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BY RICK ROGERS
Staff Correspondent
It was not the best of times for the
Lake-Lehman wrestlers who trav-
eled to Williamsport this past week-
end for the PIAA Northeast Wres-
tling Tournament.
Despite sending 10 wrestlers to
Williamsport, including three AA
District champions, the Black
Knights of Coach Ed Ladamus only
captured a third and fourth place,
and an 11th place team finish, in the
rugged tournament.
The top four place winners
advance to the State tournament in
Hershey this week.
At 105 1b., Jeff Austin became the
first Black Knight to qualify for
Hershey by taking a fourth place.
In the semi-finals, Austin dropped
a tough 7-6 decision to last year’s 98
regional champ and state runner-up
Bob Simpson of Warrior Run.
But Austin fought his way back to
the consolation final before losing to
Scott Roberts of South Williamsport,
9-2. In an ironic note, Austin beat
Roberts 4-3 in Friday night’s action.
Austin, who won regionals as a
sophomore and took a third last
year at 98, said that he knew that
the competition was going to be
Saul honored
stiff. “I’m just glad that I qualified
for states. That is the main thing.”
At 126, Jim Smith proved to be the
highest Lehman finisher when he
handled Eric Schaffer of Benton, 5-
third place finish.
The match was never in doubt as
Smith used two takedowns and an
escape to defeat Schaffer, who was
25-3 going into the tournement, and
to advance to Hershey for the
second straight year. Smith took a
fourth at 119 last year.
While Lehman Coach Ed Lada-
mus was understandably disheart-
ened by his team’s performance, he
was not disappointed by the effort
his wrestlers showed.
“By and large, our kids got beat
by better wrestlers,” Ladamus said
simply. ‘All of our kids wrestled
hard. There were a couple of
matches that I thought that we may
have done better in, but things like
that are going to happen. We’ve had
success here before, this year, we
weren’t as successful.”
Austin and Smith, along with
Coach Ladamus, will travel to Her-
shey on Wednesday for the state
tournament. Weigh-ins are Wednes-
day with the tournament running
Thursday and Friday.
Advance in play
Dallas Post/Ed Campbell
Galliant effort
Karen Vlioedman of the Dallas High School girls’ basketball
team attempts a shot at goal despite the blocking attempt
of Dunmore’s Molly Bamford. Action was in District 2
playoffs at Riverside High School last week.
By JOHN HOINSKI
Staff Writer
The only obstacle that stood in the
way of the Dallas Area girls’ bas-
ketball team in its playoff against
Bishop Hoban on Friday night at
Pittston Area High School was
themselves. ‘
After a sluggish first half per-
formance, the Lady Mountaineers
and, in particular the front line,
came to life in the second to break
open a close game as they went on
to a crushing 58-41 victory over the
Argents.
The win now allows Dallas to
move on to inter-district play as the
District 2 class AAA third place
representative next Wednesday
against a Philadelphia area team at
a site yet to be determined.
BUZZER SHOT
Bishop Hoban’s Arden Schuler’s
30-foot desperation shot at the
buzzer ending the first half cut the
Dallas margin to 26-23. But, instead
of the second half psychological
edge going to the Argents, it was
the Mountaineers who came out
breathing fire, scoring the first nine
points to effectively put the game
away for good.
“We played very ragged in the
first half,” Dallas coach Kit Karuza
said. “But in the second half we
changed a few things. Instead of
continuing with our press we went
to a 2-3 zone. They had a lot more of
a problem with that than with our
man-to-man. They must have gotten
10 points on fastbreaks in in the first
half. So we just dropped back and
packed it in. And we really started
to hit the boards, too.”
Indeed they did. The Mountai-
neers’ front line of Karen Vloed-
man, Angie Kern and Joanne Cook
handled the rebounding while
guards Kim Rinehimer and Lori
Brokenshire put pressure on in the
backcourt in addition to coming up
up with some timely baskets.
COOK LEADS ATTACK
Cook, who notched 12 of her game
Hopes
dashed
By DARLENE FRONCEK
Special to The Dallas Post
Dunmore ended Dallas Area’s bid
for the District 2 Class AAA title
when they defeated the Lady Moun-
taineers 67-49 in a match at River-
side High School last Wednesday
evening.
Dallas had a good beginning with
Eileen Walsh putting the Lady
Mountaineers on the scoreboard
first, but the Lady Bucks built an
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high 18 points in the second half, led
the Mountaineer attack with Vloed-
man and Rinehimer hitting for 15
and 11 respectively.
