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By CHARLOT M. DENMON
Staff Correspondent
In a hard-fought battle . between
the two teams, Hanover Area pulled
a mild upset over Lake-Lehman
Saturday afternoon when they cut
down the Knights’ quarterback
Lenny Annetta’s aerial attack in the
second half and went on to win, 13-7.
Both teams played a tight defen-
sive game in the first period with
neither one able to get into the
endzone. In the opening minutes of
the second period, Hanover took the
ball on its 27-yard line but moved it
quickly to the Knights’ 15-yard line
when their halfback Greg Cherkaus-
kas carried the ball for 60 yards
evading the Lake-Lehman speedy
defense.
On the next play, Hanover’s Brian
Hughes took a handoff from Quart-
erback Joe Ropietski and went to
the one-yard line for a first down
and goal. With 9:59 on the clock, on
the next play Ropietski went into
the endzone for the touchdown.
Mike George's kick for the extra
point sailed between the uprights
and Hanover went in front, 7-0.
Coach Rich Gorgone’s Knights
went right to work and Sophomore
Quarterback Lenny Annetta started
at the Knights 32-yard line and went
to the air. He confused the Hanover
defense throwing a nine-yard strike
to Jason Cadwalader, then hitting
Chris Landmesser for nine yards
The Dallas Gridiron Club will
present the seniors with their jack-
ets on Saturday, September 27,
prior to the beginning of the Dallas/
Tunkhannock football game.
and on the next play 19 yards to Don
Spencer.
Annetta’s next call was a 22-yard
hit to Kevin Carey in the endzone to
give the Knights six. Scott Shafer’s
kick for the extra point was good
and the score was tied at 7-7.
In the second half, Hanover came
out with a different approach and
slowed down Annetta’s aerial game.
Their defense played for the pass
and Annetta’s throwing at will was
cut down. The Hawks took advan-
tage of their defense and put their
offense to work attempting to con-
perfectly and the mixture of run-
ning and passing moved Hanover to
the Knights three yard line with a
first and three situation.
The Knights tightened their
defense but on fourth and goal from
the one yard line, senior Steve
Turinski slipped into the endzone for
a score. George’s try for the extra
point went wide and Hanover took a
13-7 lead.
Annetta again went to the air for
the Knights but the Hawks were all
over the sophomore quarterback’s
receivers keeping them from the
ball. Penalties in the final period
put the Knights at a disadvantage
and time ran out before they could
adjust their offense.
Annetta passed for 245 yards in
the game and Scott Wascalus turned
in a fine job on the ground running
up 73 yards. Landmesser had six
receptions for 90 yards on the day.
The Wyoming Valley Conference
game will be played on the Mountai-
neers’ home field, beginning at 1:30
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By JOHN HOINSKI
Staff Writer
Dallas knew exactly what it had to do against
Meyers Saturday night if it was to remain unbeaten in
Wyoming Valley Conference and Division 11 play —
stop Raghib Ismail.
Ismail, a 5-10, 165 pound junior tailback and the
leading scorer in the Wyoming Valley Football Confer-
ence, has been sensational for the Mohawks this
season, earning the reputation as a threat to score
anytime he carries the ball.
In just four games, Ismail has already rung up
slightly over 500 yards in leading Meyers to two wins
in its first three games and could very easily have
made it three in a row if it weren’t for a leg injury he
suffered during the first half of a 42-22 loss to
Crestwood. Ismail scored three touchdowns in the first
half of a 22-22 thriller, but, unable to play in the
second, the Mohawks lost both their spark and the
game.
On Saturday night, the Mountaineers did manage to
bottle Ismail for the first six minutes of the game, but
his mere presence on the field posed enough of a
threat to open up the passing game, which in turn
opened up the running game — all of which meant a
32-14 Meyers win, with Ismail blazing for 189 yards on
29 carries and touchdown runs of 14, 2, 30 and 15
yards.
“They were bringing in their outside linebackers to
help contain him,’”’ said Meyers coach Mickey
Gorham. ‘So we started to throw the ball a little more
to open things up.”’
Dallas effectively shutdown Ismail on the Mohawks’
firt two series, limiting him to 10 yards on five carries.
Meanwhile, the offense started just as impressive
when Mike Koprowski bolted for 52 yards to the 16
yard line on the Mounts first play from scrimmage.
