A D ® & The Dallas Post Section 2 Wednesday, June 12, 1996 By LEN KRYESKI Sports Writer BACK MOUNTAIN - Ifyou were trying to find the best baseball players in the Wyoming Valley Conference this spring, you prob- ably could have saved some time by first selecting the best players from the Back Mountain. If you said John Oliver of Lake- Lehman you be hard pressed to find anyone to argue the point. The senior outfielder was ranked among the best players in the country prior to the season, hav- ing been named to a number of prestigious amateur prospect lists. Over the course of 18 games, John proved his worth - usually in front of a half dozen or so major league Sem honors local athletes Wyoming Seminary's “W" Club recently recognized students with Gold Awards for exceptional ath- letic performance. Gold Award athletes must be four-year letter winners in their particular sport with three varsity letlers. Back Mountain athletes were Michael Hurwitz, Shavertown, cross country; Alia Aben, Harveys Lake, lacrosse; Claire Hedden, Dallas, field hockey; Carolyn Selenski, Harveys Lake, softball; Matthew Lloyd, Dallas, soccer, ice hockey; Alan Mosca, Dallas, wres- tling: Carlo Santarelli, Dallas, bas- ketball, baseball; Robert Ciarufloli, Shavertown, golf, ten- nis; Carolyn Anzalone, Shavertown, field hockey; Phil Gager, Dallas, ice hockey, base- ball; Sarah Richards, Dallas, field hockey; Sarah Sordoni, Dallas, soccer; Jellrey Steelman, Dallas, soccer. [rem golf results Al a Scotch Foursome at Irem Temple Country Club on Memo- rial Day. teams placed: First place: Roy Smith, Corrine Sgarlal, Bucky Edwards, Mary Ann Stelma. Second place: Harry Dougherty, Richard Laux. Jean Francis, Jean Edwards. Third place: Tony Ruggere, Bob Libenson, Elaine Doughtery, Julie Conklin. Fourth place: John Yaple, George Conklin, Jane Kopp, Arlene Hemence. Closest to the pin on Hole 17: Corrine Sgarlat, Jim Kocolin. Winners of the Irem Women's GolfAssociation’s criss-cross tour- nament are: First flight: Sis Ertley. Second (light: Louise Moore, putting, Esther Saba. Third flight: Jean Edwards; putting. Theresa Balliet. Fourth flight: Nona Libenson; putting, Marcia Jones. scouts - by banging out 37 hits and playing errorless ball in the field. Last week Oliver was chosen by the Cincinnati Reds in the first round of Major League Baseball's amateur draft and is faced with choosing between turning pro or heading to Clemson University on a baseball scholarship. A few other local seniors be- came household names over the course of their high school ca- reers. Dallas co-captains Jeff Kunkle and Rich Klick will each continue their baseball careers playing Division 1 ball at the col- legiate level. Kunkle is headed to Penn State, Klick to the Univer- sity of Pittsburgh - both via an athletic scholarship. Mike { Adamshick, carried a hot bat throughout the season, hitting at a .490 clip and edging Oliver his co-caplain at Lehman, for the class AA RBI crown with 32. All four established themselves among the league’s best during their high school tenure. With Lehman competing at the AA level and Dallas at AAA, the Back Moun- tain may be home to both confer- ence M.V.P.'s for the '96 season. Now with their high school ca- reers behind them, Adamshick, Klick and Kunkle were asked not only to take a look back, but what the future holds in store for them. Oliver is currently facing a seri- ous decision and will be inter- viewed at a later date. Rich Klick - Dallas Last month you selected the University of Pittsburgh as the place to continue your academic and athletic careers. What led you to that de- Lo cision, and what will you be studying?. Basically it came down to three, Pitt, West Virginia and Connecticut. Af- ter visiting all three, I knew Pitt was the placefor © me and I liked it the best. They also gave me a good scholarship package. I'll enroll undeclared. This summer you'll be play- DEE-FENSE Cardinals' catcher Brian Cornie put the tag on the Astros’ Wally Karl in Little League action last week, top photo. At right, the Cards' Mark Yankowski fielded a ground ball to second. The Cardinals were a game up on the Astros in the standings after weekend play, as the two teams scramble for a playoff spot. POST PHOTOS/RON BARTIZEK Sports\Week conversation with Back Mountain's big baseball guns ing for the Back Mountain Le- gion