leo ) 4 4 le a b, | ) 1 ( | I ® “9 i % © # & 36 wl 3 ae @ Section 2 Wednesday, January 31, 1996 The Dallas Post SportsWeek POST PHOTOS/RON BARTIZEK Dean Evans, left, and Kyle Brady have been leaders of the Dallas ® swimming team in its second season. By LEN KRYESKI Sports Writer DALLAS - A little more than a year ago, the families of swim- mers Kyle Baker and Dean Evans were among the voices helping to convince the Dallas School Board toadd swimming as a varsity sport. With just one senior on the team last year and five years ex- perience at the Y.M.C.A under their belts, the pair has proven their worth to the squad time and time again. The senior duo has left a lasting impression on the underclassmen as well as coach Matt Stretanski. “They provide very, very needed senior leadership to this team,” said Stretanski. “From when we “I love the water more than the land.” Dean Evans Dallas swimmer started the program lastyear they had a very good idea of what was needed at practice to be good swimmer. They were able to help me explain how we're going to get better. They justify what the prac- tices mean.” The Dallas mermen have been showing weekly progress this sea- son. Although the results are listed as exhibition meets, the Mounts have already pulled off a couple of upsets in the water. Both Baker and Evans can take ' POST PHOTOS/RON BARTIZEK Winning strategy Dallas girls’ basketball coach Kim Barbacci plotted strategy during a fourth-quarter time out in Monday's game against Lake-Lehman. The Mountaineers came out on top 47-35 behind Robin Suda's 24 points and an active defense. At right, quickness on quickness, as Holly Baseski guarded Adrienne Miroslaw. Each scored eight points. At left, Sarah Barlow broke through for two points against Nicki Bouthout. By LEN KRYESKI Sports Writer LEHMAN TOWNSHIP - “It's amazing what a couple of good practices will do,” said Tom Will- iams, co-coach of the Lake- Lehman wrestling team after the Black Knights crushed Wyoming Valley West 45-10 at home Satur- day night. With the exception of North- west Area, high school coaches across the Wyoming Valley Con- ference finally received their wish last week: a full week of uninter- rupted practice. It's safe to say that no team responded better to the regular full load of work than the Lake- Lehman wrestling squad. After two solid practices came a huge 32-20 victory over Meyers. Pumped, the Lehman grapplers put together two of their best prac- tices of the season on Thursday and Friday before Saturday's thrashing of the Spartans. “The kids have been stepping it up offensively,” said co-coach Phil Lipski. “They've been working hard and coming along well.” “This year the schedule worked inour favor,” added Williams. “You never know with (Meyers and Val- ley West) back-to-back, but we peaked at the right time.” Most felt the Knights were slight favorites heading into the match, but no one figured they would dominate. Lehman led 30-0 after eight matches and proceeded to win 11 of 13 bouts. Down 12-0 after three bouts “It's amazing what a couple of good practices will do.” Tom Williams Lake-Lehmanco-coach the Spartans felt they were still very much init, but even the most casual fan could sense their mo- ment oflet-down. Freshman Sam Saylor came up big at 125 with a 12-6 win over Spartan senior Rob Miller. Before the Valley West wrestlers could catch a breath, Eric Maciejczak had taken care of Bryan Nesbitt. Maciejczak used a standing cradle to take Nesbitt down to the mat quickly and pinned him in just 24 seconds. * * Black Knights put Spartans on their backs The roar from the Spartan bench was much more quieter after that. Jake Santee produced another eye-opening victory for Lehman at 145. He defeated Mike Hando, a third place finisher at districts last winter, 8-6 in overtime. In the 189 pound match-up, Lehman's Mike Rogowski regained the lead with less than 20 sec- onds remaining in an exciting 6-5 win over Murad Elbattah. The Knights now sit all alone at the top of their division with a 3- 0 mark. In order to make a clean sweep of the West, they'll need to beat West Side Tech, Pittston, Wyoming and Tunkhannock in the ensuing weeks. Wednesday's win over Meyers also puts themin See WRESTLING, pg. 10 credit for helping the program through its infancy. “There's a certain amount of satisfaction in giving some other people a chance at doing some- thing they haven't done before,” said Baker. “We were trying to get (swim- ming at Dallas) for a while,” said Evans. “We're happy to get it initiated.” Kyle