> a, sal on Sa a Sunday, August 26, 2007 Tue DALLAS POST PAGE 13 Sports The Kingston Township Raiders youth football program went 3-1 last weekend to open the Wyoming Valley West Youth Football League season. The A-Team fell, 22-16, while the B-team, C- team and D-team all posted wins. D TEAM Kingston Township Raiders 20 Plymouth Shawnee Indians12 The Raiders D team rode a strong per- formance from Devin Robbins with three touchdowns to a 20-12 victory over the Plymouth Shawnee Indians. Rob- bins scored on touchdown runs of 46, 44 and 42 yards. Mason Gattuso added a two-point conversion to round out the scoring. Defensively, the Raiders were led by Michael Doggett with a fumble recovery and tackles for losses by Matt Maransky, Andrew Grabowski and Joshua Hold- redge. C TEAM Plymouth Shawnee Indians 6 The Kingston Township Raiders de- feated the Plymouth Indians, 20-0, in the season opener on Sunday. Tanner Gattuso scored three rushing touchdowns on runs of 2, 50 and 35 yards facilitated by key blocks by Mitch Kelly, Christian Roberts and Ricky Mor- gan. Peter Capitano ran for a successful two-point conversion. The Indians were held scoreless as a result of a solid overall effort by the de- The Dallas Post wants to publish results from your games every week. All you need to do is have someone e-mail game write-ups and results to us at news@my- dallaspost.com by 3 p.m. every Tuesday and we'll let everyone know how your team did in the following Sunday's edition. If you have photos, feel free to e-mail them as well and we'll do out best to get in as many photos as possible. If you have any questions, call editor Dotty Martin at 970-7440. fensive line led by Jason Anderson and Ryan Martin resulting in five turnovers: Nick Mathers (one interception and a fumble recovery), Brett Storrs (fumble recovery), Christian Roberts (fumble re- covery) and Connor Motley (fumble re- covery). B TEAM Kingston Township Raiders 24 Plymouth Shawnee Indians 6 The Kingston Township Raiders uti- lized touchdown runs from four differ- ent players while rolling to a 24-6 victory against the Plymouth Shawnee Indians. Michael Olenginski, Jesse Shaffer, Chris Knecht, and Corey Patrick scored touch- downs for the Raiders behind the block- ing of Kyle Kotulski, Joey Stier, Robert Wargo, Brian Vojtko, and Jason Morgan. The defensive effort was led by JT Ca- SUBMITTED PHOTO Jim Roccograndi (#47) cuts back a run during the Kingston Township Raiders A-game against Plymouth last Sunday. Tyler Bulford (#59) clears a path through the defense while John Dougherty (#2) trails the play. rey and Omar Nijmeh, each with two sacks, along with Aaron Kliamovich and Shawn Spencer recording four solo tack- les. . ATEAM Plymouth Shawnee Indians 22 Kingston Township Raiders 16 The Kingston Township Raiders came up short in its opening game against Plymouth this past Sunday. Ply- mouth scored on its first possession with a 40-yard TD pass to Lucky Wil- liams followed by a two-point conver- sion . KTs Jim Roccograndi answered with an 80-yard kick-off return for a touchdown. Roccograndi added the con- version. Plymouth scored in the second period with touch down runs of 20 and 15 yards, including a two-point conversion, all by Lucky Williams. The KT raiders held Plymouth score- Raiders go 31 in opener; Dallas B team wins less in the second half and had a 15-yard touchdown by Jim Roccograndi fol- lowed with a two-point conversion. The offensive attack was lead by Jim and Kris Roccograndi, John Dougherty and Nathan Kish. The KT defense was led by Luke Ed- wards and John Dougherty with a total of 18 solo tackles. Kris Roccograndi had an interception that led to the second KT touchdown. DALLAS B TEAM WINS The Dallas B Team started the season strong with an impressive 34-6 win over Exeter. Early in the first quarter, Ryan Zapot- icky connected to Nick Luzetski for a 15- yard touchdown pass and John Hutchins followed for the two-point conversion. Zapoticky also used the “air attack” passing to Mike Boland for over 75 yards and a touchdown. The offense also in- cluded touchdowns from Zapoticky scoring from 25 yards out, Aaron Nap- kora from 15 yards and Mark Michno breaking free for a 45-yard touchdown. Chris Beam scored the two-point con- version after the Michno touchdown. Ryan Cheskiewicz also added to the of- fense with 45 yards rushing. Exeter's Marty Michaels scored a touchdown with seconds left in the game to put Exeter on the board. The Dallas defense was led by Ryan Monk, Ryan Cheskiewicz, Logan Brac and Chris Beam. : Black Knights very optimistic Lehman gridders confident they'll get first victory | under current head coach i REBECCA BRIA rbria@timesleader.com It’s no secret the