4 $a” = i ii Yee “Post sports arena Big D girls keep trying! Dallas Post/George Poynton Dallas Post/George Ponyton GAME STRATEGY — Dallas girls basketball Coach Kit Karuza explains how he wants the girls to “perform in the second half of Thursday's game with Wyoming. Listening are Sue Starolis (15), acree Balberchak (13), Tracy Karuza (3) and Jennifer Besecker. ON THE REBOUND — Lady Mount Laura Poynton goes up and grabs the rebound before her Warrior opponents get to it. Jennifer Besecker (42) comes in to back up her teammate. Dallas lady cagers play a tough game- BY CHARLOT M. DENMON Staff Writer Despite the Dallas girls bas- ketball team ending the first half with a 2-7 record and losing 0 Wyoming Area in the first ene of the second half last “Thursday, Coach Kit Karuza is not discouraged with his team. -t went into this week’s game ith Berwick and Tunkhannock owing that his girls would go two tough games. Karuza is pleased, however, because his girls work hard and never give up. “We're a young team,” said Karuza, ‘and although we got a lot of experience the first half, we have only one starter back from last season and our fresh- men and sophomores still lack the consistency they need to win ames in Division AAA. ' “The girls didn’t lose too “many of their games by wide margins in the first half in spite Girl cagers keep trying Lake-Lehman girls basketball team ended the first half with a . record after getting off to a a start at the beginning of the “season. They opened the second half Friday night against G.A.R. and lost 52-33, who ended the first half of the season with an 8-1 record. The loss did not upset Coach Joe Martini to a great degree because he saw his girls do a lot of things right. The Lady Knights held a 12-11 lead at the end of the first quarter and Martini believes if they could have kept the Grenadiers at half-court they could have kept the score a lot closer. He is optimistic about the games coming up this week, West Side Tech at home and Bishop O’Reilly away. “Our girls are showing con- sen now and are playing ell. Sometimes they are out- manned but if they can keep their opponents half court, we’ll have a chance at winning a few more games.” Pam Coolbaugh has been doing some excellent playing and scoring for the Lady Knights and Wendy Skibitsky has been coming off the bench and doing a good job for the team. Karen White has been a major key in the Knights improvement. “White has a lot of basketball sense and she is great on the press offense. When she’s told something she remembers it. Michelle Lucas and Michele Barcheski have come around. They’ve been playing when they're hurt, they have been giving their all. of being in their first year of senior high varsity play. Nanti- coke really trounced us but they’re a very impressive team, the best I have seen at high school level. The Pittston girls are much taller than our girls. Our tallest girl is 5’6”’. Most of the teams in the league this season are much taller than we are.” Karuza said in his opinion the’ systems that bring up freshmen give their players a chance to get the experience of juniors when they are only sophomores. This season Karuza has brought up two freshmen and they have surprised him with the potential they have shown. He is also pleased with sopho- more Laura Poynton, who he says is an excellent athlete and has been very impressive in scoring points. She scored 31 points in the team’s first half game with Coughlin. Karuza said the inconsistency of his young players should improve as they gain experi- ence. They start out well in a game but often fall behind, then they have to play catch up which is difficult. “The girls don’t quit, they put forth tremendous effort and our losses have not been due to lack of effort but due to inexperi- ence. We have three girls back . from last season but they were not leaders. Jennifer Besecker and Laura Poynton have been outstanding on offense but they need more experience on defense,” Karuza said. He explained that there have been times the team could be up six or seven points but break down and fail to go ahead. This season every team in the divi- sion has at least one of their outstanding scorers back. Most of these will be gone next season and the Dallas team members will be back. The Dallas team is smaller than the others in the league but they match the other teams height by their (Dallas) play. The coaches have the team members doing some difficult things. Poynton is usually guarding the tallest girls. Although he knows they have some difficult games ahead, Karuza believes the team will play more consistently the second half. According to him, one taller girl would be a key to their success. In the first half, against Coughlin the girls broke down and lost control. Against Valley West, they were down by 14 points and came back within seven points and earlier in the season against Benton, Dallas was down 16-4 and rallied to win in the final seconds. That gave the team some of the confidence + they need to know that they can win. When the girls played Pittston Area, they went into the game knowing the Patriots had a girl SHARP HALF PINT™ For Even - Cooking! $9995 R-5580 CARGUSEL® [I COMPACT MICROWAVE OVER :SInGe Compact Microwave CAROUSEL® Ii General Radio DOES IT BETTER . . . 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I'm not too concerned with the girls loss against Wyoming Area last week. We lost one of our players in the second half against the Warriors and Jenni- fer Besecker went out on fouls. the Warriors 57 points.” Laura Poynton hit 15 points to. | lead the Mountaineers, who led 17-12 in the first quarter. i In the second quarter, the ° Warriors rallied behind the shooting of Kopcza and Schultz to outscore the Mountaineers 21- 6 and never dropped back after : that. 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