By CHARLOT M. DENMON
For The Dallas Post
Dallas Senior High Hockey Coach
Robyn Jones and Lake-Lehman
Senior High Head Hockey Coach
Jean Lipski are pleased with the
performance of their teams during
the current practice sessions as the
girls vie for positions on the varsity
teams. Both coaches believe their
teams have the ability to finish the
season among the leaders.
Dallas Coach Jones, who has 32
girls out for the senior high, lost six
girls through graduation, five of
y Lem starters. Kim Rinehimer,
Linda King, Chery Harding, Karen
Wall and Diane Chismer, were the
five girls, who started on the 1985
team, who finished with an 11-2
record and after taking districts lost
to a strong Lackawanna Trail team.
The Lady Mountaineers, accord-
ing to Jones, have a very strong
forward line this year, and it will be
difficult to defend the forwards.
Jones has four forwards so skillful,’
the ball can come from all over the
field into the cage. She belives
much of the Mountaineers success
this season will depend on their
balanced forward attack. The team
also has exception speed this
season.
The Dallas hockey team will be
using an entirely new system.
Because of the girls speed, Jones
and her assistants decided to
change the system.
“Our big loss this season was
Karen Wall, our goal tender but
Eileen Walsh has been doing an
excellent job of taking over during
our practice,” said Jones.
At forward positions Jones plans
to start Leigh Pawling, Maureen
Wisnieski, Lindsey Krivenko, and
Lori Warneka. In the backfield, it
probably will be Lori Ogurkis,
Renee Balberchak, Heidi Scholz and
competing for midfield positions are
Joyce Tinner, Shaunna Griffen,
Tracy Hunter, Renee Strauser and
Vicki Yencha. Two freshmen have
moved up to the varsity squad this
season, Strauser and Kim Bern-
hardi.
Jones has high. hopes for the
team. She has a strong bench and
someone to put in if a player gets
injured or is ill. This year’s team
appear to have a close cameradie,
perhaps because they have been
together through junior and senior
high. They're also hungry to do
better than last year’s team.
They are like a family,” said
Coach Jones. “They play hard but
they are friends, they are unified on
and off the field. The transition to a
new system has been difficult both
mentally and physically. My Assi-
sant Coach Maryann Mihalik and I
are very pleased with this group.
These girls are in the upper third of
their class and a fine group of
young ladies. It is a pleasure to
coach them.”
Dallas opens Sept. 10 with GAR at
home. The teams who, on paper,
are tough include Crestwood, Wyo-
ming Seminary, Tunkhannock and
Abington Heights, according to
Jones. ‘‘And Lake-Lehman,” she
added, ‘When Dallas and Lake-
Lehman play, anything can happen.
Throw away the record books and
the predictions. Players on both
teams, who are friends off the field,
become fierce competitors in the
game. The game is a league in
itself.”
Similar to the Mountaineers,
Knights Coach Jean Lipski has 32
girls out for the varsity team this
season. She has 14 seniors out for
the team, six of them returning
lettermen from last year--Janene
Kasarda, Dawn Smith, Kyra Koflan-
ovich, Noel Kuznicki, Susie Slocum
and Sue DeGennaro. The other sen-
iors are Kim Kozloski, Mollie Boyle,
Lori Pantle, Carolyn James, Wendy
Bebey, Julie Smith and Pam Cool-
baugh. Pantle was the 12th first line
starter for the team last season and
saw a lot of action. The remaining
18 players include juniors and soph-
omores, who will give Lipski strong
depth on the bench.
“We have a lot of exceptionally
strong players, if they continue to
develop their team work. All of
these girls have had a lot of playing
time but they need the experience in
playing together. They are good,
coachable players,” said Coach
Lipski. “They have a lot of enthusi-
asm and the desire to do well.”
Coach Lipski said there are
always strong teams in the Wyo-
ming Valley Conference and it is
difficult to predict who will finish at
the top.
‘‘We have some excellent athletes,
girls who play in several sports and
are well conditioned. On paper we
look good and should do well but the
important thing is how they perform
under pressure on the field.”
She doesn’t over-estimate any
team but will take one game at a
time and not look ahead. She is
practicing two systems of play for
this season, each one probably more
effective than the other with certain
teams.
As they are every season, Lipski
says Meyers is well coached and
has a lot of returnees; Dallas is
strong and also well coached; Crest-
wood always has great potential
with the coach they have; Wyoming
Seminary is always a strong team
and Wyoming Valley West with
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Pennsylvania dairymen have
added something new to the usual
hoopla for the Penn State-Temple
football game Sept. 6.
