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By JOHN HOINSKI
Staft Writer
Saturday afternoon’s football game between Dallas
Area and Crestwood was important to the Mountai-
neers and head coach Ted Jackson for several
reasons.
First, they were going up against a good Comet
team that had trounced a talented Meyers club two
weeks before and that was again being highly touted
after winning the Eastern Conference Class B champi-
onship last year. Secondly, there was a revzange
motive on the part of Dallas which suffered a
controversial 3-0 setback last year. And third, and
perhaps most importantly, the game would determine
how good the Mounts really were.
“This game was going to determine how well we are
going to do the rest of the year,” Jackson stated
following the Mountaineers’ thrilling 9-7 win on sopho-
more Jerry Ogurkis’s 25-yard field goal with 18
seconds left to play. ‘Hanover was a good team but
we knew Crestwood was going to be strong. We have
Meyers this week and Tunkhannock the next, so this
game was going to tell us how good we are.”
Judging not only by the outcome, but by the desire
and intensity Dallas showed in the comeback win, the
Mountaineers must now be considered as legitimate
contenders for the Wyoming Valley Conference Divi-
sion 11 title.
Constantly on the defensive for the first half, Dallas
was forced to contend with a Crestwood offense that
started three drives inside the Mountaineer 50° yard
line. But they played well enough to allow just one
touchdown on Jeff McGovern’s two yard run. Mean-
while, the offense never did get on track and crossed
mid-field only once, that coming with 16 seconds left.
“They controlled the ball,” Jackson explained. “It
wasn’t anything fancy, just straight ahead on those
quick openers. We were expecting them to throw the
Koprowski bulls through
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ball, but they ran right over us.”
Refusing to buckle, Dallas not only challenged in the
second half, they dominated both offensively and
defensively. Still, they were unable to score, and for
the second year in a row it looked liked Dallas would
outplay the Comets but would have only a loss to show
for it.
“Yeah, I thought it was going to happen again this
year,”’ Jackson said. “It just seemed like we weren’t
going to score no matter what we did.”
That was the case last year when Dallas had the ball
inside the 10 on three different occasions, although the
Mountaineers never did put up any points.
Last Saturday it appeared as if the same thing
would happen. But, oddly enough, the Mounts showed
their true character not in their domination, but in
their ability to come back after their own mistakes.
Dallas threatened the first three times they had the
ball in the second half, but fumbled away one
opportunity on the one, suffered an interception on the
24 on the Y and completed the hat trick by fumbling
again, this time on the 13.
Finally with five minutes left to play, Mike
Koprowski, who played with the heart of a lion,
singlehandedly breaking several tackles on a number
of occasions on the scoring drive, carried the ball to
the five before Ryan Holthaus, who duplicated
Koprowski’s effort on the defensive side, plowed in
from the two. But when the two-point conversion
failed, it looked like Crestwood would hold on for the
win.
Instead of hanging their heads after their fourth
failure of the half, however, the defense shutdown
Crestwood cold and left it up to the offense and
quarterback Scott Francis for one more try. They did
their job and Ogurkis did his, rocketing a 25-yard field
goal with 18 seconds left to play.
“You can’t give a team like Dallas that many
chances to win,” said Crestwood coach Bill Jones.
“They deserved 'to win that game.”
Dallas Post/Jack Steblinski
Conference counterparts, 9-7.
By CHARLOT M. DENMON
Staff Correspondent
Mark Richardson and Dale Morris led the Dallas
soccer team to its fourth consecutive win on Thursday,
defeating Lake-Lehman, 6-1, in the Wyoming Valley
Conference. Earlier in the week, the aggressive
Mountaineers shut out Wyoming Valley West, 8-0,
despite Coach John McCafferty’s Dallas team playing
a sloppy first half.
Coach Ray Dennis’ Knights defeated the young
Tunkhannock team, 13-3, on Tuesday at the Knights’
field to pick up a second win before going down to
defeat to a more experienced Dallas team on Thurs-
day.
