bi Winning fishermen Jim Lapota, Mike Krofjack, Cindy Gerrity, Jeannie The Wyoming Valley Conference Girls Volleyball season opened Thursday, Sept. 13, with Bob Rogers Lake-Lehman Knights meeting Tunkhannock and Rev. Henry West- field’s Dallas Mountaineers going against the Coughlin Crusaders. The Lady Knights, who are begin- ning their second year under Rogers, lost 15-13 and 15-1 to last year’s league champions. The local girls played an exciting first game and, at one time, were leading 13-8. Then on the serve, they served out to the Tigers which gave Tunkhan- nock momentum. up, When Lake-Lehman got the serve they lost it again to the strong Tunkhannock team. In the second game of the match the Lady Knights made mistakes early and made several costly errors. The weekend prior to the season opener, the girls played in a 10- game Tunkhannock Tournament and came out of it with a 5-5 record. Two of the games they lost were to Canton, the team that won the tournament. Coach Westfield’s Dallas Mountai- neers defeated Coughlin 2-0 at the Back Mountain gym. This is the first year that Rev. Westfield has coached the girls although he was head coach for the boys last season and will coach them again this year. He has 17 girls out for the team, three seniors, five juniors, eight sophomores and one freshman. Five of the girls are returning from last season, when the team finished with a 12-3 record. Westfield said he expects a good year-from the team based on the progress made in the short length of time the girls have had to practice. “They’re a young team but very cooperative and grasping the funda- mentals of the game very well,” said the Dallas Coach. Each team in the conference plays 15 games, each school once. Last year’s three losses were to Tunkhannock, Wyoming Area and North Pocono. Rossignol Poles Allsop Boot Tree Hot Wax $190.00 85.00 100.00 22.00 11.95 19.00 3.50 TOTAL $431.45 and lay it away! Use Katz Great 120-day Pay Plan. You pay Ys each month with no finance charges. [fe] KATZ BROS. INC. Field hockey By CHARLOT M. DENMON Staff Correspondent Dallas girls field hockey team drew a bye last Friday after shut- ting out GAR, 8-0, last Wednesday, but battling to a 3-3 tie with -a determined Northwest team last Monday. - Jill Radzinski set the pace for the Mountaineers’ scoring against the Grenadiers, with three goals and one assist and Leigh Pawling put in two goals. Linda King, Chris Spellman and Sue Yale each added one goal to the scoring. Pawling scored the first goal, unassisted, three minutes into the first half and 15:30 into the first half Radzinski scored her first goal assisted by Stefanie Michaels. Linda King scored 29:30 into the first half assisted by Kim Rinehimer. Just one minute into the second half, Radzinski scored unassisted and, at 9:15 into the half, Radzinski scored her third goal, unassisted. Pawling followed suit 11:25 into the half assisted by Radzinski. Sue Yale and Spellman scored the final two goals for the Mountaineers, Yale at 15:15 into the second half and Spell- man 21:00 into the half. In Monday’s play with Northwest at Northwest, King lifted Dallas to a 1-0 lead in the first half when she scored unassisted 9:40 into the half. Maczuga gave Northwest a 1-1 tie when she scorec 15:07 into the half then put Northwest in the lead when she scored a second goal 16:15 into the first half. King tied it up at 2-2 when she scored for Dallas unass- isted 21:30 into the half. In the second half, it was Mount Radzinski who scored unassisted 6:56 into the period to give Dallas a 3-2 lead. The Lady Mounts hung on to the lead until 18:40 into the half when McGovern assisted by Lane scored for the Rangers. Karen Wall had two saves for Dallas. The Northwest goalie had four for the Rangers. Northwest had nine corners, Dallas five. Dallas had eight shots on goal, the Rangers had 11. LADY KNIGHTS UNDEFEATED Coach Jean Lipski’s Lady Knights continued undefeated last