Doing battle
Dallas Post/Charlo
enmon
Observing
Jean Lipski, foreground,
coach of the Lake-Lehman
girls’ field hockey team,
observes her team during a
recent practice.
Practicing stickwork
practices her stickwork.
By CHARLOT DENMON
Staff Correspondent
Girls’ field hockey coaches Robyn
Jones of Dallas High School and
Jean Lipski of Lake-Lehman High
School have been rather busy the
last couple weeks as they had their
teams out bright and early every
day, practicing for the opening
games of the Wyoming Valley Field
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Dallas has 35 girls out for the
team this year, but only three are
returning starters since seven girls
graduated, one moved away and
another substituted running for
hockey.
Jill Radzinski, Chris Long and
Karen Wall were starters last
season and are joined this year by
returning letterwinners Linda King,
Cheryl Harding and Diane Chismer.
For the first time, Jones has
freshmen trying out for the team
and says several of them are show-
ing excellent potential. Jones has an
inexperienced team this year and
says winning won't come easy, but
the team’s lack of experience is
counteracted by the girls aggression
and determination.
“We're a young team but we'll
give everybody a good game,” the
Dallas coach said. “As it was last
year, our emphasis will be on total
team effort.”
Dallas girls were District 2 Divi-
sion AAA champs last year with a
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12-6 season. This year Dallas will be
in Division AA and will meet the
Division AA teams twice.
“We will have to defeat Lake-
Lehman, Bishop O'Reilly, Meyers,
GAR, and Northwest (new in the
league this year) to gain a playoff
spot,” Jones added. “We will also
need to defeat Wyoming Seminary
despite the fact they are not in the
PIAA.
Jill Radzinski, Linda King, Chris
Long, Karen Wall, Eileen Nagy, Lee
Pawling, Lori Ogurkis and Maureen
Wisniewski played excellent hockey
during practice and Jones is very
pleased with their performance. A
decision on the freshment to earn a
spot on the senior high school team
was to be made this past Friday.
Coach Jones believes the program
at Dallas is becoming stronger
because of the junior high coaching
staff. All of the coaches work as one
unit. Assistants Peggy Schuler and
Candyce Fike have done wonders
for the team.
In addition to Schuler and Fike,
Jones also has a new assistant this
season in Mary Ann Mihalick.
A graduate of Meyers High School
and Est Stroudsburg College, Robyn
Jones coached field hockey at
Coughlin High School for two years
before coming to Dallas in 1980 as
girls’ track coach and in 1981 as the
girls’ field hockey coach. Prior to
her position at Coughlin, Jones was
director of the woman's program at
the Wilkes-Barre YWCA.
Peggy Schuler graduated from
West Chester and is the wife of
Larry Schuler, Dallas faculty
member and high school wrestling
coach. Candyce Fike is a graduate
of Marywood College and is married
to Ronald Fike. Mary Ann Mihalick
graduated from Slippery Rock and
before coaching at Dallas was at
Wyoming Valley West. She is also
an athletic trainer and all injuries
incurred by female athletes at the
school will be referred to her.
Among the highlights in Roby’s
coaching years at Dallas was her
team’s win over Lake-Lehman
during her first year. The Lady
Mounts were down 2-1 when Kim
Kretchmer scored a goal and tied
the score with only 30 seconds
remaining in the game. In the flick-
off, Linda Sosnowski, Karen Feder-
ici and Ramah Pawling scored and
Dallas defeated the Lady Knights.
Jones said she will never forget that
game.
Neither will she forget last season
when her girls won the District 2
championship and went on to win
the first regional game, 1-0, against
Selinsgrove. It was the first champi-
onship for Dallas and, of course,
their first regional competition.
Coach Jones named several play-
ers whom she said set the stage for
Dallas field hockey, and their dis-
trict championship.
Linda Sosnowski, 1981 graduate,
sweeper, named All Scholastic;
Karen Federici, also 1981, the
league’s leding scorer that year.
Kim Kretchmer, the toughest player
Jones ever coached; Robin Pawling,
All-Scholastic in 1984, who played
forward; and Christi Strauser, 1984
graduate, All-Scholastic in her
junior and senior years.
“The Dallas-Lake-Lehman game
will be even more important than
ever before,” said Jones. “We play
them the second meet of the
season.”
Coach Jean Lipski has 28 girls out
for the senior high team at Lake-
Lehman. She has seven starters
returning from last year’s team, a
team that had a winning record of 9-
4-3.
Assisting Lipski will be Lynn
Coury who played for Bishop
O'Reilly and College Misericordia.
Lynn will assist with the senior high
school team. She is from Dallas.
Sally Galka, former Lake-Lehman
High School field hockey player and
graduate, graduated from Lock
Haven. She will assist with the
junior high school team. Galka is a
resident of Noxen.