With only 1:30 off the clock in the first period in
Thursday’s game with the Knights, Dallas’ Dale
Morris scored the first goal with a penalty kick while
Jim Lister, with an assist by Mark Richardson, scored
a second goal for Dallas at 8:05 into the quarter.
In the second period, Richardson scored two goals
for Dallas, the first unassisted, when he dribbled the
ball in from the 30-yard line and the next goal on an
assist by Lister to move the score to 4-0 for Dallas.
Neither team scored in the third period, but at 3:45
into the fourth period, Richardson again scored
unassisted and Morris scored the sixth goal for the
Mountaineers on a penalty kick.
Knight Rick Parry shot the ball in for Lake-Lehman
at 13:45 into the final period on an assist by Aaron
Dennis off a corner kick.
Dallas had 31 shots at goal, Lake-Lehman had 11.
Dallas goalie John Sheehan had five saves, Lake-
Lehman’s Mark Rogowski had seven.
In the Dallas/Wyoming Valley West game on
Tuesday, both teams went scoreless until the second
period when Lister scored two goals, on unassisted,
and the other goal with an assist by Richardson. Eric
Rosentel scored the other goal for the Mountaineers in
the second period.
Coach McCafferty said that his team played lislessly
in the first period and probably were taking the
Spartans too lightly. Lister appeared to be taking the
game seriously and kept uring the Mountaineers
throughout the game.
In the final period, they came to life and rallied for
five goals - two of them by Dallas exchange student,
Joel VanDen Hoogen, from Holland. He scored one
goal unassisted and a second one on an assist by Brent
Snowdon with 15:07 remaining in the game.
Matt Lipo scored un assisted at 4:47 remaining,
Snowdon scored off an assist by VanDen Hoogen at
2:53 remaining and Dave Morris scored the final goal
off a penalty kick with 2:04 remaining.
Lake-Lehman scored only one goal in the first period
in their game with Tunkhannock and the score was
tied at 1-1 going into the second period. The Knights
came out strong in the second period and erupted with
six goals, four more in the third period and two in the
final period to take home a 13-3 win.
Knight Rick Parry scored the first goal for Lake-
Lehman at 9:25 of the first quarter. Both teams played
defensively until 19:42 into the quarter when Tiger
Chad Stuckey hit a long drive in to score.
The second quarter started like the first quarter but
at 7:25, Parry scored his second goal off a shot from
the right corner which slid by the Tigers goalkeeper.
Two minutes after Parry scored, Knight Jody Hummel
scored off an assist by Chris Scharff. He did the same
play again at 10:05 of the quarter to give the Knights a
4-1 lead. Less than a minute later, Rick Titus, with an
assist by Hummel, scored and with only one minute
left in the quarter, Missy Gooch scored on a penalty
kick. At 19:45 into the quarter, Parry scored unass-
isted to give Lake-Lehman a 7-1 lead at the half.
By CHARLOT M. DENMON
Staff Correspondent
Coach Rich Gorgone’s Lake-
Lehman Knights knew they were up
against a physical team when they
traveled to Tunkhannock to meet
the Tigers last Friday, but they
played to win and nearly did pull it
off — if it hadn’t been for Mike
Grohs.
Grohs intercepted Knight Len
Annetta’s strikes three times, the
third time with only 35 seconds
remaining, the one that saved an 18-
13 win for the Tigers.
Grohs was all over the field for
the Tigers on both the offense and
defense. He scored the Tigers’ first
touchdown early in the first quarter,
taking the ball in from the one-yard
line to give Tunkhannock a 6-0 lead.
Grohs picked up his first intercep-
tion less than three minutes into the
first quarter and carried the ball to
the one-yard line. On the next play
he went around the right side for
the score. Kevin Hutchins’ kick for
the extra point went wide.
The Black Knights took a Tiger
punt on their own 40-yard line with
less than six minutes on the clock in
the first quarter and five plays later
scored when Bill Davis took a han-
doff from Annetta, then threw a
lateral pass to Annetta, who in turn
threw down the field to Chris Land-
messer. Landmesser caught the ball
and raced into the endzone for the
Knights’ score. Scott Shafer’s kick
went through the uprights and Gor-
gone’s Knights took a 7-6 lead into
the locker room at halftime.
