Sports
Dallas Post/Charlot M. Denmon
Dallas trackmen =
Four senior lettermen in track will form the nucleus of this
year’s varsity track squad. Coach Bill Straitiff has confi-
dence in (left to right) Bob Oliver, distance; Mike Farrell,
400 meter; and Eric Supey, sprints. Absent from photo is
Matt Mihal, discus and javelin events.
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By ED GDOSKI
Outdoors Writer
3 The past several months I have
i been talking to sportsmen, private
land owners, trappers, and conser-
vation-interested groups in Luzerne
County about the Game Commission
Wildlife Management Program and
its financial problem. Today, I will
try to put it all together and inform
you of their attacks on the Commis-
sion Management programs and
behavior of all true sportsmen par-
ticipating in the sport of hunting.
A lot of them :
are loud at meet-
ings, and write
against the wild-
life management
program in Penn-
sylvania, also
asking ‘‘What’s
the Game Com-
p mission doing for
> me?’ The first
concern of the
: hunter is for GDOSKI
! ) himself - by hunting daily and
coming home with the animal or
bird of the season.
If killing a bird or animal is the
sportsman’s meaning of the sport of
hunting, he or she better select
another sport, because they will be
disappointed. Their second concern
is to maintain an artificial high
population of game on areas of poor
habitat, and land closed to hunting.
To accomplish this, they want the
Commission to increase their stock-
ing program. Through the years of
research, the stocking program is
too expensive for end results in the
hunters game bog.
Their third concern is to abolish
the Pa. Game Commission, prefer-
ring instead to have game manage-
ment manipulated politically
instead of sound scientific pro-
grams. I often try explaining to the
sportsmen that we are fortunate to
have our Game Commission
manage our wildlife resources,
instead of having it managed by
® public emotions or by politics.
Talking to. people, who claimed to
be professionals in wildlife manage-
ment because they hunted »or
trapped a few days of each year,
also gave me suggestions how the
Seasons listed
Season for April:
i April 1 - Dog training season
closes and opens Aug. 31. Most
animals and birds are having their
n young during this time therefore
you should keep your dogs tied or
under control.
April 27 - 1) Opening day of
| Spring Gobbler Season, closes Mary
25.
2) Hunting begins % hour before
sunrise to 11 a.m., hunter must be
out of woods by 12 noon.
3) Types of firearms, shotguns
manually operated, semi auto.
4) Shotgun, with fire shot not
WN largers than BB shot; possessing
° single projectile ammo in field pro-
~~ hibited.
5) Bows and Compound Bows
permitted.
6) Turkey must be tagged with
spring tag attached to the leg of the
turkey within one hour orbefore
removing the carcass where the
turkey was killed. Tag must remain
/ attached to turkey leg until pre-
pared for consumption.
7) Unlawful to possess a used
turkey tag while in field.
8) Kill must be reported within
five days after kill to Hbg.
April 27-May 25 - Woodchuck hunt-
ing hours, 12 noon to sunset.
April 14 - Closing of crow hunting
until May 31.
Fluorescent has been the safest
color to wear while hunting and it
has reduced our hunting accidents.
A vy
Game Commission should manage
our wildlife resources.
The first group, ones that killed a
deer, bear or some small game
thought it was doing an excellent
job of wildlife management. The
second group, persons not Killing
any game, suggested better ways of
managing our wildlife resources.
The third group, private land
owners, were inquisitive of the
Game Commission program to alle-
viate crop damage. The fourth
group, trappers, wanted knowledge
of laws relating to stolen traps, and
The fifth group, non hunters,
wanted to know whether the com-
mission has a better method than
hunting, to harvest surplus animals
nd birds.
It would be a miracle to try to
believe the Game Commission is
doing a very good job in managing
our programs for the hunter and
citizens by providing open land,
pirds, animal, waterfowl and waters
for recreation.
It leases over two million acres in
Farm Game Projects, or one mil-
lion in Safety Zone Program, near
one million in Forest Game projects
and owns over one million acres of
game lands which it has to pay
school and road taxes.
Commission programs are suc-
cessful because last year the
reported buck kill was 72,773. This
is the second largest reported buck
kill. The anterless deer reported kill
was 57,973; Archery buck kill 3507,
doe kill 3,067; muzzle season, buck
220, doe 2670, making a total of
140,180 reported deer killed.
Also, we do not have the actual
number killed by vehicles, farmers
for crop damage and illegal deer
shot by poachers.
(I will be writing a monthly
column in this paper informing you
of outdoor problems, questions,
complaints, legislative changes and
other subjects. Anyone who may
have any questions, complaints, cri-
ticisms or even compliments may
write to Ed Gdoski, Outdoors
Column, c/o The Dallas Post, P.O.
Box 366, Dallas, Pa. 18612.)
Season opens April 9
Cindermen, women
gear up for season
By CHARLOT M. DENMON
Staff Correspondent
Dallas Senior High School Varsity Track Coach William Straitiff is
pleased with the turnout for the boy’s and girl’s track teams this
season. ,
‘“‘We have 25 boys and 21 girls which gives us a lot of depth in most
events, We are a young team but we have a few lettermen returning
and a lot of potential in the other kids,” said Straitiff.
The boys have four senior lettermen returning and five juniors. The
rest of the boys are relatively inexperienced, but most of them have
learned the basic in junior high and have been working hard since
practice started.
