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~ By ED GDOSKY
Special to The Dallas Post
The 18th Spring Gobbler season
opened Saturday, April 27, and will
- close Saturday, May 25. Shooting
_ hours ‘are one half hour before
* sunrise to 11:00am. Hunters must be
out of the woods by 12 noon. Only
bearded turkeys may be shot
- because by May most birds have
mated and gobblers become
‘“‘excess birds.” Harvesting them
doesn’t affect our turkey population.
Knights
garner
WVC title
Lake-Lehman Knights took the
1985 Wyoming Valley Volleyball
Conference title with a 12-0 record.
‘Tunkhannock placed second at 11-1
and North Pocono with 10-2.
The Knights will be No. One seed
from District 2 in the PIAA compe-
tition with Tunkhannock No. 2 and
North Pocono No. 3. The state
competition will be May 25 at Penn-
sylvania State University.
In recent competition, the Knights
blanked West Side Tech 2-0. Dave
Jachimowicz was top server for the
Knights with 15 consecutive points
in the first game. He played an
outstanding game in the second set
to help the Knights win 15-0, 15-5.
Doing a great job as hitters for
the Knights were Chris Kukosky,
Greg Javer and Dave Mosier.
Dallas netters upped their record
by downing Wyoming Valley West 2-
chris Busch’s spiking and excel-
lent setting by John Oravitz and
* John Strange led the Mountaineeers
to 15-9, 15-12 wins over the Spartans.
In the second game Dallas trailed
5-0 before rallying to win. Mike
Watchulonis scored nine points and
Matt Conologue added five to make
them the two top scorers.
-CHARLOT M. DENMON
Lawley is
singles
tithst
Dallas High School senior Chris
Lawley won the singles title in
PIAA District 2 competition last
Wednesday at Kirby Park.
Lawley, who defeated Riverside
High School’s John Emiliani, 6-3, 6-
2, to cop the title, advanced to the
| finals by defeating Scranton Prep’s
Terry Cawley, 7-5, 6-1.
Lawley played one of the hardest
¢ hitters he was ever on the court
¢ with in competition when he went
up against Emiliani. The Riverside
| player displayed an array of fore-
hand smashes and crisp overheads
“but also made mistakes that suited
Lawley’s game plan.
Emiliani kept within striking dis-
tance in the beginning of each set
but the more experienced and ver-
satile Lawley used half volleys and
drop shots against his opponent and
_ forced him in to hitting long shots or
netting the volley.
The top-seeded Dallas senior lost
in the semi-finals last year but with
_ his partner Joe O’Donnell won the
doubles title in 1984. This year, he
conquered his beginning game jiters
d settled down to play about the
est he has in his career.
Lawley was trailing 2-1 when the
“momentum of the game went his
‘way and he gave up only four points
| in the last five games to take the
gE title.
~ Both Lawley and Emiliani will
‘represent the district, May 24 and 25
in the state tournament in Blooms-
burg.
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All hunters
should be careful
while participat-
ing in this hunt
because in spring
season bearded
turkeys are
hunted by calling
only. The major-
ity of hunters are
dressed in cam
ouflage only, with their faces
painted in different: colors. They
wear no bright flourescent colors
and the turkey caller can be easily
mistaken for the turkey itself. More
hunters are shot for a turkey by
mistake than any other game spe-
cies. To keep hunting accidents at a
minimum, I beg everyone to be sure
of their target before firing their
gun.
The past several weeks, I have
been reading magazine and newspa-
per articles written by champion
turkey callers and self proclaimed
experts on how to call in spring
gobblers. It seems everyone has
their own methods of calling. Even
though they are not identical, they
seem to produce the same results:
(1) a turkey answers and will not
come close, (2) a turkey answers,
comes to the caller and is shot by
him, or (3) no turkey answers and
the hunter moves on. If a hunter
wants to be successful, he must
scout before the season to make
sure a turkey is in the area, prac-
tice his turkey calling until he
masters it, and finally, make sure
the bird is in close enough so that he
can hit it and kill it.
The first Saturday I left my head-
quarters and was working in the
turkey hunting area of my district
when I had to shake myself and
make sure I wasn’t dreaming. I
couldn’t believe the sight in front of
me. Two hunters were entering the
woods wearing camouflage outfits,
357 pistols (which, are illegal) and
stove pipes on each leg. After
checking their licenses, I inquired
about their hunting outfits.
They stated that the stove pipes
on their legs were for protection
from snakes and the 357 pistols
were to shoot the snakes. They also
stated that ever since they left
Philadelphia they had been trying to
buy one of those whistles (I later
found out they meant a turkey
caller) and hadn’t been able to find
one. I explained the regulations,
told them where to get a “whistle”,
told them to leave their pistols in
the car, then suggested they read
their hunting digests. They took my
advise, thanked me and left...
At the conclusion of my day’s
work, I had not checked one suc-
cessful hunter. Here are some of the
reasons I heard why a turkey
wasn’t shot: (1) the weather was
too cold, (2) the gobbler didn’t come
in close because he had some hens
with him, (3) someone spooked the
bird before it got to the caller, (4)
hens were nesting and toms
wouldn’t answer, and (5) other
people were answering his calls.
I feel I had a successful day and I
hope the season ends the same
because with the large number of
hunters in the woods, there were no
accidents.
(Ed Gdosky is the District Game
Commissioner for the Pennsylvania
State Game Commission.)
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