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By CHARLOT M. DENMON
Staff Correspondent
Dallas High School girls cagers
were superior in size and without a
doubt had the talent to advance in
the District 2 playoffs with Valley
View last Wednesday, March 6 at
Wyoming Area gym, but the Lady
Mountaineers never used their size
or talent against the aggressive
Cougars. The Mountaineers had
plenty of opportunities to score from
the inside but played a sloppy
offense, missing shots, letting the
shorter Cougars get the rebounds
and making too many mistakes.
The Lady Cougars with their
tough defense held Dallas shooters
Cheryl Gavigan and Karen Vloed-
man to a combined total of 19 points
while Valley View’s star perfromer
Sue Serafini piled up 34 points, 18 of
them in the final period to outscore
the Mountaineers 20-12 and take a
61-46 victory.
The Cougars kept a collapsing
defense on Gavigan the entire game
until the Dallas athlete fouled out in
the closing minutes of the final
period. Dallas girls were unable to
break through Valley View’s tough
defense and began passing the ball
wildly and missing easy shots. Their
attempt to play catchup in the final
period was unsuccessful and no
match for Serafini’s outstanding
performance.
Guard Serafini continually turned
back the Mountaineers attempts to
make a comeback by stealing the
ball or by setting up her teammates
with easy pin point passes. She was
all over the field and pulled down
rebounds and made shots from the
inside and the corners.
The two teams played on even
ground for the first period but
Serafini went into action and led her
team to a 26-18 lead at the half. She
almost downed the Mountaineers by
herself in the second half.
With the help of several technical
fouls, Cheryl Gavigan’s shots from
the foul line and two quick baskets
aided Dallas in cutting the Cougars
lead to 41-38. Serafini, who was on
the bench at the time with four
fouls, came back into the game and
scored 11 consecutive points to pull
the Cougars into the lead the Moun-
taineers could not overtake.
Eileen Walsh set the pace for
Dallas with 12 points while Gavigan
followed with 11 and Vloedman
came through with eight. Joann
Cook’s absence, from the bench hurt
the team as did Angie Kern’s lim-
ited action on defense after she
injured her ankle in the first period.
The loss eliminated Dallas from
the playoffs and ended the high
school basektball careers of seniors
Cheryl Gavigan, Kim Rollman and
Jill Radzinski.
Rodgers on sports
By JOHN RODGERS
Sports Correspondent
Once again Back Mountain will
be involved in a shuffling of
coaches, only this time it wasn’t
a hard forced decision. Rather, it
was a hard sentimental one.
Rodger - Beard,
Athletic Director,
basketball and
baseball coach of
Lake-Lehman has
handed over his
baseball coaching
dutires to very
capable assistant .
coach Dwight Ee
Barbacci. RODGERS
Rodger had been the baseball
coach at Lehman the past five
. seasons.
This decision didn’t come
about due to pressures from
losing seasons, parental com-
plaints or school board threats,
but from the concern of a true
pro, on the availability to time
and clear-headedness he could
devote to the team.
The responsibilities of Athletic
Director, plus being head basket-
ball coach and also his involve-
ment with community activities
such as being director of the
summer activities is more than
enough to have a person going
year round.
Basketball is the first concern
admittedly of Rodger turning a
perennial loser into a respected
competitor is proof of that. Going
straight from basketball to base-
ball would tend one to believe it
would require an extreme
amount of intensity which could
burn a person out.
Dwight Barbacci was Bearde’s
assistant the past three seasons.
Formerly a first rate player at
Lehman, he went on to play for
Lock Haven State College. He
has also aided the football and
wrestling programs in the assi-
tant’s role.
Dwight will be helped by his
new assistant Bob Langan, who
has made a move from Wyoming
Area to Lehman.
Dwight and Bob will both be
handed the nucleus of a res-
poected team by Rodger with the
likes of Willy Cadwalader a Divi-
sion One college prospect behind
the plate and Earl Weidner, P.J.
Malak and Billy Boyle all good
hitters. Also a fine crop of fresh-
men will be at their disposal.
The decision by Mr. Bearde
however, must have been one of
the hardest he ever had to con-
front. His personal love for base-
ball is reflected in his own past.
Being a fine player himself for
West Chester, he went on to sign
a contract with the Pittsburgh
Pirates and was then offered a
contract with the Dodgers. The
latter which he refused to further
his education. He then became
an assistant at Perkiomen High
School. /
It took a true gentleman to put
his personal love of the game
aside, and to respect the respon-
sibilities as a A.D. to supply a
baseball coach who could supply
a full time one hundred percent
devotion to the teaching and
molding of a baseball team. To
this Mr. Bearde gets my stand-
ing ovation, it is the kind of
quality not all men possess and
I’m sure will reflect on the fine
job as Athletic Director he is
devoted to.
Baseball clinic
Back Mountain Baseball Inc. will
conduct its second annual coaches
clinic for any adult manager, coach
or volunteer affiliated with any Dis-
trict 16 Little League. Clinic will
take place on Saturday, March 16
from 9 a.m. to 1 p.m. at the Dallas
Senior High School gym."
The program, co-ordinated by
Rich Gorgone of Back Mt. Baseball,
will include such topics as Baseball
running, bunting, infield and out-
scheduled
field play, catcher development,
pitching techniques and developing
hitters. Speakers at this year’s
event include Stu Casterline, Tunk-
hannock; Jack Wolensky, Dallas;
Jay Pope, Softball coach at Dallas;
Bob Langan, Lehman; Gerry
Bavitz, Wilkes College and Bob
Duliba, head coach at Wilkes Col-
lege.