The Knights’ defense stopped a
Tunkhannock threat halfway
through the second period when
they stopped Brian Mast on a fourth
down and one play.
On the first play from the line of
scrimmage in the second half,
Knight Scott ‘Wascalus fumbled and
Tunkhannock’s John Daniels recov-
ered the ball at Lake-Lehman’s 25-
yard line. Joe Nally carried the ball
to the 14-yard line before he was
downed by a Knight. Tunkhannock’s
G. Brennan threw to Grohs on the
next play, who stepped into the
endzone for the Tigers’ second
touchdown. The try for two points
failed and Tunkhannock took a 12-7
lead.
In the fourth period Grohs inter-
cepted Annetta’s pass to set up the
final Tunkhannock score. The
Tigers moved down field from the
Knights’ 43-yard line to their own
one-yard line in six plays. On the
next play, Mast took the ball into
the endzone for the score.
The Knights refused to give up
and Chris Landmesser took a 39-
yard hit from Annetta and carried it
into the endzone for his second
touchdown of the game and moved
the Knights within: five points of the
Tigers with the score 18-13, when
Annetta’s try for two points failed.
In the final minute of the game, the
Knights had a chance to move in
(See TIGERS, page 10)
Dotty John Charlot John Jack GoalPOST
MARTIN HOINSKI DENMON OLIVER JONES PETIE
(8-5) (9-4) (11-2) (9-4) (11-2) (11-2)
Dallas/ Dallas Dallas Meyers ‘Dallas Dallas Dallas
Meyers 21-7 22-13 14-12 14-13 30-6 13-6
Lehman/ : Hanover Lehman Lehman Lehman Lehman Lehman
Hanover 7-6 20-7 14-7 17-6 14-7 12-6
O’Reilly/ O'Reilly O'Reilly O'Reilly O'Reilly O'Reilly Wallen.
Wallenpaupack 14-12 10-7 7-6 7-0 7-01 120
~ W.S. Tech Hoban Hoban Hoban Hoban Hoban Hoban
Bishop Hoban 28-0 35-6 24-6 28-07 28-74 18-7
Wyo. Sem. Wyo. Sem. Wyo. Sem. Wyo. Sem. Wyo. Sem. Wyo. Sem. Wyo. Sem.
Hill School 21-6 21-14 14-6 13-6 18-6 28-7
Penn State PSU PSU PSU PSU PSU PSU
Boston Col. 35-12 31-13 21-14 35-17 30-17 35-12
Pittsburgh Pitt Purdue Pit Purdue Pitt Pitt
Purdue 24-13 24-17 14-12 24-12 25-17 21-17
Notre Dame ND ND ND ND Michigan ND
Michigan St. 21-6 21-21 17-14 21-14 30-28 21-17
victories this past week to force a three-way tie among
herself, Jack Jones and GoalPOST Petie as all three
prognosticators sport 11-2 slates.
Staff writer John Hoinski grabbed three victories to
only two defeats, moving himself into a tie for second
place with John Oliver as the two hold 9-4 records.
Executive Editor Dotty Martin grabbed only two
wins while losing three this week and fell to last place
with an 8-5 mark.
Denmon, remaining true blue to the Mountaineers of
Dailas last week, fooled all of her counterparts as she
got a victory when the Dallas boys defeated Crest-
wood, 9-7. Oliver’s downfall was staying with the
Knights of Lake-Lehman who lost to Tunkhannock, 18-
Nobody predicted the Bishop O’Reilly/Northwest
game correctly as the Rangers stormed into town and
trounced the Queenswomen, 24-7, while everybody got
a victory on the 14-14 tie played by Pittsburgh and
North Carolina State.
Martin was the only one stumped in the Notre
Dame/Michigan game as the Fightin’ Irish were
defeated, 24-23.
