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Dallas
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advance in
playoffs
By CHARLOT M. DENMON
Staff Correspondent
Dallas girls’ field hockey team
defeated Honesdale, 4-0, Satur-
to a game with Tunkhannock
tonight at 8 p.m.
The Lady Mountaineers
scored all of their goals in the
first half then played a below
average second half in picking
up the win. Coach Robyn Jones
stated the Lady Mountaineers
made too many mistakes and
played without aggressiveness
in the second half.
Lori Warnecka, Sue Wells,
Joyce Tinner and Shannon
Cleary scored the goals for
Dallas and making the assists
were Leigh Pawling, Warnecka
and Wells.
Dallas had 25 shots at goal, 21
corner shots and one save by
Eileen Walsh. Honesdale had
three shots at goal, three corner
shots and 15 saves.
Earlier in the week, the
Dallas Mountaineers won first
seed in the AAA division by
defeating Wyoming Valley West
3-0. The girls performance on
Monday was a total team effort
with every member giving full
support throughout the game.
Shannon Cleary on an assist
by Lori Warnecka scored first
at the 5:19 mark of the first half
and knocked it by Spartan goal-
keeper Sherri Kuchinskas at the
26:43 mark.
In the second half, Cleary
scored a second time on War-
necka’s assist at the 20:43 mark
of the half.
The Lady Mountaineers fin-
ished the season with a 10-2
record.
KNIGHTS UPSET
In Lake-Lehman’s first round
of the AA playoffs, they were
upset, 2-1, by the Northwest
Rangers whom the Black
Knights had trounced earlier in
the season.
The Rangers scored two goals
in the first half to eliminate the
Knights from the playoffs.
Susie Slocum gave the Knights
a 1-0 lead off an assist by Sue
DeGennaro at 11:30 into the
first half but the Rangers Jenni-
fer Bomboy tied the score at 1-1
with three minutes remaining in
the half. With only 30 seconds on
the clock Marcy Davis scored to
put the Rangers in front 2-1.
The Lake-Lehman girls
outshot the Rangers 25-15 but
could not get the ball in the
cage for a score.
SHUT OUT GAR
In Monday’s game with GAR,
the Knights shut out the Grena-
diers, 5-1, to take the AA divi-
sion title in the Wyoming Valley
Conference.
GAR held Lake-Lehman to a
1-1 score in the first half but in
the second half the Knights
(See DALLAS, page 12)
Joseph Cominsky of Dallas.
By CHARLOT M. DENMON
Staff Correspondent
Following the Lake-Lehman
Knights’ big loss to the Nanti-
coke Trojans last week, coach
Rich Gorgone’s major concern
was his team’s three week
layoff. With a week layoff, then
a second week off due to West
Side Vo-Tech’s withdrawal from
the Wyoming Valley Confer-
ence, Gorgone wasn’t too happy
with the fact his boys would be
idle coming off a 42-0 loss.
Gorgone gave it a lot of
thought over the first weekend
and came up with a plan. He
discussed his plan with his
coaching staff and, with their
approval, he put it into effect.
He did something most
coaches seldom do. When his
athletes reported for practice
Monday he told them to go
home. ‘Take the week off,”
Gorgone told them. ‘‘Go home,
enjoy yourself — relax, go out,
forget about football for this
week but report back here next
Thursday ready for some hard
work.” He did the same thing
with his coaches. :
The athletes did some lifting
to keep in shape but on their
own time, nothing formalized
nor routine. The coaches spent
that first week spending time
with their families, catching up
on duties they had let slide
of league
By CHARLOT M. DENMON
Staff Correspondent
Dallas Mountaineers were unable
to get past Seminary’s goalkeeper
Jeff Metz in last Wednesday’s game
at the Blue Knights’ field and the
Knights won the WVC East Division
title by defeating the Mountaineers,
1-0.
The Seminary goalie played a key
role in the Blue Knights’ sixth
consecutive shutout by coming
through with seven saves. Dallas
goalkeeper John Sheehan also
played a strong defense but a bad
Mountaineer pass at midfield
accounted for the Blue Knights lone
score.
Mark Richardson made a bad
pass that was taken by Sem’s Tyler
Wilson, who gave it off to Dave
Heydt who was successful in getting
it past Sheehan at the 5:30 mark in
the third period. :
In a well-played game by both
teams, there were only a total of 31
shots by both teams and the Blue
Knights held the Mountaineers to
only six shots in the second half.
Eric Rosentel had an opportunity to
score for Dallas in the beginning of
the second half but Metz turned it
away. With only six minutes
remaining in the final period Metz
saved a shot made by Mount Jeff
Tinner.
Both teams’ defense played an
aggressive game throughout but
title
neither one’s offense was able to get
off the ground.
High school
The two teams may meet again in
the District 2 playoffs since the Blue
Knights will meet the winner of the
Lake-Lehman or Bishop O’Reilly
game against’ Wallenpaupack which
was scheduled for Monday and
Dallas plays Bishop Hoban, in a
game scheduled for October 28. If
both Seminary and Dallas win their
meets, they will play each other
Oct. 30 for the District 2 title. :
Earlier in the week, the Mountai-
neers kept in the race for the West
Division title by shutting out Bishop
Hoban 7-0. \
Rosentel scored two goals and had
two assists and Mike Richards
scored two and had one assist.
Rosentel scored his first goal off an
assist by Richards at the 1:00 mark,
then Richards scored on an assist
by Brent Snowdon at 5:00, in the
second period. Mark Richardson
scored unassisted at 16:04 of the
second period to give the Mountai-
neers a 3-0 lead at the half.
