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Dallas Post/Dan Walsh
Staff Correspondent
“I'm finding this year a
lot easier,”’ said Lake-
Lehman football coach,
Mark Kirk, following last
Wednesday's practice ses-
sion. “The boys and I
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Hopeful
By CHARLOT DENMON
Staff Correspondent
“It looks good for us this
season,’’ said Lake-
Lehman’s assistant coach
Flossie Finn last Thurs-
day. “We have 25 girls, all
returning lettermen. They
have a lot of desire,
they're dedicated and
show a lot of promise and
most of them went to
hockey camp at Bucknell
this summer. That did
them a great deal of
good.”
Finn was coaching the
girls field hockey team
last week while head
coach Jean Johnson Lipski
was away.
‘“We have some good
girls returning in Marian
Mills, Kim Fey, Sue and
Sandy Diecton, Joan
Skopic, Amy conaway, Sue
Bonsavage, Lori Lopasky,
Pam Solinski and Kelly
Wandell. Our greatest loss
is Rebecca Clifford, who
moved to North Carolina
but Debbie Haefele is play-
ing goalie and doing a
great job. Skopic and Sue
Dicton are very agressive.
Deanne Williamson has
great potential and we
have ‘some promising
sophomores coming off
their freshmen champion-
ship last season.”
Finn said the league will
be strong this year and
believes the competition
will be fierce.
The Lady Knights’ open-
ing game will be with
the league this year but
District champs for the
past thre years. It wil be
an early test of the Lady
Knights’ ability.
know each other better.
They know what I expect
from them. Last year,
everything was new to
them.
“We are still a relatively
small team, but we have
more young kids out this
year which is a good sign.
All of the kids have a lot of
enthusiasm.”
Kirk is in his second
year of coaching at Lake-
Lehman and says he is
well pleased with both his
assistants and the attitude
of the boys. He lost two
assistants, Shorty Hitch-
cock, who is taking a posi-
tion in another area, and
chuck Peterman, who
went to Wyoming Valley
West.” Dwight Barbacci,
last season,
Jones:
‘1 Can’t
Predict’
By CHARLOT DENMON
Staff Correspondent
In a pre-season scrim-
mage between Dallas High
School girls varsity field
hockey team and Dallas
High Alumnae, the alum-
nae team pulled off a 5-3
win.
“It was a great scrim-
mage for us,” said Dallas
Coach Robyn Jones. “It
gave me an opportunity to
watch my girls play and
catch their mistakes which
you can’t do in regular
practice.
“There is no way of pre-
dicting this season, it’s
going to be a tough league,
the toughest it has ever
been. Abington Heights is
coming into the league this '
year. They have been dis-
trict champs for the past
three years and are a Divi-
sion AAA team - the same
as Dallas. In addition,
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Forty three boys are out
for the team, 11 of whom
are seniors and returning
lettermen. Among those
returning who saw a lot of
playing time last season
are Quarterback John Wil-
liams, Halfback Chris
Wargo, Offensive and
Defensive Linemen Marty
Onzik and Chris Van
Gorder, Offensive Guard
and Defensive End Al
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Michaels and Center and
Linebacker Bill Norris.
“We had a team meeting
last Monday,” said Kirk.
“And I told the kids there
were five points to success
- Poise, Pride, Courage,
Discipline and Confidence.
Confidence is what we
lacked last year until near
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nearly every team in the
league sent their girls to
summer camp.
‘““We’re going to take
just one game at a time
and work toward improv-
ing our record with each
game.”
Jones has 27 girls out for
the team, including eight
seniors who are all return-
ing lettermen. They are
Beth Karnosfky, Kristi
Boudreaux, Kim Dough-
erty, Susan King, Mari-
beth Watchulonis, Cristi
Strauser, Marlyn wis-
niewski and Heidi
Yakowski. There are only
four juniors, Chris Long,
Amy Aston, Jill Radzinski
and Leslie Billman, and 16
sophomores, Julie
Yakowski, Lee Ann Petro,
Linda King, karen Wall,
Stacie Orlando, Carla
Orlando, Karen Saraka,
Lisa Gabel, Courtney
Dick, Michelle Bren,
Cheryl Harding and Mich-
ele Chimock.
“The core of the team
will be Cristi Strauser,
Amy Aston and Jill Rad-
zinski,” said Jones.
The Luzerne County
Recreation Department,
through the cooperation of
the Edwardsville Boro
Recreation Department, is
sponsoring its First
Annual Double Elimina-
tion Horseshoe Tourna-
ment on Saturday, Sept. 10
and Sunday, Sept. 11 at the
Edwardsville Boro Recre-
ment is open to all horse-
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shoe players in the County
and entrance fee is
required.
