Sunday, March 18, 2007 Tue DALLAS POST PAGE 7 Sports SPORTS BRIEFS Dallas softball holding clinic The Dallas High School soft- ball team will hold a clinic for girls ages 7-14 on Sunday, March 25 in the Dallas Middle School gymnasium. Instruction for offense and defense will be held from noon to 3 p.m., while in- ction for pitchers and catch- will take place from 34 p.m. The clinic will be under the direction of Dallas head coach Joyce Tinner, a former standout at Dallas and Penn State Uni- versity. The cost is $20 for the offense /defense clinic, $10 for the pitchers/ catchers clinic, or $25 for both. Participants should bring their own gloves and wear com- fortable clothing. Sneakers are required on the gym floor. Food and sports drinks are prohib- ited, but water is allowed. For more information, call 696-0951. Basketball shootout being held March 18 The Kingston Township Rec- reation Commission will hold its 12th annual Back Mountain Basketball Shootout Competi- tion at 12:30 p.m. Sunday, March 18 at the Dallas Middle School gym. The free throw and three-point shooting competi- tion is open to boys and girls between the ages of 7-14. Each event will have multiple age flights with shooting dis- tances modified accordingly. Prizes will be presented to the top finishers in each flight and overall champions. There will also be a parent-child team shooting competition giving parents and their children an opportunity to compete with each other. Registration and warm-ups will begin at noon. For more information, call Bob Zaruta at 675-0066. Dallas 8th, 7th grade girls win hoop titles The Dallas Middle School eighth and seventh grade girls basketball teams recently captured the championship in their respective divisions of the East-West League. Both teams defeated Tunkhannock in the championship game. Mary-Kate Osick was selected Most Valuable Player in the eighth grade division and Sabrina Zurek was selected as MVP in the seventh grade division. Members of the eighth grade team were Katie Dar- ling, Sara Flaherty, Taylor Kapral, Sarah Konopki, Kelly Mazur, Erika McCabe, Tamara Nijmeh, Mary-Kate Osick, Jackie Pearson, Lauren Scafi- di, Melissa Snyder, Melissa Tucker, Katie Yanchuk and Sabrina Zurek. Members of the seventh grade team were Allie Gris- wald, Sarah Lowery, Jessica Missal, Kassandra Michno, Melissa Tucker, Leah Zum- chak, and Erika McCabe, Chelsea English, Tamara Nij- PHOTO COURTESY HUNTER MARTIN/PENN ATHLETICS Former Lake-Lehman standout Matt Dragon with wrestling with the University of Pennsylvania at the NCAA National Championships this weeknd. Dragon wrestling with pain By JOE PETRUCCI For The Dallas Post Matt Dragon needs just one word to describe his sophomore season wres- tling for the University of Pennsylvania: long. That’s not to say it hasn’t been a suc- cess. The former state champion at Lake-Lehman stormed to his second- consecutive Eastern Intercollegiate Wrestling Association title two weeks ago at East Stroudsburg University to earn another ticket to nationals. And that’s not to say the toil of being an NCAA Division I athlete and attend- ing Penn’s Wharton Business School has “| struggle every day. I'm learning how to wrestle with the injury. | haven't had to do that.” Matt Dragon Standout wrestler taken a toll on the always hard-working Dragon. It’s that for the first time in awhile, Dragon has had to make major adjust- ments to his repertoire because of a right shoulder injury he suffered early in De- cember. Dragon termed the injury a “muscle tear” and said it would require surgery after the season. It’s with more well-rounded technique and the same old determinedness that Dragon will try to make his season even longer at the NCAA Division I Wrestling Championships, which are taking place this weekend at the Palace of Auburn Hills in Michigan. “I struggle every day,” said Dragon, who is 24-9 on the year and ranked 20th in the country at 157 pounds. “I'm learn- ing how to wrestle with the injury. I haven’t had to do that.” Still, Dragon recorded one of the two most convincing wins at the EIWA finals on March 3. After giving up a takedown 30 seconds into the second period of his championship bout with Navy’s John Jarred, Dragon responded with a four- point move late in the period. The top seed added another four-point move in See DRAGON, Page 8 KUKOSKY SCORES 500TH CAREER POINT WEARING - AND WINNING - THE GOLD Lake-Lehman wrestling standout Scott Davis brought a gold medal back to the Back Mountain last weekend after capturing a state championship in the 140-pound division at the 70th annual PIAA Class 2A Wrestling Cham- pionships in Hershey. Davis defeated Northeast Regional champion Joey Anceravage in the championship bout. The Lake-Lehman senior finished with only two losses this season, one to Coughlin 3A standout Justin Accor- dino and the other to Towanda's Mike Mauer. Davis redeemed himself for the loss to Mauer by defeating him in the state semifinals. meh, Sara Flaherty, Katie Yanchuk Lauren Scafidi, and $ Sabrina Zurek. The coaches of the teams were Mark Lacey, Kelly Mar- tin-Johnson and Maureen Kenney. Gate of Heaven School seventh grade student Jared Kukosky recently scored the 500th point of his career as a member of the Gators. The son of Tom and Gail Kukosky received a ceremonial game ball to mark the milestone. Tom Ku- kosky is also the team’s coach. Attending the ceremony, from left, are Tom Ku- kosky, Jared Kukosky and Gail Kukosky.
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