and White
Tv donated by Katyl’'s TV;
third frame to make it 5-4
but their opponents made
it 6-4 in the bottom of the
fourth. The Back Mountain
girls scored four runs in
the top of the sixth and
hung on to hold Shippens-
burg to only one run in the
bottom of the final inning.
In, an unusual situation,
Shippensburg’s coach
picked a Back Mountain
player to re-enter the
game when Slocum used
up her bench due to inju-
ries. The selection couldn’t
have been better since it
was Suzie Slocum, one of
the team’s finest to go in
Leading in the batting
box were Cindy Slocum
with a double, Kelly
Wandel, Michele Sweitzer,
Lori Cannon and Lori
Lopasky.
Coach Slocum also com-
mended Joyce Tinner for a
stellar performance.
In lat. Wednesday's game
against the Canton All-
Stars Back Mountain’s
Joyce Tinner and Kelly
Wandel knocked out two
hits each and added an
RBI apiece to aid Michelle
Sweitzer in her two-hit 8-0
shutout over the visitors.
It was that victory that
Shippensburg for the
regional title.
On Wednesday, Sweitzer
struck out seven and
walked only three in pick-
ing up the win.
The Back Mountain girls
had nine hits in the game,
Cindy Slocum. They
scored four runs in the
second inning, driving
Canton’s hurtler Sarah
Bentley from the mound.
The local girls added
another run in the fourth
and two more in the sixth,
clinching the win.
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