He wound up scoring on a two-yard run to end that
drive and then Dallas picked up where it left off the
next time they had the ball. But the game took on an
entirely different look when the Mounts were stopped
on a fourth-and-inches play from their own 49.
“I can’t remember us doing anything right after
that,” said Dallas coach Ted Jackson. “I thought that
was the turning point of the game.”
Indeed it was as Meyers took to the air on two of its
first three plays to easily move the ball to the 14.
Ismail then zipped through the middle for the score
and set the stage for the rest of the evening. And he
did it in a hurry.
Ismail rushed for 102 of the Mohawks’ 103 first half
yards and carried the ball 14 of the teams 16 tries. He
accounted for all of Meyers’ yardage in the third
before leaving the game with 8:14 left to play.
“They were the better team tonight,” Jackson said.
“They just beat us in every phase of the game.” In
fact, they beat them up a little too much. Meyers was
penalized for a whopping 138 yards on 14 violations
and were called for a number of unsportsmanlike
penalties.
“Qur guys were so fired up for this game that they
had trouble controlling their emotions,” Gorham
explained. ‘‘That’s why there so many penalties.”
Dallas will need that same intensity if they are to
stay within striking distance of the 3-1 Mohawks, now
2-0 in D-11 play. The Mountaineers will take on
Tunkhannock next week in the Back Mountain in
important divisional battle. The Tigers suffered their
first setback of the season, losing to Coughlin, 8-0, on
Friday night.
“We're in trouble,” Jackson said. ‘I‘ve seen them
play. They are a good team. They don’t have the speed
of Meyers, but they are a very strong team.”
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By CHARLOT M. DENMON
Staff Correspondent
Coach John McCafferty’s soccer team won an
impressive 13-0 shutout over Seton Catholic last
Thursday in the Wyoming Valley League play, but just
eeked out a 1-0 shutout over Bishop O'Reilly last
Tuesday. The two wins kept the Dallas High School
kickers in first place in the West Division of the
Chris Scharff’s scoring kept the Lake-Lehmai
Knights in contention when he scored five aoal. iu
Friday’s game with Crestwood won by tI ¢ Knights 6-3,
and five goals in their 6-2 win over Valley West,
Wednesday.
TEAM EFFORT
The Mountaineers gave a total team effort in their
game with Crestwood to defeat them 13-0 on the Dallas
field. Eleven Dallas players took part in the scoring
with Jim Evans and visiting exchange student Joel
Van Der Hoogen scoring two goals each.
The Mountaineers scored six times in the first
period with Jim Lister putting them on the board first
at 1:42 into the game on an assist by Ray Besecker.
Reese Finn scored unassisted at 2:25 into the period,
Besecker with an assist by Eric Rosenthal scored 6:45,
Mark Richardson scored unassisted at 7:45 into the
into the period and Jim Evans scored unassisted at
14:39.
In the second period Van Der Hoogen scored twice,
both times with an assist by Brent Snowdon, and
Snowdon off an assist by Brent Wayman scored the
Mountaineers third goal to give them a 9-0 lead at the
half.
YOUNGER PLAYERS SEE ACTION
Dallas opened the second half with most of their
younger players on the field but they added four more
goals in the half.
D. Evans with an assist by M. Lipo scored at the
2:00 mark and Dave Morris assisted by Scott Marshall
scored at 7:20 in the third period. In the fourth period,
Ken Kozel, off an assist by Morris, scored » 2. i0 into
the period and Mike Haggerty, with from
Chris Justice, scored at 14:00
DALLAS CAUGHT
he Mountaineer 5 eeked out a 1-
Reilly when they were caught off
In Tuesday’s gan
0 win over Bishop C
guare = “he Gueensmen’s offside trap on defense. The
used the offside trap to confuse the
.acers on offense and to keep them from
scoring.
O’Reilly’s play proved to be effective when it
worked so well that the Mountaineers lost chances to
score by being charged with many offside penalties.
At the same time, O’Reilly managed to get through
the Mountaineers defense but they didn’t have enough
player at their end of the field to score,
BESECKER SCORES
Mountaineers Ray Besecker was the lone Dallas
player to score against the Queensmen, getting
through O’Reilly’s goalkeeper at 9:10 into the first
period off an assist by Jim Lister.
