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By RICK ROGERS
Sports Correspondent
Jason Cadwalader rapped out three hits and scored
the winning run in the bottom of the seventh as Lake-
Lehman rallied from a 7-1 deficit to trim Wyoming
Seminary, 13-12, in a Wyoming Valley Conference
game at Lehman on Monday.
In the early innings, it appeared that the Blue
Knights of Seminary would skewer the Black Knights
of Lehman and post their first win of the season.
Seminary led 7-1 after four and a half innings.
“When we were down 7-1, I was worried,” said
Lehman Coach Dwight Barbacci, “but the kids hung
together and battled back. I'm happy with the way we
fi
came back.”
: SCORES IN THIRD
Lehman got on the scoreboard in the third inning on
a solo home run by Walt Konopke to make the score 6-
1.
Seminary scored a run on a three-base error and a
sacrifice fly to increase its lead to 7-1.
But Seminary pitcher Buck Hughes and his team-
mates couldn’t hold the lead, something that would
happen to Lehman later in the game.
BAT AROUND
Lehman batted around in the fourth, scoring six
runs on five hits and a costly Blue Knight error.
Todd Krupa and Dan Fedor started the inning with
back-to-back singles. A miscue on an attempted pick-
off play at second moved the runners to second and
third. Jeff Martin then hit a chopper to second
Race winners
race coordinator, Dallas.
Two hundred eight-three residents participated in
Nesbitt Memorial Hospital’s Fourth Annual 5 Mile Run
-and Walk on Saturday, April 12.
Dr. Larry Litscher, Dallas, placed first overall with
first female finisher coming in at 32.26.
This year’s turnout was the largest for the Nesbitt 5
Mile Run with a field of 203 runners and 80 walkers. A
health fair was also held for all participants and area
_ ‘esidents.
women age groups:
12 & under-Male-Brad Barket 35.22; Female-Mary
Maciejczak 50:28.
13-15-Roy McClary 31.29; 2nd, Daniel Skrip 33:18;
3rd, Mark Krajnak 37:50; 4th Keith Brieling 39:03; 1st,
Ann Balonis 34:23; 2nd Michele Mowry 35:25.
16-19-1st Marc Lingenfelter 29:59; 2nd, Jeff Carr
32:01; 3rd Douglas Lane 33:27; 1st, Traci MacGowan
37:43; 2nd, Carrie Ann Gluc 43:06.
20-24-male-1st Vincent Astolfi 29:58; 2nd Dave Nagle
30:20; 3rd Bradley Alden 30:35; 4th Daniel Scherle
31:23.
20-29-female-1st, Kathy Shockloss 32:50; 2nd Dina
Hayduk 34:01; 3rd Patty Kupstas 35:15.
25-29-male-1st Ed Osburn 26:23; 2nd Joe Cardillo
26:33; 3rd Mike Rawls 26:45; 4th Don Lavin 28:36; 5th
Robin Robinson 28:59.
30-34-1st Bill Bull 26:17; 2nd Joe Plansky 26:47; 3rd
Jerry Hildebrand 26:59; 4th Lester Loner 27:52; 5th
Gayland Aston 28:04; 1st Nancy Papaj 40:53; 2nd
Marianne Devlin 41:56; 3rd Linda Hincken 43:50.
35-39-1st Chick Toma 27:08; 2nd Lanny Conner 29:20;
3rd Dick Daniels 29:23; 4th Bob Derr 30:24; 5th Ronald
Gensel 30:31; 1st Linda Cooper 43:40; 2nd Rosalie
Stella 49:10; 3rd Rose Ann Gulak 52:14.
40-44-male-1st Don Anderson 29:34; 2nd Bob Mooney
32:12; 3rd Tom Berezich 33:03.
40+-female-1st Carol Hopson 36:56; 2nd Carol Shoon-
berg 38:33; 3rd Sandra Mahoney 41:23.
45-49-male-1st Bill LaRue 30:45; 2nd Bernie Hargdon
34:19; 3rd Gene Kavatch 34:20.
