. S-_-_— ] ® - ~ Sports By JOHN HOINSKI Staff Writer Tunkhannock went into Monday afternoon’s Wyo- ming Valley Conference football game against Dallas as a slight favorite to hand the Mountaineers their second loss of the season. Afterall, the Tigers had already stunned Wyoming Valley West and Wyoming Area and suffered only an 8-0 heartbreaker to Coughlin, the premier team in the league, for its only loss. On top of that, the Mounts were coming off a 32-14 defeat against Meyers and were a little unsure of just how good they really were. But anyone who has followed Dallas throughout the young season probably wasn’t very surprised over its 21-12 upset over the Tigers. Two reasons why the Mountaineers cannot be defense and a matching desire to win. Throw in Monday’s sparkling passing performance by quarter- back Scott Francis and the result was a resounding hunt for the Division 11 title. “We needed a win here today,” said Dallas coach Ted Jackson. “We were a little down after losing to Meyers. We knew we had to have a win today. I don’t know if Meyers was really as good as that 32-14 score, but this puts us right back where we were.” Where they are now is in third place in D-11 play, a half-game behind GAR and one game behind Meyers. And what put them there was an outstanding team performance led by the dazzling passing display of Francis who completed 12 of 19 passes for 239 yards and two touchdowns, including scoring bombs of 50 and 65 yards. “This was definitely his best game of the year,” Dotty John Charlot John Jack GoalPOST MARTIN HOINSKI DENMON OLIVER JONES PETIE (21-7) (20-8) (23-5) (19-9) (24-4) (21-7) Dallas/ Dallas Dallas Dallas Dallas Dallas Dallas W.S. Tech 28-0 410 31-3 35-0 350 18-0 Lehman/ Meyers Meyers Meyers Lehman Meyers Meyers Meyers 21-10 35-7 21-14 17-14 14-6 21-7 Wyo. Seminary Sem. Sem. Sem. Sem. Sem. Sem. U.F.M.A. 28-14 17-1 26-21 210 30-14 21-20 Penn State PSU PSU PSU PSU PSU PSU Rutgers 21-17 24-10 27-10 35-21 21-18 31-7 Pittsburgh Pitt Temple Pitt Pitt Pitt Pitt Temple 14-12 20-17 24-7 28-21 24-20 18-12 Notre Dame 4 ND Alabama Alabama Alabama Alabama Alabama Alabama 14-13 23-13 28-14 28-24 28-25 21-20 Jackson said of Francis. “He passed and ran the ball well and he got great protection from the offensive line. Tunkhannock is very big and strong up front and our line gave him a lot of protection. I can’t say enough for the job they did. “But that was our game plan. We knew they were physically stronger than us, so what we did was come out throwing on first down with some type of play action fake.” The plan worked to perfection, too, when Francis several finger-tip receptions, on just the third play from scrimmage. He also added another 65-yard catch-and-run to Jonathan Wagner to go along with Kwak’s one yard scoring plunge. In fact, the Mounts executed so well throughout the game that they threatened to blow the Tigers right off the field. But Dallas had two scores called back and muffed another drive deep in Tunkhannock territory. Jack Jones picked up seven of seven victories in last week’s contests to compile a 24-4 slate and take over sole possession of first place among The Dallas Post prognosticators. Staff correspondent Charlot Denmon; who was tied with Jones last week, was stumped on the Dallas/Tunkhannock game when the Mountaineers walked away with a 21-12 victory. Joining Jones in picking up a victory in the Dallas win were beating over Purdue. defeating Meyers. slip by Notre Dame. The miscues allowed the Tigers to remain close, but a strong defensive team effort led by Bill Fedrow and Ryan Holthaus, who had two interceptions, preserved the win. As proud as Jackson was of his team’s play, however, Tunkhannock coach Tom Oldziejewski was equally disappointed in his. “I'm embarrassed,” said Oldziejewski. ‘I feel we have better players and are capable of playing much better than we did today. We just weren’t ready to play. You could see it when we were getting off the bus. “We prepared for everything Dallas did today. There was nothing they did to surprise us. Our kids thought Dallas was going to lay down and play dead.” The Tigers will now attempt to regroup next week against Nanticoke while the Mountaineers will travel to West Side Tech. Lending assistance By CHARLOT M. DENMON Staff Correspondent “We didn’t throw the ball as much as we have been,” said Lake-Lehman football coach Rich Gorgone, following the Knights’ 27-6 win over Bishop O’Reilly Saturday night. ‘Lenny (Annetta) only threw the ball eight times. We came into the game figuring we could use our running game. We moved well on the ground, so we kept with it. “Bishop O’Reilly has been scoring a lot of points and we wanted to hold them,” Gorgone added. “We were pleased with the way the kids played. They held O’Reilly to about 100 yards on offense.” The Black Knights lost little time in putting points on the board. Rob Michaels