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Francis on a keeper
Dallas Post/Chariot M. Denmon
By JOHN HOINSKI
Staff Writer
Although Dallas went into Saturday afternoon’s
game against Wyoming Area with an overall record of
3-1 in Wyoming Valley Conference play, the Mountai-
neers seemed to be a team operating under the basic
premise of Murphy’s Law that states, ‘anything that
can go wrong, will go wrong.’
After a lackluster one-point win against Hanover
Area in the season opener, Dallas squandered three
excellent scoring opprtunities against Crestwood the
following week, but came away with a 9-7 win anyway
when sophomore kicker Jerry Ogurkis booted a 25-
yard field goal with 18 seconds left to play.
Two weeks later against Tunkhannock, the Mounts
again outplayed their opponent for a tight 21-12
victory, but never did blow it open because of two
touchdowns that were nullified due to penalties.
Last Saturday, Dallas turned in an another excellent
performance, dominating the powerful Division 1
Warriors for slightly over 3% quarters. But again the
Mountaineers made a game out of it, only this time
they came out on the short end of a 15-11 thriller when
Wyoming Area quarterback Phil Russo hit Scott
Schalles with a 5-yard touchdown pass with 48 seconds
left in the game.
“We had it, we just frittered it away,” Dallas coach
a fine job and I thought they played well enough to
win.”
Indeed they did. In fact, Wyoming Area’s winning
drive was their only drive of the day. Otherwise, with
the exception of four Warrior rushing plays that netted
160 yards, coach Paul Marranca’s squad gained just
220 yards on the ground and 76 yards passing, 78 of
which came on the Warriors’ final drive when Russo
completed six out of seven passes.
It was his counterpart, Scott Francis, however, who
stole the offensive show. For the second straight
game, after turning in a dazzling passing performance
two weeks earlier against Tunkhannock, Francis
completed 14 of 25 passes for 187 yards against
Wyoming Area and had the Mountaineers knocking on
ne door early in the third with Dallas holding an 8-0
ead.
The Mounts scored a second quarter touchdown on
Mike Koprowski’s two-yard run and added a two-
pointer mid-way through the second when Bill Fedrow
nailed Eric Uporsky in the end zone for a safety.
With the Dallas defense giving no ground, the
offense had a chance to put the game away on its first
drive of the third period when they marched to the
Warrior 7. But on just two plays, the momentum
shifted drastically and put the game up for grabs.
Wyoming Area’s Harry Rose intercepted a pass on
the six to kill the Mountaineer threat, and to make
matters worse, Brian Hines bolted 85 yards on the
very next play and Paul Angelii followed with the
touchdown to turn the game around. Larry Yudiski
then ran for the two-point conversion for the tie.
With the exception of the 85-yard stunner, the
Warriors had done practically nothing on offense while
the Mounts racked up 185 yards on the ground and 187
through the air.
Dallas did regroup and looked as though it would
pull the game out when Ogurkis, who had not kicked in
three weeks due to a torn quadricep muscle and who
earlier in the year kicked the game winner against
Crestwood in the waning seconds, connected on a 31-
yard field goal.
But Russo’s heroics negated that, and now Dallas
will again have to regroup once again to prepare for
unbeaten divisional opponent GAR on Friday night at
Wilkes-Barre Memorial Stadium. The Grenadiers are
undefeated in D-11 play while the Mounts have lost
once.
By CHARLOT M. DENMON
Staff Correspondent
The Nanticoke Trojans have had the wishbone
offense in their book of plays for some time, but it
wasn’t until last Friday night that they used it. Lake-
Lehman was the victim and, combined with the
Knights’ mistakes, the wishbone offense spelled a 42-0
victory for the Trojans.
Knights Coach Rich Gorgone knew that the Trojans
had the wishbone so devoted about 25 percent of his
team’s practices to the offense.
“I never dreamed they would use it the entire game.
McDermott is an excellent athlete and runs a pattern
of plays and we prepared for all of them. I guess the
wishbone hurt us some but our own mistakes played a
big role. We fumbled seven times and the Trojans
recovered five of them. After our mistakes at the
beginning of the game, our kids just fell apart — both
our defense and our offense.”
The Knights also had to play with several of their
key players which could have had a bearing on their
performance. There are four or five sophomores
starting for Lake-Lehman and it takes time for them
to become seasoned veterans.
Goodman had his team use the wishbone the entire
game and his Quarterback Jim McDermott took to it
as though he had been running it all his life.
