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By LEE L. RICHARDS
‘Sports Columnist
We appreciate the assistance from the Lake-Lehman
school officials and wrestling Coach Ed Ladamus in
organizing the upcoming wrestling clinic which will
feature Coach Rich Lorenzo and his PSU staff.
Rich, a long time pal since his wrestling days for the
Nittany Lions, is considering bringing along a couple
of his standout matmen. John Fritz, former NCAA
champ, is another excellent clinician. He has played
key role in the Nittany Lions rise on the national level.
Lorenzo has been the Eastern Wrestling League’s
Coach of the Year the past two seasons.
Why the turn around in Penn State wrestling? Give
some credit to St. Joe. It seems when he was the AD,
St. Joe, who likes wrestling to an extent, decided to
pump some much needed money into the program.
Lions really never had the full compliment of scholar-
ships like the Oklahomas and Iowas in the past.
However, when Lorenzo took over the reins from
Bill Koll, whom I have always believed was one of the
best around, he emphasized from the beginning the
necessary steps PSU would have to take to be a major
power. Lorenzo has a well-laid plan and the Nittany
Lions aren’t too far away from finishing in the top five
in the country.
Ever since I worked at the Centre Daily Times in
State College back in 1967, I have believed Penn State
could and will win a national championship in
wrestling. At that time, there wasn’t a whole lot of
money being put into the program and, consequently
PSU would have only several quality wrestlers on
scholarship. That has all changed in recent years.
PSU has a very strong wrestling booster club and the
Lions are attracting top-notch wrestlers in bigger
numbers now. :
The last two years, Lorenzo’s teams have won the
Eastern Mat Poll which is presented to the top dual
meet team in Eastern Collegiate ranks. I won’t be at
all surprised to see the Blue and White dominate again
this season.
CLIPBOARD NOTES: Elated to learn former Dallas
gridders Greg Dukinas and Jerry Rollman have made
an immediate impact on the Moravian program. Both
are not bashful when it comes to knocking folks
around on the football field.
The CBS team of Pat Hayden and Gary Bender is
too redundant and seems to sensationalize every play.
When they mentioned West Virginia had inside track
Run for
PSU soccer team
to the Sugar Bowl if the Mountaineers beat Pitt, I
almost fell off my chair. That’s pure lunacy! Only five
games into the season, trips to Penn State and Miami
down the road. Get serious, fellows!
Speaking of West Virginia, I am still not convineed
the Mountaineers are a good football team. They lack
the exceptional running back and speedsters at the
receiver slots. They have a lot of players performing
above their ability at the present time. :
One of the big disappointments thus far this season
is the lackluster play of the Penn State defense. I
believed it would be more of a factor in the early
going.
Did you see the rinky-dink maneuver by the Jets’
Mark Gastineau on the side lines during the recent
Monday night game? He was arm wrestling with the
hit with a fine.
ABC’s Beano Cook is still stumbling around with his
college football insights. Last week he was extolling
Arizona as the next national champ. The Wildcats had
over a 20-point lead on Cal and left the Bear tie them.
Come on, Beano, get dkwn to reality. He also claimed
the PAC 10 was the best conference going. At the
present time, I would cast my vote to the SEC as the
most competitive. :
Here’s my Super Seven - 1-Nebraska, 2-Texas, 3-
Alabama, 4-North Carolina, 5-Florida, 6-Auburn, 7-
Miami.
Here are some interesting tid-bits on the NFL: 37 of
the first 70 games played have been decided by seven
points or less. The visiting teams have won 40 times to
30 for the home clubs.
Concerning collegiate football, I'm convinced after
the early going this season that if you don’t have a
gifted quarterback you are only going to be ordinary
at best. That's the reason for Pitt and PSU struggling.
Joe Urban is smiling these days over Pitt’s Dan
Marino getting the starting nod with the Dolphins.
Marino was much maligned by the Pittsburgh Press
performance. Urban became a Marino fan from our
visit to the Pitt-Notre Dame game. Danny always had
a lot of style. Urban has predicted big things for
Marino, but starting for a team which went to the
Super Bowl last season? That’s incredible.
stride for Racers must pre-register by
The Penn State/Wilkes-Barre soccer team, under the direction of Coach Bill Kaiser, has played
eight of 14 games scheduled this season and boasts a current record of 4-2-2. In the
Commonwealth Campus Athletic Conference, the team is tied for fourth place with Co-Captain
i Bob Aaron receiving one of the three top scores in the Conference: Shown here are members of
Hi the team. From left, kneeling, Henry.Van: Dyke, Rockway; N:J.; Bert Baloga, Dallas; Greg Kohli,
@ Trucksville;. Andy Rose, Westwood, “NJi; Bob Aaron, Kingston and Terry Spence, Montrose.