50-59-male-1st Richard Hause 30:10; 2nd Frank
Dudley 30:44.
60-+-male-1st Chick Kreller 35:48.
Nesbitt employee-1st, Leonard Romanowski 37:30;
1st Marianne Devlin 41:56.
baseman Jay Antinnes, who overthrew to first scoring
Xrupa and Fedor to make the score 7-3.
PITCHER FLUSTERED
Blue Knight pitcher Hughes, who had given up just
one run through the first three innings, looked
flustered after the error and by the time he got out of
the fourth, the game was tied at 7-all.
Lehman starter Rob Michaels, with help from a
double play, sent Seminary down in the fifth.
Fedor skipped a double over the bag at third. Martin
followed by hitting one through the short-stop to score
Fedor. Don Spencer followed with a RBI double to left-
center. Cadwalader kept his rally going by slapping a
single to right to score Spencer. Konopke finished off
the flurry with a two-run single to left for a 12-7 lead.
This time it was Lehman’s turn to squander a lead.
Lehman pitchers Michaels and Ed Dubil walked’ two
ii apiece for Seminary’s first run in its five-run
sixth.
Tom Underheid, who wore out Lehman pitching by
going 4 for 5, singled in two runs. A bloop single and a
sacrifice fly later, the score knotted at 12-12.
BREAK TIE
The Black Knights broke the tie and won the game
in the bottom of the seventh when Cadwalader hit a
lead-off double deep to left center, took third on a wild
pitch and scored the winning run on a sacrifice fly hit
by Bill George to make the final score 13-12.
The win puts Lehman at 2-3; the loss holds Seminary
win less at 0-5.
Lehman’s next game is at Crestwood on Wednesday
at 4 p.m.
College Misericordia’s Lady Cou-
gars swept two sets of doublehead-
ers last week, defeating Penn State
Hazleton Campus 14-5 and 8-7,
Wednesday, at the Nittany Lions
field and beating Alvernia College,
17-1 and 17-4, Friday, at the Cougars
field. The wins ran the Lady Cou-
gars record to 4-2.
Betty Warner won both ends of
the doubleheader against the Hazle-
ton Campus and picked up a win,
Friday, in the first game of the twin
bill against Alvernia. M. Metzger
picked up the win in the second
game, giving up only seven hits and
four runs.
In the first game against Alver-
nia, Warner, whose record is 3-1,
fanned eight, walked three and gave
up only one hit, a single by Alver-
nia’s Lisa Goiczewski.
The Cougars pushed across four
runs in the first inning off pitcher
Kim Bodick, sparked by Metzger
who went to first on a bunt, then
stole second and third. She scored
on a single by Kelly Cook. the
Cougars scored five runs in the
second inning with Kim Ludwig
driving out a homerun. Metzger
added a homer in the Cougars four
run third inning to lead the team at
the plate. Red Lugner hit a double
in the first game and added two
more in the bottom half of the twin
bill.
Metzger repeated her perform-
ance in the second game by starting
off the Cougars three-run first
inning with a single. She went to
second on a single by Cook and both
runners pulled off a double steal to
third and second. They scored on
Field clean-up
Back Mt. Baseball Inc. is asking
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at the complex in Dallas.
Any manager, coach, parent,
grandparent or player may lend a
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and wheel-barrows are needed.
Come out and help on Saturday,
April 19, beginning at 9 a.m.
Warner’s single to the outfield.
Warner hit a home run in the five-
run third inning.
In the twin bill Monday against
Hazleton Campus, Warner gave up
only six hits in the first game and
came back in the second to give up
only six more.
Metzger went four for five at the
plate in the first game and scored
three runs while driving in two.
Kelly Conk went one-for-three driv-
ing in two runs and scoring three
‘times on her hit and two walks.
Lugner hit three-for-four, one a
dobule, and had three RBI's while
crossing the palte twice.
Rogers on sports
It is not by accident that sports
are called kids’ games, but the fact
that the Kingdom of Sports is run by
very young despots is usually
ignored by athletes until they reach
their late 30s.
