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THE DALLAS POST
Sunday, December 30, 2012
REVIEW
Continued from Page 9
Sandy Jackson, wife of former
Dallas High School football coch
Ted Jackson Sr., and her son, Ted
Jackson Jr. were organizing a
Mountaineer football player re-
union spanning Ted Sr.’s career
from 1985-2011 to be held at the
Irem Temple Country Club.
Members of the Dallas La-
crosse Booster Club honored se-
nior members of the Dallas High
School boys and lacrosse teams
prior to the teams’ game against
Lake-Lehman. Senior members
of the Dallas team were Morgan
Cohen, Karsten Leu, Aaron Liss-
es, Jake Piskorick, Brett Wanek,
Zack Taylor, Emiy Capitano,
Brooke Evans, Aubrey Gryskiew-
icz, Dana Jolley, Kaylin Russell,
Sarah Stewart, Melissa Tucker
and Lynn Viercinski.
Brian D. Stanchak, Penn State
Wilkes-Barre Director of Athlet-
ics, announced this year’s induc-
tees into the Penn State Wilkes-
Barre Athletics Wall of Fame.
They are Charles Boughton, Jill
Chocallo, James Miliauskas and
Phillips Navola.
JUNE
Jake Chielli, of the Dallas High
School swim team, and Sarah
Zerfoss, a member of the diving
team, won the PIAA Outstanding
Swimmer and Outstanding Diver
Awards, respectively, for the
2011-2012 season.
The Lady Mountaineers from
Dallas High School hung tight
and nipped arch-rival Lake-Leh-
man, 2-1, in the District 2 spring
girls soccer seminal game.
Hundreds of former Dallas
High School football players aged
20, 30 and 40 attended a football
reunion honoring Ted Jackson’s
27-year career at Irem Temple
Country Club. Jackson’s position
as the Dallas High School head
football coach was opened to the
public due to an unsatisfactory
_ performance review in late 2011
and, after a hearing on the mat-
ter, the board opted to hire Sha-
vertown resident Bob Zaruta to
fill the position. But the hundreds
of former football players at the
reunion gave Jackson a different
review.
Lake-Lehman’s Jacob Bevan
signed a letter of intent to attend
Keystone College to continue his
academic and running career. Be-
van was the District 2 AA 800 me-
ter champion, qualifying for
states in both the 800 meter run
and the high jump.
Dave Schuster picked up his
fourth win of the season, holding
the Athletics to four hits while
striking out nine as the Yanks
snuck by the A’s, 54, in Back
Mountain Baseball action.
A recent coaches poll of the
Central Susquehanna Lacrosse
League selected three Dallas
players and one Lake-Lehman
player to first team All Confer-
ence honors. John Butchko, a se-
nior at Lake-Lehman was select-
ed as first team defense and first
team long stick midfielder for the
second year in a row. First team
attackman Morgan Cohen, a Dal-
las senior, was second in the
league in scoring with 31 goals
and 24 assists. Senior defense-
man Zack Taylor was the anchor
of the Dallas defense and led his
team in takeaways and scored
three goals this season. George
Pfeiffer, a sophomore goalie from
Dallas, led the league in goals
again by only allowing 54 goals
this season.
JULY
Lake-Lehman Tiff Oplinger
doubled to center to start the bot-
tom of the first inning in the 33rd
Annual Robert L. Dolbear All-
Stars Softball Game sponsored
by the Kiwanis Club of Dallas.
Oplinger and her West team-
mates trounced the East, 12-2, in
the game at the Back Mountain
Little League field.
The Back Mountain Yankees
completed the season with a 15-1
winning streak and an overall re-
cord of 6-5 to capture the Back
Mountain Major League Cham-
pionship with an 11-3 win over
the Phillies. Members of the Yan-
kees team were Bobby Bogumil,
Joseph Fioti, Beaudyn Lewis, De-
rek Answini, Darren Kerdesky,
Dylan Schuster, Mark Roginski,
Joseph Brennan, Carl Markow-
ski, David Schuster, Collin Pertl
and Michael Doggett.
Sarah Zerfoss, a 2012 graduate
of Dallas High School, an-
nounced she would continue her
academic and diving career at
Clarion University majoring in
communications. Caitlin Barry, a
Dallas High School swim team
captain, decided to continue her
academic and athletic career at
Westminster College in New Wil-
mington while Dallas High
School senior Erica Luzetski
would continue her diving and
academic careers at Ithaca Col-
lege.
Friends and family of 22-year-
old Paige Selenski weren't exact-
ly surprised when the 2008 Dal-
las High School graduate was re-
cently named to the U.S. Olympic
Field Hockey Team. For Selenski,
a University of Virginia senior
majoring in English, making the
team was a long time coming.
