al} @ Section 2 Wednesday, December 24, 1996 It's a 4-way tie at the top of the standings in Dallas Youth Basket- ballgrade 7-8 after last weekend's action. The Celtics handed the Bulls their second straight loss behind Matt Eyet's 25 points, while Jay Carroll shot the lights out for 39 against the Trailblazers. HORNETS 40 - WARRIORS 37 In week five, the Hornets de- feated the Warriors by a score of 40-37. In the first quarter the Hornets outscored the Warriors by a score of 15-7. The Hornets kept up the hot shooting in the second quarter and went into halftime with a 22 to 16 lead. The Warriors woke up in the third period and held the Hornets to 3 points in the quarter, with the Hornets holding a slim 25-22 lead S at quarters end. The Warriors hoped were dimmed in the fourth quarter, when two of their leading scorers fouled out of the game. The Hornets offense was led by Pat Barnard with 19 points fol- lowed by John Simonitis with 14 points. The Warriors offense was led by Justin Bicking with a game high 24 points followed by T.C. Harding with 7 points. The Hor- nets record goes to 2-3, while the Warriors record drops to 0-5. CELTICS 44 - BULLS 42 The second game of the after- noon came down to the final 10 seconds, with the Celtics pulling the game out by a score of 44-42 over the Bulls. In the first quarter each team traded baskets, with the Bulls holding a 10-8 first quar- ter lead at quarters end. The P The Dallas Post inside battle continued to rage in the third quarter. The Bulls in- creased their lead by quarters end 31-25. In the fourth quarter, the tide turned in favor of the Celtics, and hot shooting coupled with the Bulls in foul trouble, sealed the win with just seconds to play for the Celtics. The Celtics’ offense was led by Matt Eyet with 23 points followed by Jared Karalunas with 15 points. The Bulls offense was led by Paul Dougal with a game high 26 points followed by Lloyd Droppers with 8 points. The Celtics’ record goes to 4-1, while the Bulls drop to 3- 2. HEAT 51 - SIXERS 45 The third game of the after- noon had the Heat downing the Sixers by a score of 51-45. Both teams came out cold in the first quarter. The Sixers took control and took a 10-8 first quarter lead. The second was much the same with the Heat and Sixers trading baskets, with the Heat overtaking the Sixers at halftime by a score of 18-17. The Sixers came back in the third quarter, with the hot shooting of Dave Finn to recap- ture the lead at quarters end by a score of 33-30. Not to be outdone, the Heat, received a well balanced attack in the final quarter, which was led by Mike Domzalski and Jason Race, to seal the win for the Heat. The Heats offense was led by Jason Race with a game high 17 points, followed by Mike Domzalski with 14 points, Fran Yanik with 10 points and Kevin Piekara with 8 points. The Sixers HoLD ON TIGHT ve Matt Gingo had his Wyalusing opponent in hand during an exhibition wrestling match last week at Dallas High School. Gingo wrestles in the 160 Ib. category. Wyalusing dominated the match, but Gingo cam close to winning his bout. SPORTS SHORTS _ - BOYS BASKETBALL : Northwest 76, Dallas 47 Dallas appeared a bit sluggish in the final minutes of the contest as the Rangers outscored their hosts 31-11 in the fourth to swipe a 76-47 victory from the Mounts Dec.18. J.J. Smith bucketed 17 while Ed Piekara sank 13 for Dal- las. O’Reilly 57, Lehman 52 Tom Stambaugh sank 24 points * and had a stellar defense behind him to lift the Queensmen past Lehman 57-52 Dec. 18 at Lehman. Dave Milunic showed up his coun- terpart with 27 points of his own but a key turnover in the final minute sealed the fate for the Knights. Northwest 73, Lehman 36 The Knights had trouble hit- . ting the bucket with scores in the ' single digits in three of the four + periods as Northwest hammered . Lehman 73-36 Dec. 19. Northwest outscored the Knights 42-16 in the second half to post the win. W.S.Tech 68, Dallas 61 Dallas’ slide in the standing , continues with a 68-61 loss to ' Tech Dec. 20 in Pringle. Dallas i keptitinteresting countering most wr ——a— [] ¥ ° i [] i ! i § of Tech's buckets but were unable to surpass their hosts. J.J. Smith sank a game high 26 points fol- ; lowed by Jonathan Saba with 10. GIRLS BASKETBALL Dallas 54, W.S. Tech 22 Dallas rolled out to a 35-7 lead at the half to help flatten Tech 54- 22 Dec.19. at homg, Adrienne Camp lead all scorers with 17 points followed by Jen Noon and Katie Austin each with 10. Lehman 74, Northwest 29 Lehman had help from their entire bench in a one