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Bonomo’s exit from wrestling shock
Back Mountain fans by also taking the state title ; 7 pr BE 7
in his weight class. The twins are identical in :
height, weight, appearance, likes and dislikes
and have deep empathy for one another.
Contrary to reports circulating, both boys are
still students at Bloomsburg State University
where they are majoring in art. Rocky had to
return to Bloomsburg, Monday, for wrestling
practice and Ricky had to report Tuesday for
classes. Rather than having them making sepa-
- rate trips, their dad sent them back together on
Monday morning.
Ricky’s dad is not certain his son is through
with wrestling. He hopes that he isn’t, that he
will return to the team and defend his national
‘championship in March.
“I can’t make him wrestle,’” said Ricky's dad.
“I can give him advice and he has to take if
from there. I told him if he really wanted to
quit, he should do it before the season gets
underway. I only hope that he doesn’t wait, then
when he decides he’d like to wrestle it might be
too late,”” said Rich Bonomo.
_Rick’s father pointed out that when you reach
the top as Ricky did in winning the NCAA
championship, it’s difficult to become motivated.
“Where do you go from the top?”’, said his
dad. ‘“He’s been there and maybe he believes
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the sacrifices he has to make to do it again are
too great — that it’s not worth it. If that’s the
case, he may change his mind.”
Bonomo also agreed it could be because Ricky
believes his giving up wrestling might help
Rocky.
Both boys weigh about 128 lbs. and Ricky’s
weight class has always been good. He drops
down about 10 lbs. and is strong at 118. Rocky,
on the other hand, has always wrestled at a
disadvantage, moving up to the 134 Ib. class
while he weighs only 128 Ibs. This means he goes
.against young men who have dropped down to
134 and are stronger than Rocky.
Their dad isn’t sure, but he does know that
Ricky expected Rocky to chew up his opponent
in the Wilkes Open but instead of finishing first
at 134, as Ricky did at 126, Rocky was runnerup.
“Maybe subconsciously Ricky thinks he is
helping Rocky by quitting. But if Rocky wants
his brother to continue, he (Rocky) is the one
who can persuade him to go on.”
The Bonomo twins have made their outstand-
ing wrestling career on raw talent, according to
their dad. He said that unlike many wrestlers,
who work out or tour the 12 months of the year,
his boys quit working out after the sport is over
in March.
By CHARLOT M. DENMON
Staff Correspondent
Ricky Bonomo is in a dilemma, according to
his mother’s statement Monday afternoon.
“He isn’t sure he wants to wrestle anymore,
that he can give it 100 percent, but he doesn’t
want to leave his brother, Rocky, down either.
He was going to talk to his coaches when he
returned to school today (Monday, Jan. 13) and
maybe by the end of the week he will be sure of
what he’s going to do,” said Mrs. Richard
Bonomo, Ricky’s mother.
It was only last week that Ricky Bonomo
- announced his decision up wrestling due to a
lack of interest in the sport. The NCAA 118-Ib.
au wrestling champion said he wasn’t motivated
AQ anymore and felt he might be hurting the team.
Ricky and his identical twin brother, Rocky,
have been wrestling since they were students at
Lake-Lehman High School where they were
members of the teams coached by Shorty
Hitchcock. The Bonomo brothers were state
} champions during their senior year at Lake-
Lehman.
Ricky was a favorite to win states but his twin
brother, Rocky, both surprised and delighted
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“By CHARLOT M. DENMON
Staff Correspondent
Dallas girls’ varsity basketball
team ran its Wyoming Valley Con-
ference record to 6-1, Saturday,
when it defeated Wyoming Semi-
nary, 45-37, at the Back Mountain
school’s court. The Lady Mountai-
neers lost their first league game,
Thursday, when their game with
Hanover went into overtime and the
Hawkeyes scored 11 points to the
Mountaineers two to take the game
64-55 in an upset. Earlier in the
week, the Mountaineers took an
easy 57-38 win from neighboring
Lady Knights of Lake-Lehman.
DEFEAT SEMINARY
In Saturday’s game, the Lady
Mountaineers defeated the Blue
Knights 45-37, holding the Seminary
girls with excellent defensive play-
ing. Coach Karuza said a key to the
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By CHARLOT M. DENMON
Staff Correspondent
Coach Clarence 0zgo’s Dallas
Mountainers lost 65-45 to Wyoming
Seminary’s Blue Knights, Saturday,
to drop to 4-3 in league standing and
tie with Crestwood and Hanover for
third in Division 2 of the Wyoming
Valley Conference. Earlier in the
week, the Mountaineers broke open
in the third quarter to defeat Hano-
ver 71-63, Thursday night at home,
and broke a 30-30 tie in the fourth
quarter, Tuesday night, to win 54-42
over Lake-Lehman on the Knights
court.
