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Vol. 103 No. 38
Wednesday, September 16, 1992
Sports\Week
By DAVE KONOPKI
Sports Correspondent
It's not often that the first
week of action plays a vital role
in the outcome of an entire sea-
son for a high school sports
team.
But try telling that to the Lake-
man and Dallas field hockey
ams.
The Lady Black Knights
apened the season against a
ong Tunkhannock team while
te Lady Mountaineers started
the season off against perennial
powerhouse, and defending
champion, Crestwood. Then, to
top things off, the two squared
off against each other last Fri-
day afternoon.
Cristy Shamus scored the
lone goal of the game as Lake-
Lehman defeated Dallas, 1-0, at
the loser’s field. The goal came
midway through the second half
off an assist by Heather Issac.
Earlier in the week, the Lady
Re edged Tunkhannock, 2-
; Despite the loss, the Lady
Mounts began their season on
an upbeat note, defeating
By CHRISTINA CONRAD
Sports Correspondent
It seemed to be the classic
matchup of two very good teams
on a crisp fall Friday afternoon
in September. The Back Moun-
tain rivalry of the Dallas and
Lake-Lehman field hockey teams
proves tobe very emotional, very
important and very physical ev-
ery year. This year the outcome
« in Lake-Lehman'’s favor as
Mey beat Dallas on their own
field, 1-0.
The game went back and forth
throughout the first half. Dallas
would take a shot; Lehman
would take a shot. However, they
kept each other in check to go
scoreless into halftime.
Starting in the second half,
Lehman took a strong offensive
run to the Dallas goal cage, led
by senior Cristy Shamus.
Lehman players were furiously
firing shots at the pads of Dallas
goalie Abbey Russin but her
defensive players helped keep
the ball out of the goal. Becky
Yurko and Kelly Janosky had
Lehman players diving to make
shots.
Junior Gretchen Dershimer
was trying so hard to score at
one point, that she flung her
stick with her body through the
air, literally diving to try to score.
Still, the Dallas defense held
Lehman off.
FAST ACTION - Play was hot and heavy when the Dallas and Lake-Lehman field hockey teams
met last week. Lehman came away the 1-0 winner of an exciting match. (Post photo/Chris Conrad)
Black Knight stickers
edge Mountaineers 1-0
Crestwood, 3-2, on the strength
of three second-half goals. Dal-
las had not beaten the Comets
since 1979.
The results of the week left
both teams and coaches feeling
opitimistic.
“Beating Tunkhannock and
Dallas were big wins for us,”
said Lehman head coach Jean
Lipski. “It was a tough way to
start the season, with two must-
win games. Our girls knew they
had to play hard every minute.
It's a great way to start the sea-
son.”
Lipski knows from personal
experience the importance of
every game. Last season her Lady
Knights posted an impressive
10-1-3 record but failed to make
the playoffs.
“That was tough,” Lipski said
of last season. “We tied Coughlin
and that game came back to
haunt us. We just have to take
each game seperately. We can't
let our guard down in this league
or someone will knock us off.”
For head coach Ron Moran
and the Mountaineers, it was a
very emotional week.
“It was an up and down week,”
A match of two excellent teams
And the Lehman defense held
Dallas off. The two teams seemed
to cluster into big clumps in the
middle of the field but would
soon break up with a big Dallas
clear. Many times, Dallas's
Cindy Maier and Theresa
Mathers would get breakaways,
but were cut down by the de-
fense of Christina Jones, Noell
Brooks and Karen Komsisky.
nd the goalkeeping of junior
Stephanie Whitesell saved the
day when all else failed.
Lehman's defense had an-
other big clear when Brooks left
Dallas players helpless as she
fought for; the ball, gained pos-
session and cleared the ball to
Cherub Honeywell. She drove
down the field where Lehman
got a corner and missed.
It would not happen again.
Lehman's second corner came
from a hit by senior Heather
Issac to junior Cristy Shamus.
Shamus stopped the ball and
fired a shot from the right side of
the field to the lefthand corner
of the cage, giving Lehman the
go-ahead goal with 9:49 left to
play.
Lehman's defense held Dal-
las off for the win from then on.
Lehman's players were ecstatic
and all out on the field, hugging
and congratulating each other.
Seniors Dyan Dymond, Jen
Farrell as well as Dershimer and
Whitesall all commented after
said the first-year coach. “It was
like a roller coaster. If we had
lost both games we would be in
a very tough situation. But the
one thing that came out of win-
ning one of the two games is that
we control our own destiny. We
just have to keep winning our
games and not worry about the
other teams.”
