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By CHARLOT M. DENMON
Staff Correspondent
After defeating Plains 6-3 last Thursday night in the
semifinals of the Ninth Annual Forty Fort Lions 13-
Year-Old Tournament, the Back Mountain team
advanced to Sunday’s game with Nanticoke, Sunday,
and went down to defeat 22-13 at the Fort-Swoyer
Teeners field.
The Back Mountain team went in front 11-2 in the
top of the third inning, but the Nanticoke boys hung in
and refused lo give up.
After Nanticoke jumped out to a 1-0 lead in the first
inning, the Back Mountain boys came back in the top
of the second inning and scored seven runs to lead 7-1.
Nanticoke scored a run in the second inning to move
the score to 7-2 and after the Back Mountain team
increased its lead to 11-2, Nanticoke made it 1-6 after
their half of the third inning. They scored two more
runs in the bottom of the fourth to make the score 11-8.
They broke the game wide open in the bottom of the
fifth scoring eight runs to go in front 16-11, then added
six more runs in the sixth to move ahead 22-11. The
Back Mountain boys scored their final two runs in the
seventh inning for the final 22-13 score.
“After the second inning I could see it coming,” said
Back Mountain Coach Mike Williams. “The boys got
over-confident. They were too complacent. I tried to
get them psyched up, but it didn’t work.
“They’re a great bunch of kids, however. They won
two out of three and I’m proud of them. They are a
good bunch of athletes. Nanticoke played a good
game, they came to win and they played that way.
They hung in when they were down. They are a good
team.”
Eric Paczewski went 4-for-4 at the plate, two of
them doubles, and scored three runs. Jim Chamber-
lain scored two runs and went 2-for-5 at the plate. Neal
Kaiser drove in six runs and scored a run, going 3-for-
5 at the plate, a homerun and two doubles. Emery
Yurko was 2-for-2 and scored two runs, Sam Gorgone
was 2-for-5 and scored a run, Eric Pieczynski was 2-
for-4 and scored one run and Bill Adamski was 1-for-2
and scored a run.
Brett Gauntlett started on the mound for the Back
Mountain but was relieved by Ray Russin, who was
followed by Sam Gorgone,Eric Pieczynski, Erie Pac-
zewski and then again Brett Gauntlett.
Each boy received a runners-up trophy.
In the game with Plains last Thursday, Gauntlett
hurled s six-hit game, striking out 11 and walking only
four. Eric Paczewski drove out ‘a three-run homer to
lead the Back Mountain team at the plate. Russin had
three hits, one of them a double which drove in Mark
Stallard who took base when hit by a pitched ball.
Plains took a 2-0 lead in the bottom of the first
inning but the local boys took the lead and held it in
the top of the third when they scored four runs. Mark
Stallard scored on Russin’s double, then Paczewski
drove out his three run homer sending home Russin
and Jim Chamberlain, who was on base with a walk.
Paczewski picked up another RBI in the fourth
inning with a sacrifice fly and Pete Kerdeski drew a
walk in the sixth with the bases loaded for the final
run of the game. :
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Field renovation
Officials are shown looking over the renovation project at the Misericordia main athletic field on
campus. Tons of dirt have been brought in or moved from other sections of the campus to even
out the terrain which has been a problem in the past. The work, which began in mid-June by the
R.N. Ftich Company of Dallas, includes a drainage system and should be completed sometime
this week. Shown here, from left, are Al Clocker, Jerry Fleming, Walter Lubinski and James
Connery.
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Dallas Post/Charlot M. Denmon
THE USFL-NFL COURT
DECISION is keeping me up at
nights. The case should be
mandatory reading for anyone who
still believes justice prevails in an
open forum. A couple thoughts.
It is just silly
enough to make
legal sense that
the USFL should
end up winning
its court battle
against the NFL
in its $1.69 billion
anti-trust suit
only to lose the
war by being
awarded only
three bucks
in damages.
In this case money, not the
principles involved, is what counted.
In effect, the jury said the NFL
was and is guilty of breaking the
law, but it doesn’t have to face the
consequences of its actions.
That’s justice?
Heck, that’s not even comic relief.
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AND ANOTHER THING, even
someone as dense as Pete Rozelle
knows the NF'L has to expand the
number of franchises currently
operating. So what is Pete going to
do? Will he take some of the
stronger USFIL teams into the fold?