team. Is there anything special you or Panther coach Mark Jackson wants you work- ing on specifically and what are your long range baseball plans? The Pill coaches haven't stressed any one thing. I just want to keep up with my baseball skills and get ready for the fall. Long range | just want to see how far I can go with baseball. College coaches have men- tioned your best bet would be moving to the outfield. Is that move still likely and if so are you glad you were able to play short- stop at the high school level? I would think so. Yeah it was good to play short; as far as being alert and in the game that was the posit ion. but I don’t have a prefer- ence, Imagine that trading of play- ers was allowed in high school baseball and all of a sudden you're facing Jeff Kunkle in a key game - what would that encounter be like?. Oh, I'd take him deep, (laugh- ing). no it would be tough to get a hit off of Jeff. You had an excellent high school career, yet if you could change one thing, what would it be? Not breaking my leg (on the football field) last fall. I missed out on a lot. See BIG GUNS, pg 10 Strauser shines in final year on PSU diamond By LEN KRYESKI Sports Writer The two just seemed to coin- cide. In his fifth and final year of collegiate eligibility, former Lake- Lehman baseball standout Troy Strauser was awarded a starting outfield position. And during their fifth season of Big 10 play. the Nittany Lions baseball team finally qualified for the playoffs and won the confer- ence regular season title besides. Strauser look over the left field job after teammate Kevin Billotte - a third team All-Big 10 selection as a rookie last year- pulled a hamstring in a March 24 contest with Indiana. Strauser made the most of opportunity. Finally getting a chance to play full time, Troy batted .333, scored 36 runs, drove home 18 more from his leadoll position and was one of 10 Nittany Lions to earn All-Big 10 status while Joe Hindelang was voted coach of the year. Troy landed on the second team along with three other team- mates. Two Lions were named to the first team and four to the third team. John Dacostino among them. Dacostino, a right fielder, played his high school ball for Hazleton Area. TROY STRAUSER Traditionally Penn State (32- 24-1) schedules a bunch of warm weather schools early in the sea- son and once again they got off tc aslowstart including an 0-9 show- ing in the state of California. Strauser was ineligible for the start of the season. The day after Billotte’s injury Penn State lost both ends of a double-header, but with Strause1 as the sparkplug the Lions went 28-6 the remainder of the regular See STRAUSER pg 10 PSU golf fourn ey has spots open The Alumni Society ofl the Penn State Wilkes-Barre Campus has openings for a few more [our somes in its first annual Masters Golf Tournament to benefit the Campus scholarship fund. The tournament will be held June 11 at the Irem Temple Country Club with ashotgunstartat 12:30 p.m. Cost per golfer is $75.00 which includes greens lee. cart and bul fet dinner. Bill Reinert is chair man of the event. A trip for two (0 Orlando, Florida [or four days and three : nighis supplied by Tenenbaum's Travel is the hole- in-one prize. The tournament will follow a Captain and Crew lormalt. but individual golfers are also welcome. Penn Stale “Masters” Blazers will be awarded to the members of the winning championship (light team. There will be additional prizes and surprises as well as a guest appearance by the Nittany Lion and Penn State cheerlead ers. For more information Bobbie Steever al 675-9202. call BACK MOUNTAIN BASEBALL SPORTS SHORTS Boys Major League The Yankees and Dodgers have clinched their respective divisions and eight teams are still plaving for the additional six play olf sports. Yankees 4 - Giants 3 Jefl Emanuel and Jim Belles dueled on the mound and the Yankees behind Emanuel's 12 strike outs came out ahead. John Pambianco had three hits against the Giants along with Frank Buzin and Matt Goeringer hitling doubles. Jim Belles generated the runs for the Giants with a home run. Indians 14 - Red Sox 6 John Schultz pitched six in- nings with 10 strike outs collect ing a win for his team. Jim Jordan led the Indians with three hits including a three run homer. Dan Ungvarsky, Mike Yenason and Mike Fehlinger all had two hits for the