—. Sports The Dallas Post Dallas, PA THE DALLAS POST Thursday, October 17, 2002 SWOOon COStS Mounts @ d Loss crimps post-season hopes From staff reports DALLAS — Wyoming Valley West, after a half of sputtering in its own tracks, simply decid- ed to make plays Monday after- noon. Dallas, meanwhile, seem- ingly forgot to. After nearly 30 minutes of scoreless football, the Spartans scored 18 points, in the third quarter en route to a 25-7 Wyoming Valley Conference in- ter-divisional victory over the Mountaineers in a game post- poned from Saturday because of soaked field conditions. The win was huge for Valley West (3-4), which is still trying to salvage a winning season. For Dallas, the loss was severe, leaving the Mountaineers at 4-3 and near the bottom of a logjam ~ See DALLAS, pg 12 POST PHOTOS/JIM PHILLIPS In action against Valley West, clockwise from above: Ryan Gryskevicz looked for a way to escape Spartans defenders; Jon Barbose cut back for a gain; Chris Hayes hung onto a pass. O’Dell named MAC player of the week King's College women’s volley- ball star Faith O'Dell has been named the MAC Freedom Con- ference player of the week, the MAC office announced Monday. O'Dell had an outstanding week as King’s kept its record perfect at 26-0 while winning a school-record fifth tournament title in one season by capturing the Oneonta State University Invitational. King's opened the week with a 3-0 victory over MAC Freedom rival FDU- Florham (18-2). King’s then won the Oneonta Tournament with- out dropping a game in its four matches. In the semifinals, King's routed Union (N.Y.), the seventh-ranked team in the Up- state New York Region, 30-23, 30-11, 30-19. In the match, O'Dell had 22 kills and 18 digs and hit .475 percent. In the championship match, the Lady Monarchs blasted 2001 NCAA qualifier Skidmore by scores of 30-18, | Black Knights play tough, but fall in final quarter From staff reports TUNKHANNOCK — Quarter- back Jonathan Clemens led the Tigers on a 90-yard drive in the closing minutes Saturday night, completing six of seven passes for 81 yards, as Tunkhannock (2-5) defeated Lake-Lehman, 28- 21, in a Wyoming Valley Confer- ence game. The Black Knights had a chance to win midway through the fourth quarter when they moved the ball 73 yards on 15 plays to the Tunkhannock 7. But on first-and-goal, Tunkhannock’s Tim Leber recov- ered a Lehman fumble to, give the Tigers the ball on their own 10 yard line. It was a tough loss for winless Lake-Lehman, which led 21-7 at halftime. Senior tailback Dave Harris scored three touchdowns for the Black Knights and fin- ished with 221 yards on 32 car- ries. But the fumble and an in- terception late in the third quar- ter killed any Black Knights chances to pick up their first victory. “The turnovers killed us,” said Lake-Lehman head coach Bob Langan. “It’s an old story for us. It's very frustrating. We ran the ball very well, and I thought our kids played well. But we self-de- structed.” Harris gave the Black Knights a 7-0 lead on a 33-yard run in the first quarter. Clemons con- nected with junior receiver Kyle Wilson on a 53-yard touchdown pass to tie the game at 7-7 with one second left in the first quar- ter. Lake-Lehman dominated the game in the second quarter, holding Tunkhannock’s offense to one first down and eight yards of total offense. Harris continued his hard running in the second quarter, scoring on runs of 66 and 14 yard to give the Black Knights a 21-7 half- time lead. Three Lehman quarterbacks combined to complete 6-of-15 passes for 63 yards, with Josh Cragle connecting on 3-of-4 for 38. Jim Mahon caught three passes for 23 yards and Phil Kasper caught two for 24. No change in Cup standings Rain washed out the soccer game scheduled for Oct. 11 between the Dallas and Lake-Lehman teams, leav- ing the standings in the race for the Back Mountain Cup at a standstill. The soccer game was rescheduled for Wednesday, Oct. 16 at Dallas. but the weather forecast put that date in jeopardy of another washout. The Cup will be awarded at the end of the 2002-03 school year to the high school whose varsity squads won the most head-to-head regular season meetings with its Back Mountain counterpart. Date Sport Location Winner Standing Sept. 5 Golf Huntsville Lehman LL1-DO Sept. 9 Field Hockey Dallas Lehman LL2-DO Sept. 20 Boys Soccer Lehman Lehman LL3-DO Sept. 25 © Golf Irem Lehman LL4-DO Sept. 25 Boys Cross Country Dallas Lehman LL5-DO Oct. 1 Volleyball Lehman Lehman LL6-DO Oct. 16* Boys Soccer Dallas Nov.2 Football Dallas * Took place too late for results to be included in this issue. | Baird wins, sets course record Mountaineers win girls team title From staff reports The Lake-Lehman senior es- tablished his fourth record of the cross country season Oct. 5 when he won the Endless Moun- tains Invitational at the Wyoming County Fairgrounds. Baird led the Black Knights to a second-place finish out of 26 teams. He beat the old meet mark by 14 seconds, finishing the 3.1-mile course in 16 min- utes, i3 seconds. Wyoming Area standout Marcus Magyar was second in 16:51.3. Dallas’s Ryan Dimmick fin- ished sixth in 17:24. On the girls side, Dallas's Whitney Adams was the top league finisher, taking fourth in 20:08.3, and teammate Lisa Gia- cometti’s seventh-place finish in 21:03.0 helped the Moun- taineers to the team title. Dal- las’s Jamie Stanish was 12th (21:33.2) and Robin Razawich was 14th in 21:49.3. 016 m0 wera ae; Back Mountain Flame captures second Karate winners at Keystones 13 kills, 13 digs and three blocks. For the week, she aver- The U0 Back Mountain Flame placed second at the Whitewater Cup Soccer Tournament held over La- Four local youth won medals in Karate at the 2002 Keystone State aged 4.65 kills and 4.14 digs, bor Day weekend. The girls played three teams from out of state, winning twice and losing once. Games. All four boys train with Sensei Ambrose at the Wyoming while hitting .373 percent. From left, first row: Alexe Rice, Sabrina Zurek, Rebecca Stull, Jessica Swingle, Alicia Kaiser. Valley Karate Club, in Wyoming. Gri d dinn er 0 ct 17 Second row: Caroline Milligan, Samantha Martin, Dana Krawetz, Sara Kneal, Demetra Szatkowski, From left: Sensei Jim Ambrose, Instructor and Coach; Ryan Be- . Alexa Decker, Meghan Gallis. berus, silver medalist for kumite (fighting), Jr. Black Belt Division; The Dallas Gridiron Club is Third row: Coaches Mark Johnson and Kelly Martin-Johnson. Derek Thomas, silver medalist for kumite (fighting), White and Yel- hosting their Annual Spaghetti low Belt Division, Novice and Advanced; Sean Boyer, bronze Dinner from 4-7 p.m. Thursday, medalist for kumite (fighting), White and Yellow Belt Division, Oct. 17 at the Dallas Senior H' 11 ; ; toad ; Senool Cafeteria. Take outs are Novice and Advanced; and Sean Flynn, silver medalist in kumite (fighting) and kata (forms), Green and Purple Belt Division, Inter- available. This dinner supports js & Ba the Dallas football program. dallaspost@leader.net mediate. Send your sports reports by
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