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By LEE L. RICHARDS
- Staff Correspondent
, The Amateur Wrestling News
‘named its annual All-Star Freshmen
team recently and Rick Bonomo
was the No. 1 118-pounder, while
brother Rocky was listed third at
126 pounds...
The two former
. Lake-Lehman
standouts were
among nine wres-
tlers from the
Eastern Wres-
tling League to
garner slots on
the team.
Rick and Rock
~ enjoyed sparkling
campaigns at .
~ Bloomsburg University this past
' season.
Rick rolled up a 26-5-1 mark and
finished second to Penn State
‘national champ Carl DeStefanis in
the EWL Tournament. He captured
the title in Pennsylvania Conference
Tournament. During the season he
racked up 20 pins.
Meanwhile, Rocky compiled a 27-5
record and was the only freshman
to win an EWL title. He won the
Wilkes Open and Pennsylvania Con-
ference.
The former Pennsylvania champs
from Lake-Lehman will’ be known
on the national level now. Both won
nament and will be mainstays in the
‘Huskie lineup next season.
Other EWL wrestler holding down
first-team berths are Penn State’s
Greg Elinsky (158) and Dan Mayo
(177). Elinsky was voted the EWL’s
freshman of the year for his seventh
place finish in the NCAA tourney.
Mayo had his season cut short with
Listed on the second team was
Lock Haven’s Jody Karam (158).
Bloom had two other wrestlers
honored. Darrin Evans (167) was on
the fourth team, while Dan Klinger-
man was fifth at 150.
“Clarion had Paul Clark (126) and
Rich Barron (142) on the sixth
team
CLIPBOARD NOTES:
« Former Lake-Lehman grad Jack
Davis is the proud Papa of a baby
boy. Wife Jackie, another Lake-
Lehman grad, is on the comeback
trail after a rough go. She’s in W-B
General.
— Had a nice chat on the phone
with pal Bobby Roper, assistant
coach at Texas A&M recently. He
informed me the Aggies wound up
spring drills and will have a chance
to be winner in the fall. It hasn’t
been that warm in Texas this spring
either.
— Several Eastern grid teams
will wind up spring drills this week-
end. I understand there has been a
lot of personnel switches and experi-
ments going on. Army is going to
the wish-bone. Penn State has a big
transition with a bunch of new
coaches and searching for replace-
ments for its two wide receivers and
Jon Williams.
— Ben Crenshaw’s triumph in the
Masters was well deserved. I can’t
think of another golfer that has paid
his dues. What surprised me was
the players knocking shots into the
water at the most critical times.
— Enjoyed watching the final
round with Irem pro Barry Fies and
getting his impressions of the play-
ers. Many thanks to Sherry Fies for
the excellent Mexican food she pre-
pared.
— -It was interesting to see where
some of the hot-shot roundball play-
ers passed up the Olympic trails. To
be honest, I didn’t feel they. had
much of chance of making the final
team any way, especially the twin
towers of stone from Kentucky. One
roundball buff told me those guys
saved themselves from being told
they weren’t good enough.
— While I'm a fan of the USFL, I
gotta believe the new loop would be
making a big mistake by going to a
fall schedule and winding up head-
to-head with the NFL.
— Speaking of the NFL, the
annual draft is slated next week.
Sifting through some of the top
choices there’s not a whole lot of
prime performers left. The USFL
has really watered things down.
— Nebraska’s Turner Gill will
play in the Canadian League.
— One rule change which has
most college grid buffs puzzled is on
kickoffs. If you’re kicking off and
your kicker puts the ball through
the end zone, it will be brought out
to the 30 instead of the 20 yard line.
That’s so there will be more returns
and consequently more penalties
and injuries in my opinion. If they
kept stats on games without a pen-
alty on a kickoff, you'd see far a
few.
— According to my Southern pals,
Auburn’s Bo Jackson is the leading
guy right now for the Heisman
Trophy. If you haven’t guessed,
Jackson is a running back.
'— Miami didn’t have that good of
a year recruiting according to many
of the surveys I've seen. In fact the
defending champs signed only two
players from Florida and 17 overall.
— Received notice last week that
Millersville is pulling out of the
Eastern Wrestling League. It’s not
real surprsie and no loss to the
EWL. Millersville’s dual record in
the three years it competed was a
sorry 0-21. Millersville was in over
its head from the start because it
lacked the total commitment to
wrestle on the level with the other
powers.
S. Johnson walloped the pins for
204 (510) to lead American Building
to three points from Mahaffey Oil
girls in the Imperialette League.
Lombardo Bakery continued to lead
whose K. Scavone knocked down
pins for 184. J. Mekeel rolled 171
(476) and K. Mintzer added 178 to
lead the Jean Shop to three points
from Humphrey’s Apparel. M. Nei-
fert hit 180 and D. Botteon 177 for
the apparel five.
In Our Gang League Half ’'O
Nickels dropped three points to the
Buckwheats despite T. Haggerty’s
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high for the winning five. Nancy
Daney’s 175 helped the Suds Suckers
pick up three from the Barn Owls.
Lucky Strikes and Mold 'N Oldies
divided evenly.
Charlies All Stars shut out the
Beach Combers in the Major
League. led by K. Orkwis’ 224 (566)
and K. Spencer’s 538. C. Kazokas
scattered pins for 571 to pace G.H.