In their game with the Blue
Knights on Seminary’s floor, the
Mountaineers played a close 13-10
second and third quarters when
Seminary’s cagers outscored their
opponents 17-8 and 18-8 to take a 48-
26 lead at the end of th third period.
Jay Antinnes and Chris Berry led
the Blue Knights in the scoring,
collecting 17 points each and Ken
Lovett followed with 13 points for
the Knights.
Antinnes tossed in 13 of his points
in the second and third periods and
Berry put in 11 of his 17 in the same
quarters. Antinnes had a perfect
five-for-five at the foul line to lead
the Blue Knights in dumping in 19-23
from the charity stripe. He also
tossed in 12 points from the floor.
Berry hit 14 points from the floor
and keyed in three-for-four from the
free line.
MOUNTAINEERS RALLY
The Mountaineers rallied in the
final quarter to outscore the Blue
Knights 19-17 but they had a poor
win was his guards outstanding play
and Joann Cook back in the lineup.
Kim Rinehimer did a great job in
holding Seminary’s Burak to only
seven points in the first quarter and
only four in the fourth quarter.
Brokenshire played well the first
three quarters scoring 12 points and
Kim Rinehimer followed with 11.
Karen Vleedman got into foul
trouble early in the game and
Karuza pulled her out when she had
three fouls. She sat out most of the
second and third quarters which
kept her from her usual high scor-
ing.
The Mountaineers used a well-
balanced team offense in the second
half and went to a man-to-man
defense, holding down the Blue
Knights.
The Lady Mountaineers did less
scoring in the second half when they
held the ball in the final period.
“It’s been difficult playing our
usual style game during this half
because of some of our starters out
with injuries. During this next week
we should be back at full strength
which should make a difference.
We're fortunate because we have so
much depth and, unlike some of the
teams, we are able to start some of
our younger players, who can play
well coming off the bench,” said
Karuza.
EVEN FIRST QUARTER
The Lady Mountaineers and the
Hawkeyes played an even first
quarter in Thursday’s game with
the period ending in a 10-10 draw.
Dallas girls put together a strong
team offense effort in the second
quarter and outscored Hanover 17-9
to lead 27-19 at the half. ,
The inexperience of some of the
young Lady Mountaineers showed in
the second half when their defense
broke down allowing the Hawkeyes
to outscore them and Hanover’s
Mitch Baker hitting a two-point shot
with only two seconds on the clock
to force the game into overtime.
The Mountaineers ran into foul
trouble in the overtime period
giving Lisa Wasilewski the oppor-
tunity to hit five free throws. Fresh-
man Becky Welgosh and Renee
Russell hit the basket for the six
points from the playing court to
give Hanover the 64-55 win.
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night from the foul line hitting only
5 for 11. Both teams played each
other close from the floor with
Seminary only hitting for three
more than the Dallas cagers.
Dennis Dacosin led the Mountai-
neers with 14 points, hitting for 12
points from the floor and going 2-4
from the free stripe. Tim Lyons,
back in the lineup after an injury,
followed with 10, all of them tossed
in from the floor,
HALFTIME TIE
In an evenly played first half in
the Dallas-Hanover game, Thursday
night, on the Mountainners floor,
the score was tied 32-32 at halftime.
In the 71-63 upset over the Hawk-
eyes, the Mountaineers used a bal-
anced team offense to outscore
Hanover 21-11 in the third quarter.
Bob O’Donnell hit for 10 of his
high 19 points in the second half and
Tim Moyer scored six of his 13
points in the third period to lead the
Mountaineers in taking the win.
Dacosin, with only two points less
than O’Donnell, scored 10 of his 17
points in the first half to keep
Dallas abreast of the Hawkeyes.
Tom Shalata picked up nine points
for the Mountaineers and J. Thomas
put in seven. Lyons, out for the
beginning of the season, came into
the lineup and tossed in six key
points for the Dallas five.
In the final period, led by their
high scorer Jeff Thomas, who
dumped in 14 of his 22 points in the
second half, the Hawkeyes ralled to
stage a comeback but were unable
to overcome the 10 point lead picked
by the Mountaineers in the third
period.
LATE ATTACK
Dallas staged a fourth period
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It was Mount Eileen Kalinwoski
who scored the two points for the
Lady Mountaineers in the overtime
period.
Welgosh, the freshman center
replacing injured starter Teri
Tryba, has been playing outstanding
defense for the Hawkeyes and has
average nine blocked shots in the
past two games.
BROKENSHIRE LEADS
Leading the Mountaineers in scor-
ing were Lisa Brokenshire with 16
points, Karen Vloedman with 14 and
Kim Rinehimer 11.
