The Dallas Post Dallas, PA Wednesday, January 11,1989 13 SPORTS | By CHARLOT M. DENMON Staff Writer Lake-Lehman'’s Lady Knights ran their record to 6-0 last week by defeating Wyoming Seminary 47-25 Monday at the Blue Knights court and taking GAR 52-44 Thursday. The wins keep the Knights tied with the Meyers Mohawks for first place. Marijo Martini and Michele Lukas set the pace for the Lake- Lehman cagers with Marijo putting in 26 points and Lukas scoring 14, eight of them in the final quarter when the Grenadiers closed in on Martini in an attempt to cut down her scoring. In the first half, the Lady Knights stay unbeaten and tied for first in league Grenadiers were unable to stop the 6-1 center as she put in shots from the inside and the outside to give the Knights a 23- 22 lead at the half. When the Grenadiers closed down the tall center, Lukas scored only four points in the third quarter, but in the final quarter the Lady Knights took an early lead and with less than three minutes remaining in the game Lukas went on a scoring spree and put in six of the Knights 12 points. Lady Knights coach Joe Martini said the win over GAR gave the girls the mental confidence they need in order to continue winning. In Monday's game with the Blue Knights of Seminary, it was Wendy Skibitsky who led a strong man-to-man defense for the Lady Knights to break wide open a 17-15 game at halftime. The team outscored Seminary 17-4 and 13-6 in the second half. Skibitsky led the Lady Knights with 17 points and Martini poured in five goals from the floor to hit the double digits. Going into this week, the Lake-Lehman girls have an open date Monday, host Bishop O'Reilly who are in second place and play GAR Monday. The Lady Knights travel to West Side Tech Saturday and if they get by these two teams and Seton Catholic loses to Meyers, the Mohawks and Lady Knights would meetin a playoff for the first half title. With good start, Lake-Lehman wrestlers look to successful season By CHARLOT M. DENMON Staff Writer Lake-Lehman wrestling coach Ed Ladamus is optimistic about his squad this season. : “We have 22 wrestlers out for the team this season and have a good back up in most of the weight classes. The only place we're lack- ing a wrestler is at 103. It's tough to get a boy with experience at that weight but we're trying. “We lost some seniors through graduation but we have Tom Duffy and Rich Davis and we have seven good juniors. We also have nine sophomores and four freshmen. The sophomores and freshmen have come up from our strong junior high program and it gives us good depth in the middle- weights,” Ladamus said. Ladamus said it's the team’s goal to, make a good showing in districts at the end of the league schedule as well as make a better than .500 standing in the dual meets of the league. Mounts lose By CHARLOT M. DENMON Staff Writer Dallas boys basketball coach Clarence Ozgo knew coming into the season that he had a lot of inexperienced players but despite that he was disappointed in the ways his team played against Bishop Hoban last week. The Argents balanced scoring gave Hoban a 73-51 win. “The boys did not play well at all,” Ozgosaid. “They had too many turnovers, they were outrebounded and they didn't shoot well. They are making too many mistakes in their games.” The Argents outscored the Mountaineers 36-23 in the first half, then came on stronger in the second half to take the win by 22 points. “Valley West is probably the toughest team in the league and Crestwood is always tough. When we go into districts, we wrestle AA and that means our strongest competition will probably be the Comets,” Ladamus explained. “J.J. Konigus is the only wres- tler who placed in districts for us last year. He came in third. Our record this season to date is 4-1 in dual meets. We defeated G.A.R. and West Side Tech in the confer- ence and Canton and Montrose in exhibition. We lost to Williamsport last Saturday in the tri-meet with Williamsport, Montrose and our squad.” The Knights have Meyers and Dallas coming up this week-Mey- ers away Wednesday night and Dallas away Saturday night. The Knights defeated the Grena- diers 40-18 in the opening league meet Wednesday night after they started with six points against them by having to forfeit at 103. They picked up four points on freshman Charlie Roper’s 10-O win at 112, then fell back to 9-4 when Chris Smith lost an 8-6 bout to Flynn of GAR. 125-pound Dave Konopke moved the score to 9-7 by taking his bout 8-2 and Tom Duffy put the