The Dallas Post Section 2 May 2, 2001 Right; Kelly Brososki slides to safety. Below; Meredith Lacey is ready to move. Send your sports reports to: dalpost@epix.net History of Little League published For more than 60 years, youngsters have trotted onto Little League Baseball playing fields, with dreams of being the next Willie Mays, Mark McGwire, or Lisa Fernandez. ‘Play Ball! The Story of Little League Baseball,’ recently published by Penn State Press, is the first complete account of the sport played every spring by more than 360,000 children worldwide. The book charts Little League Baseball's history from its earliest days in Williamsport, to the playing fields of Venezuela, Japan, and Poland, and shows how, in many respects, Little League's history parallels America’s history. It examines issues such as racial and gender equity, and devotes a chapter to girls’ struggle to participate in the organization. Play Ball! contains appendixes that include winners of all Little League Baseball and Softball World Series through 2000, a year-by- year history of Little League, countries in Little League, and lists and pictures of some of the famous people who played the game as children. Amanda Stolarik, pitcher, has a great arm Left; Erin Swepston, catcher, is ready for whatever comes her way. POST PHOTOS/JIM PHILLIPS Back Mountain Stampede Tryouts for the fall sea- son for U-11 boys travel soccer team. Open to all boys born between Aug 1, 1990 and July 31, 1991 or players with one year of travel and age 10 after Aug. 1, 1991. Tryouts will be held at 6 p.m. on April 26 and May 6 at the soc- cer fields behind Dallas High School. Call Tom Youells at 675-0138 or Lorraine Coleman at 675- 0807 for more details. LL Football Club meets The Lake Lehman Football Club will meet on April 26, at Grotto Pizza at 7:30 p.m. All parents of football players and cheerleaders are encouraged to attend. We will discuss final re- sults of the orange sale. Back Mt. Baseball general meeting Back Mountain Baseball will conduct a general meeting at 8 pm on Monday, May 7th at the Dallas American Legion. All board mem- bers, coaches, umpires and volunteers are encouraged to attend. Back Mountain Baseball's annual Picture Day is Saturday, May 5th. All major and minor league baseball and softball managers, as well as T-ball managers, should check their mailboxes for their team pic- ture schedule. The Dallas Post, your hometown news Dallas plays at Lehman Wednesday in girlsi soccer in a game that will definitely have implica- tions on the division championship. Dallas upset Lehman in an earlier contest by a score of 3-1 in a game at Dallas last month. You may want to mention this as a little promo since it will be such a competitive game. It looks like it will resemble how the boys’ race went down the stretch this past fall. VOLLEYBALL Lake-Lehman 2, Coughlin 0 In a true shutout, Lake-Lehman blanked Coughlin 15-0, 15-0 at home April 24. Luke Kasper served the entire first game, getting 15 consecutive points that included a pair of aces. Matt Dunn added 11 kills and five blocks in the game. Josh Baranows- ki contributed three kills and 13 assists, while Josh Gregg finished with a solid six kills. Dallas 2, Wyoming Valley West O The mo- mentum gained from the Mounts winning the first game 16-14 carried over into the second as Dallas easily took that one 15-2 in defeating the Spar- tans. Pet Besecker led Dallas with 14 assists and four kills. Junior Arthur Redmond had 11 kills in the contest, while Ryan Chulbicki had eight kills and 11 blocks. Andrew Dale had five blocks, five digs, and four kills in a solid effort. Lake-Lehman 2, Wyoming Valley West O The Spartans went 0-2 in their road trip through the Back Mountain after losing to Lehman on Thursday. Corey Spencer had eight kills and three blocks in the contest to lead the way. Matt Dunn and Josh Baranowski combined to serve 21 points, six of which were aces, of the 30 points for Lehman. Dunn added six blocks, while Bara- nowski added 12 assists. Josh Gregg had four kills. Game scores were 15-4, 15-7. Nanticoke Area 2, Dallas O In a highly com- petitive contest, the Dallas volleyball team fell to that of Nanticoke 15-12, 15-11. Dallas was led by Pat Besecker with 22 assists and 10 digs and Ryan Chulbicki with 12 kills and 13 blocks along the front line. Art Redmond added 12 kills, four digs, and four blocks to keep things close. BASEBALL Dallas 17, Lake-Lehman 2 The Moun- taineers scored fifteen times in the bottom of the first in totally dominating the Black Knights last Tuesday