But, it was Dallas’ ability to
control the inside play that made
the difference, forcing the Argents,
who were often limited to one shot,
to loose their patience.
“Once they got ahead by 10 or 12
points, that was it,” Hoban coach
Bob Schuler said. They just kept
hustling and we couldn’t catch up.”
BOTH TEAMS COLD
Both teams came out cold at the
outset with neither team able to
score in the first three minutes. The
Mountaineers finally connected
from the outside with 3:33 left but
still trailed 13-12 at the end of one.
Kathy Hudak quickly gave the
Argents a three point lead with a
(See LADY, page 10)
Tom Rokita, head coach of Wyoming Seminary’s soccer
team, has received notice from the Pennsylvania Soccer
Coaches Association that senior Chris Saul has been named
to the 1985 All-State Team. Saul, son of Mr. and Mrs.
Robert Saul, Dallas, has been a four year varsity member
and was this year’s co-captain. In addition to being co-
captain of Wyoming Seminary's District Il championship
team, Saul was named MVP for the Wyoming Valley
Conference Soccer League and set three school records in
goals, assists and career points. Saul, above right, is shown
Boys and Girls Little League
Hardball and Girls Softball will hold
tryouts on Saturday, March 22
(raindate March 23).
Hardball-Dallas, Shavertown and
Trucksville hardball tryouts will be
held at the complex on the upper
fields at East Center Hill Road and
Church St. Any player wishing to
move-up must attend at least one
tryout, and all 10, 11 and 12 year
olds not on a major league roster
must tryout this year.
Players 12 years old report at 9
a.m.; 11 years at 10 a.m.; 10 years
old at 11 a.m.; 9 years at 1 p.m. and
8 year olds at 2 p.m. In case of rain,
12’s report the following day at 1
p.m., 11’s at 2 p.m.; 10’s at 3 and 8’s
and 9’s at 4 p.m.
Hardball-Lehman Area, tryouts
will take place on same date as
above at the Lehman Junior High
School with 12’s and 11’s reporting
at 10 am.; 10’s, 9’s and 8’s at 11
a.m. (raindate) 12 and 11's report
the following day at 1 p.m. and
others report at 2 p.m.
Girls Softball--All girls softball
players, except Lehman 9 to 12
years old, report to Dallas Junior
High on the same date at 10 a.m.
Lehman 9 to 12’s report to Lehman
Senior High School at 10 a.m. on the
same date. (Raindate) All girls
report to their fields the following
day at 1 p.m.
Late registrations will be
accepted during tryouts at the fields
mentioned above. Final tryouts will
be held Saturday, April 5.
Sheer determination
Lady Mountaineer Lori Brokenshire looks determined to
attempt a shot at goal despite a serious defensive effort by
her counterpart during District 2 playoff action at Pittston
Area High School Friday night.
Dallas Post/Ed Campbell
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Rinehimer scores two
Kim Rinehimer scores two points for Dallas as the Lady
Mountaineers participated in District 2 competition last
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The Lake-Lehman Junior
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Mike Fritzen, Mike Tereska, Jim Chamberlain. Second row,
Tom Williams, coach; David Konopke, Chris Smith, Jason
Clancy, Jim Cole, Rich Piefer, Terry Martin, P.J. Goodwin, Ray
Rosencrans, John Mikolaitis, Phil Lipski, coach. Third row,
Mike Taylor, Brian Hampel, Tom Duffy, Matt Kukosky, Sean
Clark, Dory Zacharias, Scott Wascalus, Glenn Allen, J.J.
Konigus, Pat Monaco, Chad Honeywell. Absent t the time of
the photo were Matt Bregman, Bob Zacharias, Derrick
Bologna, P.J. Bruno, Rich Hillman.
A basketball double-header will be
played at the Lake-Lehman Junior
High School on Thursday evening,
March 13. The first game will fea-
ture students in the seventh and
eighth grades who will battle for a
class championship. In the second
game, members of the Junior High
Faculty, who have been undefeated
in previous games, will face the
Parent-Teacher-Student Association
{
(PTSA) fathers. The event is being
sponsored jointly by the PTSA and
the juniot high class officers. Pro-
ceeds from donations collected at
the game and baked goods to be
sold by the class officers will be
donated to the class treasuries to be
used in class activities. Tip-off time
is 6:15 p.m. The public is encour-
aged to attend.