® By CHARLOT M. DENMON Staff Correspondent There was only one goal scored in the Lake-Lehman Valley West girls’ field hockey game Friday at the Lady Knights’ field, but it was an important one. That lone score put the Back Mountain team a half game in front of Crestwood and Wyoming Seminary in the Wyoming Valley Conference. If the Knights defeat GAR in their game scheduled for Tuesday, they will take the AA title. Dallas girls defeated Meyers, on the Lady Mounts field Friday, to nock dropped a 1-0 match to Wyo- ming Seminary. Earlier in the week HOCKEY _ the Dallas girls lost the overall Wyoming Valley Conference title when they were shut out 1-0 by Crestwood. In the Lady 2osies meet with the Spartans, both teams went scoreless the first half. The Knights con- trolled play most of the first and second periods, but excellent defen- sive work by the Spartans pre- vented the Lady Knights from get: ting the ball in the cage. It wasn’t until 16:30 into the second half that Susie Slocum took a shot off a Spartan’s stick and knocked it past Valley West’s Sherri Kushinkas to give Lake-Lehman a 1- 0 lead, all that they needed. The Knights had 25 shots on goal to the Spartans’ 10. The Knights also had more corner shots, but the Spartans defense kept them from going in. The Lady Mountaineers scored all of their goals in the first half, but that was all they needed as they shut out the Lady Mohawks, . 3-0. Lori Warnecka scored two of the three goals, getting the first one at 5:37 into the first half off an assist by Leigh Pawling. Both teams went scoreless until 26:21 into the half when Renee Strausser took a shot from Shannon Cleary and knocked it in for a score. Warnecka made the final score unassisted with less than four min- utes in the half. (See HOCKEY, page 10) Sports By JOHN HOINSKI Staff Writer One thing any team can be sure of when playing against GAR is a physical battle. No gadget plays. Not much passing. Just straight ahead, slug-it-out, may the best team win type of football. Last Friday night at Wilkes-Barre Memorial Stadium, the Grenadiers put their unblemished record on the line againt Dallas, and before it was all over, GAR fought its way to a convincing 21-0 win and a 7-0 record in Wyoming Valley Conference play. “They beat us in every phase of the game,” Dallas coach Ted Jack- son said. “They took away our running, they rook away our pass- \ _ FOOTBALL _ ing game. They just have a very good football team.” How good were they? Let the statistics tell the story. After a dead-even first quarter that saw the Mounts run for 35 yards and GAR for 36, the Grenadiers slammed the door shut the rest of the night. The Mountaineers ran for just three yards in the second quarter; two in the third and minus nine in the fourth, (although they did pass for 66 in the final stanza) and were held without a first down in the second and third quarters. Led by 6-8, 305 pound All-Every- thing Greg Skrepenak, the GAR defense swarmed all over the Mounts, effectively taking away any offensive game plan they attempted. iY ‘“They were very strong up front,”’ Jackson explained. ‘‘At times they were blitzing and that put a lot of pressure on the quarter- back, and they were also overload- ing on our receivers. It slowed them down just enough to allow the pur- suit on the quarterback to catch up. 2] Meanwhile, the GAR offense ram- bled for 225 yards with Leroy EdGraffenreid slashing for 103 yards on 12 carries and one touch- down to lead the way. But he had plenty of help from Dave Maharty and quarterback John Snyder, both N (See FOOTBALL, page 10) By CHARLOT M. DENMON Staft Correspondent Coach John McCafferty’s Dallas Mountaineers won both soccer meets last week, shutting out Bishop O’Reilly, 7-0, Thursday at home and blanking Pittston Area, 11-0, at the Dallas field on Tuesday. The wins keep the Mountaineers on the heels of Wyoming Seminary, whom they