Knights in front 13-9 when he pinned his 140-pound oppo- nent. J. Clancy won by a decision thenJerry Martin, Ray Rosencrans and Ed Kelly gave the team six points each on pins. Guerin and Konigus won for the Knights on decisions. In the meet with West Side Tech Saturday night, the Knights won all but the 103 and 140 pound bouts which the Titans won by forfeits. The Knights won on amajor decision, three forfeits and the rest on pins. | In the afternoon the Knights defeated Montrose 36-28 but lost to Williamsport 36-28. Ladamus is assisted with his wrestlers by Dwight Barbacci and in the junior high by Phil Lipski and Tom Williams. twice, by wide margins Ozgo was more pleased with his boys performance against Cough- lin even though the Mountaineers lost 89-65. “We have some injuries and several boys out with illness but our boys made a great effort Satur- day. We started one senior, three juniors and a sophomore and with the exception of the first quarter, the kids played well. They gave the Crusaders a 30-12 lead in the first quarter which made it difficult for them to overcome." Ozgo said he was pleased with the team's efforts in the Coughlin game, but they have to learn build on their improvements to become a better team. Ray Russin led Dallas in scor- ing with 13 points in the Coughlin game, followed by Eric Nardone and B. Weyman with 11 each. In the game with Bishop Hoban Nar- done scored 16 points for Dallas and Brett Gauntlett poured in eight. The Mountaineers play Pittston Area and Wyoming Valley West this week. Pittston is one of the three best teams in the league in Ozgo's opinion and have an excellent player in Tom Brady. “The Patriots are a hard playing team and our kids are going to have to play better if we're to keep with them,” Ozgo said. “Valley West has two fine players in Dave Coul- ter and Joe Butcher and we'll have to contain those two if we want to defeat the Spartans. “Overall, our kids are not taking advantage of the breaks they getin their games. They have to learn to do that if they want to begin win- ning.” The Mountaineers are 0-6 in conference play and 2-9 overall for the season. Strikes & Spares Offset Paperback started the second half in first place in the Charlie Williams . Memorial League by shutting out Back . Mountain Bowl. Monk's Plumbing, Roth Novelty, Varsity Lawn Care and G.H. Harris follow with 2-1 records while Cross Coun- try Restaurant, Country Surry, Strike Force and Bar-None are bunched together at 1- 2 J. Gromowski rolled 257-212-209 (678) to edge Glen Mazer by one pin. Mazer hit 214-267 (677), followed by D. Purvin 215- 235-221 (671), L. Coolbaugh 222, 222, 224 (668), B. Shalata Jr. 223, 219, (634), M. Scmoll 201, 252 (627), A. Wendel 223- D. Lapasnick 189 (475) and B. Price 203. In Our Gang League Alfalfa took three from Porky, Wheezer made it three over Chubby, Butch copped three from Spanky and Buckwheat picked up three from Sty- mie. B. Eipper led everyone with 224-217 (628), K. Bevan 214 (591), M. Carkhuff 213 (584), D. Moore 567, B. Bevan 556, T. Considine 542, Dee Springer 200-186 (541), E. Wright 527, B. Searfoss 528, H. Dymond 526, L. Lavelle 523, Marie Carkhuff 193 (513), Annette Tregan 183 (483) and Sharon Karpovich 185. Faye Parry's 197 was enough for the Chickadees to take four from the Cockati- els in the Bowlerette League and Chris Badman and Nancy SanFanandre rolled 172 games to lead the Woodpeckers in shutting out the Cardinals. Rolling Stones shut out the Chosen Few to end the first half in the Quartet League while Jane's Guys took three from Hi Fives. J. Cummings 206-202 led for the night followed by Stanley S.'s 212 (561). Other highs were Edward C. 217 (538), Tom M. 214 (542), and Rodney G. 209 (510). . : Basketball to aid the needy College Misericordia and King’s College will take center-stage in helping the hungry and needy of the area with a benefit women’s basketball doubleheader in Scandlon Gym, Wilkes-Barre, Saturday, Jan. 14, and Sunday, Jan. 15. Dan Gallagher of WBRE-TV is honorary chairman and will be on hand to sell his records for the benefit of the homeless and will be available for autographs. In photo, from left are King’s soph Angie Kern, out of Dallas HS; Gallagher, 6-7 former cager at Siena College and Coach Robin Cummins of King's, a Kunkle resident and former Dallas standout. On January 14, the first game at 6 p.m. matches York of Pennsylvarfta with Shepherd of West Virginia. King’s and Misericordia meet at 8. Between games, there will be a concert by