PAGE 8 The DAT TAS POST SUNDAY, JANUARY 1, 2012 Sports SEMINARY NAMES MOST VALUABLE PLAYERS Wyoming Seminary Upper School recently named Back Mountain athletes who received Most Valuable Player, Coaches Awards and Gold Awards for the fall season. Athletes who earned four varsity letters or three varsity and one junior varsity letters in their sport re- ceive Gold Awards. From left, are Frank Henry, of Dallas, a golfer who received the Most Valuable Golfer Award; Jane Henry, of Shavertown, a tennis player who received the Blue Knight Award; Alannah Trombetta, of Dallas, a cross country runner who received the Most Valuable Runner Award; and Emma Spath, of Shavertown, a tennis player, who received the Gold Award TUXEDO PENGUINS WIN LEAGUE CHAMPIONSHIP WG Sere 8 ‘, The Tuxedo Penguins won the Coal Street Ice Rink Junior Penguins In-House Hockey League Squirt / Pee Wee Championship. From left, first row, are Trey Schappert, Reid Karaska, Tyler Osi- power. Second row, Sydney Rusnock, Matt Romanowski, Martin Cryan. Third row, Kyle Miscavage, Kyle Dickson. Fourth row, Christina Schappert, Austin English, Zeb Chisdock, Jeff Engle. Fourth row, Bob Osipower and Jim Schappert, coaches. LOMBARDO HONORED AS GOLF TOURNEY SPONSOR Frank Lombardo, of Cook's Pharmacy in Shavertown, was honored with a plague for being a sponsor of the inaugural Dallas Foundation Golf Classic. From left, are Kristin Gattuso, board member; Lombardo, AJ Bittner, board member; Donna Farrell, board member; and Bonny Mannello, board member. FLACK HONORED AS GOLF TOURNEY SPONSOR RQ Alex Flack of Keystone Energy receives a sponsor plague for being a Silver Sponsor of the inaugural Dallas Foundation Golf Classic. From left are, Donna Farrell, board member; Kristin Gattuso, board member; Flack, Bonny Mannello, board member; and AJ Bittner, board member. ROCK SOLID CAGE TEAM COMPLETES SEASON Rock Solid AAU Boys 17U / tith grade basketball team recently completed its fifth season together with a record of 28 wins and four losses. Over the past five years, the team has captured 22 tournament championships, including being the three-time champs of the Run-N- Gun Classic in Binghamton, N.Y. and the two-time champs of the Battle on The Boardwalk in Wildwood, N.J. The team consists of players from Dallas, Wyoming Valley West and Hazleton Area High School. Members of the team are, from left, Eugene Lewis, Shane Dunn, Bobby Saba, Ryan Hoinski, James McCann, Doug Miller, head coach; Samantha Miller Scorekeeper, Travis Buckner, Jesse Francis, assistant coach; Frank Vito, Paul Brace and Jon Gimble. SPORTS BRIEFS BMYS hosts futsal soccer league Back Mountain Youth Soccer will host an indoor Futsal/ Soccer league beginning Janu- ary 13 and continuing through March for ages U6 to high school age at the Penn State Lehman Campus gym. FIFA futsal ball and rules will be used. Games will be played on weekends. All area intramural and travel teams are welcome. All area individual players seeking a team can sign up online as well. Divisions will be set to insure fair competition. More information and sign up sheets are available online at www.bmysa.org. Gymnastics program begins registration Shooting Starz Gymnastics, 250 Johnston St., Wilkes-Barre, will accept enrollment for 2012 on January 2, February 25 and 27, April 14 and 23, June 11 and 25, August 18 and 27, October 15 and October 29 and Decem- ber 22. For more information, please contact Joelle Rose at 822-1212. Basketball league sets schedule Firm A.C. Basketball will hold tryouts for the spring 2012. The full tryout schedule is listed online at www.firmacbasketball- .com. All tryouts will be held at the Kingston Rec. Center, 655Third Ave, Kingston. Cost is $40 which includes a t-shirt and the option to attend all of the tryouts. For more information and a registration form, e-mail firmac- basketball@gmail.com. Blast fastpitch teams seek players The Ul12 and U14 Endless Mountains Blast fastpitch teams are still looking for a few qual- ified players to fill their 2012 rosters. Those interested in Ul2 should contact John Keefe at 885-5808. Interested Ul4 players should contact Bill Kern at 498-5991. The Endless Mountains Blast is a travel fastpitch softball organization based in Tunk- hannock. Additional informa- tion can be found at http:// www.eteamz.com/endlessmt- blast, or by e-mailing ronh@sbsmod.com. Rock Solid tryouts slated Rock Solid AAU Basketball will hold try-outs for the Spring 2012 Travel Basketball Season on Sunday, Jan. 8 and Sunday, Jan. 15. Try-outs for boys and girls in fifth through 10th grades is $10 per player. For more information, contact Doug Miller at 696-2769 or e-mail TheRockRecCen- ter@bmbha.org. Send your sports news fo o news@mydallaspost.com A ¢ Ny a |
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