i Se Si RH Sel i ] » i i 1 Sunday, September 21, 2008 Tue DALLAS POST PAGE 11 ie CHARLOTTE BARTIZ Irem Temple Country Club. FORE - 20th time or the 25th consecutive year, the annual Dallas Ro- F tary Fall Golf Classic was not rained out. Held on September 15 at Irem Temple Country Club in Dal- las, the golf tournament raised money to benefit various charitable causes sponsored by the Rotary Club. The fall golf tournament started out in mid-September to late Sep- tember and gravitated toward early October. After experi- encing colder weather later in the fall, the tournament was pulled back to mid-September about six years ago - a move that has been proven to be a wise one as the tourna- ment has never been postponed or cancelled due to in- clement weather. EK PHOTOS/ FOR Jake Moran, of Shavertown, tees off on the 10th hole at the 25th Annual Dallas Rotary Golf Tournament at THE DALLAS POST for Rich Lukasavage does everything right - knees bent, eye on the ball, smile on his face - as he putts. Bob Bachman, of North Lake, left, Glen Kornblau, of Shavertown, center, and Joseph Sola- no, of West Pittston, chip up to the green. SPOrts DIAMONDMEN PARTICIPATE ~~ the Back Mountain area are, from IN KEYSTONE GAMES Five Back Mountain baseball players recently joined 15 other athletes in the Pocono Region to participate in the Junior Baseball Division of the annual Keystone Games in York. The team successfully captured the bronze medal with a record of 3-2. Members of the team representing left, Josh Everett, Lake-Lehman High School; Stephen Ruch, Holy Redeemer High School; Mark Noyalis, Dal- las High School; Zach Yursha, Lake-Lehman High School; and Adam Paulaskas, Lake-Lehman High School. SPORTS BRIEFS Ice hockey registrations Back Mountain Ice Hockey will- the 2008-09 high school ice hockey season on Sunday, Sept. 21, at the Ice Box in Pittston. at 5 p.m. and varsity registrations will be at 6 p.m. Please bring full equipment. Register online at back- mountainhockey.org. For more information, e-mail ehnn@aol.com or call 675-4459. Girls can play softball Girls ages 11 and younger are Mountain Little League Girls Soft- ball Fall League. Games are played on Mondays and Wednesdays. For team and individual informa- or johper4@epix.net. REASON plans Open House R.E.A.S.O.N, the Retired Equine Adoption Society of the Northeast, will hold an Open House from 11 its farm on Route 292 in Centermo- reland between Dallas and Tunk- hannock. Admission is free. There will also be horses looking be to be adopted. Also on hand will be Diana Tuorto, a children’s author hold registration and evaluations for Junior varsity registrations will be invited to sign up to play in the Back tion, contact John Perez at 675-8324 a.m. to 5 p.m. on Saturday, Oct. 4, at and poet from New Jersey, who will sell and sign copies of her children’s novels with 50 percent of all sales from the event to be donated to REASON. For more information, call 333- 5266. Rock Rec Center plans basketball clinic The Rock Recreation Center, 340 Carverton Rd., Trucksville, will hold its Third Annual Fall Basketball Clinic on Monday and Wednesday evenings, October 13-27. The clinic is open to boys and girls kindergar- ten through sixth grade. For more information, call The Rock Rec Center at 696-2769. Austin running for Point Park Sarah Austin, a graduate of Dallas High School,was the third Point Park woman to cross the finish line in each of the first two cross country meets of the season. Austin had a time of 23:03 at the California Invitational on September 6 to help Point Park to a ninth-place finish out of 15 schools. On September 18, she had a time of 25:10 to help the Pioneers to a ninth-place finish out of 18 teams. Point Park is located in downtown Pittsburgh and has an enrollment of 3,800 students. Action from September 14 in the Wyoming Valley Youth Football Confer- ence is as follows: A TEAM Dallas 30 Exeter 0 The Dallas Jr. Mounts A team extend- ed its winning streak to 5-0 with a 30-0 win over the Exeter Panthers. In the first quarter, Dallas Mountain- eer Jason Siminovich returned the open- ing kick off 55 yards to set up an 8-yard touchdown run by Aaron