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By LEE L. RICHARDS
Sports Columnist
The coaches won’t need any-
thing to engage their players’
attention and arouse their enthu-
siasm this week during practice.
This game is for the bragging
rights in the Back Mountain
when Dallas and Lake-Lehman
clash.
Both coaches believe the game
will be a grind-it-
out low scoring
affair, with the
team executing
the best comin
out the victor.
Dallas Coac
Ron Rybak says,
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think both teams are about
even. I’ve got a lot of respect for
the coaching job Coach (Mark)
Kirk has done with the Lake-
Lehman team. They're a gutty
group that plays hard every
game we’ve seen. Our players
are going to have to meet that
challenge.”
While Rybak is a veteran of
the Old Shoe game, this will be
Kirk’s second Pier 10 Brawl.
“I was somewhat surprised at
all of the enthusiasm generated
around the school and in the
Back Mountain last year,” said
Kirk. “I feel I’ve got a better
perspective of the impact this
game has this time around.
Dallas is similar to our football
team. We don’t have high-pow-
ered offenses, but we’ll get after
you defensively.”
Both teams rely on running
the football, controlling the
clock and the game. Both teams
have aggressive defensive units.
While neither team has passed
the football consistently, putting
the ball up in this game could
determine the winner.
Kirk has deployed his people
very smartly on defense.
Because of their lack of size, the
Knights couldn’t take folks on
head-to-head.
Rybak likes to disguise his
defense with a bunch of looks,
stunts and firing his linebackers
in hopes of disrupting the oppo-
nents’ offensive scheme.
One thing which was evident
about both teams over the
course of the seasons is that
they are competitive and don’t
easily accept defeat.
Carrying the Lake-Lehman
banner will be Stu Thomas, John
Williams, Marty Onzik, Ed Gav-
lick, Chris VanGorder, Chris
Wargo, Willy Cadwalader and
Jeff Martin.
Thomas rushed for 208 yards
recently and that takes a heap
of heart.
Dallas’ hopes of keeping the
Old. Shoe will rest with Greg
Manusky, who is capable of
dominating things defensively.
He is a player on both sides of
the football and will have to be
neutralized by the Knights.
Others expected to play promi-
nent roles are Joe Walsh, Bernie
Walsh, Mike Borton, Sam Noone
and Paul Lewis to name a few.
CLIPBOARD NOTES: Had
nice visit with Boston College
QB Coach Tom Coughlin before
Army game recently. He was
elated over the Eagles triumph
over Penn State. Tom told me
the BC squad knew it was going
to win from outset and the three-
week layoff didn’t hamper the
Eagles execution at all...Doug
Flutie is the best QB in the East.
Former Army Coach, Tom
Cahill, Army SID Bob Kinney
and I did some partying Friday
prior to the game. We also
reminisced about some of the
good times we had
together...West Point is still one
of the best places I've ever been
for a football game. It’s simply
magnificent in the fall.
Boston College can be the best
team in the East if it defeats
Alabama.
I understand Maryland and
Tennesee will be going to the
Citrus Bowl.
Crestwood’s Matt LaVigna
was red-shirted recently by the
Pitt grid staff. Matt suffered
severe ankle injury which put
him out of action for several
weeks. He’s got a chance to be a
fine player in the future.
Alabama Coach Ray Perkins
complained to the ECAC office a
week in advance when he saw
Don Guman, father of former
PSU star Mike, was going to
work PSU-Alabama clash.
While Jack O’Rourke blew the
Tide’s winning TD, he’s been
ripped so bad it was learned
from a reliable source he’s con-
templating calling it quits after
season. He should! As I stated
here after the sorry call,
0’Rourke was out of position.
Also, the film Channel 16’s Joe
“Twilight” Zone forwarded to
the ECAC showed nothing. The
catch was good in the eyes of
everyone.
Penn State visits Pittsburgh
this Saturday where the Nittany
Lions haven’t tasted defeat since
1965. Pitt’s most recent win in
the Steel City was 1976 at Three
Rivers Stadium. Both teams
have the ability to win, it’s that
close. Pitt will have to play on
the level it did against Notre
Dame; otherwise, the Nittany
Lions will prevail.
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College Misericordia announces
the appointment of Albert C.
Clocker as head of the women’s
basketball team, and Evelyn
Behanna, MSN, as assistant coach.
Clocker, 32, is a former scout for
the Harlem Globetrotters and has
coached and played basketball for
17 years. Locally, Clocker coached
junior varsity basketball at E.L.
Meyers High School.
In 1980, Clocker coached the New
Jersey Women’s All Stars in The
Big Apple All American Classic and
scouted for the Philadelphia Fox
Womens Pro-basketball League.
Clocker received his associate
degree in business administration
from Lackawanna Junior College.
Behanna, associate professor of
nursing at College Misericordia,
received her masters of science
degree in nursing from the Univer-
sity of Pennsylvania.
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basketball team. She was the first
woman to hold that position at the
University.
The Lady Highlanders will host
their first game on Saturday, Nov.
19, at 1 p.m. when they face Gwy-
nedd- -Merey College.
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The Dallas Soccer Parents Club
will hold a meeting on Thursday,
Nov. 17, at 7:30 p.m. at the Dallas
Senior High School. Films of pre-
vious games will be shown.
Club members will be calling on
Back Mountain businesses seeking
donations to help defray the cost of
Ellen Campbell, president of the
Association for Retarded Citizens of
Luzerne County, has announced that
physical examinations for all partic-
ipants in the Special Olympics will
be held Saturday, Nov. 19, from 9
a.m. to 12 noon in the Medical Arts
Pulling. Wyoming Avenue, Kings-
on
There will be no charge for the
examination which has been made
possible through the combined
jackets for team members.
The club is glad to see Brian
Moore, a member of the Dallas
Senior High School soccer team, up d
and around these days. Brian was 4
injured in the District 2 title game [
on Nov. 4.
efforts of the Association for
Retarded Citizens and the Family
Practice Residency Program. A
medical form is necessary which
may be obtained from the attending
school or Day Program and will
also be available in the office of the
examining physician.
Carol Smith is serving as co-
ordinator of the program. Further
information may be had by calling
the ARC office at 71 N. Franklin St.,
Wilkes-Barre.
Giro Hall, a graduate of Lake-
Lehman High School and the 1983.
state cross country and 1600-meter
champion, has stopped running
competitively and has given up a
four-year partial scholarship to
Penn State University.
Hall, who has been plagued with
recurring injuries, is no longer run-
ning track or cross country for the {
Nittany Lions and claims he has "gg {
run in almost a month. y
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