To highlight the intrastate rivalry,
the board of the Pennsylvania Dairy
Promotion Program has dubbed the
game the ‘‘Pennsylvania Dairy
Gridiron Classic’’ and will award
the winning team a two-foot replica
of an old fashion milk can.
The traveling trophy will be up
for grabs each year.
“We see it as the beginning of a
Pennsylvania football tradition,’’
said Advisory Board Chairman Don
Duncan, Robesonia, who points out
that Penn State got its start .as a
farmer’s high school.
“Today,” he added, ‘‘agriculture
is still the number one industry in
Pennsylvania and milk the number
one farm commodity.”
The outstanding player at the
Penn State-Temple game will be
Family wellness
honored by the Pennsylvania Dairy
Promotion Program with a minia-
ture milk can trophy.
Nonathletes in the student bodies
will also be recognized. Dairymen
will donate a $1,000 check to the
scholarship fund of the winning
university for academic purposes.
Similar awards will be made at
the Penn State-Pittsburgh game
November 22.
The Pennsylvania Dairy Promo-
tion Program is a major advertiser
on Penn State football radio and TV
broadcasts.
“We're promoting milk as a fun,
trendy beverage and we expect to
reach 900,000 adults each weekend,”
Duncan reported. ‘‘That’s a huge
untapped market.”
More than 4,000 dairymen contrib-
ute 10 cents a hundredweight of
milk to the Pennsylvania program,
with $2 million budgeted in 1986 for
milk advertising, promotion,
research and market development,
according to Duncan.
There’s good news for guilty hou-
seplant owners.
nity Working Together’
That ailing spider plant and that
yellowing philodendron probably
aren’t victims of your neglect. It’s
possible that the cause of your
houseplant’s poor health is its pot-
ting soil.
Dark, heavy potting soils may
farmer’s field. But in a flowerpot,
those dollar-a-bag soils have a tend-
ency to choke off a plant’s roots.
The heavy soils pack down over
time. The compaction becomes so
restrictive that roots cannot grow
and water cannot be absorbed. The
heavy soils are also so dense that
plants suffocate, preventing vital
oxygen from reaching the roots. The
unaerated roots stay damp, causing
rot and fungus--two common house-
plant killers.
Your prescription to a healthier
houseplant is a so-called ‘light-
weight’’ potting mix.
Lightweights have been used by
commercial growers for years but
are just now becoming popular with
consumers. Aside from the excellent
results they produce, lightweights
are very convenient. Houseplants
require less maintenance and large
planters are easier to handle.
Lightweight mixes allow roots to
breathe and freely extend into the
soil. Oxygen and water flow to all
roots because lightweights are uni-
formly absorbent. This also means
that plant foods reach the entire
root system mak ing plants grow
faster and resist disease better.
Lightweight mixes offer the typi-
cal houseplant owner a way to
practice ‘‘cookbook gardening.”
mendations of home gardening
books, positive results will show
quickly and dramatically. There's
usually no need for massive prun-
ing, relocation to the shower, or
v00do00.
As the name indicates, light-
weight mixes weigh about half as
much as traditional potting soils of
equal volume and will repot as
many plants.
Lightweight mixes contain
organic materials, such as com-
posted bark or sphagnum peat
moss, which retain moisture and
nutrients.
The primary inorganic material
found in lightweights is vermiculite,
a clay mineral similar to mica that
also facilitates water and nutrient
retention.
Many mixtures also include lime-
stone for pH balance and a wetting
agent to help with water absorption
and or shedding.
As a baby, your houseplant
started in a lightweight soil. It grew
in he nursery in a lightweight.
Repotting it now in a lightweight
will reward you with years of beau-
tiful growth and trouble-free care.
Marge Kelly as their coach, should
be tough.
Lipski spoke highly of her assist-
ant coach Lynn Coury. ‘She is
always terrific with the girls and
good for the team morale. She has a
lot of hockey experience and is very
my junior high coach, Jean Zales-
kas, I have a coach who played a lot
of hockey under Jane Morris and
was an excellent line player. She
will teach the younger players the
basics and play procedure, also
instill in them love of the game so
when. they get to senior high they
will want to play.”
Coach Lipski is looking for a well-
balanced team this year. She has a
lot of potential scorers and has
three defensive players returning
having lost only Cindy Slocum and
Colleen Corbett through graduation.
The Knights open Sept. 10 with
Wyoming Seminary. Their second
game is with Dallas, so the Knights
have two tough matches at the top
of the season.
Rarin’ to go
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