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. By CHARLOT M. DENMON
¥ Staff Correspondent
Back Mountain National Senior Girls All Stars hopes
for a state softball title were squashed on Saturday
when the local girls lost, 5-3, to Shippensburg in the
Section finals at Shippensburg.
Losing pitcher Lori Cannon gave up only three hits,
but walked nine which, coupled with errors by the
Nationals, decided the game.
The local All Stars outhit their opponents, but were
unable to put everything together to score runs.
“Our girls didn’t seem to be up like they should,”
said Coach Charlotte Slocum. “I believe we were the
better team, but we didn’t play like we were on
Saturday. I'm proud of the girls, however, for going as
far as they did. Until this last game, they played
almost errorless ball, chalking up only one error
before Saturday.”
The Nationals had nine hits off winning hurler Stacy
Hockenberry, who gave up five walks. Susie Slocum
and Noelle Kuznicki had two singles each, Joyce
Tinner knocked out a double, Pam Coolbaugh, Tracy
Hunter, Paula Sweitzer and Lori Cannon each had a
single.
Despite getting the hits, the local girls were unable
to score on the bases. Two runners were called out for
leaving the bases too soon and they left one runner on
base in the third, two on in the fourth, one on in the
fifth, two on in the sixth and, with the bases loaded in
the seventh, the Nationals were able to score only one
run.
“It was just one of those days,” said Slocum. “It’s
hard to say whether they were trying too hard or not
hard enough.”
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The win by Shippensburg advances them to the state
tournament in Newville, near Carlisle, which opened
Tuesday.
DEFEAT TRAIL
Earlier last week, Pam Coolbaugh pitched a 4-0
shutout over Roosevelt Trail at the Dallas field. The
game went four innings before either team scored.
In the top of the fourth inning, Joyce Tinner hit a
double down the leftfield line and stole third on
Kuznicki’s grounder to the shortstop. Kuznicki’s ball
was too hard for shortstop Kelly Goodman to hold on
to and Kuznicki was safe on first.
Paula Sweitzer tapped out an infield single and the
bases were loaded with nobody out. Tracy Hunter was
at the plate with a 1-0 count when Tinner started home
as Roosevelt’s catcher threw the ball back to the
pitcher. Pitcher Debbie Pickett threw the ball back to
catcher Chrissie Stevens but it was too high and too
late and Tinner scored. Kuznicki scored the second
run when Hunter grounded out.
Susie Slocum scored a third run in the fifth inning
after she took first on a single, then came home on a
double throwing error. In the sixth inning, Lori
Cannon drove out a long sacrifice fly to send home
Sweitzer.
Roosevelt outhit the Back Mountain Nationals, but
was unable to get their runners home, leaving nine on
base. In the first inning, they had the bases loaded on
three singles and only one out, but Coolbaugh forced
the next two hitters into a pop-up and a short fly to
right field.
The local girls had three stolen bases in the game
and Roosevelt Trail had two. Coolbaugh fanned nine
and walked only one in picking up the win, using a
rising fastball throughout most of the game.
The following Back Mountain resi-
dents are participating in the Key-
stone State Games on August 9-11 at
Penn State University.
They are:
Marc Ramirez, 45 W. Center St.,
Shavertown, baseball; Jonathan
Dombek, 52 Wyoming Ave., Dallas;
John Sheehan, Box 132 Overbrook
Rd., Dallas, field hockey; Susie
SDlocum, RD 2, Dallas; Maureen
Wisnieski, 216 Chestnut St., Shaver-
town; Linda King, 239 Huntsville
Rd., Dallas, field hockey.
Also, Jill Radzinski, 207 W. Center
Hill Rd., Dallas; Cristi Strauser, 7
Pear Tree Lane, Dallas, field
worth Road, Shavertown; Matthew
McLaughlin, 100 BVirch Hill Lane,
Dallas, ice hockey; Mark McLaugh-
lin, 100 Birch Lane, Dallas, ice
hockey; Chris Saul, 6 Raintree
Road, Dallas, soccer; Kelly Wandel,
Rd 4, box 305, Dallas; Cindy
Slocum, Rd 2, Box 381, Dallas;
Joyce Tinner, Robbins Road,
Dallas, softball.
Also, Chris Kukosky, RD 1, Sweet
Valley; Rocky Lopasky, RD 2,
Dallas; Mark Major, Huntsville
Road, 2225, Shavertown; Kirk Van-
dermark, RD 2, Box 360E, Dallas,
volleyball; Eden Phillips, RD 1, Box
352 A, Dallas, volleyball; Ed Strat-
ford, RD 1, Box 24, Baird St.
Harveys Lake, wrestling; Gerald
O’Gurkis, Overbrook Road, Dallas;
Neil Gordon, Rd 3, Benton, wres-
tling; Rick Finnegan, Box 360 CC-
Ya, RD 2, Dallas; Charles Jacoby,
114 Valleyview Trailer Park, Dallas,
wrestling.
Back Mountain Baseball has
entered the 11 and 12 year old
Wilkes-Barre Recreation League
Tournament for the first time.