Nanticoke lost no time in getting on the board when
they took the opening kickoff and drove 90 yards to the
5-yard line of the Knights where McDermott ran it in
for a score and Jeff DeLuca kicked the extra point.
* The Knights fumbled the ball on the third offensive
play of the game and it was recovered by the Trojans.
They drove 36 yards down field before McDermott hit
receiver Damian Angradi with a 19-yard touchdown
pass to move the score to 13-0. The try for the extra
point failed.
With 4:30 remaining in the first half, McDermott
carried the ball for a 22-yard touchdown climaxing the
Trojans 62-yard drive down field. McDermott moved
the score to 21-0 by running the ball into the endzone
for two points.
In the third period, McDermott scored again for the
Trojans, on a 27-yard run into the endzone with 7:43 on
the clock. DeLuca made the extra point to move the
Trojan lead to 28-0. McDermott scored his fourth
touchdown of the game with 7:22 remaining in the
game and DeLuca kicked the extra point to move the
score to 35-0.
The final score by the Trojans was made after the
Knights fumbled for the seventh time, with five
minutes left in the game. The kick by DeLuca was
good and the final score of the game was 42-0.
The Knights had only two first downs in the game
with the first one coming in the third period and
Quarterback Lenny Annetta threw only five passes
and completed only one, that one for a loss of six
yards. Rushing was no better for the Knights as they
carried the ball only 24 times for a total of 18 yards.
The Knights are idle until the first weekend in
November when they play Crestwood. This Saturday
they were off and the following Saturday they were
scheduled to play West Side Tech which recently
withdrew from the league.
By CHARLOT M. DENMON
Staff Correspondent
After edging Abington Heights, 4-
1, Coach Jean Lipski’s Lady Knights
were handed their first defeat
Wednesday when Crestwood’s
Cassie Hudock scored a goal late in
the second half to nip the Knights, 1-
0. The Knights didn’t allow their
loss to get them down and came
back Friday to defeat Meyers, 2-0.
The Knights were the lone unde-
feated team prior to theirloss to the
Comets.
MOUNTS WIN ALL
The Lady Mounts of Dallas won
all of their games last week, edging
Abington Heights 3-1, shutting out
Tunkhannock 3-0 and blanking
Bishop O'Reilly 4-0 Monday. Coming
up Wednesday for the Mountaineers
is . their game with Crestwood, a
game they must win if they hope to
repeat as Wyoming Valley Confer-
ence champions.
Susie Slocum and Noelle Kuznicki
scored the goals to give the Lady
Knights their 2-0 shutout over
Meyers, Friday at Lake-Lehman,
and it was the strong Lake-Lehman
defense which stopped the Lady
Mohawks from scoring.
SLOCUM SCORES FIRST
Slocum gave the Knights their
first goal at 15:30 into the first half,
with an assist by Wendy Bebey to
give the Knights 1-0 lead going into
the second half. Three minutes into
engaged in a shuffle with Meyers
players for the ball, Kuznicki shot it
into the cage for the Knights second
and final score of the game.
In Wednesday’s match with Crest-
wood, the teams played scoreless
hockey for more than 47 minutes
with the defense of both teams
controlling the game. Both had sev-
eral opportunities to score but each
time a strong defense turned them
back.
LEHMAN THREATENS
It was at 17:20 into the second
half when Cassie Hudock scored off
a corner shot for the lone goal of the
game. In the final two minutes of
the game, Lake-Lehman threatened
but Comet goalkeeper Kelly Rowker
stopped the strong rush of the
Knights.
In Monday’s game at the Knights
field, Abington Heights scored the
first goal but the Knights rallied to
score in the first half and score
three goals in the second half to
take a 4-1 win.
The Comets controlled the first
two minutes of play and Tracy
Gobbo off an assist from Debbie
Filipek, scored the first goal to give
the Comets a 1-0 lead.
SLOCUM TIES GAME
Knight Susie Slocum tied the
game when she took the ball at
midfield and drove through the
Comet defense to put the ball in the
cage at 20:30 into the half.
The Lady Knights continued to
dominate when the second half
opened and five minutes into the
period Sue DeGennaro scored
unassisted. Two minutes later, Lori
Pantle took an assist from Slocum
and scored to give Lake-Lehman a
3-1 lead. The Knights continued to
play a strong offense game and with
only five seconds remaining on the
clock, Pantle, with an assist by
Carolyn James, scored again to give
the Knights a 4-1 win.
TINNER SCORES TWICE
In the Dallas-Abington Heights
game played Friday at Dallas,
Joyce Tinner scored two goals in
the first half to give the Lady
Mountaineers a 2-0 lead at halftime.