Jim Lister, with an assist by
Rosental, scored at 10:15 into the
third period and Rosentel scored off
an assist by Reese Finn at the 15:15
mark. Snowdon gave the Mountai-
neers another score on an assist by
Rosentel at 18:14 into the period.
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during the season.
That Thursday, players and
coaches reported to practice.
The kids worked out, ran and
practiced. The coaches sat
down, looked at past perform-
ances and evaluated the games
coming up.
Gorgone, with his assistants,
divided the team into two
squads, the black and the gold,
evenly matched, equal strength,
equal experience, and held an
inner-school game.
The Black team worked out at
one end of the field under Coach
Gorgone; the Gold team worked
out at the other end of the field
under Coach Bob Roberts.
Each team named their cap-
tains and on Wednesday, one
team in home uniforms, the
other in away uniforms, played
a regular game with the final
score 29-22. ‘It broke up the
monotony of regular drills and
workouts,” said Gorgone. “It
was great, the kids played with
as much enthusiasm as in a
regular game. They had fun as
well as a good workout with
actual plays. They hit one
another just as they would in an
official game.”
This past Thursday, the Black
Knights started working out for
their game with Crestwood
coming up Saturday. Everyone
but the seniors scrimmaged
with West Side Tech Friday. It
(See KNIGHTS, page 12)
Wrestling sign-ups
Slip slidin’ away
By JOHN HOINSKI
Staff Writer
The Dallas Mountaineers play
football a lot like the Boston
Red Sox play baseball. The
longer the game goes on, the
greater the chances are some-
thing wrong will go against
them. .
So, although Dallas was hold-
ing onto a slim 7-6 lead over
Nanticoke in last Saturday’s 15-
12 heart-stopping win with five
minutes left to play, and with its
defense turning in another
strong performance, you just
knew something was going to go
wrong.
It did two weeks before when
Wyoming Area marched 82
yards in the last minute of play
for the winning score on its only
drive of the day, and it nearly
happened in three other contests
where the Mounts fumbled with
their destiny at various times.
Last Saturday afternoon you
could even sense it coming.
irst, quarterback Scott Fran-
cis came within a whisker of
being sacked in the endzone for
a safety. Two plays later, on a
fourth-and-one situation, Fran-
cis stood in punt formation,
hurried back to his QB position,
then handed off to a running-
back who picked up the first
down. But the play was nullified
due to a delay of game penalty.
By this time you could predict
what would happen next.
~ For the past few weeks, the
Mounts had been having trouble
with long snaps from center.
And with Francis back in punt
formation again, this time on
his own 10 yard line, what
better time to snatch defeat
from the jaws of victory.
On cue, the snap was high
enough so that Francis could
not handle the ball cleanly and
Nanticoke recovered on the two.
Four plays later it was 12-7,
Trojans.
But no one or no team could
possibly have as much misfor-
tune as the Red Sox, and on just
two plays, including a 65-yard
(See THRILLER, page 12)
Dallas Post/Jack Steblinski
U-10 DIVISION
The U-10 “Big Four” playoffs on
Saturday saw a fiercely contested
battle between the Chiefs and the
Stoners. In this fast-paced game,
the two teams matched each other
goal for goal until the third quarter
when the Stoners took an unbeata-
ble lead. Final score was 8 to 4 and
goals for the victorious Stoners
were scored by Kevin McDonald
(4), jeremy Fleeger (2), Mike Hef-
fron and Mike Vozniak. The iron leg
of sweep Kali Bagby saved the day
with his gigantic kicks almost the
length of the field. Chiefs goals were
brought in by Jeff Kunkle (2), Mike
Adamchick and Mike Woronko.
In the second game the Hurri-
canes shut out the Timbers 3 to 1.
All the Hurricanes goals were
brought in by John Oliver and a
peanlty kick enabled Timber Mike
Tribendis to score for his team.
Defensive players giving outstand-
ing performances were Alan Mosca
and Carrie Llewellyn for the Tim-
bers and Michael Lycon for the
Hurricanes.
Sunday’s final contest was fought
on a wet and sloppy field of mud. In
this hard fought game, the Stoners
jumped ahead 2 to 0 in the first half
with goals being scored by jeremy
Fleeger and Mike Vigilione. Then
Hurricanes teammates John Oliver
and William Saba tied it up. The
game went into two overtimes with-
out a score. They then had a dra-
matic shootout and the Hurricanes
eked out a victory 3 to 2. Shootout
goals were scored by W. Saba, John
Oliver and Wayne Lycon for the
Kali Begby,
Mike Kernag.
Youth
U-12 DIVISION
The Chiefs defeated the Sting 6-0
and the Strikers outlasted the Row-
dies 3-2 to get the U-12 Back Moun-
tain Soccer championship game on
Sunday. .
Matt Bailey led the Chiefs with a
hat trick in their 4-1 win over the
Strikers. Holly Mannear also hit the
net for the winners. Goalie Brian
Matosky led the defense, assisted by
Jason Bowen, Casey Kernag and
Brad Fleeger.
The lone goal for the Strikers
came on a 30 foot penalty kick from
Charlie Siglin. Tracy and Megan
Heffron, Joe LaNunziata and Matt
Myers played an excellent defensive
game for the Strikers.
U-14 DIVISION
The Hurricanes emerged as the
champions in the U-14 Division by
defeating the Sockers 4-1 in a hard-
‘fought battle in wet conditions. Rich
Wasilius put the Hurricanes up
early with two goals in the first
quarter. Mark Medura added to the
lead in the second quarter banging
one int othe net for a 3-0 score. Neil
Kaiser punched one home a few
minutes later putting the Sockers
(See SOCCER, page 12)