Brian Selenski said his daughter
was first introduced to the sport
as a seventh-grader at Dallas
Middle School by her late mother
Judy’s suggestion to join a field
hockey camp,
Back Mountain American held
off an improbable rally by Green
Ridge to hang on for a 10-9 victo-
ry to win the Section 5 Little
League major baseball tourna-
ment and a spot in the state play-
offs.
AUGUST
It was a great ride for the Bob
Horlacher 9-10 year-old softball
team but a heartbreaking 3-2 de-
feat to Canal of Delaware in the
Eastern Regional Tournament
was a bit hard to take.
Two quadragenarians raced to
first-place finishes in the 31st an-
nual Wilkes-Barre Triathlon,
known for its tricky Back Moun-
tain hills and unpredictable
weather. Sean Robbins, 43, of
Shavertown, and Amy Rummel,
41, of Kalamazzo, Mich., crossed
the finish line first in the men’s
and women’s divisions, respec-
tively.
The Dallas High School foot-
ball team, under new head coach
Bob Zaruta, was preparing for its
regular season opener against
Wyoming Valley West while
Lake-Lehman, under the direc-
tion of head coach Jerry Gilsky,
was ready for its home opener
against Old Forge High School.
Jack Snyder was recognized by
his fellow Back Mountain Little
League Board members and was
presented with a senatorial docu-
ment issued by Senator Lisa Bak-
er, congratulating him on over 35
years of service to the organiza-
tion.
Logan Paczewski, 8, of Dallas,
finished in the top 10 for the sec-
ond consecutive year at the U.S.
Kids Golf World Championship,
placing ninth of 115 golfers from
18 countries can across the U.S. in
his age group. He placed fourth in
CHARLOTTE BARTIZEK FILE PHOTO/ FOR THE DALLAS POST
Sarah Zerfoss dives for Dallas, earning scores of 6 and 61/2 for
this attempt.
2011.
SEPTEMBER
The Dallas Jr. Mounts contin-
ued their winning ways with a
32-8 win over the Plymouth Indi-
ans in Wyoming Valley Youth
Football Conference action. Ja-
cob Esposito opened the scoring
for the Jr. Mounts with a 15-yard
run around the right side. Steven
Newell added another with a run
around the left behind key blocks
by Sean Cuba and Blaine Rex.
Wyoming Valley West junior
quarterback Mike Baur ran for
three touchdowns and accounted
for 25 yards of offense as Wyom-
ing Valley West knocked off Dal-
las, 28-14, spoiling the debut of
Mountaineer coach Bob Zaruta.
Although Lake-Lehman and
Old Forge were tied in the closing
minutes of the first half, things
fell apart so quickly for the Black
Knights that it seemed Old Forge
drove the ball into the end zone
just as fast as the Black Knights
gave it away. The Blue Devils
scored four touchdowns, all off
turnovers, to turn a three-point
lead at halftime into a 50-14 victo-
ry at Lake-Lehman High School.
The 2012 Wyoming Valley
Flames 1-U girls fast pitch team
finished a successful 2012 season
by winning The Vipers Back to
School Bash in Dallas. Members
of the team were Alessia Mangan,
Aleigha Parnell, Gabby Rakow-
ski, Erin Dunn, Elizabeth Mendr-
zycki, Madison Stashak, Sarah
Tuzinski, Lauren Mullery, Sa-
mantha Kern, Emilee Bobos, Jen-
na Simmons, Kaehler Kivler and
Tiffany Eustice.
The newly-formed Misericor-
dia University football team
made history — just by setting
foot on Mangelsdorf Field in front
of about 2,200 fans. Not even a
67-0 thrashing by Widener could
dampen the spirits of the Miser-
icordia faithful. The Cougars
were held to just 170 yards of of-
fense while Widener amassed al-
most 700 yards. The loss dropped
Misericordia to 0-3 on the season.
OCTOBER
Children from ages 3-13 and
several parents ran “The Ring” at
Newberry Estate, including the
hill by the No. 1 hole, around the
scenic pond with quacking ducks
and returning to cheers from all
at the pavilion. Hunter Landon
was the first runner to complete
the one mile “ring” through New-
berry. He was followed closely by
Liz Shoemaker.
Molly VanScoy was crowned
the 2012 Lake-Lehman Home-
coming Queen prior to the Black
Knights football game with
Meyers. The Black Knights
scored 30 third-quarter points,
erasing a halftime deficit and any
hopes of a Meyers’ upset in their
50-29 victory. Lehman improved
to 4-1 overall, maintaining its top
spot atop the Wyoming Valley
Conference Division 2A-A and
District 2 Class 2A standings.
