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By CHARLOT M. DENMON
Staff Correspondent
With the end of the Back Moun-
tain high schools Fall sports pro-
gram, practice sessions and scrim-
mages will get underway for the
winter team sports. Busy putting
new ideas into effect are the
coaches of the senior high school
varsity girls basketball teams.
Head Coach Joe Martini of Lake-
Lehman, who has had 30 girls out in
competition for the squad, says it
will be at least another week before
he will be able to determine his
starting players and have any idea
of the team’s potential.
Dallas Senior Varsity Coach Kit
Karuza, however, has made some
headway for the season since he has
a good nucleus of players from last
season returning. Seniors Kim Rine-
himer and Karen Vloedman, who
were starters last season, are back
and Karuza expects these two to
play a key role in the team’s
success throughout the season. As
co-captains, they will be counted on
to lead the other members of the
team.
Four other letter winners return-
ing are Lori Brokenshire, Eileen
Walsh, Angie Kern and Joann Cook.
Karuza expects Brokenshire to
develop as one of the best guards in
the league. A fifth player, who
played a lot last season, and is
is sophomore Missy Kohli.
“This gives us a good nucleus to
build around,” said Karuza. ‘“We
also have Patti Sudol, Tammy Dav-
eski and Angela Chiarucci, juniors
who also did a lot of varsity playing
last season. We have a lot of depth
and experience this year, a varia-
tion from other years. In the past
we have had depth but not with a lot
of experience.”
Twenty . six girls signed papers
indicating intention to play, but
from the first 24 who came out the
number has narrowed to 20, a
BOWLING
NEWS
Dallas A men shut out Maple
Grove in the Back Mt. Church
League paced by R. Fielding’s 215
(551) and R. Stair’s 541. C. Roberts
adde to the cause with 532. Gary
Mazur rolled 538 for the losing five.
Shavertown B took all from Orange
A sparked by C. Kazokas’ 576 and
Trucksville B blanked Shavertown
A paced by S. Hoover’s 217 (560).
Carverton B picked up three points
from Carverton A whose high scorer
was J. Haines with 510. Trucksville
C took two and a half points from
East Dallas aided by J. Reming-
ton’s walloping 213-224 (588). C.
Goble’s 203 ws high for the East
In the Idetown Compact League
the first place ‘Aries took three from
Firebirds led by J. Berti’s 222 (517)
while the Corvettes blanked the
Capris on a forfeit. Marilyn Morris
rolled 482 for the Corvettes. E.
Ishley’s 203 helped the Pintos take
three from the Citations whose M.
Pazuchanics hit pins for 186.
LeBarons pickd up three from the
Camaros.
Grotto Pizza shut out Gordon
Insurance in Ladies Country League
to drop the insurance girls to last
place half game behind G.H. Harris.
D. Zurinski topped both teams with
179 (496). League-leading Bonomo
Sports Center divided equally with
G.H. Harris but continued in first
due to Fashion Vending splitting 2-2
with the Castlettes. Grotto Pizz
moved into third spot in the league.
Hitting high games other than
Zurinski were K. Scavone 178 (494),
B. Strazdus 184 and M.E. Neely 179.
Tom Reese blanked Brent Long
despite Long’s Chris Badman roll-
ing 170 in the Bowlerette League.
Hoagie Bar took four points on a
Grant hit pins for 179 (474). N.
Moser rolled 479 for the Hoagie
girls.
In Our Gang League Chubbie five
shut out Farina, Porky took three
and one half from Spanky, Butch
picked up three from Alfalfa and
Buckwheat did the same to Worm.
High rollers for the men were M.
Carkhuff 527, E. Dingle 504, Lon
Cooper 525, and for the women,
Sandy Dzury 481.
it was 3-1 night in the Imperialette
‘League with Scavone Motors taking
Mahaffey Oil, Schmid’s Amoco
making it three from Humphrey’s
Apparel and Jean Shop taking three
from Lombardo Bakery. High scor-
ers were K. Scavone 181 (475), M.
Neifert 197-213 (542), J. Wertman
185, L. Johnson 178 and D. Garnett
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number with which Karuza believes
is workable. There are a lot of
sophomores competing this year,
many of them showing excellent
potential.
Among these are Rene Balber-
chak, Susan Starolis and Eileen
Kalinowski. Others are progressing
rapidly and it looks like an exciting
season for the Dallas girls team.
There are a few freshmen practic-
ing with the team and Karuza indi-
cated that it was possible he might
move one or two up to the varsity
squad but not before he discussed
the move with Junior High Coaches
Tom Kilduff and Bill Straitiff.
Both of these men have coached
junior high teams in the past,
although not in the past few sea-
sons. Karuza believes the fact the
two coaches are at junior high will
be beneficial to the program. They
will be able to recruit girls early
and bring them up through the
system.
The Dallas team does not have
many transfers into the team during
the past year or two but the pro-
gram has been successful and
Karuza attributes much of this to
the junior high program.