Straitiff has two distance runners, Mark Wright and Bob Oliver,
whom most track fans will remember from last year. Eric Supey is
good on the hurdles and junior Ron Ostrowski is tagged for the 100,
200 and 400. Mark Farrell has clocked some good times in the 400 and
Steve Brace, a District champ in junior high, is a good distance
runner. Both boys are good potentials for the relay teams.
In the field events, Matt Liva will be throwing the disk and javelin
while Mark Liva will be tossing the shot. Mark Wright is expected to
better his height on the high jump this season and Tim Kern will do
the pole vaulting.
Straitiff emphasized that a lot of the boys will mature as the season
progresses and he expects some great talent before the end of the
season. He and his assistants, Steve Kaschenbach and Mary Ann
Walsh, were pleased with the squads performances in a scrimmage
at Montrose last week.
‘Kaschenbach works with the jumping events and Walsh works with
the throwing events while Straitiff coordinates all of the events.
“We have more depth with the girls this year than we have ever
had,” said Straitiff. “We have Amy Aston who is one of the best. No
one should beat her unless Renee Robbins of Honesdale pulls an upset
in Districts.”
Linda King is back for the sprints and Susan Starolis is a good 400
runner. Renee Balberchak is a 100 and 200 meter runner and is
strong. On the hurdles it will be Brenda Harvey, who will be backed
up by Carla Orlando and Lori Ogurkis. Leigh Pawling is a great
distance runner.
In the field events, there are Karen Wall, Barbara Davis, and
Kristen Piakowski, all good at the shot, discus and javelin. Maureen
Wisheski has shown potential at the 100 and 200 meters.
Like the boys, the girls are a young team but their dedication and
willingness to work is encouraging to Straitiff, who can see success
down the road for the future.
Both the boys and girls are in the AAA Division and will be
competing against some experienced teams this season.
LAKE-LEHMAN
Over at Lake-Lehman Senior High, Track Coach Ed Narkiewicz has
his work cut out for him. :
With 20 boys and only seven girls out for track this season, it is
definitely a re-building year. Narkiewicz has about 10 seniors and
juniors, the others are sophomores. He has no freshmen on the
varsity squad this year, they are competing in junior high.
There are several bright spots on the horizon. District champ Dave
Janiczek is back. He runs the 800 and 1600 and finished fifth in the
800. Chris Van Gorder is back and he is always outstanding in
whatever he does. Junior Dave Radomski gave a fine showing and he
is out this year.
Coach Narkiewicz lost most of his runners and sprinters through
graduation and he has to put together new relay teams.
“We lack depth and we have a lot of young and inexperienced boys.
It is too soon to tell what they will do but as they run they will
develop. Then I'll know where to place them,” said Narkiewicz.
He has one sprinter in senior Dennis Morgan.
With only seven girls, it is impossible for the Lady Knights to win
but they will run whatever events they can and will have to forfeit.
Karen Austin and Michelle Judge are back and will be able to run
the 1600 and 3200.
In a scrimmage with Lakeland last week, the Knights showed some
potential but a number of them were out of action due to illness so
Narkiewicz has to wait. He is not discouraged, however, for the
veteran coach knows only too well that, like all sports, track runs a
cycle. A year or two of re-building and the Knights will be back at the
top.
In the meantime, the league season is scheduled to open April 9.
Dallas Post/Charlot M. Denmon
By JOHN RODGERS
Sports Correspondent
College Misericordia has
announed that Steve Morrison a 6-7
center from Wyoming Valley West
has signed a letter of intent to
attend and play basketball for the
Highlanders.
Morrison averaged 14 points and
seven rebounds per game for Valley
West, he also had 46 blocked shots
and made over 60 percent of his
shots from the floor.
Steve selected Miseri over about
20 other schools offering for his
services. Some of the other schools
in the bidding were highly rated
Division II Bloomsburg and East
Stroudsburg.
“Steve has just begun to reach his
potential,” stated Coach Clocker.
‘He is like an iceberg, what you see
on top is only an indication of his
ability still not seen.”
With the loss of senior captain
center Monte Deyo and forward
Dan Smith, “Steve can hopefully
move right in and help us fill an
inside position.”
Steve was a Times Leader and
Sunday Independent All-Star, also a
member of the East-West All Star
Team. Another honor he gained was
the Sportsman’s Award in the Holi-
day Classic, where he scored 16
points against state runner-up Nan-
ticoke in the Spartans victory.
He really came on for us, stated
Spartan Coach Sandy McKay.
“Steve has a great attitude, and I
think Misericordia will be happy
with what they have found.” He is
going to do nothing but improve. I
am very happy for him. I think he
has made a fine choice and he is
going to become a success story. He
will be missed here at Valley West.
Steve is the son of Mr. and Mrs.
Neil Morrison.
Gymnastics
championships
scheduled
The Wilkes-Barre YMCA will
sponsor the Northeastern Pennsyl-
vania Gymnastic Championships on
April 14.
The Spinners of the YMCA will
host the event with teams from
Pittston, Honesdale, Carbondake,
and Stroudsburg also competing.
The meet will begin at 10 a.m. and
continue all through the day. It will
give anyone a chance that is inter-
ested in gymnastics to get a first
hand view of competition.
‘Many girls from the Back Moun-
tain area are in this event and they
need support. We hope to see a
great turnout so mark April 14, on
your calendar.
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