Tinner scored the first goal unass-
isted at 9:28 into the half, then with
just four minutes remaining in the
half scored off an assist from Lind-
sey Krivenko.
In the second half, Comet Lisa
White narrowed the Mounts lead to
one by scoring unassisted with only
five minutes remaining in the game.
Dotty John Charlot John Jack GoalPOST
MARTIN HOINSKI DENMON OLIVER JONES PETIE
(30-10) (29-11) (33-7) (26-14) (32-8) (30-10)
Dallas/ GAR Dallas GAR GARlas Dallas GAR
GAR 14-12 13-7 21-13 21-14 7-6 28-0
O'Reilly O'Reilly CoMo O'Reilly O'Reilly CoMo O'Reilly
Col-Montour 7-6 20-12 17-13 70 10-7 14-7
Wyo. Seminar Sem Sem Sem Sem Sem Sem
Gunnery 21-0 28-14 20-7 170 14-6 21-0
Penn State PSU PSU PSU PSU PSU PSU
Syracuse 28-12 24-10 28-14 35-14 25-13 21-6
Notre Dame AF AF AF ND AF AF
Air Force 21-6 271-17 19-14 28-14 25-13 21-14
Charlot Denmon picked up five victories to just one
loss this week to capture sole possession of first place
among The Dallas Post prognosticators. Denmon, in
dropping only the Notre Dame-Pitt game which was
won by the Panthers in a 10-9 squeaker, now sports a
33-7 record, second to none. ;
Jack Jones, who last week was tied for first place
with Denmon, dropped two contests when Wyoming
Area defeated Dallas, 15-11, and the Panthers defeated
the Fighting Irish. Jones is now in the second place
slot at 32-8.
Dotty Martin and GoalPOST Petie both had a 4-2
weekend to wind up in a tie for third place at 30-10
while John Hoinski, who also had a 4-2 weekend, is in
fourth place at 29-11. Bringing up the rear is John
Oliver with a 26-14 slate.
This week, the prognosticators are split on the
Dallas-GAR game with a few of the team going with
the Mountaineers to gain victory. The Columbia-
Montour/Bishop O’Reilly game is also a toss-up while
Wyoming Seminary is a unanimous favorite over
Gunnery.
Penn State is expected to defeat Syracuse by a
landslide while Air Force gets the nod over Notre
Dame.
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Dallas and Lake-Lehman High
School soccer teams matched one
another during the past week with
each winning one game and losing
one.
MOUNTAINEERS GET WIN
In a tough match, Coach John
McCafferty’s Mountaineers defeated
the Lake-Lehman Knights 6-2,
Thursday, at the Dallas field. Ear-
lier in the week, the Mountaineers
dropped a 4-2 match to undefeated
Abington Heights while Lake-
Lehman downed Seton Catholic 5-1
at the Pittston field.
The game between the Mountai-
neers and Knights was played in the
rain with both teams tied 2-2 until
the fourth period when the Dallas
team broke loose with four goals to
win 6-2.
KNIGHTS LEAD EARLY
The Knights took the lead early in
the first period when Chris Scharff
scored on a penalty kick with only
eight minutes off the clock. Dallas
tied at 1-1 on a goal by Eric
Marshall off an assist by Eric
Rosenthal at 13:16 into, the period
but Doug Doerfler gave the Knights
a 2-1 lead at 15:01 in the quarter
when he scored unassisted.
Dallas tied the score at 2-2 in the
second quarter when Rosenthal on
an assist by Mike Richards, shot
one in from the left side.
RICHARDS SCORES
The teams played scoreless
throughout the third period and it
was 7:25 into the final period when
Mike Richards, off an assist by
Rosenthal, scored to give Dallas a 3-
2 lead. Rosenthal with assists by
Richards, scored twice within two
minutes remaining in the game,
Brent Snowdon scored the final
point for Dallas, scoring off an
assist by Jim Lister.
The win moved Dallas to 10-2
while the Knights dropped to 6-5.
HAT TRICK WINS GAME
In Tuesday’s games, a hat trick
by Knight Rick Parry to lead in
breaking open a tight contest for the
Knights 5-1 win over Seton Catholic.
Seton Catholic stayed with the
Knights for the first three quarters
but in the fourth period the Knights
scored three goals to defeat the
Eagles. A penalty kick by Aaron
Dennis broke open the game and
cooled off the Eagles. Al Manzoni
scored unassisted to give the
Knights a 4-1 lead and Rick Parry,
off an assist by Aaron Dennis
scored the final goal of the game to
give the Knights a 5-1 win.
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