Despite losing last year’s Cheryl
Gavigan and Kim Rollman, high
scorers and Gavigan, tob reboun-
der, Karuza said he has other play-
ers who can take their place and he
is looking forward to this year’s
league play.
Last year the Dallas team was
considered a young team but after
losing their first two games, the
team won 19 of their next 20 games.
This year they should be a strong
contender although it may take a
while for the players to come
together as a team.
Karuza is changing the team’s
style of play this year since he does
not have much height as in previous
seasons. it wil lbe a season of
transition to a smaller team in
height, so the team will probably
play more aggressive ball and run
the ball a lot more. Walsh, Broken-
ft
Stop that kick!
Dallas leaders
Karuza.
shire and Rinehimer are speedsters
and the others work at getting into
the flow of play.
The method of play will make the
team more open to mistakes but it
will be more exciting. On defense,
the team will, as in the past, use 1-3-
1 but will use more man-to-man and
more zone and on offense, they will
incorporate many new methods.
Overall, Karuza expects the team to
play with more sophistication.
The Dallas girls will continue to
do what they do best — dump the
ball down the inside. This year
there are five or six on the team
who are high scorers at any given
time. If their opponents key on any
one player, someone else can take
the ball to score. The Dallas team
will use a lot of “gimmick” defense
this season to compensate for less
height.
Coach Karuza believes the Lady
Mountaineers. toughest - competition
will be Meyers with five back from
last season, and Seton Catholic, with
four returning from last season. He
said Lake-Lehman is always tough
and Crestwood has a very tall team
this season. Wyoming Seminary is
always capable of pulling an upset
and this year has a good center and
an outstanding freshman.
The key to Dallas’ success this
season is not to take any team for
granted. They can’t be defeated by
an upset from a team they are
capable of defeating.
Dallas girls open in the Tunkhan-
nock Tournament, Dec. 7, playing
either Montrose or Blue Ridge.
They, play Nanticoke, away, Dec.
10; Benton, away, Dec. 16; Pittston
Area, at home, Dec. 23; and South"
Williamsport, at home Dec. 29, 2
p.m. They also play two league
games in December, Northwest and
G.AR.
The Luzerne County Cup Tourna-
ment, sponsored by the Luzerne
County Recreation Dept. ended Sat-
urday with the final eight teams
(six from Back Mt. Soccer) vying
for first and second place. Back Mt.
Soccer teams came home with wins
in three of four age divisions. Win-
ners were U-10, U-14, and U-16.
U-16 DIVISION
The U-16 game saw the Back Mt.
Rowdies facing the Back Mt. Stri-
kers with the Strikers coming out on
top with a 5 to 4 victory after full
regulation time and two “5 minute
overtimes.” Jeff Tinner (Tommy
Shone assist) started the scoring in
the second quarter for a Rowdie
lead at halftime.
Third quarter action had Steve
Finn tie the game for the Strikers
on a direct free kick. left wing Wes
Wuori later nailed one putting the
Rowdies in front going into the
fourth quarter. The fourth had the
Strikers scoring twice with halfback
Steve Finn scoring off a pass from
Doug Doerfler and Finn nailing a
goal on a direct kick. Jeff Tinner
finished the scoring to tie the game
at three goals apiece.
. The first overtime had Doerfler
scoring before a Reese Finn (P.K.)
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goal with 4 minutes remaining in
the second overtime. Mike Richards
then sealed a Striker victory on a
penalty kick. Super defense was
turned in by D.J. Hopkins and Eric
Smith (S) and Reese Finn, Joyce
Tinner, Jenny Moran, Becky Geffert
(H.B.), Chris Graver, (H.B.) and
goalie Howie Hopson (R). Good
offensive effots came from Ken
Kozel, John Masley, and Nicole
Vogel (s) and Tom Shone, Steve
Sours, Tinner and Wuori (R). The
Strikers ended the year undefeated
at 12-0.
U-14 DIVISION
U-14 final saw the Back Mt. Sock-
ers wearing down the scrappy
Plains Woverines in the second half
for a 6-2 win. First quarter play had
Brian Hamel (S) scoring first
before a John Corcorran (W) goal
tied it at one. Hampel banged
another one in before Chris Sinca-
vage (W) tied the game ending the
first quarter.
Steven Sennett (Brian Hampel
assist) broke the deadlock in the
second for a 3-2 Socker lead at
halftime. The Socker offense pre-
vailed in the second half over the
quick and aggressive Woverines
a
gd
Klimowitz), John Baranowski
(Hampel), and another Baranowski
‘shot thru the net to end all scoring.
U-12 DIVISION
The U-12 final had the W-B Sky-
hawks going against the Back Mt.
Charters with the Skyhawks coming
out on top 3 to 2 after a hard fought
battle including the full regulation
game, two, “five-minute overtimes’’
and with the score still tied, an 18-
man shootout.