Lake-Leh- man High School football team had a rough season last year. A new head coach came in, only a few seniors were on the team, and the boys did not win one game. But af- ter a year of rebuilding and hard work, the Knights are strong, confident and ready to win. This year’s team was on the field in uniform Wednes- day, preparing for the fast- approaching season. Carl Kern took the head football coaching position at Lake-Lehman last year after former coach Greg Myers left to become a coach at Crestwood. A resident of Lehman Township, Kern played on the Lake-Lehman team in high school. He has been an assistant coach at Berwick and Lake-Lehman. Kern says this season will be a good one because the team is stronger and has more speed, elements which he feels were lacking last year. The team strengthened five days a week during the off-season. Lamoreaux i ith. Th, Hake SHR HEA SSS SSR Se Sa CHARLOTTE BARTIZEK PHOTOS/ FOR THE DALLAS POST Captains of the 2007 Lake-Lehman Black Knights football team are, kneeling, Nathan Volkel. From left, standing, Roger Jayne, Cody Lamoreaux, Ken Pollock and Boyd Remington. CHARLOTTE BARTIZEK FOR THE TIMES LEADER/CHARLOTTE BARTIZEK Joe Bevevino, Dallas, chips out of the sand on the ninth at Fox Hill Country Club Brown wins Tryba title: Dallas best team “We knew what our prob- lem was and we knew we couldn’t fix it last year,” Kern said. “I think we’ll be very, very respectable this year.” The coach says his team is capable of at least a 5-5 record, if not better, this fall. He’s not sure when ex- actly he and the team will celebrate their first victory together, but he’s almost cer- tain it will occur this season. “I know for the kids it’s go- ing to feel great,” said Kern. And, even though the team did not actually win a game last season, the coach says the players learned a lot. The boys faced humility on the field repeatedly and re- mained dedicated, showing up for practices and games. The losing season made the players better athletes and better people, according to Kern. Nathan Volkel, a quarter- back and captain for Lake- Lehman, has been playing football for 11 years. The ju- nior joined the team last year and says most starters are back and everyone wants to win. Volkel thinks Lake- Lehman has a good chance of making playoffs and says the team’s first win under Kern may come against Wyoming Area during the initial game of the season. “It’ll be a big relief ‘cause last year was a tough sea- son,” Volkel said of the team’s possible future win. There are six seniors on this year’s team, including Remington Boyd, Eli Foss, Dan McHugh, Ken Pollock, Matt Sikora and Wally Sim- ko. Captains are Remington Boyd, Ken Pollock, Roger Jayne, Cody Lamoreaux and Nathan Volkel. The team’s nea al Senior members of the Lake-Lehman football team are, from left, kneeling, Wally Simko, Eli Foss and Boyd Remington. Standing, Matt Sikora, Ken Pollock and Dan McHugh. quarterbacks are Chris Pra- ter, Thomas Stepanski and Nathan Volkel. Carl Kern serves as the head coach and Dan Johnson is assistant coach. The 2007 Lake-Lehman football team roster is as fol- lows: Remington Boyd, Eli Foss, Dan McHugh, Ken Pol- lock, Matt Sikora, Wally Sim- ko, Tyler Barrall, Josh Brucher, Ronnie Coolbaugh, Joe Harrison, Dave Heller, Scott Hizney, Roger Jayne, Vinny Johnstone, Cody La- moreaux, Keith Roberts, Aa- ron Setzer, Thomas Stepan- ski, Bob Tomolonis, Nathan Volkel, Zach Cragle, Bill Evans, Chris Fedak, Adam Holena, Greg Josuweit, Tho- mas Kanios, Cody Komrow- ski, Pat Moss, Steve Olshem- ski, Chris Prater, Thomas Smith and Cody Starck. Tunkhannock’s Dakota Brown shot a 2-over 72 to win the indi- vidual medal in the Wyoming Val- ley Conference’s Tom Tryba Pre- season Invitational Tournament at Fox Hill Country Club. Dallas took home the team championship. Brown beat out Dallas senior Joe Bevevino and Holy Redeem- er’s Michael Napkori who both fired 74s. Bevevino, who won the tournament as a freshman in 2004, and Napkori both had iden- tical scores of 37 on.their front and back nine. While the individual top scores were tight, the race for the team championship was even closer. Even though Bishop Hoban merged with Bishop Hafey, Bish- op O’Reilly and Seton Catholic to form Holy Redeemer High School, the Wilkes-Barre school’s competition with Dallas remains. That was evident as Dallas, which has won the last two WVC Dakota Brown, Tunkhannock, reads the ninth green at Fox 1 Hill Country Club. championships, beat Redeemer by one stroke to claim the team title with a score of 310. Helping the Mountaineers to the title were Steve Sabol (76), Chris Skevofilax (79) and An- drew McCabe (81).
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