sided show as the Knights smashed North- west 74-29 Dec.19. Nearly all of the Knights squad put numbers on the board lead by Kelly Spen- cer with 17. Darby Wolfe followed up with a 10 point game. Lake-Lehman wrestling team 1996-97 Lake-Lehman wrestlers, from left, first row; Nick Raczkowski, Matt Magee, Joe Halowich, Bill Breha, Ned Walsh, Jason McDade, Mike Kenney, Justin Harris, Justin Phillips. Second row; Tom Patton, Joshua Sawyer, Scott Walsh, Eric Maciejczak, Pat Rogowski, Mark Celusniak, Clay Cadwalader, Mike Galka, Damien Jones, Jason Harris. Third row; co-coach Tom Williams, volunteer ass’t coach Allen Raczkowski, Sam Saylor, Jason Maciejczak, Jeremy Sorber, Luke Shook, Ryan Healy, Chris Price, E.J. Ishley, Mick Konigus, Adam Schooley, trainer Nancy Yago, co-coach Phil Lipski. Absent from photo, Butch Ruger, Chad Sorber, Chester Smith, Mike Woronko. Junior varsity coaches are Matt Reinert, Bob Lipski, Rick Finnegan, Tim Sayre.and Mike Tereska. WRESTLING Lehman 41, Athens 24 The Knight matmen executed Athens with four pins en route to More SPORTS SHORTS, pg 12 offense was led by Dave Finn with 12 points, followed by Danny Fetko and Doug Zaruta each with 11 apiece and Danny Krause with 9 points. The Hea'ts record goes to 4-1, while the Sixers record falls to 3-2. MAGIC 53 - 'BLAZERS 47 In the final game of the after- noon, the Magic defeated the Trail- blazers by a score of 53 to 47. Right from the start, the Magics Jay Carroll gave a shooting clinic by scoring 12 of his game high 39 points in the first quarter. The Magic led 12-5 after the first quar- ter. The Magic opened the game wide open in the second quarter by outscoring the Trailblazers 18- 12, to take a 30-17 halftime lead. In the third quarter the Trailblaz- ers regrouped and gave the Magic ortsWeek “Celtics, Heat and Magic top standings with 4-1 records a game of it. It was 40-29 at the quarters end, with the Magic still on top. The fourth quarter was much the same, with the Magics Jay Carroll scoring at will. The Magics offense was led by Jay Carroll with a game high 39 points followed by Herby Bressler with 10 points. The Trailblazers of- fense was led by John Nackley with 26 points followed by Randy Schoonover with 10 points and Bruce Hubbard with 7 points. The Magic's record goes to 4-1, while the Trailblazers fall to 0-5. Note: There are no games Dec. 29 due to the holiday. Games will . resume on Jan 5 with the Magic vs. Celtics at 1:00, Sixers vs. Hornes at 2:00; Bulls vs. Trail- blazers at 3:00; and the Warriors vs. the Heat at 4:00. The Hall, St. John's, "Ciise and Huskies post victories SYRACUSE 23 - VILLANOVA 18 Syracuse (1-1) topped Villanova (1-1) by a score of 23-18 as Chris- tian Cobleigh scored 8 points with Dallas Youth Basketball grade 5-6 results: SETON HALL 49 - BC 27 Jeff Dickson scored 26 points and had 9 rebounds to lead Seton Hall (1-1) over Boston College (0- 2) 49-27 in Dallas Youth Basket- ball 5th/6th grade action. Ryan Gryskewicz had 11 points and 9 rebounds while Gene Lispi scored 10 points for the Pirates. ST. JOHN'S 26 - NOTRE DAME 17 Brett Sprau scored 19 points to lead St. John’s (2-0) over Notre Dame (0-2) 26-17. Mark Kertesz had 5 points for St. John's, while Notre Dame was led by Kevin Domzalski with 7 points and Bobby Hadzor with 6. Jeff Pace led the defense for Notre Dame. 7 rebounds. Sean Jones had 6 points and 5 rebounds and Mitch Mitchell had 5 points with 5 re- bounds. Also scoring for the Orangemen were Phil Saxon and Eric Baltimore. Andrew Gialanella led Villanova with 6 points while Phil Miller pulled down 7 re- bounds. Chris Webb led the de- fense with 3 steals. U. CONN 36 - PITT 25 Brian Dempsey scored 16 points to lead U. Conn (2-0) over Pittsburgh (0-2) 36-25. Tim Kerestes had 12 points while Todd Kerestes had 6 points and 5 blocked shots. Matt Tucker was the leading rebounder for the Huskies. \ Lady Gators crush Regis, hit 7-0 On Dec. 17, the two remaining unbeaten girls teams from the East-West Parochial league met at the Gate of Heaven gym, Regis Academy and the Lady Gators from Gate of Heaven . The game started out with Regis taking a 7-0 lead and finishing the first quarter leading by the scoreof 11-3. The Gators stormed back with a tenacious full-court press and outscored: the Kingswomen 25-1 in the second quarter. The game was competi- tive from the initial tip-off with the Lady Gators prevailing 55-28. Leading the scoring for the Gators were Chelsey Ostrowsky with 24 and Shannon Leary with 12. 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