— ¢ PAGE 10 Tue DALLAS POST SUNDAY, SEPTEMBER 12, 2010 SPOrts Are you ready for some foothall? These guys Dallas Mountaineers show compassion and take home 14-7 victory over Coughlin. The Dallas Mountaineers foot- ball team handed Coughlin a 14-7 season-opener defeat but not be- fore showing compassion and memorializing two members of the Crusaders football team who are missing from this year’s ros- ter. Coughlin players Joel Wallen, who was killed when hit by a car on the Cross Valley Expressway in May, and Robbie Jones, who drowned in Mountain Lake two weeks ago, were remembered pri- or to the game when Dallas play- ers presented the Coughlin team captains with a wreath of red and blue flowers. Players on both teams wore Jones’ and Wallen’s numbers — 80 and 19 —- on the backs of their hel- mets. The Dallas win came in the game’s final period as the Moun- taineers scored a fourth-quarter touchdown to get the Division 3A victory. Dallas struck first, scoring one play after Keifer Rogers reco- vered a fumble. Running back Jim Roccograndi busted through the middle for a 21-yeard TD run and Kohner Rice’s point after gave the Mountaineers a 7-0 lead at 6:45 of the first. Dallas did little offensively af- ter its first touchdown until Goer- inger connected on a 26-yard pass to Paul Brace on the seventh play of the fourth quarter. Brace then dragged the pile into the end zone on the next play, a 13-yard touchdown run. Trailing 14-7, Coughlin started its final possession of the game at its 34-yard line with just over nine minutes to play. Ten consecutive running plays moved the ball to the Dallas 22 but a fourth-and-8 pass was incomplete. The victory gave Dallas inter- im head coach Tony Chiarucci his first coaching victory. Chia- rucci is filling in while head coach Ted Jackson finishes a PIAA suspension that will last three more games. Jackson, who recently retired as a teacher at Solomon/Plains school in the Wilkes-Barre Area School District, taught both Wal- len and Jones in his junior high physical education classes. Alyssah Dombek performs with the Dallas High School Marching Band. nt a i ah a SRR CHARLOTTE BARTIZEK PHOTOS/ FOR THE DALLAS H Adam Goeringer, Jordan Richardson and Jason Crispell present the Coughlin team with a commemorative wreath in memory of two Crusader players who died tragically this year. Mountaineer Paul Brace is tackled by Coughlin's Frankie Mah- moud. > » Jennifer Yannuzzi cheers for Dallas. Gilsky-era opens at Lake-Lehman with ZH5 opener loss The Lake-Lehman football team struggled throughaseries of second-half cramps and lost a fumble inside the Old Forge 5- yard line in a 21-15 non-confer- ence loss at Edward H. Edwards Stadium. As many as black Knights players were treated on the artificial turf at the same time. Old Forge clung to a 14-7 lead midway through the third quarter when lake-Lehman put together an impressive drive, going 61 yards in 12 plays to the Blue Dev- ils’ 4-yard line. But on second and goal, Black Knight quarterback Jared Novitski lost the ball and Old Forge recovered at the 3-yard line. Seven plays later, junior tail- back Louis Febbo broke and scored to give Old Forge a 21-7 lead. Lake-Lehman played the scor- ing series without the services of several key players, including de- fensive back Bryan Mathers and linebacker Cole Barbacci who both struggled with leg cramps. Despite the adversity, Lake- Lehman was able to pull within a touchdown when tight end Bran- don Roberts madeanice catchofa Novitski pass in the end zone from 11 yards out. Novitski scored on a 2-point conversion run to make it 21-15 with 8:18 remaining in the game. The era of first-year coach Jerry Gilsky got offto a great start asthe Black Knights took the opening kickoff and put together an im- pressive 1l-play, 65-yard drive. Four different players ran the ball and Roberts hauled ina 14-yard re- ception. Members of the Lake -Lehman High School cheerleading squad shout encouragement to their team Jerry Gilsky, the new head football coach at Lake-Lehman, shouts directions to his players during the game against Old Forge. a fn Hn A CHARLOTTE BARTIZEK PHOTOS/ FOR THE DALLAS POST Lake-Lehman gridder George Jones (No. 55) and several other Lake-Lehman players bring down an Old Forge opponent. Kayla Walsh shows her enthusi- asm while cheering for the Black Knights. Vito Sicurella plays the trumpet in the Lake-Lehman Marching Band.
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