- e % that boils the blood of many Philadelphians - espe- ight Tie IALLASCP0ST i] ‘Vol. 103 No. 39 ‘Wednesday, September 23, 1992 A SportsWeek Eagles fans threaten riot in streets of Dallas Demand name change in advance of Eagles/Cowboys game October 5 ‘By DAVE KONOPKI Sports Correspondent Nestled in a quiet community, the people of Dallas " go about their daily lives, oblivious to the hostility ! that grows a little more than 100 miles to the south. The people of Philadelphia are furious with this Ll ¥ community. This week the hostility reached a fever- * pitch. It's not that the people of Dallas have purposely ve. It's just that this community bears a name ‘ ovis) to arouse the ire of the City of Broth- cially Eagles fans. It all began on Monday morning, the day after the ! Philadelphia Eagles inflicted a sound thrashing on . the Denver Broncos. Talk in Philadelphia quickly turned to the Eagles next game. Monday night, : October 5 against the Cowboys - that's right the » Dallas Cowboys. The Dallas Post received a call from a gentleman in Levitown, Pa., Hank Scrocca, who is familiar with the : Dallas area. Scrocca stated that Philadelphia's all- . sports radio station, WIP-AM 610, was “trashing” the KT Raiders HB Team wins, A-Team loses ‘to Swoyersville NN . The Kingston Township Raiders »B“Team defeated the Swoyersville « Sailors B Team. ' Inthefirstquarter Matt Jackson + scored the first touchdown with a "There can't be any Dallas in our area. We will not tolerate it.” Angelo Cataldi Sports show host on WIP-AM in Philadelphia city of Dallas, Pennsylvania. The station was appar- ently having fun with Philadelphia businesses that had the word “Dallas” associated with them. Then, one caller told the hosts of the show, Angelo Cataldi, Tony Bruno and Al Morganti, about a small city in Northeastern Pennsylvania named Dallas. The fun started from there. On Tuesday morning, the Dallas Post had an exclusive interview with the trio, live on WIP. “We've done our best to quell the situation here,” said Cataldi, tounge-in-cheek. “But a lot of people are upset just with the name Dallas, with the big game coming up here. We won't be able to help it if there is rioting in the streets.” Cataldi says there is just one way to prevent an ugly situation. “We want you to change the name of your city,” said Cataldi. “There is no way that there should be a city named Dallas in Pennsylvania.” When asked what suggestion they would have for a name change, Bruno was quick to respond. “You've got to keep it topical,” said Bruno. “How about Quayle, Pennsylvania?” The interview was held at the studios of WKRZ- FM/WILK-AM. Ironically, WILK, 980 AM, is a mem- ber of the Dallas Cowboy Radio Network and broad- casts all of their games live. When Philadelphia broadcasters heard that, the interview took a nasty turn. “What kind of losers live there,” snapped Cataldi. “Who wants to listen to Dallas Cowboy football? What kind of turncoats are these people. “You mean to tell me that there is no hue and cry in this stinkin’ Dallas, Pa. to stop this infiltration,” added Cataldi. “Pennsylvania is Eagles’ football country. It's bad enough that we have a Dallas in Pennsylvania and now you're telling us that they're a bunch of stinking turncoats who listen to the Dallas demands. “We want the name changed,” said Cataldi. “There can't be any Dallas in our area. We will not tolerate it. Because I'll tell you something right now. We cannot be held accountable if there is rioting in the streets of Dallas over this and it could happen.” Meanwhile, the people of Dallas go about their daily business, proud of their community's name and the tradition associated with it. But don't be too surprised if, in the next two weeks, a man rides horseback throughout the Dallas area shouting, “To arms, to arms. The Philadelphians are coming! The Philadelphians are coming!” What do you say? Dave Konopki will be calling WIP-AM on Monday morning, September 28 for a live follow-up interview. If you have something spe- cial you would like to say to Mrs. Cataldi, Bruno, Morganti, call Dave at 283-5532 before 10 p.m. Cowboys and you're doing nothing about it.” The trio concluded the interview by restating their Sunday. Lehman explodes to rout Dallas 6-2 in soccer match By CHRISTINA CONRAD Sports Correspondent It is very obvious that the Lake- Lehman versus Dallas soccer but Brian Kelly would not. At 1:19in the third quarter Kelly took a pass from teammate Tim Norconk and rifled a 35-yard shot : successful two point conversion rivalry is an important one in the into the net. The shot left the players | oiffpat Jackson. On a 65-yard Back Mountain. on the field stunned and even » punt return, Chris Tucker scored So important that last year's Dallas fans in the