“We defeated ourselves,” said
Dallas Coach Kit Karuza. “We're
playing without Joann Cook and
Angie kern, which hurts us on
defense. Cook came in thegame
against Seminary and her effecgive-
ness showed. Our younger girls are
doing a good job but their inexperi-
ence in varsity playing shows.”
DEFEAT LEHMAN
In last Tuesday’s game with
Lake-Lehman, the Mountaineers
had an easy time as they defeated
the young Black Knights 57-38.
Tammy Daveski led with 14
points, hitting 12 from the court and
going two-for-three from the foul
line. Lori Brokenshire and Karen
Vloedman scored 13 points each for
a combined total of 40 points for the
three girls. Brokenshire hit for 12
points from the floor and dumped in
one-for-four from the charity stripe.
Vloedman hit three-for-six from the
free stripe and put in 10 points from
the court.
Daveski scored eight of her points
in the third period to lead the Lady
Mounts in outscoring the Knights 20-
8.
Pam Coolbaugh paced the Lady
Knights for 16 points, hitting for 14
from the floor and going tow-for-two
from the foul line.
CRESTWOOD WINS
The Lady Knights lost 66-46 to the
Crestwood girls on Saturday with
the Comets Becky Cooper and Cass
Hudock scoring 15 points each.
The Comets went in front 16-9 at
the end of the first quarter and
never fell behind after that. it
marked the fourth win for the Crest-
wood girls. |
The Lady Knights picked up their
first win of the league season,
scoring attack in Tuesday night’s
game with Coach Rodger Bearde’s
Black Knights to break a 30-30 tie at
the end of the third quarter, then go
ahead to win 54-42.
Dallas took a 24-18 lead into the
lockerroom at halftime but in the
third quarter the Knights made the
score even led by Keith Kendall who
put in 11 points for the Lake-
Lehman team.
It was Mountaineer Dennis
Dacosin who paced the Dallas quin-
tet in the final period scoring 10 of
his 16 points. Dacosin went two-for-
two from the foul line and hit for 14
points from the floor.
Mountaineer Bob O’Donnell was
high scorer for Dallas picking up
seven of his 17 points in the first
half, then adding 10 more in the
third and fourth periods. Moyer
added nine points to the Mountai-
neers scoring column and Lyons
came in to hit for four points. Moyer
had a perfect 5-5 from the charity
stripe. Shalata went two-for-four
from the free stripe, his only points
of the game. Thomas hit for six
points from the playing field.
Chris Landmesser and Chris
Scharff scored eight and seven
points respectively for the Black
Knights, whose los dropped them to
2-3 in their division standings.
LOSE TO COMETS
The Black Knights dropped to 3-4,
Saturday night, when they lost 70-52
to Crestwood on the Back Mountain
school’s floor.
The Comets Tom Benz went on a
scoring spree, leading his team-
mates with 28 points, hitting 10-10
from the foul line and tossing in
from the floor for 18 points. Brian
Uram added 18 points, having a
perfect two-for-two from the free
stripe and hitting for 16 points from
the playing court. The Comets col-
lected 46 of the team’s 70 points.
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Crestwood took a 16-9 first quarter
lead and continued to lead through-
out the game, going 10-9 against the
Knights in the second period for a
26-18 half time lead. They outscored
the Knights 21-16 and 23-18 in the
second half with the Comets feeding
the ball to Benz, who also pulled
down the key rebounds.
DEFEAT TECH
The Knights picked up their third
league win last Thursday night
when they defeated West Side Tech
62-50 on the Titans court.
The Titans kept up with the Black
Knights from the playing court hit-
ting only one less basket than the
Lake-Lehman cagers but the
Knights outdid their opponents from
the foul line. They hit for 20-33
throws from the charity stripe while
the Titans went to the line only 16
times for 10 good ones.
MEET HANOVER AT HOME
This week the Knights play Hano-
ver at home, Tuesday, and the Blue
Knights at Seminary, Friday night.
The - Mountaineers meet Seton
Catholic at home, Tuesday night,
then go to Meyers on Friday.
Meyers is in second place in Divi-
sion 2 behind undefeated GAR.
Thursday, when they outscored
West Side Tech 14-1 in the second
period and 18-6 in the third period to
take a 39-11 into the final period.
The young Knights continued their
strong scoring, outdoing the Titans
12-7 to win 51-18.
Black Knight Debbie Levi paced
her team with 15 points, 14 points
from the court and one-for-two from
the foul line. Carolyn James fol-
lowed with 12 points and Pam Cool-
baugh added 10. Both James and
Coolbaugh scored their points from
the field.
MEET HANOVER
The Lake-Lehman girls will meet
Hanover at the Hawkeyes court,
Tuesday, the host Wyoming Semi-
nary on Friday.
The Dallas Mountaineers play two
critical games having to defeat
Seton: Catholic, away, Tuesday, and
undefeated Meyers at home,
Friday, to contend for first half
honors.
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