Wilkes-Barre Fats
rts Columnist
i L. RICHARDS
It’s strictly my opinion:
— After consulting with sev-
eral college coaches from var-
ious sections of the country, they
agreed there isn’t a true No. 1
grid team at the present time.
That’s one of the reasons I
-haven’t listed a Super Seven.
se Shame, ;
shame on Notre
Dame. Coach
Gerry (Farce)
Faust did it
again. He had the
Irish so pumped
up in the presea-
son that most ND
backers :
believed all of his hype. Purdue
busted that bubble pronto.
— While Dallas is having its
problems moving the football
into the endzone, Coach Ron
Rybak is still optimistic about
his team becoming a winning
football team. After visiting the
Mountaineers recently, I found
their confidence level very high.
When they get that initial win
under their belts they’ll win
some games.
— Dallas’ two most consistent
performers to date have been
fand Richie Long. They get after
folks.
— Boston College Coach Barry
Gallup sent along a bunch of
material on the Eagles and Doug
Flutie. BC is going about pushing
Flutie for the Heisman in a
highly professional manner. His
performance against Alabama
put him in the lead in my book. I
hope the voters go strictly on his
collegiate performance and not
on his potential as a pro.
— When is the last time Ala-
bama blew a 17-point lead?
That’s what ‘the Tide did against
BC.
— Showdown in WVC this week
matches Valley West against
Wyoming Area. Spartans will
have th edge in muscle up front,
while the Warrior’s speed could
determine the outcome. The
winner will challenge Hanover
for the right to wear the overall
crown locally. Don’t sell Nanti-
coke and GAR short either.
j — Does anyone miss Howard
?Cosell from the Monday Night
\ Games? I haven’t met anyone
who does.
— I'd like nothing more than to
have the Chicago Cubs win the
National League title and play
some Series game in the after-
noon. That’s when baseball was
baseball.
— While there’s been so much
said and written about Franco
Harris and Walter Payton break-
ing Jim Brown’s rushing records
they need only to look at the
number of carries and games it
took each one to move ahead of
Brown. To me Brown was a
remarkable performer and his
achievements speak for them-
selves no matter how many
people break his record. I know
it will take more them more
games and more rushing
attempts.
— Lake-Lehman has Hanover
this week, while Dallas clashes
with GAR. Both teams will have
to generate some offense to
emerge with victories. They
can’t allow their defensive units
to remain on the field for long
periods of time. The Knights will
have to focus on stoppiing the
Hawkeyes’ ground attack and
force them to throw. GAR is
another grinder type offense.
Dallas will geat its defense to
halting the run first.
Both teams will need to play to
their fullest and get some key
turnovers to post a victory.
— QB Joe Theisman of the
Redskins is becoming one of the
biggest crybabies in the NFL.
Have you noticed when he
scrambles and gets tackled how
he mouths off to the ref and
opposing player? His actions are
rinky-dink.
— My sources tell me UCLA
Coach Terry Donahue is they guy
Notre Dame will turn to should
they decide to dump Faust. Ray
Perkins of Alabama is trouble,
along with Ohio State’s Earl
Bruce.
— Eddie Rome and I won the
Member-Guest Tournament this
weekend. What a start we had!
We were six under par about five
holes. We birdied one, he eagled
two and then the impossible hap-
pened. On a par four, 280 yards
from the green, Eddie hit his ee
shot about two feet from the cup
and sank it for an eagle - we
wound up five under for a 67.
Howard Whitesell, proprietor
of Whitesell Brothers Lumber
Co., and Joe Maniskas of Dallas
shot a 70 on Saturday in the rain
for medalist honors.
League’s best
. Dallas Post/Ed Campbell
Mike
Dallas kickers
defeat Sem
Coach John McCafferty’s Dallas
soccer team defeated Benton 4-2 in
the opening game of the 1984 Wyo-
ming Valley Soccer Conference. It
was the first time in four years of
play that the Mountaineers downed
Benton.
John Tinner was the leading
scorer for the Mountaineers in the
game which was played at Benton.
Tinner had three of the four goals
scored in the win. He scored onein
the first period, one in the third
period and one in the fourth period.
Tim Cotter scored the other goal for
Dallas, chalking it up in the first
period.
Hittle scored both goals for
Benton, getting the first one two
minutes into the second period and
scoring the other in the third.
Coach McCafferty was elated with
his team’s performance and said he
was very pleased with the efforts of
his young players.
‘My returning players did a great
job,” said McCafferty. Brian Moore
and Matt Conologue played a tre-
mendous game as did Mark Rich-
ardson. Freshman Steve Finn also
played a good game. He has great
potential.
The JV team also won 2-0 with
Ray Besecker scoring one goal and
Enrico Nardone scoring with a pen-
alty.