crowd echoed ~.the. Raiders second touchdown in ! tbasecond quarter along with Joe - Kig@sky who made the third | - touchdown and the two point, “conversion on the two point » conversion on the third touchdown ! by Joe Kukosky. *. .. Matt Jackson scored two more . touchdowns in the fourth quarter - with Chris Hann making the two - point conversion on the Raiders + final touchdown. * The final score Raiders 26 - “ Sailors 0. + The A-Team Raiders were ‘unsuccessful in defeating the . Sailors. The final score Raiders O - ' rs 34. ; ext Sunday, Sept. 27, the - Raiders will be playing the Plymouth Indians with kickofl at 1 12 noon for the C-Team. Game will +'beé played at Plymouth. ‘Raiders C-Team Dueling in Dallas Cindy Maier of Dallas, #13, battled for the ball during the Mountaineers match with Northwest. The Mounts won 4-1. (Post photo/Christina Conrad) tops Swoyersville Once again, the K.T. Raiders C- { Team were victorious. They Sports roundup * defeated the Swoyersville Sailors contest left players lying on the field one moment and in the doctor's office the next. A game so important that players play not only for the record but for pride. There was a great deal of pride and important standings to consider as Lake-Lehman defeated Dallas 6-2 on Thursday, September 17. The score may sound like a blowout but when pride is on the line a big margin may never be enough because when playing for pride players can do amazing things. The first quarter began with the usual Lehman vs. Dallas physical play going back and forth trying to get an edge. The balance tipped towards Lehman at 9:16 in the first quarter when junior Will Woronko scored the first goal of the contest to put Lehman up 1-0. “I shot after I spun off and I was surprised the shot was on goal. I didn't think it was going to go in. I was surprised when it went into the goal”, said Woronko of his first quarter score. However, Lehman should not have been surprised that Dallas would be ready to respond. Matt Sleightholm came right back to “Canyou believe that kid?" as Kelly did his celebration dance and ran towards his teammates. “I try to get just one of those a game, right?” Kelly said as he smiled. He went on to comment about the Dallas Lehman rivalry, “It creates more intense and exciting games. You won't find more skillful play anywhere else in the Wyoming Valley Conference.” From then on Dallas just couldn't get it together. Will Woronko scored again at 18:03 after a collision with Dallas goalie Pat Scoble “I knew I had a 50-50 chance when we collided. The goalie got hurt so I just picked up the ball and scored,” said Woronko of his goal. Kelly scored again at 12:19 when he got a small break away from a Dallas defender. He faked left and went right as he let a little dribbler roll by the defense into the goal. “Once you score you get a hunger to score again,” said Kelly of his second goal. The Knights scored using three people with two goals apiece. To finish out the scoring for Lehman and to tally his second goal, Chris Salko scored at 9:56 a Cruse COU I n Yolyna) SS ) extremely proud of the effort made KNIGHTS LOSE CLOSE The Dallas Mountaineers PITTSTON STOPS and Knights went into halftime physical game but you play through § : by the line. Swoyersville has an MEET TO PITTSTON bounced back quickly from a loss MOUNTS IN TWO witha 1-1 tieand Lehman's flow of that. It was motivational to beat . excellent defensive line and the local young men pounded away at + it all day. och Mark Kerpovich’'s ¥ensive squad managed to : virtually shut the Sailors down. [| Two interceptions were made by On September 14, the Lake- Lehman cross country team lost a close match to Pittston by the score of 29-26. However, finishing first for Lehman was Allen Scott who had a time of 17:34. Coming in fourth for Lehman was Jason Case. to defeat GAR by the score of12-0 on September 14. The Mountaineers saw three goals from sophomore Katie Sallitt. The Mountaineers had 27 shots on goal while GAR had no shots on goal. The Dallas Mountaineers were defeated by the scores of 15-2 and 15-1 by Pittston Area in Wyoming Valley Conference Girls’ Volleyball action on Septemer 14. The Mountaineers’ record now drops to 0-2 but will look for a win against momentum in the second quarter slowly drifted to Dallas. Lerhman’s desire became so questionable that senior Tim Norconk wanted to know, “Do these guys know we are playing Dallas?” With the start of the third quarter Dallas,” Salko said. Maybe Salko had senior goalkeeper Kevin Lowery in mind when he was thinking of the word motivational. Lowery played inspired soccer versus Dallas making many incredible saves : kie Bobby Zaruta. Scott Miller th tions. At st. : seemed to beable tobreak through V 0 iy I y IN PAST Soccer LARELE