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The Lake-Lehman’s girls’ bas-
ketball team has 15 girls out for
this year’s team but only five
are returning lettermen and of
these, only three are seniors.
Co-captains Debbie Levi,
Janene Kasarda and Diane
Jachimowicz are seniors and
Pam Coolbaugh and sophomore
Carolyn James are the other
two lettermen on coach Joe
Martini’s squad.
Senior Kim Weidner and
Junior Stacey Croman are also
out for the team. The remaining
girls include Sophomores Mich-
elle Lukas, Karen White, Shelly
Barcheski, Erin Brady, Cindy
Gunton, Leesa Sorber, Lori
Dubil and Kris Nordfors, the
last three having only one year
of basketball experience.
Coach Martini said the team
is, at this stage of pre-season
play, not developing the matur-
ity needed to win champion-
ships. The team’s strong points
to date appear to be its overall
shooting ability and the ability
to run the offense to get the
open shot, but rebounding needs
progresses.
Defensively, the girls will
have to stay away from certain
situations since they appear to
be somewhat slow.
Martini is the kind of a coach
who recognizes his players’ abil-
ity and says if they can learn
from their early season mis-
takes, his girls can be contend-
ers for the league champion-
ship.
“Lack of improvement in our
weaker areas will put us right
in the middle of the pack as an
also-ran,” said Martini. “Maybe
our season depends on two
words — ‘‘desire” and ‘‘deter-
mination.” Those two words can
cover a lot of weaknesses.”’
No matter, Martini will have
his team in there fighting in
their first exhibition game set
for Dec. 5 at 6:30 p.m. at
Montrose.
— CHARLOT M. DENMON
Biddy League
set to begin
The Wyoming Valley Catho-
lic Youth Center will again
hold a Junior Biddy Boys
Basketball League on the
CYC 8 foot baskets, accord-
ing to Ed DeMichele, Athletic
Director. The league is open
to any boys from ages 6 to 9
years old. CYC House Teams
will be formed so individuals
could join the league and be
placed on a team. Teams are
also invited to enter the
league. Games will be played
on Saturdays on the CYC side
Basketball courts. The first
scheduled game will be Janu-
baskets are an excellent way
to learn the proper form of
shooting because children are
able to reach the basket.
Registrations start now!
Call 823-6121 or stop by and
see our 8 foot and 10 foot
baskets at 36 S. Washington
St., Wilkes-Barre. Rev. John
S. Terry is Director of the
CYC, an Agency of the
United Way of Wyoming
Valley.
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JAMIE OPALICKI
Moto
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“The faster you go, the harder
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mother faint — but Jane Cum-
mings, Opalicki’s mother, often
goes to see him race and has
yet to faint.
“You can’t tell him ‘‘no”’
because that’s all the more
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lot of skill...and he can do that.”
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By JOHN HOINSKI
Staff Writer
The Dallas High School girls’
basketball team has been
involved in post-season play for
the last seven years. This
season you could already pencil
in No. 8.
Returning six lettermen from
last year’s 18-11 squad that
advanced to the quarterfinals in
the state playoffs, the Lady
Mountaineers, along with Crest-
wood and Seton Catholic, should
seriously challenge for the Wyo-
ming Valley Conference title.
“We have a veteran squad
coming back and we should
have a little more speed this
year,” Dallas coach Kit Karuza
said. ‘“We’re going to run a little
more, but our half court game
should also be better than in the
past:
“Other teams are going to
have to stop us. It won’t be the
other way around. That’s not
being cocky,’’ Karuza
explained. ‘But we can do more
things against other teams than
they can do against us. They
are going to have to prevent us
from scoring.”
And Karuza has the horses to
back up his words. Captains
Lori Brokenshire, a guard, and
Angie Kern, a swingman, have
been starting for the past two
and three years, respectively,
and will anchor this year’s
squad along with inside threat
Joann Cook, who is versatile
enough to play guard, also.
Junior Sue Starolis has looked
very good in practice and
Eileen Walsh, described as a
“real team player” by Karuza,
will also be counted on as will
Tammy Daveski and Eileen
Kalinowski. All six led the the
team in scoring in one game or
another last year.
“We had a girl here a few
years ago by the name of
Cheryl Gavigan,” Karuza con-
tinued. ‘She was a legitimate 25
point-per-game scorer. No ques-
tion about it. I told her you can
either score 25 a game and win
the league MVP , or we could
win the championship and
spread it (scoring) around. She
said. ‘Let’s win the champion-
ship.’
“We did and she averaged
Ee —
didn’t win the Most Valuable
Player Award (Crestwood’s
Diane Madl did) but we became
a more balanced team. And
that’s what we want.”
Karuza, now in his eighth year
,at the Lady Mountaineers’
helm, says he plans to use eight
to 11 players this season, includ-
ing Renee Balberchak, a junior,
Patty Covert, a sharpshooting
guard, and Patty Sudol, whom
Karuza says may be more
important to the team down the
Hite, Jennifer Vloedman, Tracy
Karuza and Angela Chiarucci
are also expected to see some
action.
But if the Lady Mounts are to
capture the title, Karuza says
they will have to improve on
defense. And, he’s got a plan for
that, too.
“We're going to use what we
call a kamikaze defense at
times,” he explained. ‘Hope-
fully, we can achieve two things
with it. One, we hope to create
disturbances, to force the tempo
and to create turnovers and
two, it will give the starters a
rest. And we’re going to use
different combinations, also.”
That should create enough
havoc to vault the Mounts right
into the playoffs.
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