Coach McCafferty said although the Mountaineers
were not expecting the offside trap defense his boys
should have known how to break through.
“Our boys didn’t play as well as they should and
can,” said McCafferty. ‘It’s alright if you win but
that’s not always the case. Bishop O’Reilly played
very well.” 3
Dallas had seven corner shots, 23 shots on goal and
goalkeeper John Sheehan had six saves. The Queens-
men had only two corner shots, 12 shots on goal and
their goalkeeper Marty Gable had eight saves.
SCHARFF STARS
Chris Scharff turned in a fine achievement for the
Lake-Lehman Knights scoring five goals to lead them
to a hardfought 6-3 win over Crestwood, Thursday at
Liki is (See SOCCER, page 10)
By CHARLOT M. DENMON
Staff Correspondent
Coach Jean Lipski’s Lady Knights ran their record
to 4-0 last week by defeating Nanticoke, 5-1, Friday on
the Back Mountain field and shutting out Northwest, 4-
0, on the Rangers field, Wednesday afternoon.
A save by goalkeeper Eileen Walsh in the closing
seconds of the meet gave the Dallas Mountaineers a 3-
2 2in over Wyoming Seminary, Wednesday. The Lady
Mountaineers were idle Friday.
SLOCUM SPARKLES
In the Lady Knights game with Nanticoke, it was
Susie Slocum’s sparkling offense that led the local
girls to their 5-1 victory. Slocum scored two goals
assisted both times by Sue DeGennarro and assisted in
the scoring of two others.
She scored at 1:45 into the game and three minutes
later scored again with both assists by DeGennarro.
Less than three minutes later, Trojan Colleen Mullery
made the score 2-1 by putting in a short shot from
right in front of the goal.
DEFENSE TOUGHENS
The score by the Trojans toughened the Knights
defense and the defensive line made it tough for the
Trojans to get their offense past their defenders.
Wendy Bebey scored the third goal for the Lady
Knights with an assist from Slocum and Lori Pantle
made it 4-1 in the first half by scoring on an assist by
Bebey when a shot bounced off a Trojan player and
went into the goal.
The Lady Knights scored a final shot in the second
half when Sue DeGennarro scored on a crossing pass
from Slocum with 3:05 off the clock.
LADY KNIGHTS IN CONTROL
In Wednesday’s game, the Lady Knights controlled
the ball the entire time although they played a better
game the second half than they did the first. The
Northwest Rangers were unable to stop the Knights
and were unable to hold against the Lake-Lehman
Pantle scored the first goal for the Knights two
minutes into the first period with an assist by
DeGennarro and six minutes into the game, Slocum
socred unassisted to give her team a 2-0 lead.
PANTLE SCORES LATE
With only two minutes left in the half, Pantle scored
a second goal with DeGennaro again doing the assist
and the Lady Knights led 3-0 at the half.
In the second half, Slocum scored the final goal for
Lake-Lehman with an assist by DeGennarro. Noel
Kuznicki turned in a fine performance for the Knights
in both games.
Goalkeeper Kim Kosloski had six saves for the
Knights against Northwest and three saves in the
Nantiocoke game.
DALLAS, SEMINARY PLAY WELL
Both Dallas and Wyoming Seminary played out-
standing games against one another last Wednesday
but it was Eileen Walsh who saved the game for the
Mountaineers when she slapped away the ball from
the cage with her hand. Lindsey Krivenko, who moved
to the left inside from her former right inner played a
superb game against Seminary and scored the third
goal for the Mountaineers which proved to be the
margin of victory for the Dallas girls.
Three minutes into the game Lori Warneka scored a
goal off an assist by Renee Strauser to give Dallas a 1-
0 lead. It was less than a minute later that the Blue
Knights drove deep into the Mountaineers territory
and Kathy Pasquale tied the score at 1-1 with a
penalty shot.
DALLAS GOES AHEAD
Five minutes later, Dallas regained the lead on
Joyce Tinner’s goal off a corner shot with an assist by
Warneka. Krivenko’s goal moved the score to 3-1 but
with only four seconds remaining in the half Liza
Rosenthal scored for the Blue Knights to cut the
Dallas lead to 3-2.
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