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By CHARLOT M. DENMON
Staff Correspondent
Two Harveys Lake sisters have been making a
name in skating competition for the past nine years.
Michele and Trudy Wandel, daughters of Mr. and
of 58 trophies and 29 medals in roller skating
competitions in Pennsylvania, along the Eastern Coast
and in the nationals held at Lincoln, Nebraska.
Michele, age 18, and Trudy, 13, started skating at
the Dallas rink since it opened nine years ago. Trudy
was only 3% years old when she started skating and,
according to former instructors, was described as a
natural. Michele, who was nine, enjoyed skating so
well that she was at the rink every chance she had and
when Luzerne County Community College offered
courses in skating she enrolled and in a short time
advanced to private instruction at the roller rink in
Nanticoke.
In the meantime, Trudy began private instruction
and both she and Michele transferred to the New
Milford rink where they took lessons from the
instructor there. Later, they transferred to Scranton
where they took priate lessons for five years, recently
returning to the Rollaway rink in Dallas where they
are training under Al Taglang, who has been coaching
for the past 10 years. Trudy also takes freestyle
instruction from Donna Bonnell, coach at the Nanti-
coke rink. Michele no longer enters freestyle competi-
tions but concentrates on figure skating.
Michele first entered local competition at Nanticoke
when she started taking private lessons and Trudi’s
first competition was at Blue Ridge. The girls are now
training for the invitationals which begin this month
and will advance to the state competition in Reading,
then to the regionals held in the Pittsburgh area.
There, they hope to qualify for the national competi-
tion which will be held in July, 1987, in Lincoln,
Nebraska. In order to qualify for this competition, the
skaters must place among the top three in their
category.
Michele’s most recent achievement was this past
season when she took second place in the figure
skating competition at states in Reading. In the
regionas, the closest she has come to qualifying was
fourth but in the coming season her ambition is to
finish in the top three and advance to national
competition in Nebraska.
Michele, who is a student at McCann Business
School, competes against as many as 60 or 65 skaters
in order to qualify for the national competition. In the
past, she has entered both the freestyle and figure
skating but this season is concentrating on figure
skating and practices an average of 10 hours weekly.
Weeks before the regional competition, Michele and
Trudy will practice approximately five hours daily.
Trudy, who enters both the freestyle and figure
skating competition, believes that she should do even
better than in the past now that she is taking
instruction and training at the Rollaway. It eliminates
the many hours of traveling and gives her and Michele
more time to practice.
Last year was the final year for Trudy’s skating in
the primary division where she placed fourth in the
regionals. Her most recent win was in the state
competition in the freestyle events. In 1984, Trudi
qualified for the nationals and placed among ‘the top
skaters in the nation in figure skating.
Trudy is in eighth grade at Lake-Lehman Junior
High School and is a member of the junior high hockey
team. Both she and Michele are excellent students and
Trudy is on the honor list. Michele graduated from
Lake-Lehman last June.
The sisters’ ambition is to one day skate in the
Olympics which may be included as an exhibition
event in the upcoming Olympics. Eventually, they
hope to see roller skating become a competitive event.
“Skating requires great concentration and I believe
this has helped the girls with concentration on their
school work,” said their mother. “I’m thankful that
the Rollaway now has a national club and the girls can
train and practice locally. It eliminates many hours of
traveling and gives them much more time to practice.
They should do much better in the season ahead.”
Michele and Trudy probably inherited their love for
skating from their parents and grandmother. Their
mother and dad skate as do their grandparents. Their
grandmother skates every Monday night at Rollaway.
None of them, however, have ever skated competi-
tively. 5
“Trudy, however, has been a natural since she first
put on a pair of skates at the age of three and a half,
according to her instructor,” said Mrs. Wandel.
By CHARLOT M. DENMON
Staff Correspondent
The Dallas girls’ field hockey
team continued on Wyoming Semi-
nary’s heels last Wednesday after-
noon by blanking Coughlin, 4-0, at
the city school’s field.
Sue Wells led the Mountaineers in
scoring, putting in one goal unass-
isted and one off an assist by Heidi
Scholz.
Lindsey Krivenko scored first for
the Dallas team at 10:11 into the
game when she made good on a
penalty shot. Wells scored unass-
isted at 15:50 to run the score to 2-0.