Harris to three points from Back
Mt. Sporting Goods while R.
Bonomo rolled 546 to aid Brown’s
Oil in picking up three points from
Sweet Valley Outfitters.” Gary
Mazer hit high for the Sweet Valley
men with 550. Bermudas copped
three from the Hambos with no one
able to hit high series.
In the Bowlerette League Frank-
lin’s blanked the Hoagie Bar while
Brent Long took three from Tom
Reese. B. Lumley’s 177 was high for
all teams.
D. Wright knocked down pins for
571 and B. Hospodar toppled them
for 545 to pace the Halfwits to three
points from the Halfbreeds in
Bonomo’s Mixed League. Kenny’s
Maniacs split 2-2 with the “A”
Team with no one breaking the 200
barrier.
Classes.
Marathon runners
of Nesbitt Memorial Hospital,
By CHARLOT M. DENMON
Statf Correspondent : i
Despite the cold, rain and wind
making it difficult to run the 26-mile
race, three Back Mountain residents
returned home from Boston enthu-
siastic about completing the 1984
Boston Marathon and looking for-
ward to entering again next year.
Dr. Harry Reich, Dr. John Carey
and Mike Jones were among the
nearly 7,000 runners who took part
in this year’s marathon won by
Great Britain’s Geoff Smith.
“This was my seventh mara-
thon,” said Reich. “I ran in the New.
York City run twice, Newport, R.I.
once and this year was the fourth
time in the Boston marathon.
“This year wasn’t my best time in
the Boston marathon, but it was an
accomplishment to finish because of
the weather. We had to run with the
rain and cold wind in our face which
didn’t help, in making time. In
addition, we arrived late and had to
run nearly a mile to get to the
day or week. Planned
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starting line on time. Instead of
running 26 miles, we actually did
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Reich has been running since 1979
through thegforts of Mike Jones.
He went on a ski trip with Jones and
started to train there.
“I started with two miles, then
gradually worked up to four miles
and eventually was able to run
around the lake. That got me
hooked on running. I don’t train
hard like most runners, responsibili-
ties as a doctor don’t allow the kind
of time you need,” said Reich.
He said when he ran at Newport
in 1981, he trained hard. Tim
Bauman, a former Back Mountain
resident, and Reich spent weeks in
September running from Forty Fort
over Giant’s Despair, over the
mountains to Bear Creek and from
there to Penn Lake. From there,
they would ride back. In the spring
hard for the July 4 run around
Harveys Lake.
Before the marathons, he trains
for three to six weeks but he stays
in good physical condition by doing
a lot of skiing during the winter
and, for the past several years, a lot
of biking. Two years ago while
training with Bauman, for the Wyo-
ming Valley Triathlon, Reich fell
and fractured his hip when the
chain slipped off his bike. He per-
severed, however, and returned to
good physical condition to continue
his running.
Reich’s ultimate goal is to do “a
really good triathlon” and would
like to enter the Iron Man Triathlon
in Hawaii in October.
“This year I did the Boston Mara-
thon in 3:31,” said Reich. ‘Last
year was my best time. I did it in
3:07. Bauman ran with me last year
and his time was 2:36.
“Every year I try to get my two
older boys interested, but they
usually enter one event then quit.
The oldest one plays soccer and the
10-year old is in Little League.
They’re more interested in those
sports. This was a bad winter to do
any running, the weather didn’t
offer much opportunity but I will
say that there is no better place
than the Back Mountin to train.
There isn’t too much traffic, there is
great scenery, a lot of flat area
around the lake and good hills.”
For Dr. John Carey, this year was
his first Boston Marathon. He has
only been running about a year and
became interested in the marathon
through the people at the Y.M.C.A.
and his wife.
“My wife is the runner in the
family,” said Carey. ‘‘She has run
competitively and has won a lot of
awards.”
Carey said he trained for three to
four months for the Boston Mara-\
thon, averaging 30 to 35 miles per
week. That is not a lot considering
the real marathon runners average
about 100 miles per week.
“I didn’t complete the marathon
in the time I would like to have
done, but the accomplishment was
that I did finish although my time
was 4:26. I ran most of the distance
with the Mayor of Boston who fin-
ished in 4:25.
“I kid Reich,” he added. “I told
him what kept me going was the
hope that I could catch him and
choke him for talking me into it.
But I really enjoyed it and will
enter again next year. Believe it or
not, however, I wear size 9% shoes
but until Thursday night could wear
nothing smaller than size 13. It was |
then my feet began to get back to
normal.”
Carey ran in beth the Harveys
Lake Heritage Run and the run
sponsored by the Rucknos at Har-
veys Lake. His goal is to ‘achieve
Mike Jones’ marathon time which Is
2:50.
“My wife lost her enthusiasm for
running until this year when she
went with us to the Boston Mara-
thon. While there, she got caught up ’
in the excitement and regained her
interest. In another year, she plans
to get back in to running.
. “The Boston crowd is unique,
unlike any other. They are great,
two hours after the runners are
finished they are still cheering them
on. ”
Carey had hoped to participate in
the Nesbitt Memorial Hospital 5-
Mile Run held this past weekend.
“Once you're hooked, you keep on
running,” he said.
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