took the opening kickoff and ran 71 yards for a Lake- Lehman score. Scott Shaffer put his kick through the uprights and the Knights went in front 7-0, with 12 seconds off the clock. The strong Knight defense held the Queens- men on their next two plays and on their second punt return, the Knights scored again. Scott Wascalus ran the ball for 18 yards and two plays later Annetta threw a short pass to Jason Cadwalader along the left side of the field. Cadwalader shook off O’Reilly defenders and carried the ball 65 yards into the endzone for a score. Shaffer kicked with his second extra point of the game to give the Knights a 14-0 lead with six minutes remaining in the quarter. TL> Queensmen offense was unable to move the bi' against the Knights and only once in the first ha'f did they get deep into Knight territory when Chris Kalina passed to Jim Lauer and then to Jim Heffer for a total of 56 yards, moving the Queensmen to the Knights 20 yard line. The Lake-Lehman defense held and they took over. Lehman drove down field to O’Reilly’s 20-yard line from where Chris Frederick took the ball into the endzone for the Knights third touch- down. Shaffer’s kick was wide and the Knights ended the half leading 20-0. O’Reilly moved the ball better in the third quarter and led by Quarterback Chris Kalina, moved the ball to the Knights five-yard line from where Heffers took it in for the lone Queensmen score. Kalina’s try for two points failed and the score went to 20-6. In the fourth quarter, Knight Bill Davis capped off a 65-yard drive to the Queensmen one-yard line by charging into the endzone for a touchdown. Shaffer’s kick was good and the score ended 27-6, Knights. “The kids were down after their loss to Hanover,” said Gorgone. ‘‘They came to win Saturday and they did. Now we have to get ready for Meyers Friday night. Our main concern is to stop Raghib ‘‘Rocket” Ismail. We know what we have to do, we have to figure out how to do it,” said Gorgone. Staff Correspondent JAMES SCORES FIRST Carolyn James on an assist from Lori Pantle scored the Knights first goal eight minutes into the first half Dallas Post/Charlot M. Denmon Listen up, girls! Renee Balberchak (13), Mountaineers/ Trojans match Friday afternoon. WW Coach Jean Lipski’s Lake-Lehman field hockey team used its speed and kept its cool in last Friday’s game with Bishop O’Reilly to shut out the Queenswomen 6-0, and con- tinue on top in Division AA of the Wyoming Valley Conference with a 6-0 record. Earlier in the week the Lady Knights eeked out a 2-1 win over a strong Coughlin team. DALLAS WINS At the other end of the Back Mountain, Dallas girls, coached by Robyn Jones, shut out Nanticoke 4-0 to raise its record to 4-1 and stay one game behind Tunkhannock who is 5-0 in Division AAA of the confer- ence. It was the Lady Mounts’ second win of the week, having defeated Northwest 2-0, Wednesday afternoon. The Lady Knights controlled the game with Bishop O’Reilly keeping the ball at the Queenswomen’s field most of the game. Outstanding~ teamwork by the Knights and Dawn major role in the Lake-Lehman win. and Susie Slocum scored unassisted one minute later. Slocum on an assist by Wendy Bebey scored a second goal at 29:00 minutes into the first half to give the Knights a 3- 0 lead. James and Pantle repeated their scoring in the opening of the second half at six minutes into the period, then Pantle on an assist by Bebey scored at 8:00 minutes into the half to give the Knights a 5-0 game. Holly Cross off an assist by Pam Coolbaugh gave Lake-Lehman their final score of the game. COACH PLEASED Coach Jean Lipski said she was pleased with the way her girls played. ‘They have been working on cutting back on the number of corners they allow and increasing their accuracy and speed. In the last two games, they have allowed only one corner,” said Lipski. In Wednesday’s game with Cough- lin both teams played excellent defense. It was Pantle who scored (See LEHMAN, page 10) Getting a first down at the Back Mountain field. Going into a Saturday home meet with Albright, King’s College cross country Coach Paul Reinert of Shavertown owns a composite 62-27 record in six years. King’s takes a 5-2 ledger into the MAC battle with the Lions on the Kirby Park course. Reinert teaches science in the Lake-Lehman School District. He works part-time as head of King’s cross country program. The coach is the son of Atty. and Mrs. James Reinert. wv Paul was a standout runner and wrestler for Bishop O’Reilly High School in Kingston. He then contin- ued his athletic career at the Uni- versity of Scranton, where he gained his background in science. In his first five years at King’s, Reinert’s only losing campaign was a year ago when the team finished at 4-5. His aim for the 1986 season with the thinclads is to end the campaign with another winning season. bi
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