All interested managers and
coaches are urged to attend.
A photo that appeared in the
March 6 issue of The Dallas Post
was incorrectly identified as Jeff
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Austin. The Lake-Lehman wrestler
shown in the photo is Bill George.
Darling scores
Dallas Post/Ed CAMpbell
week.
By CHARLOT M. DENMON
Staff Correspondent
After defeating the Honesdale
Hornets 76-65, Tuesday, March 5 at
the Scranton CYC to dvance to the
District AAA finals against Nanti-
coke, Thursday, March 7, Dallas
Coach Clarence 0zgo’s Dallas
Mountaineers were downed 71-55 by
the Trojans.
Despite the loss to Nanticoke,
- Dallas and the Trojans advance to
the PIAA interdistrict playoffs this
Friday. The Mountaineers will play
the. loser of the Pottsville/
AllentownCentral Catholic game at
a time and place to be announced.
Dallas boys took control of the
game with the Trojans early in the
first period and ended that period
with an 11-6 lead. The Trojans hit
for only three out of 17 shots from
the field until the second period
when they began keying in on the
nets led by Dave Hornlein inspring
his teammates Ken Schinski and
Ken Piotkowski to hit in the double
figures.
When they started hitting the Tro-
jans used the press effectively
against the Mountaineers causing
them to make turnovers which their
opponents turned into points.
The Trojans built their lead to 23-
19 at the end of the first half and in
the third period outscored Dallas 18
to 11. Leading 39-30 in the third
period with about two seconds to
play, Nanticoke had the ball out of
bounds about 40 feet from the
basket. Schinski saw that Piot-
kowski was open, gave him a nod
and tossed the ball way over the
heads of the players. Piotkowski
saw him nod and went up for the
ball and caught it in mid-air, then
put it through the hoop for ‘two
points to give his team a 41-30 lead.
In the final period the Trojans
outscored the Mountaineers 10-2 to
put the game on ice. Schinski, who
ended with 25 points, scored 11 of
them in the final period. Guffrovich
had 15 points for the Trojans, Piot-
kowski 13, and Hornlein 12.
points but the Trojans used a full
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court press to prevent Mark Farrell
and Steve Wilson from hitting high
scores. Farrell totaled 13 and
Wilson had 11 points.
.In their earlier game with Hones-
dale, Farrell gave a super perform-
ance scoring 29 game points to
make it his eighth straight game he
had scored over 20 points. He also
collected 11 steals and pulled down
a lot of rebounds.
Tim Moyer hit for 18 points, John
Thomas and Steve Wilson followed
with 11 and Joe Darling had 10
points. Coach Ozgo attributed the
Dallas win to their all-out team
effort.
The first period ws played on
fairly even terms with Dallas
ending the period leading 21-17. At
the half the Mountaineers were in
front, 40-32, and were down 10-11 to
the Hornets in the third period. At
the end, the Mountaineers were the
winners with their 76-65 score.
The Mountaineers played out-
standing basketball Tuesday night
coming through with steals, assists,
layups and difficult rebounds. They
averaged 62 percent shooting from
the field, better than they have
throughout the season.
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By JOHN RODGERS
Sports Correspondent
Lake-Lehman wrestlers continued
to show Back Mountain fans thrills
through the second season (state-
competition).
Norm Clancy was the big winner,
running his record to 27-0 for the
year, capturing the regional crown
in the 132 Ib. class.
Clancy started his quest for the
title with an overtime 5-2 victory
over Dale Franquet of Lewisburg.
The match was a 2-2 deadlock after
regulation.
Norm followed up with a clamp-
ing over Mark Everett of William-
son in 3:23 i nthe semis.
In the finals, Clancy let loose at
the expense of Joe Doss from
Wyalusing, handing him a 7-0 shut-
out for the regional crown.
Lehman’s other bid for a regional
crown came in the likes of heavy-
weight Chris Van Gorder.
Chris started by slamming
Sayre’s Bob Pond 18-8 in the first
round. Then facing Susquehanna’s
undefeated Andy Kasko (25-0) Van
Gorder handed him his first defeat
5-3. In the finals Van Gorder’s hopes
of a title ended quickly as, Greg
Haladay of Southern Columbia
pinned Van Gorder in :49. Haladay
was crowned the tourney’s outstand-
ing wrestler.
Other fine showings for Lehman
came from the likes of Jeff Austin
who lost in the semi-finals 5-4 to
Smith lost a heart breaker at 119
lbs. in overtime 2-0 to Eric Snyder
of Mifflinburg. And Dave Guzenski
Mike Campbell.
As a team, coach Ed Ladamus’
squad took second place behind
Wyalusing who gained 68 points to
Lehman’s 61.5.
The Wilkes-Barre YMCA’s 20th
Annual High School Wrestling Tour-
nament has been set for March 16 at
the Wilkes College Gym.
Weigh-in time is 7:30 to 9 a.m.,
prelimianries are 10 a.m. consola-
tions and finals are at 4 p.m.
Trophies will be awarded for 1st,
2nd, 3rd, 4th places in each division
along with the “John G. Reese”
award for outstanding wrestler,
“George Ralston” Award for the
award for the quickest fall.
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