Sunday, November 18, 2012
Tue DALLAS POST
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Sports
High school football season comes fo an end
Dallas finishes with 7-4 slate
BILL TARUTIS PHOTOS/ FOR THE DALLAS POST
Dallas quarterback Ryan Zapoticky, right, gets pushed out of bounds by Berwick’s Travis Potter
in the District 2 Class 3A semifinal game at Crispin Field in Berwick.
gmuntaineers’ season ends
h 28-7 loss to Berwick.
By TOM ROBINSON
For The Dallas Post
The Dallas passing attack
was feared from the time foot-
ball season started.
It wasn’t until the Mountain-
gers. developed ht
d a, running
passing game
game that the
flourished.
Dallas started the season
with a new offensive and de-
fensive approach under first-
coach Bob Zaruta.
en the Mountaineers lost
ree games, further alter-
ations were needed.
Zaruta altered practice rou-
tines, made minor personnel
adjustments and often put the
Mountaineers in different for-
mations.
“We went more from a sin-
gle-back set to two- and three-
back sets,” Zaruta said. “We
went with the change in forma-
tions to complement the in-
creased emphasis on running.”
After the tough start, only
one route remained to the
postseason. Dallas had to win
its final seven regular-season
games in order to claim the
last spot in the District 2 Class
Dallas running back Kris Roccograndi, right, runs through the
grasp of Berwick’s Travis Potter for a touchdown in the District
2 Class 3A semifinal game at Crispin Field in Berwick.
AAA playoffs, including beat-
ing Crestwood and Coughlin,
two teams that had been ahead
before ultimately occupying
the next two spots in the
standings behind the Moun-
taineers.
The streak started with a
hard-fought 17-7 win over
Coughlin and concluded with
See DALLAS, Page 10
Lehman turns in 6-5 record
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BILL TARUTIS PHOTOS/ FOR THE DALLAS POST
Lake-Lehman's Tom Donovan, left, runs outside as Wyoming Area's Joe Taylor moves in for the
tackle in the District 2 Class 2A semifinal game against Lake-Lehman in West Pittston.
Knights’ season ends with
loss to top-seeded Warriors.
By TOM ROBINSON
For The Dallas Post
The Lake-Lehman High
School football season had its
share of ups and downs.
“With a young team, you're go-
ing to go through stages like
that,” said Black Knights coach
Jerry Gilsky.
The high points, including an
early four-game winning streak
and back-to-back wins late in the
season, got the team into the
playoffs and provided hope for
the future of a program that loses
just three offensive and two de-
fensive starters.
“Im not totally content, but
I'm happy that we made the play-
offs this year,” Gilsky said. “We
faced a lot of adversity along the
way this year and the kids kept
fighting and fighting and made
the playoffs.”
Lake-Lehman finished 6-5, los-
ing in the District 2 Class AA
semifinals to top-seeded Wyom-
ing Area, a team the Black
Knights beat, 15-14, with a fourth-
quarter comeback in the third
game of the season.
The win over Wyoming Area
was the high point of a season
Lake-Lehman quarterback Bill Hillman, right, runs a keeper as
Wyoming Area's Zack LaNunziata moves in for the tackle in the
District 2 Class 2A semifinal game against Lake-Lehman in West
Pittston.
carries. The line clearly played a
part in the success with the top
four runners all averaging at least
4.7 yards per carry.
John Van Scoy ran for 403
yards and six touchdowns on 73
carries while Brady Butler added
279 yards on 50 carries and Tom
Donovan had 275 yards.
“We put together a nice solid
that featured an offense produc-
ing 42 or more points four times
and a defense posting two shut-
outs.
“The kids did well,” Gilsky
said. “We struggled a little more
toward the second half.”
When the Black Knights were
at their best, they controlled the
ball on the ground.
Dustin Jones ran for 1,180
yards and 18 touchdowns on 206
See LEHMAN, Page 10
JUNIOR MOUNTS
HONORED FOR SUPER BOWL WIN
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embers of the Dallas Junior Mounts B team run onto the field at Mountaineer Stadium
during halftime of the Old Shoe Game to be honored for winning the Super Bowl the previous
week. The Junior Mounts defeated the WWWE Panthers, 14-6, on Oct. 28 to earn their fifth
straight perfect season and their fifth consecutive Super Bowl championship.
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FIERCE FERRETS
FINISH SECOND IN CHAMPIONSHIP
The Back Mountain Fierce Ferrets placed second in the Wyoming Valley Cup championship. The
girls battled back from the bottom to play three games which ended with shootouts, allowing
them to compete in the championship. From left, first row, are Joellen Spencer, Cassidy Ford,
Alexis Lanza, Olivia Habib, Kristen O'Malley, Kaylee Yagloski, Halee Kush, Amy Supey, Sarah Salus,
Morgna Dworak and Ashley Wheeler. Second row, Bob Kush, Eric Supey, Ken Wheeler, Dave Salus,
coaches. Absent at the time of the photo were Kaitlyn Van Etten and Kirsten Kizis.
BMYSA hosts indoor futsal soccer league
Back Mountain Youth Soccer
will host an indoor futsal/soc-
cer league Jan. 11 through
March for ages U6 to high-
school age at the Penn State/
Alumni soccer game
slated for Nov. 24
The Annual Dallas High
School Alumni Soccer Game will
be played at 11 a.m. on Saturday,
Nov. 24 at Cleary Field, Dallas
um.
More information and sign
up sheets are available online at
www.bmysa.org. Registration
closes Dec. 31.