the 45-man Wilkes-Barre ty Chapter, Barbershop Singing Society. Ttickets will be available for $2 and proceeds go to the poor of Wyoming Valley. ' Dallas wrestlers lose to Hazleton, bounce back to defeat Berwick By CHARLOT M. DENMON Staff Writer Coach Steve Kaschenbach's Dallas grapplers lost their meet 38-25 to Hazleton but came back Saturday night to defeat the Ber- wick Bulldogs 36-29. In Saturday night's meet Dallas used five pins in grabbing their first conference win. Francis Hoover 103, Jim Newell 130, Jamie Janosky 145, Jerry Ogurkis 160 and Ron Post 189 defeated their opponents with pins. 135-1b. Jim O'Donnell and 140-1b. Jim Farrell won by decisions, O'Donnell 4-2, and Farrell 3-0. 112-1b. Rick Hoyes, 119-Ib. Dale Morris, 125-1b. Matt Balberchak, ~152-1b. Jamie Strange, 171-lb. Wade Post and hwt. Phil George lost their bouts. In Wednesday's meet, Dallas led 6-5 going into the 119-lb. bout where Dale Morris won to give the Mountaineers a 9-5 lead. It looked like Dallas was on the way to a win but Hazleton took the next six bouts, two of them by pins. Going into Jerry Ogurkis’ bout Hazleton led 32-9 with only four bouts remaining. Ogurkisand | Wade Post won on falls, and Ron Post won on a 4-2 decision to move the score to 32-24. Hazleton's 1 Gordon pinned Mount Phil George to move the final score to 38-24. By CHARLOT M. DENMON Staff Writer The Lake-Lehman Knights, who bowed to GAR 68-47 at GAR Saturday afternoon, have a chance to raise their first half record to 5-3 this week by defeating Seton Catholic and West Side Tech. Coach Rodger Bearde has Monday to work with the cagers Lake-Lehman tops Seminary, but loses to unbeaten GAR to overcome their loss to the 5- 0 Grenadiers and take them against 2-3 Seton Catholic Thursday and 0-6 West Side Tech Saturday. The game with GAR was played evenly during the first half, -but in the third quarter Grenadier Karim Twyman, who was high scorer with 21 points, led a 22 scoring attack against the Knights taking GAR toa 52- 34 lead at the end of the period. In the fourth quarter, Twyman scored eight of his total points to carry the Grenadiers to their fifth consecutive win. In Tuesday's game, the Black Knights played a strong defense to hold down Wyoming Seminary team while Knights Len Annetta and Frank Coslett did the scoring on offense. Annetta was high with 23 points, four ofthem three-pointers and Coslett hit for 21. Alor olAe SERVICE - GUIDE TOUGH THE BEAUTY SHOP “AUTOMOTIVE BEAUTICIANS SINCE 1955" NEVER WAX AGAIN, LET US DO'IT! 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Harris and Castlettes took all from Fashion Vending to start the second half tied for the lead at 4-0. Faux Inn took three from Back Mt. Bowl to stay close to the league leaders with 3-1. Back Mt. Bowl is 1-3 while G.H. Harris and Fashion Vending are 0-4 each. K. Scavone's 191 (508) was high for the night followed by R. Gula's 194 (507) and M. Faux’s 174-178 (506). Other highs were N. Stredny 170 (493), N. Kozemchak 179 (487), R. Naugle 177 and L. Cyphers 172. Itwas 3-1 nightin the Barriettes League with Goody Two Shoes taking three from Desirble, Alf's three from Tiger Lilies, and Monday Nite Blues three from X Marks the : Spot. M. Faux rolled 234 (528), S. Johnson ; 181-178 (520), T. Williams 170-182 (500), Dallas girls to two wins By CHARLOT M. DENMON Staff Writer The Lady Mountaineers of Dal- las won their first two league games last week, defeating Bishop Hoban 59-57 in overtime Tuesday and taking the Coughlin Crusaders 58-53 Friday night on the Cough- lin floor. The two wins raised their record to 2-3 in Division I confer- ence play. In a game that went back and forth most of the way, the Lady Mountaineers outscored the Lady Crusaders 19-9 in the final quar- ter to overcome a five point deficit. The Crusaders had built up the score in the -third quarter by outscoring the Mountaineers 15- 8. The Dallas girls had led 31-29 at the end of the first half. The Lady Mountaineers went 16 for 26 from the foul line while Jennifer Besecker and Laura Poynton hit the double figures column in scoring. Besecker was 9 ofl1 from the free throw stripe and made five field goals for a total of 19 points. Poynton put seven free throws through the net and went 1-3 from the floor In the game with Bishop Hoban, a basket by Poynton late in the fourth quarter sent the game into overtime, where the Lady Moun- taineers were able to hang on and outscore the Argnets to win 58-57. 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