p= OOLE L VMHIVIMYO 4 Football '88 The Dallas Post Ad TON -~ C p74 September 7, 1988 PO Jackson hopeful for Dallas to BY CHARLOT M. DENMON Staff Writer Dallas football coach Ted Jackson is ‘cautiously optimistic’ about this year’s team. “We lost a lot of leaders from last year's championship team but we have: some good kids returning this year and we have some strong leaders among them,” Jackson said. “Our team last year wasn’t an out- standing bunch of players but they were hungry to win and they went out and did just that. Whether we win this year depends on how well our seniors want to do. If this year’s kids are not satisfied with just the 1987 champion- ship they can go out and do what their teammates did last Fall.” Jackson said he has less depth than he had other years but this year’s team is the biggest he has had since at Dallas and he has good speed in spots. Going into the opening game of the season September 3 against the Cough- lin Crusaders, Jackson was pleased with the way his players were working. “They are doing everything we are asking them to do. We have some talented kids and six kids that are proving to be outstanding leaders,” Jackson said. Jerry Ogurkis, Jay Cherup, Ron Post, Scott Starbuck, Shawn Ruth and Chris Lesjak are the six athletes Jackson expects to fill leadership roles. They are also returning starters al- though Ogurkis was out much of last season from a knee injury which doc- tors predicted would end his football career. Ogurkis, Ruth, Cherup and Lesjak are team captains and with Post and Lesjak play an important part in the Dallas defense. Cherup has been tapped as starting quarterback but junior Jay Straigis, 6 foot, three, 190 pounds, will be able to fill in if Cherup is injured. Straigis, who showed talent last season, sur- prised the Dallas coaching staff with the way he improved over the summer. Ogurkis will play tailback on offense and will be backed up by junior Barry Miller. Chris Lesjak will be spelled by senior Bob Barbacci at fullback. Star- buck, who Jackson says is the best receiver in the league, is top wingback in the Mountaineers multiple forma- tion offense. Jim Lister, Dave Mayer and Clark VanOrden, seniors, and Sam Jayne, junior, will fill in the wide re- deiver spots. With only 39 candidates out this season, depth is a problem for the Mountaineers. Seniors Ruth will be at guard and Post will start at tight end. Phil George played last season and will play at tackle. Mark Paczewski, senior, and Dave Arnone, junior, can both fill the center spot and Jackson is expecting strong performances from 225 pound junior guard Tony Nadzan and 235 pound senior Scott Horoshko. “We're strong up the middle on de- fense and we have two of the best in- side linebackers in the conference in Ruth and Lesjak,” Jackson said. “Barbacci, Ogurkis, or junior Sam ~ Jayne will play the two outside line- backer positions. Defensive tackle spots will be filled by Nadzan, George and Joe Piscorik, a senior, and Post and Seth Roskos will play defensive end positions. Going into September 3’s game with Coughlin, Sterbuck was expected to be one of the three starters in the sec- ondary wile ‘2traigis, VanOrden, Lis- repeat ter, Mayer and Miller were competing for the other two starting positions. Cherup will do the punting and Ogurkis the kicking for the Mountain- eers. Jackson's concern is that his Moun- taineers get through their first four games without injuries. “We play four larger Class A schools in four of our first five games; Cough- lin, Wyoming Area, Meyers, Tunkhan- nock, and Pittston. If we get through these we will be all right,” Jackson said. “We are the team the other teams want to beat this season. They want to get even.” Dallas Mountaineer coaches Coach Ted Jackson gives much of the credit to his assistants for the way his team has been playing. Jackson is shown above with his assistants. From left are Bill Silvi, Jackson, Tony Chiarucci and Paul Brown. 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He will have the ball about 60 percent of the time.” The Queensmen have at least seven players from the Back Mountain on their roster, including Jack Jones, Mike Mascali, Bob Casterline, Kevin Sult, Joe Patton, Joe Kristan, Adam Morris, Mark Stella and Tom Finarelli. “We're not eligible for a champion- Gorgone coaches his son this year BY CHARLOT M. DENMON Staff Writer Knights coach Rich Gorgone has a new challenge this football season; one of the players on his Lake-Lehman team is his son, Sam, a sophomore. This is Sam’s first year on the varsity. “Sam has a lot of experience in the game,” said Gorgone. “He played mini- football and on junior varsity. He is a great athlete, not only in football but in other sports as well. “The fact that he is a good athlete helps take the pressure off me as a _ coach. The other kids know him and have played baseball and football with him. 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