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Save that goal!
Sue Wells shows what a soccer goalkeeper is
supposed to do. Well, maybe she isn't sup-
posed to close her eyes, but she did catch the
ball. Sue plays for the Roughnecks in the Back
Mountain Soccer Association.
By SHEILA HODGES
Staff Correspondent
The Suburban Junior Football League, or mini football
as it has become popularly known, is currently prepar-
ing for the 1983-84 season.
With regular season games scheduled to begin on Aug.
28, the teams are hard at work. The Super Bowl game,
scheduled for late October, will pit the winner of the
Suburban League against the championship team of the
Pittston League.The Suburban League consists of the
Dallas Cowboys, the Kingston Township Raiders, the
Lake-Lehman Lins, the Northwest Eagles, the Nanti-
coke Rams, the Newport Nutcrackers, the Hanover
The Dallas Cowboys and the Kingston Township
Raiders, who both practice at the Dallas Senior High
School, have A teams (12 and 13 year olds) and B teams
(9, 10 and 11 year olds) and require a weight limit of 133
pounds.
Bob Shotwell, president of the Back Mountain Club,
finds satisfaction in working with the young gridders.
“There is a great deal for them to learn,” Shotwell
said. “But they seem to pick up the rules rather quickly.
It is satisfying to teach these youngsters the rules and
ground-work of the game.’
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By SHEILA HODGES
Staff Correspondent
The Back Mountain Youth Soccer Association will
open its sixth season Aug. 20 with a record number of
players. The Association has grown from 75 boys and
girls in 1978 to 740 in 1983.
The players are between seven and 14 years of age
and, although there are almost twice as many boys
and girls now, it is most certainly a co-ed sport.
This year the league consists of four divisions-
Division I (13 and 14 years old); Division II (11 and
12 years old); Division III (nine and 10 years old);
and Division IV (seven and eight years old).
The original move to introduce soccer into the
Dallas schools began in 1978.
Following rejection of a proposal, Clyde “Skip”
Davis, Larry Griffin, John Isaac and Bruce Kern
started a’ clinic-type soccer organization to teach the
game’s basics to youngsters of the area. The Back
Mountain Youth Soccer Association was formed the
following year - with 210 players and Clyde Davis as
its president.
George Lister assumed the role of president of the
association in 1980. Lister had been instrumental in
helping to start the organization the previous year.
During Lister’s tenure, even more growth was seen
as parents, coaches and referees became involved.
In 1981, the association became the first league in
this area to join the Eastern Pennsylvania Youth
Soccer Association. This regional organization is
affiliated with the United States Youth Soccer
Association and holds clinics for training coaches and
referees. Thirteen adults of the Back Mountain
Soccer Association became certified as trainers and
in 1982%and now train others.
This year, Ken Kozel takes over the presidency.
Other officers are George Lister, treasurer; Rod
Sennett, secretary; Frank Chadwick, registrar; Rich-
ard Snowdon, head coach; Arno Miller, head referee;
Paul Saneholtz, equipment chairman; Herb Wiedlick,
field chairman; and Ray Dennis, publicity chairman.
The Association was formed with the philosophy
- that all players should play for at least half the game
and that children of all skill levels would mix
together. The game is played equally by boys and
girls.
The ‘mushrooming effect” has taken hold of
soccer, also, as leagues have been formed in Plains,
Mountaintop, Forty Fort and Wyoming Valley.
learned while playing soccer for four years in
the Back Mountain Soccer Association. Alistair
is a member of the Roughnecks team in
Division II this year.
The Back Mountain Soccer Association feels that it
was instrumental in having soccer accepted in the
Dallas School District and hopes to be able to extend
the age limit to 15 next year.
The youngsters practice once a week and play two
games every week from mid August to late October.
At the end of the 1983 season, there will be a double
elimination championship to determine the champi-
onship teams in each division.
For the first time this year, there will be a special
team. The Traveling Team, which consists of 17
players chosen after last year’s season, will play in
the Lehigh Valley League U-14s. This will give the
local youngsters an opportunity to meet teams from
all over the area and a chance to compete at a higher
standard of play.
What counts is that the youngsters involved in the
Back Mountain Soccer Association are having fun:
As one young player said, “It’s a game in which 1
can run around all the time, have fun and not get
bored.”
Flock wins car
Bill Flock of Dallas was
the winner of a 1984 Grand
Prix, courtesy of Brons-
burg and Hughes Pontiac
Sales in Kingston for scor-
ing a hole-in-one July 31
during the 18th annual
Potentate Golf Tourna-
ment at the Irem Temple
Country Club.
Flock, 55, hit a 7-iron to
score his first hole-in-one
in 25 years of playing golf.
The automobile was
offered to the first person
who scored a hole-in-one
on the 152-yard, par-3 17th
hole during the three- -day
tournament.
Bass event held
The Walsh Brothers,
Greg and Kevin, of Scran-
ton, won first prize in the
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Eastern Bass Fishing
Association’s team tourna-
ment held July 30 at Har-
veys lake. The Walshes
pulled in eight bass for a
total of 14 pounds, 1 ounce.
The tournament, spon-
sored by Merrill Lynch
and Stroh’s Beer, featured
prizes worth $6,000 in cash
and merchandise.
from Pennsylvania, New
Jersey and New York
weighed in 101 large and
smallmouth bass for a
total of 198 pounds.
The Walshes, as first
place finishers, won over
$1,000 in cash and mer-
chandise. :
Scores ace
Jim McCann of Trucks-
ville scored his first hole-
in-one in his 20 years of
golfing, last week at the
No. 4 hole at Emanon
Country Club.
McCann used a seven
iron to hit his hole-in-one
on the 165 yard hole. He
there are
ment.
ers.
he said.
Nanticoke defeated the
Back Mountain National,
9-5, to move ahead in the
winners division of the
annual Teeners Baseball
Tournament.
5, Steve Distasion started
the inning with a walk. He
Jezewski. Staring hurler
Krupinski walked catcher,
Pierson grounded out then
shorts
Begliomini, Don Clarke
and Mike Fedor.
McCann is a production
manager at Renold Trans-
mission, West Pittston.
Harris gets third
Gerard and Viola Harris
of Harveys Lake competed
in the 1983 World Horse-
shoe Tournament held
July 28 through Aug. 6 in
Statesville, North Caro-
lina.
Viola received a trophy
for third place in her class
“in the ladies division.
Other local people
attending the tournament
were Alvin ‘Peanuts’ and
Frank Smigiel of Old
Forge, who also received a
trophy for third place in
the men’s division.
Hockey physicals
Robert Cicon, assistant
athletic director at Dallas
High School, announces
that physicals for new
field hockey candidates
Jezewski and Krupinski
scored on Wayne Oplin-
ger’s double. Mark
Sadowski hit a run scoring
single to bring in Oplinger.
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Fort-Swoyer edged the
2-1,.: when. Bill Martin
knocked in. Ken. Kachmer
with a single to leftfield in
the third inning.
will be held today, Aug. 17,
at 8:45 p.m.
Guide available
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1983-84 hunting seasson
fast approaching, more
than 100 pages of current
hunting information are
available in the National
Rifle Association’s new
Hunter’s Planning Guide
and Directory.
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safety and education for
more than 100 years, pro;
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hunters and sportsmen
nationwide.
The publication costs
$4.00.
Further information on
the new guide is available
from the NRA’s Hunter
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20036 or phone (202) 828-
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