will play this week. A tie or a win will give Seminary the title, but a win by Dallas gives Dallas the title. Lake-Lehman Knights dropped a 4-1 game with Abington Heights Tuesday but rebounded to shut out Wyoming Valley West, 2-0, on Thursday afternoon for a 6-6 record. In their game with Bishop O’Reilly, the Mountai- neers played a tough defense with Eric Rosentel giving the Mountaineers their first goal seven minutes into the game off an assist by Mike Richards. Jim Lister and Jeff Tinner each scored two goals in the game with Lister scoring his first goal off an assist by Brent Snowdon at 10:00 of the second quarter. His score came after Matt Lipo assisted Snowdon on a goal 6:00 into the second period and the Mountaineers were in front 3-0 at the half. Lister scored his second goal unassisted in the first minutes of the second half and Tinner, unassisted, scored at 10:00 into the third period. Joel Vanderhoo- gen scored at 14:00 into the third period with an assist by Rosentel to give Dallas a 6-0 lead going into the final quarter. At 5:00 minutes into the final period, Tinner scored again off an assist by Dave Morris to give the Dallas team a 7-0 win. In the game with Pittston Area, Vanderhoogen scored three consecutive goals to lead the Mountai- neers. Vanderhoogen scored his first goal, unassisted, 13 minutes into the first period. He scored a second time, unassisted, at 17:00 into the period and his third score off an assist by Eric Marshall was 14:00 into the second period. Jim Lister scored the first goal for Dallas two minutes into the game off an assist off Reese Finn. Eric Rosentel with an assist from Matt Lipo scored SOCCER tow minutes alter, then Lister assisted by Finn scored for the third goal. Jeff Tinner off an assist by Snowdon scored to move their lead to 4-0 and Vanderhoogen came through with two goals to give the Mounts a 6-0 lead. opening of the second period, Dave Morris put in a shot off a penalty to give Dallas an 8-0 lead. McCafferty substituted a lot of his younger players in the second half and in the third period, John Urziak scored with two minutes remaining. In the final period, freshman Ed Reabuck scored and teammate Ken Kozell scored the final goal for Dallas with 3:52 remaining to give Dallas an 11-0 score. Chris Scharff scored both goals for the Lake- Lehman Knights for their 2-0 win over Valley West. Scharff scored the first goal on a direct free kick at the 7:30 mark of the second period and insured the win at 5:12 of the third period with an assist by Doug Doerfler. Both teams played strong defense in the second half, particularly in the final period. The Spartans were unable to stop Scharff. The win keeps the Knights in the running for a playoff spot in the AA class. A tough Lake-Lehman defense held a strong Abing- ton defense to only 18 shots atgoal and to a 4-1 score. The Comets took a 1-0 lead in the first period on Derrick Race’s score off an assist by Matt Gallagher. Then Gallagher scored the first of his three goals that gave the Comets the game. Off an assist by Hokan Ojert, Gallagher scored at 13:50 into the first period. He scored his second goal unassisted at the 3:30 mark of the third period and his third at the 14:10 mark of the same period: Scharff scored the lone goal for the Knights in the second period off an error by Comets goalkeeper John Ccciamani. When Cacciamani came out of the goal to save a shot by Scharff, he missed it and while he was trying to get on his feet, Scharff shot thé ball in the cage for a score. Lion golfers Dallas and Rob Dombeck, Dallas. Nature’s beauty outdoors is the place to be. The U-10 playoffs began Saturday with the Chiefs overcoming the Sting, 5-1. It was a tough first quarter with both goalies, Danny Thomas for the Sting and Mike Woronko for the Chiefs showing outstanding efforts. But the Chiefs surged ahead with Stuart Graham making 3 goals assisted