The win gives the team a 2-1
record for the season but 1-0 in the
league.
— CHARLOT M. DENMON
Motovidlk leads
Dallas golfers posted a league
record of 5-2 after losing to Pittston,
11-1, Thursday, Dept. 13, and taking
Coughlin, 123-815, Monday, Sept.
10.
In Monday’s match, Crusader
Tom Motovidlk took first medalist
with 54 over the 12-hole match
despite Dallas taking the win.
In Thursday’s match at Emanon
Golf Course, Mountaineers Darrin
Spivey and Derek Tamburro took
first and third medalist points but
were edged by the Patriots 11-10
over the par-45, 12 hole course.
Rich Holthaus defeated Patrict
Jason Romanowski 3-0 but Pitts-
ton’s Mike Branley defeated Jim
Aikman 21-% and Phil Amico shut
out Mount A.J. Bittner 3-0.
Coach Mike Sharok’s golfer of
Pic Lenmen High School defeated
shop Hoban 15-6, Tuesday, Sept.
10 in a match at the Kights par-47,
Dallas golfers
12-hole course. Knights Mark
Lopasky shot 52 and Chris Land-
messer shot 54 to claim first and
second medalists. Argent Gene
Chabak took third medalist with a
55 over the course.
Among the matches in individual
play Lopasky defeated Chabak 3-0;
Landmesser blanked John Callahan
3-0; and Knight Don buzinkai took
Chris Snyder 3-0.
Don Spencer downed Hoban'’s
Mike McKeown 2%-% but the
Knights Todd Krupa and Allen
Frederick lost their matches. Krupa
went down 2-1 to Argent Joe Ducasi
and Frederick lost 214-15 to Argent
Diane Hamilton.
By CHARLOT M. DENMON
Staff Correspondent
Driving around the Back Moun-
tain the past several weeks, I real-
ized I was not seeing as many
runners nor cyclists as I had seen
over the summer. True, school was
in session, college students were off
to their classes, and summer vaca-
tions were over, but they weren’t
seen during the summer.
Suddenly came the realization
that the Annual Triathlon had come
and gone and perhaps this is the
reason for less cyclists and runners.
I wondered — how did some of these
entrants finish or did they, espe-
cially those I had talked with prior
to the Triathlon?
Did they finish? In what place did
they finish? What was their time,
would they enter again? Was it
worth all the training? I decided to
find out.
Gerald Kavanagh of Haddonfield
Hills, Dallas, who took swimming
lessons to prepare for the event,
said it was definitely worth every
bit of the training and he would
probably enter several of these
events next year.
“I finished in 2:58, 220th overall,”
said Kavanagh. ‘I was third in my
age group and received a medal for
third place. I did the swimming
event very well.”
Kavanagh’s 13-year-old daughter,
Kelly, also took third place in her
age group and received a medal.
She did the Triathlon in 3:25 but
bested her dad by 10 minutes in the
swimming class. Kelly was a
member of the YWCA swim team at
one time. Kelly is definitely going to
enter next year and is working on
getting one of her friends to train
and enter with her.
Charles Eckman of Dallas and his
brother, Peter, of Kingston, both
finished. Peter was 97th and
Charles, 107th. Speaking for both of
them, Charles said it was worth the
training and they enjoyed the com-
petition, but were undecided about
entering next year because it takes
a lot of their time which makes it
inconvenient because of their work
schedules.
Charles’ best event was the run-
ning while Peters was the bike
riding.
Dr. William Burak of Shavertown
finished in 2:52, third in his age
group. He did the best in the bicycle
category although he feels swim-
ming is his strongest of the three
events.
“My navigation wasn’t at its best
that day,” said Burak. ‘I kept
making “S” turns in the water. The
boats had to keep putting me back
on course. I'm very happy with the
results and will enter again.”
Burak said he found the training
more enjoyable than the actual
event. He complimented those who
organized the event and stated that
a great deal of thanks should go to
the many volunteers who assisted in
SO many ways.
“I think that both the spectators
and the contestants enjoyed it,”
said Burak.
Robyn Jones said she achieved
the goal she had set for this year’s
event. She finished in 3:11 and said
it is a great event, much better than
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she thought it would be and will
enter again next year.
“I will train more for it now that I
know what it’s like,”” said Jones. ‘It
is so well organized, everyone is so
cooperative. It is the most superior
event in which I have ever partici-
pated. Everything ran so smooth it
made it easy for the entrants.”
Running was the easiest for
Jones. The biking was the most
difficult because she didn’t train for
it.
Attempts to contact Raelene
Daring, who also entered the Triath-
lon, were unsuccessful. Whether or
not she finished the event we don’t
know.
But if she feels like the others we
taled with, the Triathlon was worth .
the time and effort spent in train-
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