By CHARLOT M. DENMON
Staff Correspondent
arguments between the two teams,
Nanticoke defeated Lake-Lehman,
30-8, last Friday night at the Tro-
jans’ stadium. Between the two
teams, there were 16 penalties and
one player put out of the game
which was finally stopped with 55
seconds remaining.
“Our defense played a great
game,” said Lake-Lehman Coach
Mark Kirk, but our offense made
three critical mistakes. If they
hadn’t, the score should have been
7-7 at halftime. The Trojans made
the three touchdowns in, less than
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A few notes
By LEE L. RICHARDS
Sports Columnist
CLIPBOARD NOTES:
— Lake-Lehman roundball
coach Rodger Bearde is
delighted to welcome Bob
Langan, one of my favorite local
coaches, to his staff for the
coming season. Bob has always
been a winner in my book.
— Speaking of
winners, how
about the out-
standing job Jean
Lipski has done
with the Knights |
field hockey |
team? She’s
developed a solid }
program led by |.
goalie Cindy
‘Stingy’ Slocum.
Sandy Dicton is the leading
scorer, while Susan Slocum is
another top-notch player. Women
Knights hung up 10 straight shut-
outs which is remarkable.
— Ed Nark’s sound leadership
has turned the Lake-Lehman
Cross Country team into a cham-
pionship contender. The Knights
are pointing to the District title
run on the 25th of this month.
Dave Janiczek is the front
runner for the Knights, while
John Rosencrans and Dave
Radomski are locked in a head-
to-head duel for the second slot.
nine-meet win skein at last
report.
— I was glad to learn that Tom
handling the Knights junior high
mat program this season. Tom is
a dedicated worker. .
— Buzz Szela will be the head
roundball coach of the Wilkes-
Barre Penn State Campus. My
sources tell me he’s a sound
fundamentalist and has worked
individually with some of the top
players around these parts.
— Former Lake-Lehman grid
boss, George ‘Bulldog’ Curry’s
Berwick team has now won 45 of
its last 46 games. He could post
another unbeaten record with
this year’s team as the Bulldogs
have whipped the top teams
down the line already.
— When Meyers upset Valley
West recently, the Mohawks did
it without their starting QB and
top performer Greg Lott. What
the Mohawks did was rollout
their replacement at QB and toss
a couple of shot passes to the
ightend which seemed to baffle
fie always predictable Spartans.
Values As Follows:
two minutes. Even when we were
down 23-8, we drove to their 10-yard
line. I told them to pass, but Cadwa-
lader’s pass was picked up by a
Trojan player.
“In just about every game this
season, the kids play very well for
about half of the game, then they
seem to fold,” Kirk added. ‘We
lack strong leadership, the kind
needed to pull them up when they
fall behind. That’s important in
football.”
The Trojans put their first score
on the board less than three minutes
into the game, when Dave Paveletz
returned the opening kickoff to mid-
field. Then Quarterback Gary Phil-
lips hit Steve Distasio with a 10-yard
touchdown pass over the middle of
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pigskin during Friday’s game
the line and Paul Mierzwa kicked
the extra point to give Nanticoke a
7-0 lead.
On the following kickoff, the
Knights gained 32 yards on their
first play when T. Willy Cadwalader
connected with Earl Weidner, but
Weidner slipped at the 42-yard
stripe.
Going into the second period, the
score was 7-0 until midway through
the quarter when the Trojans defen-
sive player Dave Bernatovich
caught Cadawalader in the end zone
for a safety to move the score to 9-0.
Prior to the safety, the Trojans had
moved the ball to the Knights’ 10-
yard line, but Phillips’ fourth down
screen pass skimmed the fingers of
receiver Ralph Ferraro and the
against Wyoming Area. The
By CHARLOT M. DENMON
Staff Correspondent
The Dallas Mountaineers had high
hopes going into last Friday night’s
game with Wyoming Area. They
hoped that if they played like they
did during their weekly practice
sessions, they (Dallas) could pull off
a major upset.
On the Mountaineers first posses-
sion in the game, it appeared that
Coach Ron Rybak’s Mountaineers
might do it. Wyoming Area took the
opening kickoff and made no head-
way aS a strong Dallas defense
pushed back the Warriors for 16
yards.
After that, however, the tables
turned and the next time the War-
riors took the ball they went 41
yards field for a touchdown when
Scott Nicholson went over from the
5-yard line. The kick for extra point
was good and, with 4:20 remaining
in the first quarter, Wyoming Area
went in front, 7-0.
With less than a minute remain-
ing in the first quarter, Joe Bednar-
ski took the handoff and raced 58
yards for a score and, with Joe
Kopcza kicking the extra point,
Wyoming Area led 14-0.
In the opening seconds of the
second quarter, Warrior Quarter-
back Leo Malsky hit Ken Kopetchny
with a 61-yard pass for the third
touchdown. Kopcza kicked his third
extra point to give the Warriors a
21-0 lead.
The Warriors took a 28-0 lead with
only 34 seconds remaining in the
half when Malsky hit Nicholson with
a 34 yard touchdown pass and
Kopcza kicked the extra point.
Mountaineer fans expected to see
Warrior Coach Marranca put in
some of his JV players since his
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boys had a 28-0 lead, but Marranca
surprised (and upset) many of the
fans when he kept his varsity in the
game until part way through the
fourth period.
Despite the Mountaineers taking
the bell on their own 30-yard line
and driving down field to Wyo-
ming’s 27-yard line, they were
unable to score when the Wyoming
Area defense held.
On the Warriors’ next possession,
Bednarski again took the ball and
went 78 yards for the score. Kopcza
kicked his fifth extra point of the
game and Wyoming Area went in
front, 35-0, with 4:12 remaining in
the third quarter.