resides in Kingston Town- ship and is the son of Peter and Mary Baker. He has a younger sister, Shanna. In the fall he was a starting forward for the Dallas soccer team. Come spring he'll be running the middle distance events for the track and field team. A member of the YMCA team, he's the leading freestyler for the BM School news HM Classified BM Calendar BBE Talented duo leads Dallas swim team Mounts. “Kyle's a very good freestyler,” Stretanski said. “He expects to win and carries a very positive attitude. He's very encouraging to the rest of the team.” Shortly after moving to the area a few years ago, Kyle joined the YMCA. His talent was obvious, and he was encouraged to go out for the team. He did and has loved swimming and competing ever since. Baker thrives on the inten- sity of the meets, but said his favorite sport is the one he hap- pens to be participating in at the time. Next year he plans on con- tinuing his education at the colle- giate level. See SWIMMERS, pg 10 Oliver ranked 19th best in US. by Baseball America By LEN KRYESKI Sports Writer DALLAS - The accolades con- tinue to mount for John Oliver. First the Lake-Lehman standout was named a second team All- American by High School Base- ball U.S.A. He's also one of three finalists in the Male Scholastic Division of the Killer Bees’ Hoinski Memorial Awards. The ceremo- nies will be held this Saturday at Genetti's Convention Center in Wilkes-Barre. The most recent honor carries the most prestige forJohn and his family. Oliver is ranked 19th among, a list of the top 100 high school baseball prospects in the February 4th edition of Baseball America.Allan Simpson complies the list for the popular publica- tion with the help of major league scouts and college recruiters. “Baseball America and Allan Simpson are the most reputable names in thebusiness,” said Chip Sorber, who replaces Dwight Barbaccias Lehman's head coach this spring. “The scouts are tell- ing us that John will go in the second round of the draft.” : Sorber further explained that a player chosen in the second round generally is offered between. $250,00 and $750,000 as a sign-. ing bonus. High school players! have more leverage than college players because of the options. available to them. ! Back in November, John an- nounced hewould pursue anaca- demic and sports career at Clemson Univeristy beginning this fall. He'll have an opportunity to move into Jack Leggit's starting outfield as a freshman. John imagines that the Tiger coaching staff flinches a bit everytime his stock rises. Will he start? “I think so,” Oliver said. “They lost nine guys to the draft last year. Their goal this year was to recruit good guys, but not so many highly rated players. See OLIVER, pg 10 Regan's heroics lead Bulls to last-second victory In the third game of Dallas grade 7-8 basketball Sunday af- ternoon, the Bulls’ Mike Regan with five seconds to play in the game tied the score with a driving lay up to even the score at 42-42 against the Hornets. With three seconds remaining Regan stole the inbounds pass and scored while the buzzer was sounding to give the Bulls a hard fought 44-42 come from behind win. At half time the Hornets held a 23-15 lead. There were many fine defen- sive plays on both sides in the third and fourth quarters. The Bulls offense was led by Regan with a game high 32 points. The Hornets offense was led by Bobby Zaruta with 13 points, followed by John Nackley with nine points and David Jumper with six points. The Bulls record improves to 1-6, while the Hornets record drops to 4-3. In the first game of the after- noon, the Celtics defeated the Magic by a score of 51-41. Fine outside shooting of Jay Carroll and Buddy Shah gave the Celtics a 12-6 first quarter lead. At half- time it was the Celtics 21-16 over the Magic. The Celtics opened the game up in the third quarter with a combination of inside and out- side shooting. The third quarter ended with the Celtics holding a 42-26 lead. The Celtics had a well balanced scoring attack from Jay Carroll with 20 points, followed by Buddy Shah with 13 points and Matt Eyet with 11 points. The Magic offense was led by Mike Domzalski with a game high 22 points including a perfect 12 for 12 from the charity stripe, fol- lowed by Ryan Sorber with 15 points. The Celtics record goes to 4 and 3, while the Magic drop See 7-8 BALL pg 10 POST PHOTOS/RON BARTIZEK Tony Tereska battled with Eyad Elbattah at heavyweight. Tereska pinned his opponent in 3:27.
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