Be EATS 16:13 ofthe HT Ty ie ep Aga . their defense at will. He was KNIGHTS BLANK Chris Salko was in the right place game, “We played great. We did not * responsible for making severalkey The Dallas Mountaineers beat PITTSTON 2 OF 3 at the right time and ready for the come here to lose and the defense + tackles. the Wyoming Valley West Spartans VALLEY WEST 4-0 The Lady Knights volleyballteam ynexpected as he eae on a picked us up.” As in previous games, the easily on September 14, by the The Lake-Lehman Black Knights jefeated Pittston Area 8-15, 15-5 dropped ball by the Dallas goalie = Norconk played exceptional ) relentless spirit of the C-Team ." Raiderettes played a key factor. They were able to get the band of » supporters involved in the game. Next Sunday, the team travels to Plymouth for the “Battle of the score of 41-17. Finishing in the top three positions were Matt Samuel, Mike Licon and Sean Miller. SAMUELS RUNS FIRST, BUT MOUNTS LOSE The Dallas Mountaineers cross beat Wyoming Valley West at their field on September 15, by the score of 4-0. Scoring for the Knights were Chris Salko, Brian Kelly, Will Woronko, and Mike Petruska. Goalie Kevin Lowery had nine saves for the Knights in the contest. and 15-2, on September 18. The Knights were led by Jill Smigelski, Erin Loftus and Stacy Pacalavich. Football and easily booted it in to give the Knights a 2-1 lead. “I'was just following up someone else's shot and I was able to put it in,” said senior Salko. Good fortune had turned defense as well as keeping his team motivated. “We just have to take it one game at a time and have the defense keep the goals down. We seem to be moving better and we are winning head balls more often, :» Undefeated”. Kingston Township Lehman's way, although at the which is vital.” . goes to Plymouth thad-0 record Sopnity Sows lig SEMINARY SQUEAKS RIVERSIDE TOPS time they mahi not Re been The Wo from Lehman were i“ while Plymouth is having a 3-0 pjshop Hoban by the score of 31- BY DALLAS 1-0 LEHMAN 20-13 thinking so. Chris Salko had very happy about this win. * season. Last year, in the same situation, } non-football related injuries to two * key players hampered KT's efforts. “ 3 5 3 rem Women's 26. However, Dallas’ Matt Samuels finished first with a time of 17:01. Field Hockey MOUNTS TOP NORTHWEST 4-1 The Dallas field hockey team defeated Northwest by the score of 4-1 on September 16, with goals On September 15, Wyoming Seminary beat the Dallas Mountaineers by the score of 1-0. The goal occurred with only five minutes gone in the fourth quarter. Pat Scoble had six saves for the Mountaineers. The Lake-Lehman Black Knights experienced their first loss, to Riverside on September 18. The Knights lost by a score of 20-13. However, two impressive scores for the Knights came from Seniors Clive Lankwarden and Gary Cavill. another break away down field but just missed his shot. And junior Will Woronko's shot on goal hit the cross bar. Lehman was just missing However, they know Dallas is nota team to take defeat lightly. Lehman won the first battle but the war is not over yet. Sorber a third year starter for Mansfield University field hockey Kowalski, Cleary playing at Wake Forest Junior Amy Kowalski and Freshman Kelly Cleary, both of Dallas, are members of the field hockey team at Wake Forest University in Winston Salem North Carolina. This is Kowalski's second year on the team. Strumski makes all-tournament team College Misericordia freshman Courtney Strumski of Tunkhannock was chosen to the all-tournament team at the Luzerne County Recreational Board volleyball tournament at King's College. College Misericordia placed third in the tournament which was held on September 12. Golf news . + The Irem Womens Golf - {-Association held a Locker Room * meeting on September 15 followed : by adraw for partners tournament. * Winners were Leah Flock, Arlene * Rothstein and Jane Kopp. On i September 22 a Better Ball of ! Partners Tournament was held oo «with a shotgun start at 9 a.m. by Nina Mathers, Karen Wisnewski, Patrice Shovlin, and Kelly Janosky. BARBER'S GOAL LEADS LEHMAN OVER MEYERS The Lake-Lehman Knights’ Ann Barber lifted the Knights toa 1-0 victory over Meyers on Wednesday, September 16. Lake-Lehman'’s goalie, Stephanie Whitesell, had two saves for the Knights. Mansfield University Junior Becky Sorber began her third year as a starter for the school’s field hockey team. Sorber, a 1989 gradu- ate of Lake Lehman High School, plays forward and wing positions and is the daughter of Chip and Vera Sorber of Dallas. Wells plays field hockey for Bucknell Sue Wells of Wyoming is on Bucknell University’s Field Hockey team. Wells is a senior and a graduate of Dallas High School.
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