In the second half, Shannon
Cleary scored unassisted at 14:16
into the half and Wells moved the
game to 4-0 at 16:40 when she
scored off an assist by Heidi Scholz.
Dallas had eight shots on goal,
Coughlin had one. Dallas had 30
corner shots, Coughlin two. Dallas
goaltender Eileen Walsh had one
save. Coughlin’s goaltenders
Gretchen Krueger and Renee
Creazzo had eight saves between
them.
The meet which should have
determined whether Lake-Lehman
or Tunkhannock met their first
defeat of the season ended with both
teams still undefeated.
The two teams met at Tunkhan-
nock Wednesday and both came
away undefeated when their game
ended in a 2-2 tie.
Both teams went without scoring
in the first half until the 14:50 mark
when Lady Knight Wendy Bebey
scored off an assist by Lori Pantle,
to take a 1-0 lead at halftime.
In the second half, Gretchen
Adams scored off an assist by Suzi
Scott to tie the game at 1-1 but in
Skating sisters
approximately 70 seconds Noel Kuz-
nicki scored on a corner shot at
14:21 to give the Knights a 2-1 lead.
Three minutes later, Laura Miner
scored unassisted to tie the score at
2-2.
The teams played aggressive
defense for the next 23 minutes to
end the game in a 2-2 tie.
Lake-Lehman had 17 shots at
goal, Tunkhannock had 24. Lake-
Lehman had 12 corner shots, Tunk-
hannock had nine. Kim Koslowski
had eight saves for the Knights,
Tunkhannock’s Heather Strunk had
six saves.
Dallas High School kickers contin-
ued in a tie for the lead with
in the West
Division of the Conference by down-
ing Valley West 5-2, Thursday, and
trouncing Bishop Hafey 17-0, Tues-
day, at Hafey’s field.
The Lake-Lehman Knights were
leading 5-4 in the final period in
Tuesday’s meet with Bishop Hoban
but with only four seconds on the
clock the Argents Leon Bielecki shot
one in to send the score to 5-5 and
continue the game into double over-
time to end the meet with the 5-5
tie. The Knights nipped Tunkhan-
nock 5-4 Thursday at the Tigers
field to continue in fourth place.
. It took Dallas Coach John McCaf-
ferty’s Mountaineers three quarters
to break away from the Spartans at
the Dallas field.
DALLAS SCORES FIRST
Dallas scored first in the game
when Jim Lister scored off an assist
by Reese Finn at 19:28 in the first
quarter. He assisted Mark Richard-
son five minutes later and scored
two goals himself in the third
period, the first of those with an
assist by Eric Rosentel broke a 2-2
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he scored another goal unassisted.
Brent Snowdon scored the final goal
for the Mountaineers when he was
assisted by Brett Weyman.
Fred Ebert scored both goals for
the Spartans, the first with an assist
by Matt Bouche at 16:43 into the
period. Only 53 seconds into the
third period, Ebert took a shot that
rebounded off the hands of Dallas
goalkeeper John Sheehan and
knocked it in to tie the score at 2-2.
MORRIS LEADS WAY
In the game with Bishop Hafey,
Dave Morris led Dallas in their 17-0
shutout with three goals. In the first
half, Eric Rosentel and Mike Rich-
ards scored two goals each to pace
Dallas to an 8-0 lead at halftime.
In the third quarter, the Mountai-
neers broke the game wide open,
scoring seven goals started off by
Brent Snowdon. Joel Vandenhoogen
and Jim Evans scored, then Dave
Morris scored two followed by Ray
Besecker and Tom Shone.
John Astin and Mike Haggerty
scored the final two goals of the
game in the fourth period.
DALLAS AT 9-1
The Mountaineers stand at 9-1
going into this week when they play
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In the Lake-Lehman Knights
game with Tunkhannock Mark Bon-
savage scored off an assist by Matt
Reinert at 14:50 in the final period
fo break a 4-4 tie and give the
Knights a 5-4 win.
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The Knights scored two goals in
the first period and two in the
second to match the Tigers who did
the same. Lake-Lehman put the
first score on the board when Rick
Parry off an assist by Chris Scharff,
scored at :37 into the period. Less
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