Mike Sweeney scored twice in the
first half (assists R.J. Chesna and
J. Williams) before a Matt Sleighth-
olm goal brought the Chargers
within one. The Skyhawks led the
entire second half with David
Fisher (C) tied the game sending it
into overtime after a scoreless first
overtime.
U-10 DIVISION
The Back Mountain Cosmos and
Back Mountain Stallions squared off
in the U-10 final with a tremendous
defensive effort by both teams hold-
ing all scoring for the better part of
the game. The lone score came in
the 3rd quarter on a Sean Callahan
goal from the halfback slot giving
the Cosmos the win.
Goalies Jeff Kunkle (C) and Dave
Thomas (S) played excellent
defense fending off shot after shot
by both clubs.
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By JOHN F. KILDUFF
Staff Correspondent
Dallas, Pa.’s resident Bass Pro,
Chet Williams of 134 Tunkhannock
Highway, has an unusual way of
looking at the algae problem at
Harveys Lake.
While many area fishermen, boat-
ers and swimmers grimmace at the
thought of going near a ‘‘green
lake,” Williams says the murky
water provides an ideal fishing con-
dition.
“I know some people might take
this the wrong way,” said Williams.
“But if Harveys Lake was green
year-round, it (Harveys Lake)
would be one of the best fishing
lakes in the state of Pennsylvania.”
Williams said fish tend look for
places to hide during the day
because the sunlight hurts their
eyes. That is why most of the large
fish in Harveys Lake tend to be
caught in the middle of the lake.
“The greenish tint of the lake
means the fish will come closer to
the shoreline because they cannot
be frightened off as easily,” said
Williams.
Williams said when the Anabaena
summer he caught some real lunk-
ers during the pannick.
“One day the channel 16 TV crew
was out at the lake filming the
algea problem,” Williams remem-
bers. ‘That same day I caught a
nice 5 and half pound large mouth.”
Williams, who has been fishing
professionally for the past seven
years, said he has two basic secrets
to catching large quantities of fish
— fish scent liquids and multiple
casting in a single area.
“You know you will go out fishing
and you are bound to see some
fishermen running around a lake
trying to find that right spot,” said
Williams. ‘‘Sometimes they will hit
50 different spots on a lake. Not
me,” Williams said emphatically.
“I'll fish-in one or two spots and
make multiple casts.”
Said Williams, “In any given lake
90 percent of the fish are located in
10 percent of the water. So you must
find the hot spot and continue to
cast into the same area. The fish
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lake
will find you, not the other way
around.”
Williams, who makes himself
available to community organiza-
tions as a speaker, has been fishing
for over 20 years. He currently
ranks number 10 out of 250 fisher-
men in the Northeast Division of the
Redman Chewing Tobacco Fishing
season. 2
Fishing, said Williams, is a sport
which separates the men from the
boys when it comes to determina-
tion.
“Fishing in tournaments is much
different than weekend fishing,”
said Williams. ‘You sometimes
have 30 degree weather and 40 mile
an hour winds to contend with. But
a tournament fisherman will be out
there under any condition.” St
Williams, 41, said “Fishing the
the really adverse weather is what
seperates the men from the boys.
You can also catch some the the
biggest fish in the worst weather,”
Williams said.
Of course, said Williams, you
must use common sense. “I do not
mean to tell people to go out and
fish when the waves are splashing
into their boat. You just have to
exercise common sense,” Williams
said.
Williams also smashed the old
myth of having to fish early in the
morning to catch fish. The Dallas
resident said he does some of his
best fishing around 12 noon.
“When the sun begins to rise in
the morning the fish head for the
middle of the body of water,” Wil-
liams said. “You as the fisherman
must follow the fish out into the
deeper water and go after them.”
Williams said the average fisher-
man is spoiled as a child by fishing
in area ponds. The ponds, according
to Williams, are the most active
fishing areas because the ponds are
not very deep and the water tends
to be murky (green). These condi-
tions are supposedly the best for
catching fish. =
“The problem with the average
fisherman,” said Williams, ‘‘is that
they fish the same style and depth
when they fish a lake.” ‘‘Ofcourse
the lake is a lot deeper and requires
more skill.”
Members of Humphrey's adult
recreational basketball team have
returned to defend their title in the
Lake-Noxen Adult Recreational
Basketball League.
The league, entering its fifth
season, features the defending Hum-
phrey’s team as well as Kilgore
Trout, Union Petroleum, Maher’s,
Besecker Realty and the Rebels.
With games scheduled to have
begun this past Monday, contests
are played at the Lake-Noxen Ele-
mentary School.
Gridirion Club
dNNOUNCES
Winners of the Dallas High School
Gridiron Club drawing are as fol-
lows:
Connie Sarnecki, Plains; John
O’Brien, Wilkes-Barre; Len Per-
\
kowski, Shavertown; Jerry Imbala-
zano, Carbondale; Don Hughes,
Shavertown; Bob Eyet, Dallas;
Charles Reese, Dallas; H.L. Bennin-
ger, Scranton; Bill Kubis, Dallas;
and Tim Connolly, Luzerne.
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