Indians. Luke Miller balanced oul Jordan's homer with a three run homer of his own but with (wo hits at the plate. Steve Salavantis EL ——-,,—_,-o le ll BOYS' MAJOR LEAGUE STANDINGS Through 8 weeks National W L American W L Dodgers 14 3 Yankees 134 Cardinals 11 6 Rangers 107 Astros 10 7 Red Sox 107 Pirates 9.7 Indians 8 8 Phillies 8 9 A's 8 9 Reds 5.12 Orioles '5 1} Giants 5 12 Tigers 1.15 the Red Sox. Orioles 21 - Tigers 11 Rvan Gryskievicz had nine strike outs for the win on the mound. Gryskievicz also had two hits including ‘a (riple.i Ed Krasniak tripled and Doug Jennings doubled (or the Orioles. Matt Katyl had a double and triple along with teammate Tom MacDougal hitting a double for the Tigers. Astros 16 - Cards 4 Stephen Luksh and Joe Yankoski held the Cards to [our hits as they combined to pitch the win for the Astros. Chip Harrison and Jim Larson had doubles lor _ led a strong batting attack going four for four. Rhodes, Yankoski and David Walters all had (wo hits for the Astros. Luksh was three for four at the plate, also. Matt Metz went (wo [or three for the Cards and Greg Mascioli had a double. Yankees 19 - Tigers 11 The Yankees clinched first place in the American Division behind Bob Gebhardt's pitching. Gebhardt threw a two hitter while striking out eight. Three homers were hit in the game. Two Yan- kees Andy Check and Jeff Emanuel and Tiger, John Simonitis cleared the fences. Check led the Yankees hitting attack with four hits. Matt Goeringer. Emanuel and Gebhardt had two hits apiece. Matt Katyl along with Simonitis had three hits for the Tigers. Cards 8 - Dodgers 0 Malt Metz pitched a great game with a two hitter and eight strike outs along with good defensive support to give the Cards a shot in the division race. Greg Mascioli scored two times with three hits along with Brian 2 ad scoring [our runs with four RBIs. Wally Karl. Jamie Downey and Mark Yankowski each getting two hits. Josh Bryant and Eric Kowalek had doubles for the Dodgers. A’s 6 - Rangers 5 Jelf Dickson drove in four runs with three hits including his fourth homer as the A's won their 8th game. Dickson also pitched a complete game five hitler with seven strike outs and one walk. Adam Tkaczyk had a single and double for the A's. Tim Faneck and Billy Evans each had extra base hits for the Rangers. Astros 7 - Phillies 0 Joe Yankoski pitched three in- nings of no hits and Stephen Luksh followed with only giving up two hits with the Astros de- fense shutting out the Phillies. LLuksh was three for four at the plate and was backed by Chip Farrison, two for four, Wally Karl, two for four, and Patrick Rother, going two for two with two RBIs. Joel Lesinski collected both hits lor the Phillies with a single and a double. More BMT BASEBALL, pg 10 Softball camp at Lake-Lehman Lake-Lehman will host a softball day camp for ages 8-18, June 17- 20,9a.m.-2 p.m. (Monday-Thursday). pitchers/catchers9a.m.-3 p.m. at the Lake-L.ehman High School. Cost for LL students is $60 (register by June 1 and pay only $55 to be reimbursed by club) and for non- district students is $70 (register by June 1 and pay only $65.) Players will be grouped according to age and/or ability. Advanced groups will learn advanced techniques, tactics and drills. Younger players will learn [undamentals. Catchers should bring equipment. Refreshment stand will be available [or low-cost lunches. Clemm takes fourth in long jump Susquehanna University sophomore Ryan Clemm of Dallas finished fourth in the long jump at the Middle Atlantic Conference Outdoor Track and Field Championships al Moravian College May 3-4. Clemm helped his team finish second in the nine-team event . Susquehanna had been the two-time defending MAC outdoor team champion. Clemm was fourth in the long jump with aleapof 21-1 1/4. He also competed in the high jump but did not place. Abusiness administration major. Clemm is the son of Mary and Paul Clemm of Dallas. Lake-Lehman Football Club will meet The Lake-Lehman Football Club will meet June 13 at 7:30 p.m. at Grotto Pizza, Harveys Lake. All parents of Lake-Lehman football players and cheerleaders are encouraged to attend. There will be a representative [rom a sports logo apparel company, who will show a line of clothing which will be. available for sale in the upcoming season. A] E Et
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