The Mounts received a scare
late in the game when standout
Theresa Mathers was struck in
the leg by a stick. Mathers re-
ceived a severe bruise on her
leg, but doctors stated that if the
injury would have been a few
inches higher, she could have
shattered her kneebone. Fortu-
nately for the Mountaineers,
Mathers should only miss one
or two games.
Moran knows that if both
Lehman and Dallas keep win-
ning, they could play again. This
time in the playoffs.
“Sure, we'd like to play them
again,” said Moran. “We tied
them last season in the only
game we played against them.
But there's a long way to go.
before we can even hope of play-
ing them again.”
the game on how key it was that
their team was “together.”
Lehman's team was the most
together they ever have been,
according to Shamus.
“It was wonderful,” said
Shamus. “I jumped through the
air when I scored. I have never
done that before. It was such an
adrenalin rush scoring, but the
whole team worked so tightly
together. It was just one of those
games where it goes down to the
wire and the team that is the
most together wins.”
Issac said, “We played so
amazingly together. Everyone
talked so well.” Honeywell added,
“I feel the offense was really
together. There was so much
excitement and we moved the
ball really well.”
Many of the Knights also in-
sisted that it would come down
towhowanted it more. “We came
out to play for 60 minutes and
we kept up a great level of play,”
said Jones.
And Brooks seemed to sum it
up best when she said, “It's al-
ways good to beat Dallas.”
The Knights and Mountain-
eers played this game extremely
physical and at a high level of
good hockey. It came down to
one chance being converted
rather than another. But isn't
that what fall Friday afternoons
are all about?
Extended trout season began September 8
The extended trout season be-
gan September 8.
The extended trout season
brings with it a reduced creel limit
of three trout per day, seven inches
or more in length, on all stocked
trout waters. This cree! limit also
applies to Delayed Harvest Areas
and Fly-Fishing-Only Areas. Tro-
phy Trout Waters allow a two trout
per day over 14 inches. Catch-
and-Release Areas and Limestone
Springs Wild Trout Waters are open
year round under catch-and-re-
lease regulations.
Wild Trout waters are now closed
to harvest. The extended season
will remain in effect through the
last day of February 1993. Check
your Summary of Fishing Regula-
tions and Laws.
Mounts win second
straight 34-6 over GAR
By DAVE KONOPKI
Sports Correspondent
The Dallas High School football
team has been a team of few sur-
prises during the first two weeks of
the 1992 season.
It's no surprise that the Mounts
are a perfect 2-0, receiving that
second win with an impressive 34-
6victoryover GAR last Friday night
at Wilkes-Barre Memorial Stadium.
And it’s no surprise that senior
tailback Brian Burd has estab-
lished himself as one of the league's
premiere runners, gaining nearly
300 yards in the first two contests,
including 160 yards on 23 carries
against GAR.
And it should come as no sur-
prise that the Mounts have re-
gained the defensive dominance
that was present during their East-
ern Conference championship sea-
sons of 1988 and 1989. The Moun-
taineers have yielded just six points
in eight quarters this season, led
by sophomore linebacker Rich
Butcofski, who has nearly 30 tack-
les in the first two games.
But the one surprise the Moun-
taineers have had this season has
begun to pay big dividends. That's
the play of junior quarterback Brian
Brady.
Brady completed eight of 12
passes last Friday night for 106
yards. In addition, Brady, who was
pressed into playing both ways,
contributed with six tackles on
defense.
“There was a big difference in
Brian from the first week to this
week,” said Dallas head coach Ted
Jackson. “He had a great game
throwing the football. I think that,
with experience, he can become an
outstanding quarterback. We
opened up the offense and let him
do more this week. He responded
well.”
Leading 7-6 at the half, the
Mounts’ offense got untracked in
the second half, scoring 27 points,
including 20 in the final quarter.
Brady threw for two touchdowns,
one to Burd in the first period and
a seven-yard strike to Dave Fisher
in the third. Burd, Buddy Rhodes
and Williams added rushing touch-
downs for the Mounts.
Jackson knows that he'll need
that offensive output, plus another
strong showing from his defense
when Dallas travels to
Tunkhannock this Friday night.
This is one team that has Jack-
son worried.
“Tunkhannock might be the
strongest team we'll face all sea-
son,” said Jackson of the Tigers,
who posted an impressive 29-0
victory over Wyoming Valley West
last Friday night. “They have two
outstanding running backs and a
great quarterback with experience.
They also have a very good line and
alot of depth. It's going to be a very
tough football game.”
It should be just that. The Ti-
gers tallied nearly 300 yards in
(total offense against Valley West
while yielding just over 100 yards.
“It's always tough to go there
and play,” said Jackson, whose
team will play its third consecutive
road game. “We want to stay with
them for the first three quarters
and hope to have a chance to win
the game in the fourth quarter.”