at Dallas. Winning pitcher Darrell Evans went 3-4 with two runs scored and five batted in. His offensive numbers also included hitting one of the two Dallas homeruns. On the mound, he struck out four over three innings. Justin Bick- ing had the other Mountaineer longball while go- ing 2-3 at the plate with three driven home. Sec- ond baseman Josh Katyl went 2-3 with a pair of doubles and two runs scored. Center fielder Ja- son Race had a double and single and scored twice. Dusty Kapson had a homerun for Lake- Lehman in the top of the third, the only frame which the Knights got runs. Meyers 17, Dallas 13 In a true slugfest, Dallas i[SPORTS ROUND-UP | fell to Meyers at Christian Field on Thursday. A.J. Harris led the Dallas offense with 3 home- runs, going 4-5 with six RBIs and three runs scored. Jeremy Harris had a big day as well, go- ing 3-5 with a homerun and three scored and an- other three driven in. Josh Katyl also went 3-5 with three runs batted in. Seniors Darrell Evans and Justin Bicking combined to go 3-5 with a double and two runs scored. SOFTBALL: Lake-Lehman 6, Wyoming Area 2 Carla Chiampi pitched five strong innings while giving up just one run to help the Knights beat the War- riors. She also struck out five. Offensively she and Chrstine Hudak and Tracey Hudak had dou- bles. Kelly Dougherty, Amanda Daubert, and Tracey Hudak each went 3-4 at the plate. Champi finished 2-4 and earned the mound win. TRACK Lake-Lehman Girls 140, Nanticoke Area 10 The Lady Knights won every event in blowing out the Trojanettes April 24. Terri Peiffer led the win- ners with three personal victories. She took the high jump, the long jump, and the triple jump. Kieran Lucarino broke her own school record in the shot put by making a throw of 37-9. She added another victory in the discus. Peiffer also was part of the winning 400 Relay team. Lake-Lehman Boys 104.5 Nanticoke Area 44.5 Ryan Post was a triple-winner for the Knights by taking the 400, 800, and 3200 in Lehmanis win last Tuesday. Junior Matt Carey was a double- winner in the field events, as he won the shot put and the discus. Aaron Kubasik was the winner in the 100 dash with a time of 11.7 seconds. T.J. Dougherty took the 1600 run with a time of 5 minutes and 8 seconds. SOCCER Dallas 2, Berwick O Halli Williams scored one goal in each half to help the Lady Mountaineers remain unbeaten after the home game against Berwick last Wednesday. Caitlin Dukas earned the assist on the first goal, while Jill Youngblood found Williams in the second half for the insur- ance goal. Overall Dallas outshot Berwick 13-3 and had two more cornerkicks (5 to 3). Senior goalkeeper Melonie Sappe stopped all three shots on goal to earn the shutout. Lake-Lehman 3, Wyoming Valley West 2 Joelle Lussi scored the first two goals of the game as Lake-Lehman held off the Spartans at home. Both goals for Lussi came in the first half to give the Knights a 2-0 lead. The visitors scored once before halftime to make the halftime score 2-1. Lisa Wasser then scored unassisted in the 45th minute as Lake-Lehman gained a 3-1 advantage. A late Valley West goal trimmed the deficit to one goal, but the Spartans couldnit get another shot past keeper Deidre Wengen as Lehman pulled out the win. Stephanie Frank and Betsie Pitcher as- sisted on Lussi’s goals. Win for Hurricanes The Back Mountain Hurricanes won the Jack O’ Conner Memorial Basketball Tournament held in Scranton. Seated from left; Kristen O’Brien, Danielle Krawetz, Lyndsay Ellis, Erica Slocum, Erin De- laney, Kaley Roberts. Standing: Jack Ellis, coach; Kiley Williams, Melissa Gorski, Katherine O’Brien, Gres O’Brien, coach. Tryout schedule for 2001-2002 season Northeast Attack Soccer Club will hold tryouts at the Luzerne County fields #5, except for Sat., April 28, U-13 Boys tryout, it will be at the Forty Fort fields up front. Tryouts have been sched- uled as follows: Thurs., Apr., 26, Boys U-11 and under, Boys U-12, and Boys U-13, 5:30-7 p.m.; Sat., Apr. 28, Boys U-13 and under (including U12, Ull and under), 1-3 p.m., Boys; U- 16, 4-5:30 p.m, and Boys U-17, 4-5:30; Sun., Apr. 29, Girls U-14 and under (including U-13, U- 12, U-11), 5-6:30 p.m; Sat., May 5, Girls U-14 and under (includ- ing U-13, U-12, U-11), 2-3:30 p.m.; Sun., May 6, Boys U-16 and Boys U-17, 6-7:30 p.m. Call Jan or Dave Elston 477 - 3693, or Mark Stroney 838&i- The 5425, or visit our website at Dallas Post for all your Sports news www.neattacksc.20m.com forr more information. Seepage 12 for more sports scoresl |
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