Sports
By RICK ROGERS
Staff Correspondent
Dallas’ baseball team, by the
virtue of two wins last week, leap
frogged over Nanticoke, who lost
their first game of the year to
Coughlin, into first place” in the
Wyoming Valley Conference.
Aff eating Tunkhannock 7-6 on
y, the Mountaineers scat-
ome tail feathers when they
e Hanover Area Hawks 7-1 in
itching of Junior right-
ott Francis and the hitting
rlis and Rob Dombek.
used a typical early bar-
stake itself to an early lead.
first, Dallas jumped out to
ad thanks to the hitting of
and the shaky fielding by
icking up a run in the third
le by Perlis and a ground
ball by Dombek, Dallas scored once
in the fourth on RBI single by Chris
Givens and two more times in the
fifth on a John Wertman single and
an error to make the score 6-1.
Dallas finished the scoring by
picking up a run in the sixth on a
single by Ed Kwak to make the
final score 7-1 Dallas.
The win puts Dallas at the top of
the WVC with a 7-1 record, a half a
game ahead of Nanticoke. The loss
leaves Hanover’s one game over
500, record at 4-3.
LEHMAN IS LUCKY
Sometimes it’s better to be lucky
than good. Last week Lake-
Lehman’s baseball team was a little
of both as it won two nail-biters
from winless teams to raise its
record to 4-5.
On Friday, Bill George singled in
Ron Fedor with the winning run in
the ninth inning to lead Lehman to a
5-4 over Seton Catholic at the losers
field.
Fedor had led off the ninth with a
triple when, with one out, George
singled him home.
Winless on the year, Seton, trail-
ing 4-1 in the bottom of the seventh,
scored three times off Lehman
starter and eventual winner Brian
Evans to send the game into extra
innings. The rallying blow was a
bases-loaded two-run single by Bill
Higgins.
The loss keeps Seton consistent at
GETS DECISION
Lehman’s other win was a 3-1
decision at the expense of West Side
Tech on Saturday.
Todd Sallo held Tech to three hits
and Jason Cadwalader singed in two
runs in the top of the seventh for the
win.
Sallo got the complete-game win
over Tech’s Bob Helda by striking
out six while walking only two.
Helda, though taking the loss,
pitched well, giving up four hits to
the Black Knights on the afternoon.
With the loss, Tech drops to 0-9 in
the Wyoming Valley Conference.
LOT M. DENMON
spondent
itching and strong fielding have been the key
allas girls’ softball team’s seven consecutive
the Wyoming Valley Softball League this
strengths accounted for the Lady Mountai-
| win over the Hanover Hawkeyes, Saturday,
6-5 win over Northwest earlier in the week
thwest Area.
allas girls 7-0 record gives them the lead in
ue, just half game in front of neighboring
man, whose record is 7-1.
ountaineers played perfect ball in the first
two-thirds innings against Hanover, taking a
4-1 lead over the Hawkeyes. They let up in the final
one and one-third inning and had four errors but the
girls remained cool under pressure and allowed only
one unearned run before they settled down.
The Mountaineers took an early two run lead in the
top of the first with Tracy Hunter’s RBI sacrifice fly
and Joyce Tinner’s homerun. In the bottom half of the
inning, the Hawkeyes made it 2-1 on an RBI single by
Leigh Lahr before Dallas cut them down with strong
fielding.
Dallas Coach Jay Pope said the girls were hitting
better in Saturday’s game but with Coughlin and
Tunkhannock scheduled this week, his team will have
to play and hit better than they have been. He said
late inning mistakes will kill them.
In Thursday’s game with Northwest, Cave gave up
onlv four hits to lead Dallas in their sixth win of the
Wrestlers honored
season with no losses. The Mountaineers jumped out to
a 4-0 lead in the bottom of the first inning paced by
Kristen Dougherty’s double with the bases loaded.
Joyce Tinner hit a single and a double for the
Mountaineers to help in the scoring.
Coach Flossie Finn’s Lake-Lehman Knights
exploded for big scores over their opponents lat week,
shutting out Seton Catholic 16-0, Friday, and West Side
Tech, 21-4, Thursday.
Lake-Lehman scored two runs in the bottom of the
first inning against the Eagles and the game was a
tight contest until the bottom of the fourth when the
Lady Knights broke loose to score 14 runs.
inning and came home on an illegal pitch by Eagle
hurler Patricia Ventre. Kelly Wandel hit a single and
ernred an an RRI cinole hv Cindy Slocum. :
The Lady Knights scored 15 runs in the first two
innings with West Side Tech and Coach Finn retired
the first string team and gave her bench the opportun-
ity to play the rest of the game.
In the first inning, Susie Slocum, Pantle and Wandel
walked and Cindy Slocum hit an RBI single. Wasculas
also hit a 2-run RBI single to give the Lady Knights a
7-0 lead. In the second inning, Noel Kuznick hit a
single and Kuznick drove out a triple as the Lady
Knights added eight runs for the 15-0 score.
The young Titans staged a rally in the fifth inning
scoring three runs bit it wasn’t enough to stop the
game from ending under the 10-run league rule.
Coach Finn said she pulled her varsity because she
knew the majority of the Titans were young and have
a new coach.
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