By then, the fastball has lost some
miles; the drive has lost yards and
the pass has lost some zip. The
twilight of a career is descending
quickly. The banishment papers
await only the technicality on a
final date. It is not a question of if;
it is only a question of when.
But, every once
in a while, nature
plays a trick on
the rulers of the
Kingdom. It pro-
duces athletes |
that will not go
quietly into that
good night. i
This week, two
very different
men laid seige to
the
idea of youthful rule. Pitcher Steve
Carlton, 41, of the Phillies and
golfer Jack Nicklaus, 46, probably
don’t have much in common. Nick-
laus is the smiling, affable ‘Golden
Bear’ while Carlton is the grim,
silent ‘lefty.’
What they do share is that for
many years they were the dominant
players in their sports. However, in
recent years, both have fallen into
slumps that, because of their age,
many believed had finished their
careers.
After the week, the rumors of
their demise seem greatly exagger-
ated.
On Sunday, Nicklaus turned the
critics into believers as the Golden
Bear roared with a final round 65 to
win his sixth Masters Golf Tourna-
ment.
The story is uncomplicated good
copy. The former champion, down
on his luck in recent years, his son
by his side, shoots one of the most
brilliant rounds of golf in his bril-
liant career to win the most cher-
ished tournament in golf. It pays.
While Carlton’s performance this
year hasn’t been as sparkling or as
clear cut, the winner of 314 games
and three Cy Young Awards pitched
well in his last appearance against
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stuff that will bring him back from
shoulder injury and a 1-8 season last
year.
As Cincinnati’s Dave Parker, a
long time adversary said, “I think
that when he gets the rust off, youll
see the Lefty of old.” Bad news for
everyone but Phillie fans.
Maybe the last pitch for Carlton
and the last putt for Nicklaus is only
a stone’s throw down the road of
time, but, for now, the spotlight is
on age and, you know, the kingdom
looks nice without a touch or two of
gray.
BITS AND PIECES: There is
nothing wrong with the 2-3 Lake-
Lehman baseball team that decent
playing field and solid pitching per-
formance here and there couldn’t
cure. They seem to have the hitting.
Against Seminary they had 13 hits,
seven of which were for extra
bases.
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In an article written by Don
Zimmerman in the Sunday Inde-
pendent last Sunday, the sports
editor alleges that Dallas’ 9-6 win
over Crestwood, which was called
because of darkness in the seventh
inning, was something less than a
clean, untainted win because of the
darkness ruling.
Yes, Crestwood had scored a run
that had pulled them to within two
runs of the lead at 9-7. }
But Zimmerman conveniently for-
gets to mention that when the game
was called there were two out and
the bases were empty, and Crest-
wood was facing one of the best
pitchers in the entire Wyoming
Valley Conference in Mark Kon-
opke, who had 10 strikeouts,
(Rick Rogers is a sports column-
ist whose column appears weekly in
The Dallas Post.)
Dallas’ baseball team proved rude
though efficient hosts as it raked
West Side Tech, 10-0, in a game that
was called after five innings
because of the 10-run rule.
The Mountaineers wasted little
time in getting on the scoreboard as
they clubbed the visiting team for
nine runs in the first two innings.
The tenth and winning run, which
sent Tech home early, occurred in
the fifth.
Dallas’ starting pitcher Rob
Dombek, became the third hurler on
the squad to pick up a win for the 3-
0 Mountaineers.
Tech is 0-3 on the season.
— RICK ROGERS
Teener league
Back Mountain Baseball Teener
League tryouts for the Dallas, Shav-
ertown, and Trucksville areas will
.be held Wednesday, April 16 (Rain-
date April 17) beginning at 5 p.m.
and Saturday, April 19 (Raindate
April 20) beginning at 1 p.m. at the
sets tryouts
Dallas Junior High School.
All players including 13 year olds
wishing to be selected must attend
at least one tryout.
Lehman area tryouts will be held
Wednesday, April 16, (Raindate
april 17) beginning at 5 p.m. at the
Lehman Senior High School.
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