U-10 DIVISION
The Chiefs shut out the Sting, 3-1
in a mid-day contest. Besides giving
an outstanding defensive perform-
ance, Jeff Kunkle also starred on
offense, scoring two goals for the
Chiefs. Another strong player,
Stuart Graham, also scored for the
Chiefs. The defensive teamwork of
the Chiefs kept pressure on the
opponents’ ‘goalie and thanks to
hard work by Ryan Dauksis, Robin
Holeman, Lisa Wall and Michael
Woronko, the Sting were overcome.
Nick Santarelli made th Sting’s lone
goal.
When the Stoners triumped over
the Stompers, 13-1, goals were made
by Mike Viglone, three; Kevin
McDonald, three; Jeremy Fleeger,
two’ Mike Heffron, two; Mike Voz-
niak, two; and Kali Bagby. Trying
to rally his team, Dan Poedhl
scored for the Stompers.
In a fiercely competitive battle,
the Hurricanes blew away the Tim-
bers, 4-1. The Timber goal was
scored by Robbie Kohli, while Hur-
ricane teammates Chris O’Brien,
John Oliver and Rocco Policarne
brought their team to victory.
O’Brien scored two goals.
In the late afternoon, the Strikers
squeezed out a win over the Sock-
ers, 3-2. Adam Yarnal, Ryan Bom-
bick and Patrick Stoltz were scorers
for the STrikers while Eric Diffen-
bacher and Suzanne Mugford
brought in goals for the Sockers.
Scores for the week: Tornadoes 7,
Rowdies 2; Stoners 13, Stompers 1;
Hurricanes 4, Timbers 1; Strikers 3,
Sockers 2; Roughnecks 1, Express
0; Chiefs 3, Sting 1; Comets 2, Kicks
0. 5
U-12 DIVISION
Sting scored a winning fourth
quarter goal to lead that team over
the Chiefs in a tight 4-3 battle.
Shawn Scavone led the STings’
goals by Steve Barkley, Ben Brown,
The Chiefs’ Seth Marlatt scored
two and Ken Chapple one to keep
the scored tied throughout most of
the game. Assisting on the goals
were Chapple, Jack Sordoni and
Matt Bailey. Bailey also contributed
to good defensive play by the
Chiefs, along with Casey Kernag
and Eve Figueroa.
However, it was the defensive
teamwork of the Sting’s Ben Brown,
Melissa Brown, Jason Poplaski and
Jeff Shaw which held tight for the
win.
In another close U-12 game, the
(See YOUTH, page 10)
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Since no system can predict the
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NCAA PREDICTIONS
Penn State 28, Boston College 21
Syracuse 24, Virginia Tech 24
North Carolina State 27, Wake
Forest 21
Oklahoma State 30, Houston 18
Purdue 23, Pittsburgh 23
Dartmouth 25, Penn 25
West Virginia 24, Maryland 23
Cornell 27, Princeton 22
Michigan 32, Oregon State 17
Georgia 30, Clemson 19
Alabama 27, Florida 23
Ohio State 27, Colorado 22
Harvard 29, Columbia 20
Brown 27, Yale 23
Baylor 26, USC 22
Indiana 27, Navy 24
Oklahoma 29, Minnesota 15
Michigan State 25, Notre Dame 21
Missouri 26, Texas 24
Army 25, Northwestern 23
Arkansas 32, Tulsa 20
Air Force 28, Wyoming 19
California 28, Washington State 21
Arizona 29, Oregon 19
Washington 28, Brigham Young 23
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Nebraska 26, Illinois 20
Virginia 25, Georgia Tech 25
Florida State 26, North Carolina
24
Vanderbilt 26, Tulane 23
TCU 31, Kansas State 16
UCLA 25, San Diego 24
Arizona State 24, SMU 24
NFL PREDICTIONS
Dallas over Atlanta by 14
San Diego over Giants by 2
Denver over Eagles by 3
Buffalo over St. Louis by 5
San Diego over Washington by 7
Chicago over Green Bay by 16
Detroit over Tampa Bay by 11
Raiders over Pittsburgh by 1
Los Angeles over Colts by 6
San Francisco over New Orleans
by 21
New York Jets over Miami by 7
: New England over Seattle by 4
Cincinnati over Cleveland by 2
Kansas City over Houston by 7
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