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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.
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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.
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