Players selected to represent
Back Mountain are Ray Russin,
Pete Kerdesky, Brian Miller, Larry
Dymond, Steve Oliver, Emery
Yurko, Jeff Dover, Brett Gauntlet,
Neil Kaiser, Eric Paczewski, Lenny
Kelley, Hugo Selenski, Jeff Bankov-
A win in yesterday’s game (Tues-
day, July 30) will have Back Moun-
tain playing home games on Friday,
Aug. 2 and Tuesday, Aug. 6. A win
in both those games would lead to
the finals on Thursday, Aug. 9 at St.
Therese’s LL Field.
This single elimination tourney
has all games beginning at 5:45
p.m. with the exception of the final
game scheduled to begin at 7:30
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Family hugs
Back Mountain Baseball will con-
duct a meeting on Monday, Aug. 5,
beginning at 8 p.m. for all manag-
ers and coaches of Little League
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Earlier victory
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By CHARLOT M. DENMON
Staff Correspondent
Back Mountain American defeated East End Ameri-
can, 13-9, Sunday, at Coal Street and the Back
Mountain Nationals, 4-1, Saturday, to advance to
Thursday’s game with Mountaintop at 5 p.m. in the
opening rounds of the Teeners League Tournament.
Pitcher Rick Jurosky paced the Americans to their
win on Sunday, fanning six and walking only two while
driving out a triple and two doubles to help in picking
up the win. :
The Americans jumped out to an early lead when
they socred four runs in the top of the first but the
East Enders came back with two runs in the bottom
half of the first frame.
The Back Mountain nine iced the win in the fifth
frame when they batted round with 10 men facing
East End’s hurlers Shirk and Suda. The Americans
scored six runs in that inning and added three more in
their half of the sixth.
East End scored two runs in the bottom of the sixth
and made a strong comeback in the seventh, scoring
five runs before the Americans retired their opponents
with a double play.
The Back Mountain team hit Shirk and Suda for 17
hits with Jurosky going three-for-four, Bill Millham
hitting three-for-three, Jon Wagner, three-for-four and
Wade Wright hitting two-for-three, one of them a
double. Perlis and Fetterman also knocked out doubles
for the Americans. Millham had four RBI's in the
game.
East End hurler Shirk struck out six and walked
five, Suda struck out two and walked none.
In Saturday’s opening game, Back Mountain Ameri-
can defeated their brother team, Back Mountain
Nationals, 4-1, behind hurler Scott Francis, who struck
out nine at the plate while walking only two. Losing
~ pitcher was Andy Prebola, who gave up only five hits.
The Americans took a two-run lead in the first
inning on back-to-back singels by Tom Perlis and Jon
Wagner. Perlis scored the first run on a single by
Scott Francis and Wagner came home on a long
sacrifice by Jurosky.
The Americans scored their final two runs in the
third frame when Jerome Mattey singled home
Francis and Mattey scored on a throw to second.
Don Spencer scored the lone run for the Nationals in
the fifth inning. Spencer took base on a single and
went to third on a hit by Scott Wright. Wright tried to
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stretch his single into a double and while the infield
got him out in a rundown between first and second,
Spencer scored.
The Americans stopped the Nationals in the final
inning with a double play from third baseman Mattey
to second baseman Wagner to first baseman Sean
McGovern.
The loss dropped the Nationals to the losers bracket
where they played Pittston, Sunday at 5 p.m., losing 7-
4, at Pittston.
Pittston scored three runs in the bottom half of the
first inning and singles in the second and third to give
them all they needed for the win. They insured the win
by crossing the plate with another run in the fourth
and a final one in the sixth. :
Both teams had nine hits but the Nationals were
unable to put theirs together to score enough runs.
Losing hurler Zacharias fanned four and walked two
four,
J. Krupa went four-for-four for the Nationals, one of
them a long triple. Hitting singles were Konopki,
shortstop; Laposky, first base; Zacharias, first base;
Love and Pari, fielders.
Winning pitcher Angellela fanned seven and walked
four and aided in the win by going two-for-three at bat,
tapping out two singles.
In the 13-year old Teeners Tournament at Fort-
Swoyer Teener Field held Sunday, the Back Mountain
nine defeated Nanticoke 12-7, to take the championship
in the 8th Annual Forty Fort Lions Tournament.
Pitcher Rob Michaels gave up only five hits, fanned
eight and issued six walks in collecting the win over
Nanticoke’s Jason Keber. Michaels also aided his own
win by driving out a grand slam in the sixth inning.
Keber gave up 11 hits to the Back Mountain team.
Brody went two-for-two, third baseman James hit
three-for-five and Bob Barbacci drove out a double.
Hitting singels were catcher Masley, second baseman
May, left fielder Grundowski, and first baseman
Jones.
Back Mountain took a five run lead in the bottom of
the second inning and added three more in the fourth
before Michaels drove in the final fourwith his grand
slam in the sixth. i
Nanticoke scored a run in the top of the third, one in
the fourth and send two across home plate in the fifth.
After scoring a single run in the sixth, pitcher Keber
knocked out a two-run double in the seventh before
Michaels retired the side.