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Prepping for season
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At Dallas
By CHARLOT M. DENMON
Statf Correspondent
Dallas Senior High School track
coach Bill Straitiff has 42 candi-
dates out for the spring track team,
13 of them returning lettermen. His
major problem to date is similar to
that of the other local track coaches
— the weather.
Straitiff has 23 seniors on this
season’s squad, all of them with
some experience.
“We have enough depth in the
distance running and in sprints,”
said Straitiff, “but in some of the
events we could use more. Mary
Ann Walsh, assistant coach, works
with our girls’ program and also
with our throwers. All of our girls
aren’t out for practice yet since
some are on the volleyball team and
some are in the play.
“In the meantime, Walsh is also
working with eight or 10 throwers
practicing for the shot put, javelin
and discus.”
Among returning lettermen,
Dallas has Steve Plesnar for the
high jump. He should do over six
feet this year. Bernie Riley is
expected to do better than 11 or 12
feet in the pole vault. Assistant
Steve Kaschenbach is working with
the jumpers and Pete Doyle is
working with the distance runners.
Straitiff is pleased with the coopera-
tive effort of the coaches and the
progress being made with the track
candidates.
Tony Tucker is one of the best
200m sprinters in the conference
this season and Mark Drasnin is
excellent in the 800m and 1600m
runs. Joe Ostrowski is practicing
the shotput and discus and has
already thrown over 40 feet in
practice. Ed Fedrow is_also doing
great with the discus. :
In addition to the seniors, there
are 10 juniors and 10 sophomores on
this season’s squad.
The Dallas girls’ team lost many
girls through graduation but
although short on numbers, they are
good on talent, according to Strai-
tiff. Amy Aston is back and is
looking towards states as a distance
runner. )
Sophomore Linda King, Junior
High District Champ, is expected to
do well in sprints and Junior High
District. Champ Sophomore Karen
Vloedman is expected to do well in
the javelin. Junior Linda Harvey
excels in the hurdles and triple
jump and Cheryl Gavigan is doing
well in the shot put, discus and
javelin. ;
Straitiff believes that despite the
girls getting started late, they will
make a good showing in the Dis-
tricts. He said that there are a lot of
strong teams in the league this year
but he believes the girls will be
strong contenders.
Straitiff also believes the boys
should have a good season although
it is too early in the season to
predict.
The girls open their season April
11 with Tunkhannock, the boys open
April 12 against Tunkhannock.
w Nice weather
As the approaching spring forces
winter to reluctantly release its icy
grip, the anticipation of nicer
weather ‘sees an increase in the
number of joggers and bicyclers on
city streets and country roads. Here
and there, recently empty baseball
diamonds come alive as teams
begin practice for the summer
season.
It has been a long, hard winter
and many of the participants got
little or no exercise since last fall.
Wayne Edmonds, Executive
Director of the Governor’s Council
on Physical Fitness and Sports,
suggests that if you havent’t kept up
any kind of fitness program all
winter, don’t try to pick up where
you left off last summer.
“Chances are you're in fairly
reasonable shape and it shouldn’t
take too much to get into condition.
If you’ve got a physical job you’ll be
in better condition than a person
who has a non-physical job. Non-
physical types who do a lot of
s prepared than the person whose job
requires sitting or standing in one
place all day, and so on.”
Edmonds said the most important
thing is to be realistic about your-
self. If anything, underestimate
your capabilities in th beginning to
avoid injury. He recommends get-
ting a physical checkup before
beginning any activity, to be sure
there are no hidden health prob-
lems.
Edmonds also has some advice
for getting back into your program.
“Ease into your program grad-
ually. Joggers should walk briskly
for a couple of miles before break-
ing into a trot. Bicyclers should take
short trips at an easy pace. Game
players should lob the ball around
or take nice easy swings with the
bat before getting into all out com-
petition. Swimmers should take a
couple of easy laps before trying to
set olympic records.”
One other thing Edmonds stressed
was for men to wear an athletic
supporter andwomen to wear a bra
that gives them support. Shoes
should also be properly fitted and
give support. And body protection
should be given when the sport calls
for it.
Finally, don’t overdo it. Set realis-
tic goals and maintain them. Don’t
raise your goals beyond your limits
More than 70 awards will be
presented to top finishers in Wyo-
ming Seminary Alumni Associa-
tions’s 10 Kilometer Run and one-
mile Fun Run. In conjunction with
the pre, school’s Alumni Day activi-
ties, the runs will be held on Satur-
day, May 12, at Nesbitt Field,
corner of Hoyt and Chestnut Streets,
Kingston. It will be co-sponsored by
Custom Management Corporation,
Kingston.
Wheel-measured and traffic con-
trolled, the 6.2 mile course will run
from Nesbitt Field on the school’s
Kingston campus to the Lower
School campus in Forty Fort and
back. For registration forms or
additional information, contact the
Alumni Office at 288-9574 or 287-
8434.
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and then try to beat them. The
objective is to build and maintain a
healthy body, not to invite injury.
“Your body is a durable piece of
machinery which at the same time
can be fragile. It depends on how
you treat it. Treat it well and it will
last you a lifetime,” Edmonds said.