Dallas Cross-Country team
Members of the 1992 Dallas Highs School cross country team include, front row from left: John
Crispell, Greg Hodne, Mike Lykon, Alec Baird, Shawn Miller, Glen Ellsworth; back row from left:
Coach William Kvashay, Tom Keating, David Seidel, Brian Crispell, Don Hartshorne, Kevin Loefflar.
Absent from photo: team captain Matt Samuel. (Post Photo/Grace R. Dove)
Sports roundup
Soccer
LEHMAN BLANKS SEM
Lake-Lehman defeated Wyo-
ming Seminary 3-0 September 8 at
the Black Knights field. Brian Kelly
and Will Woronko scored on feeds
from Chris Salko and Jeremy
Fleeger. Kevin Lowery recorded 12
saves in goal.
MOUNTS STOP
COUGHLIN
Matt Sleightholm and Sean
Callahan provided the offense for
Dallas in their first win of the sea-
son September 8. The Mountain-
eer defense racked up 15 saves in
the contest.
KNIGHTS FALL 3-2 TO
ABINGTON HEIGHTS
On Thursday, September 10,
Lake-Lehman lost a match 3-2 to
Abington Heights. Ken Miroslaw
and Brian Kelly scored foi the
Knights in a game that was inter-
rupted for 35 minutes by a thun-
derstorm.
DALLAS SHUTS OUT
VALLEY WEST 3-0
Dallas blanked Wyoming Valley
West 3-0 on Thursday, September
10. Sean Callahan, Pat Joyce and
Andy Flint scored for the Mounts,
as the team recorded 26 shots on
goal and allowed only six scoring
attempts by Valley West.
Field Hockey
DALLAS UPSETS
CRESTWOOD 3-2
The Dallas Lady Mountain=ers
upset Crestwood by the score of 3-
2 on Wednesday, September 9.
Cindy Maier and Nina Mathers
scored on assists from Patrice
Shovlin, and Karen Wisnieski
scored on a feed from Mathers. The
Mounts came back from a 2-0 half-
time deficit to pull off the win.
LADY KNIGHTS EDGE
OUT TUNKHANNOCK
Lake-Lehman defeated
Tunkhannock 2-1 on September
9. Senior Dyan Dymond scored
both goals for the Knights, one on
an assist from Jen Farrel.
Stephanie Whitesell had seven
saves.
Cross Country
MOUNTS OVERWHELM
HANOVER 43-19
The Dallas Mountaineers won
their meet against Hanover Sep-
tember by 43-19. Matt Samuel fin-
ished first for Dallas, followed by
Brian Crispell; Sean Miller was
fourth, Mike Lycon was fifth and
Dave Seidel was seventh. Don
Harshorn finished ninth and Kevin
Loffler was 10th.
Volleyball
BLACK KNIGHTS SWEEP
WEST SIDE TECH
Lake-Lehman defeated West
Side Tech by scores of 15-0 and
15-5 on September 10 in their
season opener. Seniors Erin Loftus,
Jill Smigleski and Stacey
Paculavich allled the offensive fury.
Loftus served for seven straight
points, four of them on aces.
Golf
O’REILLY SQEAKS BY
LAKE-LEHMAN
Lake-Lehman'’s golf team lost to
Bishop O'Reilly by a score of 177 to
174. The Knights saw good perfor-
mances from Ray Bartosh, Jeff
Farley, Nikki Sennelt and Dave
Fosko. The Knights were 3-1 after
the match.
Football
LAKE-LEHMAN
CRUSHES NORTHWEST
The Lake-Lehman Black Knights
won their home opener over North-
west September 11 by 24-7. Rob
Spencer ran for 104 yards and
other fine performances were
turned in by Pat McManus, Gary
Cavill and Dave Larkins.
LCCC Foundation golf tourney October 2
The Luzerne County Commu-
nity College Foundation will hold
the second annual invitational golf
tournament Friday, October 2 at
Edgewood in the Pines.
The tournament will be captain
and crew format, with registration
and a continental breakfast at
10:30 a.m. Play will begin at 12
Noon with a shotgun tee-off. A
dinner and reception, including
an awards ceremony, will be held
at Jerry Bonner's Carriage Stop
Inn following the event.
Individual entry is $100 and
includes a gift bag, greens fees,
cart rental, refreshments, dinner,
and admission to the awards cere-
mony. Companies can participate
by sponsoring a foursome or a tee,
or both.
Raffles will be held at the tour-
nament, - and Wyoming Valley
Motors of Kingston will award a
1993 automobile to the first per-
son scoring a hole-in-one on an
assigned hole.