week by blanking Tunkhannock 2-0 on Wednesday and shutting out Wyo- ming Valley West 6-0, on Monday. In both games, it was Sandy Dicton’s scoring that paced the way to the Lake-Lehman wins. The wins ran the Knights record to 4-0 in the Wyoming Valley Conference. In Wednesday’s game with the Tunkhannock Tigers, both teams played scoreless until 22:24 into the first half when Dicton broke loose to score unassisted. Her first half goal was enough to win the game. In the second half, it was Colleen Corbett who put the game on ice by scoring 21:00 minutes into the period. The game was the fourth consecutive meet in which the WE CAN BEAT » S \ 1 Dallas Post/Ed Campbel » Knights held their opponents score- less. Earlier in the week, the Knights were sparked by Dicton’s three goals to hold the Valley West Spar- tans in a 6-0 shutout. Kelly Wandel assisted by D. Knorr scored the first goal for the Knights 11:42 into the half. Dicton, assisted by D. DiGennaro scored her first goal 17:25 into the half. In the second half, Wandel scored unassisted at the 16:30 mark and S. Slocum scored unassisted at 19:30. Dicton, again assisted by DiGen- naro, scored at 21:00 into the half and three minutes later scored again unassisted. The Knights had 15 shots on goal to the Spartans one. The Spartans had seven saves, the Knights had none. SCORELESS TIE Crestwood’s Diane Madl can be stopped and it was Lake-Lehman’s sophomore Sue Slocum, who stopped Madl’s shot in last Friday’s game to save the Knights from being scored upon. The Knights and the Comets played to a scoreless tie ¥ 175 For Most Foreign and Domestic Cars sale. prints. Box 366, Dallas, Pa. 18612. Service cesessssetenns at the Lake-Lehman field, which kept the Knights on top in the AA Division of the Wyoming Valley Field Hockey Conference. Madl had her stick on the ball in the circle and would have had a sure goal if Slocum hadn’t come through with the save on a diving block. Sandy Dicton, leading scorer for the Lady Knights, was hit above her eye during the second half and 9 game. “ When she returned to play with. only minutes remaining on tk clock, she nearly won the game for Lake-Lehman when she hit a power- ful shot as the game whistle blew. Pam Solinski, Lori Lopasky, Col- leen Corbett and Deanne Williamson led the Knights defense and played an outstanding game. The Comets had 13 shots on goal while the Knights had only six but the Knights had seven corners to the Comets four. Lake-Lehman’s goalkeeper Cindy Slocum had 10 saves while Crest- wood’s Sue Butler had only two. - The game gave the Lady Knights 10 consecutive halves they have not given up a score for a 4-0-1 record in league play. : Coach Jean Lipski’s team has a tough schedule this week, scheduled to play Abington Heights, away, Monday, Sept. 17; then Wyoming Seminary, always a strong oppo- nent; and ending the week with Meyers, always capable of an upset. Dallas, * Lehman lose Dallas and Lake-Lehman got off’ to a bad start in their opening cross country meets last Monday, with the Mountaineers losing 25-34 to GAR and the Knights going down to Pittston Area 21-38. The Knights rebounded on Thurs- day, however, to defeat Nanticoke 16-42 but the Mountaineers lost 36-23 to the Coughlin Crusaders. “ Lake-Lehman’s Coach Ed Nar-- country squad in 1976, but did not- enter the conference until 1977. Although they have not taken the“ league championship, they ended two of their seasons with a 12-1 records to finish second. Both times - their chance at the title came right down to the wire, losing in ni Meyers and in 1983 to Tunkhannock? The Knights have also finished second in Districts two years and two years ago Giro Hall was state champ. ; ih BEAT THE PRICE jit INCREASES! $25.00 WILL HOLD ANY (W) HEATER FOR 30DAYS... ‘SALES & SERVICE" —WE SERVICE ALL MAKES & MODELS — OLD MILL PINE 320 Exeter Ave., West Pittston PHONE 655-4262 i !
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