In the fourth quarter with 11:20 on
the clock, Warrior Jeff Hague took
the ball over from the 5-yard line to
give Wyoming Area its sixth score
of the game. This time Brian Hines
kicked the extra point to put the
final score at 42-0.
When Dallas Coach Ron Rybak
was asked about Marranca’s deci-
sion to keep his varsity players in
the game, he (Rybak) confirmed a
statement made by Marranca that
the Warriors needed playing time
for tough games coming up.
“The Warriors overpowered us,”
said Rybak. ‘“We had hoped to keep
the score down by throwing out to
the flats. We had the kids out there
but the ball was never thrown to
them. Our kids ran the ball well in
the third quarter but one junior
made an expensive mistake.”
Rybak explained that Scott Fran-
cis is getting a lot of experience by
playing on defense and Mark Kon-
opki is getting experience at slot
back where he has been playing
because he has the speed.
“On our fourth series of plays in
the first half we had nine juniors in
the game,” said Rybak. “We keep
going over and over the plays with
the kids at practice every day, but
look like a different team.
- “We look for some improvement
in the offense in this week’s game
with Meyers,” the Dallas. coach
added. ‘“We should have some of
our more experienced kids back in
the lineup.”
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Knights took over.
With only two minutes remaining
in the first half, Trojan Wayne
Oplinger intercepted Cadwalader’s
pass and ran 25 yards for a touch-
down and Mierzwa kicked the extra
point to put the score at 16-0.
After a penalty on the kickoff, the
Knights were pushed back to their
seven yard line and forced to punt.
Chris Van Gorder fumbled the ball
on the snap and his punt was
blocked. Trojan Chris Paluch fell on
the ball in theend zone and Mierzwa
kicked the extra point to give Nanti-
coke a 23-0 lead.
In the third quarter, the Knights
scored after Keith Kendall hit Phil-
lips from the blind side and the ball
went into the end zone where Chris
Kukosky fell on it for a touchdown.
Bill Bearde added two points for the
Knights when he ran the ball over
on the conversion.
Nanticoke scored their final
touchdown in the fourth quarter on
a 10-yard run by Carl Winckowski.
The score came after Grebinski
intercepted Cadwalader’s pass for
the second time in the game and the
Trojans took over at the 19 yard
line.
The Knights had five first downs,
the Trojans had 12. The Trojans
piled up 152 yards on the ground
while holding the Knights to 46.
They also held Knight Cadwalader
to only 37 yards passing as the
only two of 14 tries. Phillips hit on
seven of 17 attempts for 119 yards.
Cadwalader had four passes inter-
cepted, Phillips had two inter-
cepted.
Tackle that Trojan
defeated in their quest, 30-8.
Things look good for a Lake-
Lehman victory this week as all six
Dallas Post prognosticators are
putting their money on the Black
Knights to defeat Northwest. The
Dallas Mountaineers are a different
story, however, as they have found
the going rather touch during this
grid season. The Post prognostica-
tors like Meyers over the locals in
the Dallas homecoming game this
Saturday.
It’s a split decision in the Nanti-
coke/Wyoming Valley West game
as Wests Side correspondents and
GoalPOST Petie pick the Spartans.
Sports columnist Lee Richards and
photographer are the only two to
vote for a Bishop O'Reilly victory
over West Side Tech while Richards
and sportswriter Charlot Denmon
are taking Wilbraham-Monson to
defeat Wyoming Seminary.
The prognosticators are unani-
mous in their decision of Penn State
beating Syracuse and of Miami of
Florida defeating Pitt, but they
disagree on the Notre Dame/South
Carolina game with Campbell and
Denmon being the only two siding
with the Fighting Irish.
Richards picked up a point this
week and moves into a first-place
tie with editor Dotty Martin. Petie
lost out on the O’Reilly/O’Hara
game when he went with the
Queensmen who were dumped by
O’Hara, while Richards and
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(30-24) (38-16) (38-16) (32-22) (37-17) (37-17)
Lehman/ Lehman Lehman Lehman Lehman Lehman Lehman
Northwest 19-6 14-6 28-7 14-6 20-6 19-0
Dallas/ Meyers Meyers Meyers Meyers Meyers Meyers
Meyers 39-7 28-0 28-7 17-7 21-0 27-6
WVw/ Wvw Nanticoke Nanticoke Nahtiboke Nanticoke WW :
Nanticoke 21-20 28-21 21-7 21-10 + 14-7 14-7
0’ Reilly/ Tech Tech 0’ Reilly 0’ Reilly Tech Tech .
Tech 19-12 14-12 21-14 13-6 17-12 18-6 »
Sem/ Sem Sem Wilbraham Sem Wilbraham Sem
Wilbraham 28-14 14-10 14-13 13-10 13-6 13-7
Penn State/ PSU PSU PSU PSU PSU PSU:
Syracuse 28-17 21-14 10-7 21-10 21-15 24-14
Pitt/ Miami Miami Miami Miami Miami Miami .
Miami 38-13 35-21 35-10 21-10 24-12 19-7
‘ Notre Dame/ S. Car. S. Car. S. Car. ND ND S. Car.
S. Carolina 42-21 36-28 17-14 21-13 20-13 19-13
Denmon picked up victories in the
West Side Tech/Western Wayne
game with Western Wayne getting
the win.
All six prognosticators lost out on
the Penn State-Alabama game a$§
Alabama got the win while Denmon
lost a point when she picked Pitt
against South Carolina. Denmon,
however, lucked out, as she was the
only one to go with victorious Air
Force over Notre Dame. .
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