Standing, Billy Reynolds, "Dallas; Dave Walski, Swoyersville; Kelly Pearson, Kingston; Dave
pride...whatever your pdce, the first
“Dairy Dash” set for Sunday, Oct.
30 in Scranton, will give serious and
not-so-serious runners an opportun-
ity to ‘shake a leg” and help
promote the virtues of the American
dairy industry.
Trophies will be presented to first-
Friday, Oct. 21. Fees are $5 with a
T-shirt and $3 without a T-shirt.
Registration on the day of the race
will be $4 and starts at 8:30 a.m.
mation contact Russ Gunton at
(717) 836-2181 or write the Pennsyl-
P.O. Box ‘“C”, Tunkhannock, Pa.
RGR
Half O’ Nichols shut out the Suds
In the George Shupp League, End-
less Mountains blanked Fino’s Phar-
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ciates took all from Roberts Oil
sparked by S. Bonomo’s 551, H.
Bennett’s 536 and D. Purvin’s 529.
Wendell hit the lanes for a 225
game. Gino’s Shoe Store picked up
three from Katyl TV sparked by
Gino’s 548. The TV men were
headed by L. Lavelle’s 220 (595).
Disque Funeral Home earned three
from Dallas Nursery. The nursery
men’s T. Wilson was high for both-
teams with 533.
Daring’s Market girls took four
from Fashion Vending in the Ladies
Country League while Gordon Insur-
ance copped three from G.H. Harris
Associates. J. Lamoreaux rolled 182
and P. Gordon hit pins. for 473.
Castlettes dropped three points to
the Grotto Pizza five despite T.
Langdon’s 477. A. Hospodar rolled
222 (525) for the pizza team.
Trucksville C shut out Orange B
in the Back Mt. Church League.
Carverton A picked up three from
Shavertown A, R. Daubert spilling
pins for 577. Ted Wilson toppled pins
for 521 to lead the Lutherans to
three from Orange A and East
Wright scattered pins for 579 to aid
Shavertown B in copping three from
Trucksville, B. Maple Grove made
itr three over Carverton B.
In the Idetown Compact League,
the Corvettes blanked the Firebirds
while the Aries took all from the
Citations whose L. Wolfe rolled 531.
Capris picked up three from
LaBarons and the Pintos took three
from the Camaros whose C. Doty hit
pins for 187 (487).
N. Moser tumbled pins for 174 to
lead Brent Long girls to three points
from Franklin’s in the Bowlerette
League. Tom Reese and the Hoagie
Br divided evenly.
Two weeks of bowling in the
Imperialette League had American
Building taking three from Hum-
phrey Apparel and shutting outthe
Jean Shop. After losing to the build-
ing girls Humphreys dropped four
to Scavone Motors. The Jean Shop
took Lombardo Bakery for three
points and Lombardo girls dropped
four to Mahaffey Oil. The previous
week Scavone Motors shut out
Mahaffey Oil. Hitting high scores
were M. Ritts 180 (501), J. Mekeel
(486), J. Cummings 188, D. Zurinski
181 and J. Stacy 175.
In Bonomo’s Major League, G.H.
Harris blanked Back Mt. Sporting
Goods paced by D. Purvin’s 216
(580). F. Stevens rolled 215-218 (606)
and K. Orkwis posted 543 but it
wasn’t enough as Charlies All Stars
dropped three to the Beach Com-
to three points from Sweet Valley
Outfitters while the Hambos took
three from the Bermudas.
The Back Mountain Youth Soccer
Association will hold a champion-
in Divisions I, II, and III. The
tournament will begin Oct. 15 and
each division to take place on Nov.
6.
There are seven teams entered in
and 15 teams in Division III.
A double elimination system will
be used throughout the tournament,
with the exception of the finals,
where a champion will be deter-
will be played on Saturday and
Sunday afternoons.
The final game in each division
will be held on Sunday, Nov. 6. The
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Division I game will be at Penn
State at 2:30. The Division II final
12:30, and the Division III playoff
will be held at Lake-Lehman Junior
High School at 12:30.
The Back Mountain Youth Soccer
play home games on Saturday, Nov.
12, and Saturday, Nov. 19. Both
games will be played at 2:30 p.m. at
Penn State-Wilkes-Barre Campus.
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JOHN FRITZ
PSU coach
will speak
at clinic
John Fritz, assistant wrestling
coach at Penn State University, will
be one of the guest lecturers for The
Dallas Post wrestling clinic sched-
uled for Sunday, Oct. 23, at Lake-
Lehman High School. The seminar-
type clinic will begin at 10:30 a.m.
A 1975 graduate of Penn State,
Fritz’ is in his fourth year as an
assistant coach for the Lions and
brings 12 years of collegiate experi-
ence as a wrestler and coach with
the Penn State program.
Fritz, who finished third in the
1973 and 1974 NCAA championships
at 126 pounds, also claimed Eastern
Intercollegiate Wrestling Associa-
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