Naw, that would make too much
sense. He'll ‘orce all the USFL
teams to disband, put about 400
players out of work, and about three
years down the line he’ll start
giving out franchises.
This way the established NFL
clubs won’t have to worry about any
competition from new teams until
the year 2000.
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WOULD THERE EVER HAVE
BEEN ANYTHING called the World
Football League or the USFL if
Pete would have given cities
franchises that wanted and could
support them five or six years ago?
The NFL has been lucky twice in
ducking bullets which had its name
written on it. Pete should make
some future league’s day by not
granting any more francises. That
way he would be the commissioner
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of nothing some day, which suits me
fine.
PETE AND HIS CREW aren’t
even good winners. Regardless of
the decision, they did win. After the
trial, Pete and some of his boys
blasted a New York paper for even
daring to call ’em like they saw
‘em. Is this America or what? How
did the NFL ever get so lucky as to
get a man like Pete who typifies the
Americanideal of open-mindedness?
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I COULD GO ON, but you have
the picture. Jerks don’t run the NFL
— powerful jerks. If they don’t wise
up, the Square will have a lot more
pencil sellers.
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NEITHER HERE NOR THERE:
Marvin Frazier should find
another career, that is unless he
decides to sing duets with Smokin’
Joe. In that case, let him fight.
Heard papa Joe sing one time at
the Station. Joe was a great fighter,
but he sings worse than his son
fights.
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YOU KNOW YOU'RE IN THE
DOG Days of Summer when
newspapers start running big
stories about the new Q-ball look
that Darryl Strawberry of the Mets
has adopted. The only thing worse
than reading about it is seeing it.
Just between you and me, I’m in
favor of more hair. The less I see of
Daryl and Co., the better I like it.
Ugly!
WATCH FOR THE METS to pull
a Cardinal act in the World Series.
They're just a little too full of
themselves for their own good. Fate
has a great way of making mere
men out of all of us.
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FRESHMEN SHOULD NOT BE
ELIGIBLE to play college varsity
sports. They have a tough enough
time finding the library and
managing to fit four dates into one
night. Some things just have to be
learned the hard way.
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CAN YOU IMAGINE Julius
By CHARLOT M. DENMON
Staft Correspondent
In the final round of the Poten-
tate’s Tournament at Irem Temle
Country Club Jim Hoover of Har-
veys Lake and Carlyle Robinson of
Wyoming shot a 9-under-par 135 to
win the championship.
Robinson and Hoover shot a 32 on
the back nine including more than
their share of birdies to take the
better-ball-of-partners tournament.
They went into the final round on
Sunday with a three stroke lead
having shot a 66 in the first round of
the tournament.
Len Coleman with his partner,
Bob Valatka, cut the winners’ lead
to two strokes when Valatka birdied
on the second hole. The competition
became hotter when Max Hritzik,
playing with Chet Blazick, had two
birdies and an eagle on three con-
secutive holes to give the two part-
ners a one-stroke lead. They
remained in the lead until the 10th
hole where Hoover tied the score by
knocking in a birdie.
On the 12th hole, Hritzik and
Blazick took the lead again when
Hritzik birdied but Robinson came
right back to birdie the 12th playh-
King’s College will open a 25-
game men’s basketball schedule
with a two-game invasion of Vir-
ginia,
burg College November 22.
Director of athletics John Dorish,
in announcing the 1986-87 slate,
explained the trip south of the
Mason-Dixon Line will put the Mon-
archs on the court with a pair of
new opponents.
First home contest for the Mon-
archs will bring the Wilkes College
Colonels to Scandlon Gym on
December 4.
Coach Ken Atkins, who directed
the Monarchs to an 18-8 record last
season, is starting his fourth season
at King’s. He will have nine letter-
men returning, including four start-
ers. The team’s only graduation loss
was that of co-captain John
McCauley of Fairfield, Conn.
The Delaware University alumnus
will build the veteran squad around
6-8 senior center Ed Moyer of Nor-
ristown, who average 17.8 points
and 12.5 rebounds per contest as a
junior.
Several candidates will move into
varsity contention from Coach Mike
Ognosky’s King’s junior varsity club
and several promising freshmen
were recruited by Coach Atkins.
King’s this season will be host to
Division I Drexel University,
coached by ‘Easy Eddie” Burke, to
Division II Bloomsburg University
(See MEN, page 12)
A home opener November 24 with
potent Susquehanna University and
a road debut December 1 at power-
ful Scranton will send Coach Robin
Cummins’ Lady Monarchs into the
1986-87 basketball season with a
flourish.