by Jeff Kunkle; and a goal made by Ryan Dauksis, assisted by Brian Berlew; and Jeff Kunkle also scoring. Caro- lyn McLaughlin and Robin Holman gave all-out efforts on defense. For the Sting, Carlo Santarelli, Brian Boning and Nick Sabatini tried to stem the tide. The second contest saw the Ston- ers blank out the Cosmos 6-0. For the winning Stoners, Mike Heffron and Jeremy Fleeger scored two goals each with Kevin McDonald assisting Topher Marlatt and Michael Vozniak also scored. The Stoners Gail Morris was an out- standing defensive player. The Tornadoes shut out the Stom- pers 6-1. Outstanding defensive players for the Tornadoes were Toni Palka and Adam Molesky. The Stompers boasted Jonathan Grot- kowski and John Krupa who gave great defensive efforts. Joseph Ankenbrand brought in 3 goals for the Tornadoes with William Striker scoring twice and Fred Maier bring- ing in the last goal. The lone Stom- per score was brought in by Adam and Mark Herstek combined to shut most of the game. The Express stormed over the Sockers in a heated 8-3 battle. Two goals each were scored for the Express by Jason Collinson, Adam Hoover and Ken Marsola, and two additional goals were scored by Tony Cox and Scott Labbate. Socker goals were made by Eric Dieffen- bacher (2) and Tim Nicol. In the Timbers victory over the Comets 4-3, Lisa Tomaine scored 3 goals for the Timbers and team- mate Philip Gager kicked one. SCORES OF THE WEEK — Chiefs 5, Sting 1; Stoners 6, Cosmos 0; Tornadoes 6, Stompers 1; Express 8, Sockers 3; Timbers 4, Comets 3; Hurricanes 8, Kicks 1; Roughnecks 1, Strikers 0. Sunday’s play saw the second round of the U-10 Playoffs pitting the Chiefs against the Rowdies in the first game. What promised to be a tight heat ended up as a rout with the Chiefs, 8 and Rowdies 2. Stuart Graham kicked in three goals for the Chiefs and teammate Jeff Kunkle made two. Other Chief goals were made by Ryan Dauksis, Brian Berlew and Michael Woronko. Outstanding defensive play by Caro- lyn McLaughlin, Robin Holeman, Lisa Wall, Brian Berlew and Michael Adamchick kept the Row- dies away from the goal. Rowdie scores were both brought in by Ned Friar, Rowdie goalies Michael Spen- cer and Don Holdredge did a brave job against the constant onslaught of the Chiefs. In the most exciting game of the weekend, the Timbers edged the Roughnecks 3-2 in double overtimes. Phil Gager scored twice for the Timbers and teammate Jeff Farley “also brought in a goal. Outstanding defensive players were Alan Moska in the goal, and Mike Tribendis and Jeff Chopick in the field. ~ Roughnecks goals were scored by Tim Waslick and Ryan Picchi. Tom Klimek starred in defense. The Hurricanes squeaked out a victory over the Express 3-2. Goals for the winning team were kicked by Rocco Policare and Will Saba (2), assisted by Michael Koch. Excellent goal tending by John Oliver helped the Hurricanes keep their winning margin. Outstanding defensive play was produced by Hurricane fullbacks Michael Lykon and David Townsend. Express goals were made by Adam Hoover. In the Stoner victory over the Tornadoes 5-3, Kevin McDonald scored 3 goals; Mike Viglone and Jeremy Fleeger each scored also. Mike Vozniak did an outstanding job in goal and notable Stoner defensive players were Kali Bagby, Mike Kernag and Mark and Gail Morris. Tornadoes goals were made by Nikki Sennett and Joe Ankenbrand. Outstanding defensive effort by Adam Molesky kept the Tornadoes in the game. SCORES OF THE WEEK — Tim- bers 3, Roughnecks 2; Hurricanes 3, Express 2; Chiefs 8, Rowdies 2; Stoners 5, Tornadoes 3. U-12 DIVISION The opening day of the U-12 Back ~ Mountain Soccer Tournament saw 14 teams go head to head, dropping 7 teams out in single elimination play. The Chiefs ran over the Stoners 7- 1 as Matt Bailey led the scoring. with 4. Brad Wedemayer connected (See YOUTH, page 10)
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