Teams interested in
entering the competition
can do so by contacting
County Recreation Super-
visor, Bob Mullery, at 825-
1802; Ed (Zeke) Ziko,
Tournament Director, at
287-5752; or John Bon-
czewski at the Edwards-
ville Boro Building, 287-
2407.
the end of the season. This
year we meet Tunkhan-
nock in the opening game
then we hit the big schools,
Coughlin, Pittston and
Valley West. I want the
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boys to think win, not just
keep up with these schools,
but to go out on the field
confident that they can
win. That’s what we need
to do.”
player: stretchesiichis
session.
By CHARLOT DENMON
Staff Correspondent
season,”’ said Dallas head
coach Ron Rybak. ‘We
enthusiasm.
sophomores.”
some hard workers.
senior quarterbacks, Bernie
Walsh and Ken Thompson,
The Mountaineers were
Hazleton last Saturday and
scheduled to scrimmage
next Saturday will scrim-
Trojans at the Dallas field.
Ronald E. Rybak, Dallas
Senior High School Head
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Football Coach, invites all
parents and friends of the
football team to ‘‘Meet the
Team Night” Wednesday,
Aug. 27, at 6:30 p.m. in the
Dallas Junior High School
Gymnasium. Refresh-
ments will be served in the
A special performance
by the Dallas Senior High
School Cheerleaders,
under the direction of Mar-
yann Storz, will be
presented. 5
‘Shorty’
Resigns
Former Lake-Lehman
head wrestling coach
“Shorty”
mitted his official letter of
resignation from the dis-
trict to the administration
on Aug. 17, according to
John Zaleskas, high school
principal.
“Hitchcock is leaving
the district to accept a
position as reading spe-
cialist and head wrestling
coach at Springfield High
School, near Philadelphia,
in southeastern Pennsyl-
vania,” said Zaleskas.
“I will miss the area,
the kids and my many
friends,” said Hitchcock.
“I wish them all the suc-
cess in the world, but it’s
something I had to do. It’s
too good to pass up.
“] will be doing about
the same as I did at Lake-
Lehman - reading special-
ist, head wrestling coach,
assistant baseball coach
and assistant football
coach. Football practice
has already started and I
have been traveling back
and forth, but we have
found a house and will
move by Sept. 1.
“Springford will be a
challenge. It’s a triple A
school with more than
1,000 kids in 10th through
12th grades. My goal will
be to win a Division AAA
state championship.”
If Hitchcock achieves
that goal he will be the
first coach to win both a
Division AA and Division
AAA state championship.
While at Lake-Lehman, he
compiled a record of 80-19-
2 in wrestling and, in five
years, won four of five
division championships.
“Shorty’’ is the first
coach to bring a state
champion to a Back Moun-
tain School and in that
year, 1981, he had not one
but three state champs,
Mike Leskowsky, Rick and
Rocky bonomo. 1t marked
the first time in Pennsyl-
that three wrestlers from
one high school took Divi-
sion AA championships in
the same ‘year.
Hitchcock is well versed
in the sport of wrestling
and knew how to get the
most from his boys. He
was a national champion
and took second in the
world.
Bass
Tourney
Planned
The Harveys Lake Bass-
masters, at a recent meet-
ing, finalized plans for
their Third Annual Youth
Game Fish Derby, Aug. 27
at Harveys Lake.
and under and is divided
into. two age groups: 12
thru 15, and 11 and under.
As in the past, no fee is
required to enter the
derby, and prizes will be
awarded in each age group
for the following: most
total weight, heaviest,
longest, smallest, most
species and the special
‘‘Lowrance Lunker
Award’’ for the largest
bass.
This is the second event
this year for children spon-
sored by the Harveys Lake
Bassmasters, the first
being the Youth Trout-
Derby on the first day of
trout season. This year’s
event will feature, in addi-
tion to prizes by the Bass-
masters and the Harveys
Lake and Back Mtn. Busi-
nessmen, special awards &
prizes by Falcone Bever-
age, Lowrance Electron-
%
Boscov’s Dept. Stores.
This year, in cooperation
with the Harveys Lake
Bassmasters, the Luzerne
County Recreation Dept.
MR Adult Social Recrea-
tion Program will partici-
pate in the Back Mtn.
Businessmen, special
awards and prizes by Fal-
cone Beverage, Lowrance
Electronics, Abu-Garcia
Corp. :
The weigh-in will take
place at 2 p.m. at the
Grotto Marina. Hot dogs,
whimpies and soda-will be
provided to the young-
sters, compliments of the
Harveys Lake Bassmas-
ters and the Luzerne
County Recreation Dept.
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