Director of Athletics John Dorish
announced an early highlight will be
King’s participation in the Muhlen-
berg College Tournament at Allen-
town, along with Trenton State and
Allentown College December 29 and
30.
After two consecutive 15-11 cam-
paigns, Coach Cummins feels this is
the season King’s can reduce its
losses to the single digit column in
the process of racking up more
victories.
She reasons with authority as only
one player was lost via the gradua-
tion route. But, that was a good one
in the person of MAC all-star point
guard, Maureen Ryneski of Kings-
ton, the 5-3 “Mighty Mite.”
King’s will have an experienced
team with such returnees as Patti
Thomas of Pottsville HS prep back-
ground; Kathy Walsh, out of Dallas
High School; Mary Ann Mozak,
senior from West Pittston; Ronda
Hudzik, junior guard from Sweet
Valley; a dynamic sophomore trio
of Cheryl Gavigan, Dallas; Maureen
Fahey, Luzerne’ and Hazleton’s
Diane Ratchko, groomed last season
to take over Ryneski’s ball-hawking
duties this campaign. Sophomore
Debbie Eddinger looks recovered
from a freshman injury and other
holdovers seeks game action will be
Terry Covert, Ellen Joyce and
Michele Scheuermann.
Some new recruits are expected
to vie for varsity positions and
Coach Cummins is expected to dis-
cover many future secrets come
October 15.
The King’s College women’s bas-
ketball schedule is as follows:
Monday, November 24, Susque-
hanna University, home, 7 p.m.
Monday, December 1, Scranton
University, away, 7 p.m.; Saturday,
(See WOMEN, page 12)
ing right behind Hritzik and Bla-
zick. 5
Robinson knocked in another
birdie on the 14th hole to give him
and Hoover a one-point lead over
Blazick and Hritzik and a two-point
lead over Tom Gauntlett of Dallas
and Rollie Schmidt. Hritzik missed
a birdie on the 17th hole that would
have tied him and his partner with
the winners and Gauntlett and
Schmidt came within one of the
winning pair.
Hoover’s birdie on the 17th cut off
that opportunity and after Hritzik
and Blazick shot par on the 18th,
Hoover and Robinson did the same
to take the title.
Winners in the flights of the poten-
tate were Better Ball of Partners,
Hoover and Robinson 135, Blazick
and Hritzik 137, Gauntlett and
Schmidt 138; Beaten Eighth, Gary
Ide, George Elias 70, Joe Zambo,
Mike Sharok 74, Hank Kaminski,
Clem Shypulfski 75; First Flight, Ed
Rome, Bill Lawler 171, Bruce
Muchler, Bob Zagorsky 175, Ken
Hoover, Jr., Don Kulick, Jr. 178;
Second Flight, Bill Yoh, Jack Zarno
181, Charles Decker, Welton Bailey
184, Dan Walters, Gary Baker 186;
Third Flight, in a playoff with a par
on one Jack Crossin, Joe Beres 188
over Tom Reese, George Daily 188;
Bob Mugford, Tom Peeler 189;
Fourth Flight, Bill Berkheiser, Rich
Berkheiser 146; Mark Gashanas,
Jr., Mark Gashanas, Sr. 150; Rod
Sennett, John Novak 153; Fifth
Flight, in a playoff John Johns, Ted
Patton 156, with a par on one over
Bob Edgerton, Steve Hudacek 156;
George Wroden, Jerry Raymond
158; Sixth Flight, Ed Sidelko, Mike
Tribendis 169; Ron Fitser, Larry
lenza 170.
In a three-day tournament
plagued by inclement weather, the
officials had to go to the books to
determine the number of holes to
make the play official. The play was
abbreviated on Friday and Saturday
with the golfers playing nine holes.
The first three flights wer able to
play 18 holes on Sunday and the
championship flight going out with
the fourth, fifth and sixth flights
was able to complete 36 holes.
‘“We played under horrendous
weather conditions but it was a good
tournament,” said Irem Golf Pro
Barry Feis.
Irem Temple Potentate James
Brokenshire presented the trophy to
the champions. Carl Jolley was
chairman of the tournament.
Tourney winners
The Dallas Gridiron Club will
meet on Thursday, August 7, at 7:30
p.m. at the Dallas American
Legion.
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Parents of football players are
invited and become active meme-
bers.