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bout and 185-Ib. Scott Wascalus
took two.
The Knights didn’t enter their
112-1b. nor 138-lb. wrestlers in
the tournament but they will be
in the lineup today when the
team wrestles West Seranton.
The Lackawanna County team
lost a lot of wrestlers through
graduation and the Knights
should be able to win. The
Knights will neter the Selins-
grove Tournament, Dec. 27.
They have placed second in this
tournament for the past three
years.
Ladamus said this is the first
time many of his boys wrestled
varsity, but they are working
hard and he believes they may
be able to pull off some sur-
prises despite the fact that they
are young.
The league season opens Janu-
ary 3 but the Knights won’t
wrestle in their first meet until
Jan. 7 when they go against
West Side Tech.
— CHARLOT M. DENMON
McGruff, the Crime Dog,
recently visited with children in
the Nesbitt Memorial Hospital
Pediatric Department to discuss
safety. McGruff’s visit was part
of a Safety Awareness Program
sponsored by the Harveys Lake
Police Department.
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By JOHN HOINSKI
Staff Writer
Despite coming off two close
defeats to Wyoming Valley West
and Bishop Hoban last week in
exhibition play, The Dallas High
School boys’ basketball team
had showed improvement over
their opening season loss to
Nanticoke Area.
But just as the Mounts were
getting ready to play for keeps,
preparing for last night’s Wyo-
ming Valley Conference league
opener at home against Crest-
wood, Dallas incurred another
setback.
Senior point guard Tom (T.J.)
Perlis suffered a broken cheek-
liding with another player and
will probably be lost for the
season.
“I feel real bad for him,”
coach Clarence Ozgo said. “For
two years he waited to play and
this year when he finally got his
chance, he gets injured.
“Last year he played second
guard behind Dennis Dacusin
who made second-team All-
Scholastic. But he never com-
plained. This year he came and
did a real nice job for us at
point guard.
“In fact we thought he was
one of our strong points this
year after coming off the scrim-
mages along with Luksic
(Mike).”
Perlis, who scored 15 points in
the Valley West loss, as did
Luksic and Tom Shalata, broke
his jaw in three places and will
have to undergo surgery to have
it repaired.
“They have to wait for the
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could pull it back out and wire
it,” Ozgo said. ‘I talked to his
mother and she said the doctor
told her he would probably be
out for the year.”
Replacing Perlis in the lineup
will be Jerome Mattey, another
senior who saw action in the
Bishop Hoban game. The
Mounts held a three point
advantage at halftime in that
game and were playing well
before the Argents slowly began
to pull away in the second half.
“The third quarter really hurt
us,” 0Ozgo noted. “We had eight
turnovers and we were still only
down by six going into the
fourth quarter.
“But we did see some positive
things from our first game with
Nanticoke. John Mokychic
scored 18 points and that picked
up the slack from the outside.
We felt our real strength this
year was our inside game. But
if we can continue to hit those
outside jump shots that will give
us good balance.”
Ozgo says the Mounts still
need to work on their defense,
however, but says he is happy
with the progress of the team.
By CHARLOT M. DENMON
Staff Writer
The Lake-Lehman boys’ bas-
ketball team defeated Benton,
56-38, Elk Lake, 71-25, and lost
to a strong Bishop Hoban team,
66-46, last week in exhibition
play but head coach Rodger
Bearde says the team has to
have more balance if it’s going
to win in league play which
begins this week.
Carl Houck led the Knights
with 20 points and 14 rebounds,
but the rest of the team will
have to do more scoring to help
Houck. With the exception of
Houck, the Knights are a small
team so they’ll have to play a
balanced game.
In the game with Benton early
in the week, Houck dominated
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scored 12 points in the first
quarter. Benton took the
Knights out of their game in the
second and part of the third
quarter but, in the second half,
the defense picked up on their
game.
Bearde said he wasn’t happy
with his players’ defensive play
in the first half but they came
on better in the second half.
They made a good showing in
their game with Hoban although
they didn’t win.
“They played great the first
30 minutes and we had a chance
to win,”” Bearde said. ‘But our
kids let Hoban make some long
shots in the final two minutes
and that was the ball game.”
The score was tied at the end
of the first quarter but the
Knights made some mistakes
near the end of the game. They
were out-rebounded and their
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shooting from the field could
have been better.
This year is a down year for
Elk Lake and they are smaller
than the Knights. Lake-Lehman
had a good first quarter and
lead, 10-4, going into the second.
They didn’t play well in the
second quarter, but rallied in
the second half. Houck had 18
opiubts abd Alex Frederick also
hit 18, Chris Landmesser hit 12
and Walt Konopke tossed in
eight.
This week the Knights play
Northwest, which has all but
one of last year’s starters
returning. Last year, the
Knights defeated the Rangers at
home and lost to them away.
Bearde believes the two teams
are evenly matched and, if his
Knights play to their potential,
they should win.
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