Coach Lipski graduated from
Lake-Lehman and also from Wilkes
College where she was the first
student from Wilkes to be selected
for the All-Star Susquehanna team.
The former Jean Johnson, she
was head coach at Lake-Lehman
Junior High before taking over the
varsity position.
Lipski believes that she has a
strong nucleus of good athletes who
are all expected to do well. All of
the team members played for her
when she coached in Junior High so
they are familiar with her tech-
nique.
‘‘We have a lot of depth which will
help and, psychologically, the girls
are ready,’’ said Lipski.
She believes the strong teams in
the league this season will be Crest-
wood, Tunkhannock, Wyoming .Sem-
inary, and Dallas.
always fields a good team, Lipski
said. Since Dallas has dropped to
division AA this season the Lady
Knights will play them twice during
the season as they will Bishop
O'Reilly, Northwest, GAR, Meyers
and Wyoming Seminary.
Coach Lipski is pleased with the
performances of Sandy Dicton, an
all-around player with stamina and
heart and very coachable; Lori
Lopasky and Pam Solinski, heading
the defense; Kelly Wendel, making
a switch this year from defense to
offense; Susie Slocum, sophomore,
great on offense; and Cindy Slocum,
goalie. Both of these girls will be
starters. 3
The highlight of last season was
the Knights’ game with Crestwood.
Down 4-0 at halftime, the Lady
Knights rallied to come within one
point of tying the game. Lipski said
that game was the turning point of
the season. The girls learned to play
with heart. The Lady Knights were
in front of the cage when the whistle
blew. Another second could have
tied the game.
She also enjoys the games with
Wyoming Seminary. Lipski said the
Seminary team is always outstand-
ing and the games are played with
great skill.
Lipski is proud of the fact that
seven of the 1984 graduates who
were members of her hockey team
are now in college and continuing to
take part in sports.
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DALLAS
SCHEDULE
September 5, Bishop ore ®
away; September 7, Lake-
Lehman, home; September 10,
Northwest, away; September 12,
Gar, home; September 17,
Coughlin, home; September 19,
Tunkhannock, home; September
21, Nanticoke, away; September
24, Abington Heights, home; Sep-
tember 26, Wyoming Valley
West, away; September 28,
Meyers, home; October 1, Crest-
wood, away; October 3, Wyo-
ming Seminary, away; October
5, Lake-Lehman, away; October
8, Wyoming Seminary, home;
October 10, GAR, away; October
12, Bishop O’Reilly, home.
LEHMAN
SCHEDULE
September 5, Nanticoke,
Home; September 7, Dallas,
away; September 10, Wyoming
Valley West, home; September
12, Tunkhannock, away; Septem-
ber 14, Crestwood, home; Sep-
tember 17, Abington Heights,
away; September 19, Wyoming
Seminary, home; September 21,
Meyers, away; September 24,
ber 28, Northwest, away: Octo-
ber 1, GAR, home; October 3,
Coughlin, home; October 5,
Dallas, home; October 10,
Meyers, home; October 15,
Bishop O'Reilly, home; October
17, Northwest, home; October 19,
Wyoming Seminary, away; Octo-
ber 22, GAR, away.
Rebels plan
1-pitch event
The Noxen Rebels 1-Pitch Tourna-
ment will be held Saturday and
Sunday, September 15 and 16 at the
Noxen Ball Park.
to be awarded include: first place,
$300 plus tee-shirts; second place,
$200; third place, $100; fourth place,
$80. Trophies will be awarded to the
player with the most hits and to the
best ‘défensive player. y
Tourney rules are as follows: 18%
man roster, open to C and D teams,
may use an extra hitter or desig:
be between 6 and 12 feet, 10-run rule
after five complete innings (waived
during money games) and entry fee
must be paia before first game.
All entries must be in by Wednes-
day, Sept. 12. Drawing will be held
Sept. 12 at 7:30 p.m. at Jim’s Cafe,
Noxen.
All teams interested should call
Carl Siglin at 298-2326 or Dwight
Barbacci at 298-2616 or 298-9390.
Athletic
Passes Now
available
The Lake-Lehman School District
is making available to all students
and adults an activities pass good
for all athletic events. The cost for
activities passes, which entitles the
purchaser to a savings, is as fol-
lows: Ww
ADULT SEASON PASS: Footba/®
$9.00; Basketball, $13.00; Wrestling,
$12.00.
STUDENT SEASON PASS: Foot-
ball, $3.00; Basketball, $4.50; Wres-
tling, $4.00.
Please note that this pass is valid
for home games only. Anyone inter-
ested in purchasing an activities
pass should contact Rodger Bearde,
Athletic Director, Lake-Lehman
High School, at 675-2165, ext. 258.
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