Napkora. Simi- novich added two points on the conver- sion. The Mounts were off to an early lead. On the Mounts’ next possession, Nap- kora scored on a run from 22 yards out and Nick Luzetski added two more points on the conversion. At the end of the first quarter, Dallas was ahead, 16-0. Early in the second quarter, Zack Ma- cosky intercepted the Panthers and scampered 58 yards into the end zone to give the Mounts six more points and Napkora added two points on the con- version, putting the Jr. Mounts up, 24-0. Dallas got the ball back after holding Exeter on four plays and the offensive machine took over once again. Siminov- ich connected with Eric Zawatski as he made a one-handed catch and darted 52 yards for another Dallas touchdown. Exeter got the ball back, only to give it right back to Dallas as Chris Behm in- tercepted an Exeter pass. The Dallas defense had another im- pressive game as Connor Martinez, Matt Roncevich, Mike Harrison, Mark Mich- no, Steve Mingy and Russ Newell kept the Panthers scoreless. B TEAM Kingston Township 38 West Pittston 0 The Kingston Township Raiders B team used four rushing touchdowns and a 65-yard touchdown pass to defeat the West Pittston Panthers, 38-0. Raider touchdowns while Corey Patrick rushed for one and scored on a 65-yard touchdown pass from Michael Olengin- ski. Aaron Kliamovich, Tanner Gattuso, Olenginski and Patrick rounded off the scoring with 2-point conversions. The Raiders’ defense was anchored by Adam Niznik, Bret Storrs, Michael Gold- en and Shawn Spencer who combined to keep the Panthers limited two first downs through the game. Kyle Piskorik and Tanner Gattuso in- tercepted passes in key situations for the Raiders. C TEAM Dallas 18 West Pittston 12 The Dallas Jr. Mounts C Team evened its record on the year at 2-2 with an excit- ing 18-12 overtime victory against the visiting West Pittston Rams on Septem- ber 7. After trailing 6-0 at the half, Dallas forced the Rams to punt the ball into the arms of Justin Hutchins who returned it 80 yards for a touchdown. The conver- sion failed. The Jr. Mounts once again held the Rams and this time it was Xavier Bar- ber’s turn for a big return, rumbling 65 yards to the Rams’ 10. A few plays later, Hutchins plowed in for the go-ahead score. The lead was short-lived as the Rams were able to punch one more score in be- fore the end of regulation. Dallas stop- ped the conversion, forcing overtime. Dallas had first possession from the 10-yard line and, after three plays, took the ball to the l-yard line from where Hutchins scored his third touchdown of the game with a blast up the middle. The conversion attempt was halted short of the goal line. With the ball now in the hands of the Rams, it was time for the Dallas defense to get stingy. Led by Michael Farrell, Barber and Hutchins, Dallas held West Omar Nijmeh rushed for three of the Pittston to negative yardage. Subse- In the beginning of the second quar- quent pass attempts on third and fourth downs were broken up by Jay Bittner and Joshua Lydon to seal the victory. Dallas 22 Exeter 16 It was a tale of two halves in Exeter as the Dallas Jr. Mounts C team came from behind to defeat the Exeter Panthers, 22- 16, on September 14. Exeter started the scoring with touch- down and a two-point conversion, but Justin Hutchins and the Jr. Mounts an- swered with a score of their own. Exeter scored again before the end of the half for a 16-6 lead. : Dallas came out strong in the second half as Xavier Barber scored on the Jr. Mounts’ first play from scrimmage and added the conversion to pull within two points. After a Joey Thompson fumble recovery, lightning struck once more as Barber broke through the line for a 50- yard touchdown run and followed up with another 2-pointer behind the block- ing of Charles Harry and Christian Gold- smith. That was all the defense needed. Jerry Ogurkis anchored the line while Stephen Kocher and Connor Maloney played well in support as the Panther of- fense was shut down. After Connor Phil- lips recovered an Exeter fumble, Dallas was able to run out the clock to preserve the victory. Plymouth 30 Back Mountain 8 The Plymouth Indians scored early against the Back Mountain