Plans were underway for the
Sixth Annual Cheer for a Cause
with proceeds to be split between
Candy’s Place and Children’s Car-
diomyopathy Foundation. The
event was started in 2007 by two
Lake-Lehman students when one
of the Junior Knights coaches
was diagnosed with breast can-
cer. This year, Ashlee Barker and
Sommer Sereka, seniors at Lake-
Lehman, took on Cheer for a
Cause as part of their senior grad-
uation project.
Dallas High School football
captains Logan Bullock, Kris
Roccograndi, Zach Macosky and
Buddy Shutlock presented a
wreath to the captains of the Pitt-
ston Area team in memory of two
recent Pittston Area suicide vic-
tims. The Mountaineers reached
out to their Pittston Area coun-
terparts prior to the Dallas High
School Homecoming game.
Dallas dominated every aspect
of its Homecoming game against
Pittston Area, handling the Patri-
ots a 35-0 loss in a Wyoming Val-
ley Conference Division 3A con-
test. Jenna Morgan was crowned
2012 Homecoming Queen and
Buddy Shutlock was named 2012
Homecoming King.
Dallas native Laura Canfield,
now of Langhorne, was inducted
into the 2012 United States Ten-
nis Association Middle State Ten-
nis Hall of Fame at the Saucon
Valley Country Club in Bethle-
hem. Canfield is the only female
player to capture back-to-back
Wyoming Valley championships
(triple crowns), winning singles,
doubles and mixed doubles in the
same year.
NOVEMBER
Kieran Sutton, a senior at
Lake-Lehman, crossed the finish
line first in the boys AA District 2
cross country meet at Elk Lake
High School, beating Dominic
BILL TARUTIS FILE PHOTO/ FOR THE DALLAS POS
Members of the Suns and Knicks converge on a loose ball in the grade 3-4 Dallas Youth Basketball
championship game at the Dallas High School gymnasium.
DeLuca of Dallas by just nine sec-
onds. Regan Rome of Dallas fin-
ished first in the AA girls divi-
sion, running the 3.1 mile course
in 20:17.
The Dallas Jr. Mounts conclud-
ed their fifth straight perfect sea-
son with their fifth consecutive
Super Bowl championship by de-
feating the WWWE Panthers,
14-6.
Ashley Dunbar hit a milestone,
scoring four times to reach 100
goals for her soccer career at Dal-
las High School in a 12-0 route of
the Preppers of MMI Prep.
Dallas defensive tackle Logan
Bullock and Buddy Shutlock led
a defense that held Lake-Lehman
to minus 17 yards on 31 carriers
as Dallas posted a 51-6 victory to
clinch the final District 2 Class
3A spot and earn the right to take
the coveted Old Shoe trophy
back to Mountaineer territory.
The Dallas Junior High Cheer
Team captured first place at the
College Misericordia Cougars
Challenge Cheer competition.
Members of the squad were An-
gela Bendick, Ashlie Alves,
Brianna Rinehimer, Kiley Brit-
tain, Maddie Hurst, Lauren
Alves, Ariyonna Martin, Sara
Schwartz, Aneilia Cummings, Er-
ica VanEtten, Marissa Roberts,
Tori Landon, Jayden Dinardi,
Frankie Treslar, Savannah Goe-
chel, Mia Greenwood, Katelyn
DeAnthony and Olivia Rinaldi.
DECEMBER
Dallas High School alumni soc-
cer players met at Lt. Michael
Cleary Field for the annual alum-
ni soccer game held in memory of
former Mountaineer soccer
coach John McCafferty.
Dallas junior Regan Rome
proved she could keep up with
the best high school distance run-
ners in the country. Concluding
her season in the Foot Locker
Cross Country National Finals in
San Diego, Rome finished 19th
out of the 40 girls who had qual-
ified through regional competi-
tion after finishing high in their
various state meets.
The Dallas High School base-
ball program was getting new du-
gouts and the students of West
side Career and Technology Cen-
ter in Pringle were getting valua-
ble experience.
Misericordia linebacker Kurt
Gildea celebrates a sack of
Widener quarterback in the
first quarter of the home open-
er of Misericordia’s newly-
formed football team.
BILL TARUTIS FILE PHOTO/ FOR THE DALLAS POS
Lake-Lehman's Mallory Wilson, left, looks to pass as Bethlehem
Freedom's Lauren Musselman defends in girls lacrosse.
BILL TARUTIS FILE PHOTO/FOR THE DALLAS POS
Brian Selenski holds a portrait of his daughter, Paige, a member o!
the U.S. field hockey team and 2008 graduate of Dallas High
School, at his home in Shavertown.
FRED ADAMS FILE PHOTO/ FOR THE DALLAS POST
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