USED BIKE
By LEE L. RICHARDS
Sports Columnist
CLIPBOARD NOTES:
Lake-Lehman coach Rodger
Bearde and Joe Gries did splendid
job in calling play-by-play of North-
west Rangers title tilt.
Lake-Lehman grid coach Mark
Kirk is already getting number of
inquiries regard-
ing Chris Van- :
Gorder. He could
be top recruit in
Wyoming Valley
this coming
season, along
with Valley
West’s Ed
Michaels.
It’s good to see Coach Walter
Michaels prowing sidelines again.
He’ll do the job with the Jersey
Generals.
NCAA roundball tournament is
history now, but it had its share of
outstanding games. As predicted
North Catolina and Kentucky didn’t
win or make it to the final game.
When I mentioned neither would
win several weeks back, I received
some peculiar looks from hoop fans.
Kentucky Coach Joe B. Hall has
ruined more talent than any coach
the game has ever seen. He may be
able to recruit, but he’s no game
coach. In fact, I doubt the Wildcats
would have even made it to regional
final if game wasn’t on their home
court.
I have to turn the sound off when
Brent Musburger starts his ram-
bling. He’s too much of cheerleader.
Gary bender, another no-neck, is
cut from the same mould. Let me
watch the game and cut out the
chattering.
With the start of ‘Boredom Hall’
or baseball, I'm already tired of
seeing George Steinbrenner’s name
overshadowing the Yankee players.
I refuse to read anything concerning
him. Yogi's in for a beaut of a time.
I'll miss Billy Martin. He always
did have too much style for George
to cope with.
New York press as usual giving
Mets the big hype. At best they’ll be
next to last.
It’s only matter of days before
first manager in baseball will get
the hook. Wonder who it’ll be and
how quick?
Mickey Mantle is not coming to
Pocono Downs which is no real loss.
He wanted too much from what I
understand.
Look for more Eastern grid
powers to concentrate on' signing
SPRING
JACKETS
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LONDON
FOG’
speedmerchants from Florida in the
future. Syracuse and West Virginia
have joined Pitt in the Sun Shine
State in seeking players. Big advan-
tage Florida players have over ours
is 20 days spring practice with pads.
According to most coaches I've
talked with thus far, Pitt won the
recruiting sweepstates in the East.
Panthers were rated by some in the
top five for the whole country.
None of the participants in our
roundball poll picked Kentucky to
win title. Most had Carolina,
Georgetown and Houston. I had the
Hoyas and DePaul in finals.
Coach Bearde was on hand for all
of the PIAA State title roundball
contests recently. He said Williams-
port is an outstanding team with a
heap of fire-power. Coach Bearde’s
Lake-Lehman team hung tough with
the champs until they ran into some
foul trouble.
Not too many coaches were
impressed with the final four games
in recent NCAA. Said one, ‘Heck,
you could dress Houston and
Georgetown in NBA uniforms and
you'd never tell the difference.”
Speaking of title game, the offici-
ating left a lot to be desired. I can’t
recall when there were so many
suspect calls against both teams.
Even Bill Packer got teed-off at
some of the sorry calls. I'd be
willing to lay a wager the refs took
some heat from NCAA when it was
all over.
Why when I see former UCLA
Coach John Wooden do I still get a
mad-on over his selfish reasons for
not allowing his former players to
participate on our Olympic team.
I've never been fan of UCLA hoop
program and enjoy seeing all of the
turmoil now.
The sorry weather is going to
once again put the damper on the
spring sports season.
Received two offers last week to
go to Sunday’s Russian-USA wres-
tling meet at Penn State, but
declined. Why? I don’t like anything
about the Soviet Athletes because
they’re all professionals. I can’t see
why we allow them to come to
America. However, I did arrive in
time for the annual ‘Penn State
Wrestling banquet.
We presented Coach Rich Lorenzo
and his squad some awards on
behalf of the Eastern Wrestling
League. Lorenzo was coach of the
year, NCAA champs Carl DeSte-
fanis and Scott Lynch co-wrestlers
of the year and Greg Elinsky fresh-
man of the year. It was a splendid
affair and Fran Fisher was the MC.
Andy Voit of Allentown is one of
the top school boy wrestlers in the
State according to sevral of the
EWL coaches 1 talked with last
week. He’s supposedly leaning to
Penn State. Rob Koll, son of former
PSU Coach Bill Koll, is also consid-
ering the Nittany Lions. He’s
another top notch performer and
was voted the OW in recent tourna-
ment. State already has a firm
commitment from four-time champ
Matt Gerhard.
Former Lake-Lehman grid coach
Rich Gorgone has indicated a heap
of interest in vacant Dallas football
job. Can’t help but wonder if Frank
Galicki will be offered the job. He’s
assistant principal at the high
school now and would seem to have
the necessary background.
Oklahoma State recently fired its
wrestling coach and offered Iowa
Coach Dan Gable two and half
million over 10 years. Gable turned
it down. Then Cowboys denied the
offer. I'd say they take thier wres-
tling a mite too serious.
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