Bobcats and continued to score, taking a 30-8 victory. RJ Driscoll returned the kickoff after the Indians’ first TD to the 50-yard line. That carry was followed by carries by Cameron Brennan, Nick Whitesell, Nate O’Donnell and Stone Mannello. Although the Bobcats turned the ball over on downs, the defensive line of Erik Sweppeheiser, Chris Allen, Ian Evans, Bradley Adams and Tom Piatt did a great job slowing down the Indians. Great tackles were made by Cole Wyffels, Owen Morgan, Chris Allen, Carmeron Brennan and Stone Mannello. ter, the offensive line of Jonathan Adams, Zack Bloom, Nate Hazeltine, Nick Karuza, Charlie Kuschke and Dan- ny Schnable battled the Indians’ defense for a Bobcat first down. Carries were made by Cameron Brennan, Nick White- sell and Stone Mannello but the Bobcats had to turn the ball over on downs and the Indians took possession on the 45- yard line. The Indians drove the field and scored but a great tackle by Nick White- sell forced the incompletion of the two points. Nate Hazeltine returned the kickoff to the Bobcats’ 45-yard line and, although impressive carries were made by RJ Dri- coll, Nat LaBar and Zack Gabel, the Back Mountain boys were unable to make a first down so Erik Sweppenheiser punt- ed the ball to the Indians who managed to score again. The Indians kicked the ball to the Bob- cats to begin the second half and Nick Whitesell returned the ball to the 43- yard line. Carries were made by Nate La- Bar and RJ Driscoll but the Bobcats were forced to turn the ball over on downs. Defensive tackles were made by Bobcats Zack Hill, Charlie Kuschke, Zack Gabel, Nate LaBar and Joe Ciaccia, forcing the Indians to turn the ball over on downs. The Bobcats started the fourth quar- ter off strong by driving the field led by the ball carrying of Stone Mannello, Nate O'Donnell and Nick Whitesell who managed two first downs but were un- able to advance further. The Indians took over possession of the ball and scored with just four minutes remaining. The Bobcats put up a strong fight to- ward the end of the game behind carries by Cameron Brennan, Nick Whitesell, Nate O'Donnell, RJ Driscoll and Stone Mannello and, on a quarterback keep by Mannello, marched into the endzone for their only score of the game. Kingston Township 20 West Pittston Rams 0 The Kingston Township Raiders re- turned to the win column with an out- standing defensive team effort in shut- © Jason Simonovick returns kickoff for 55 yards, leads Dallas Jr. Mounts to 3-0 ting out the West Pittston Rams, 20-0. The defense was led by many players combing to hold the Rams scoreless. The middle defense was led by the ef- forts of the linebacker core of Ricky Mor- gan, Colin Pertl and Devin Robbins. The perimeter was secured by the outstand- ing efforts of Josh Holgrem, Michael An- derson, Jay Culp, Dalton Gattuso and Mark Bulford. The offensive scoring began with a 44- yard run by Ricky Morgan behind the blocking of Andrew Grobowski and An- drew Chopka. After a strong defensive effort an- chored by the line of Mustafa Almecky and Justin Brown, the Raiders’ second score was set up by a long run by Dalton Gattuso to the Raiders’ 16. Pertl then ran around left end behind the blocking of Morgan Boedecker and Abdul Almecky to put the Raiders up, 12-0. The final score was a 26-yard cut back run-around the left run by Ricky Morgan behind the strong blocking of Blake Dyke. The two points were added by a hard-nose run up the middle by Dalton Gattuso. D TEAM Dallas 32 Exeter 6 The Dallas Jr. Mounts D team contin- ued its quest for an undefeated season last Sunday with a 32-6 victory over Exe- ter. The defense flexed its muscles again as it didn’t give up a first down the entire game. Blaine Rex, Joe Brennan, Hunter Love and Jacob Esposito led the way with several gang tackles. The offense showed its diversity as nine different players carried the ball for big gains. Todd Phillips and Steven New- ell had long touchdown runs while Blaine Rex and Michael Huntington found the endzone for the extra-point conversions. Dallas moves to 5-0 and plays Duryea today in a battle of the only undefeated teams.
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