Sunday, January 6, 2013 Tue DALLAS POST PAGE 9 SPOrts Lake-Lehman's Pete Borum (No. 55) eyes the basket after an offensive rebound against Dallas in the inaugural Black and Blue rivalry basketball game. BILL TARUTIS PHOTOS/ FOR THE DALLAS POST Lake-Lehman's Pete Borum, right, grapples withDallas' Darik Johnson. Arch rivals meet on the hardwood ete Borum scored a game-high 22 points to lead Lake-Lehman to a 63-47 boys basketball victory over Dallas in the inaugural Black and Blue Rival- ry Game on Dec. 22. Omar Nijmeh scored 19 points to pace the Dallas effort. oa Send James. Dallas’ Stephen Wempa, right, drives past Lake-Lehman's Jared James defends. Dallas’ Allen Fell, left, goes in for a shot as Lake-Lehman's Jared DALLAS HIGH SCHOOL WRESTLING ough schedule lies ahead By TOM ROBINSON For the Dallas Post The Dallas wrestling team pent the first month of the sea- son hitting a demanding tourna- ment trail in preparation for the more challenging league and district schedule ahead. “We're trying to wrestle a tough pre-conference schedule to get ourselves ready,” coach Mike Richards said. “We made the jump to Triple-A so that’s go- ing to be an adjustment.” The Mountaineers, who open their Wyoming Valley Confer- ence dualmeet schedule Wednesday at Berwick, went from being one of the largest Class AA schools to being one of the smallest Class AAAs in the Pennsylvania Interscholastic Athletic Association’s reclassifi- cation that takes place every two years. Along with the change in classification, Dallas jumps up from Division 2 to Division 1 of the WVC. “It’s going to be a little tough- er in Triple-A because we are a @ school, but you have to tep up and wrestle tougher competition,” Richards said. “With the kids we have, I think we're as good as anyone in the conference.” Dallas returns 10 starters, but opened the season forfeiting the two lowest weight classes (106 and 113 pounds). The Mountain- eers fixed that problem in time for the Buckskin Classic at Con- estoga Valley during the holiday break. Dominic DeGraba, a District 2 and Northeast Regional cham- pion in Class AA last season, dropped to 113 and finished sec- PETE G. WILCOX FILE PHOTO/ THE DALLAS POST Kris Roccograndi of Dallas takes Johnate Nelson of Meyers to the mat in the 145 Ib. bout in District 2 Duals Tournament in Pittston. ond in the 25-team event. The Mountaineers otherwise strug- gled in the event, finishing 19th in the team standings withonly Kris Roccograndi joining De- Graba in the top six of a weight class. DeGraba posted 42 wins last season. Roccograndi, Stephen Mingey, Zach Makosky and Ryan Monk are all back after winning 20-plus bouts a year ago. Roccograndi won at 171 pounds and Monk finished sec- ond at 285 when the Mountain- eers finished ninth out of 28 teams at the Penn Manor Tour- nament in Millersville. Dallas is 2-9 after going just 14 in both the Boyertown Duals and Berwick Duals. “We have wrestled some of the better teams in the state and competed pretty well,” Richards said. The Mountaineers went 5-1 in Division 2 and 17-11 overall last season. Aaron Klimovitch and Jimmy Caffrey are two more veterans following DeGraba in the lower See DALLAS, Page 10 Champion By TOM ROBINSON For the Dallas Post Lake-Lehman graduated three of its four individual district champions, but the Black Knights return many other key performers from their latest championship wrestling squad. Two-time district champion Austin Harry is back after finish- ing eighth in the state at 126 pounds. He helped Lake-Lehman win the Wyoming Valley Confer- ence Division 2 title and take the District 2 Class AA team cham- pionship by a point over rival Dal- las. “We lost three district cham- pions, but we have a nice nucleus coming back,” said Tom Wil- liams, who is in the third season of his second stint as Black Knights coach. “This group is ready to pick up where we left off last year.” Harry and Jimmy Stuart, a dis- trict finalist at 113 last season, will work around the 132-pound weight class. Four-year starter Zeb McMillan is also around 126 or 132. “There’s going to be some movement from our early-season lineup,” Williams said. The Black Knights opened the season by going 2-3 at the Cata- sauqua Dual Meet Tournament. “We were missing two or three weights, but we've got that cov- ered up now,” Williams said. “We lost two matches by a point and a third by three points. We were competitive in the all the match- es.” The Black Knights ended De- cember by taking seventh place out of 21 teams at the Tunkhan- nock Kiwanis Tournament. Har- grapplers return AIMEE DILGER FILE PHOTO/ THE DALLAS POST Lake Lehman's Jimmy Stuart takes down Kyle Montague of War- ren County, VA. ry won the 132-pound title at Tunkhannock. Brady Butler fin- ished second at 182 pounds. John Tomasura was fourth at 113 pounds at Tunkhannock, while Josh Sayre (138), Josh Win- ters (145) and Robert Wright (152) took fifth and Derek Drag- on (170) and Phillip Hettes (220) placed sixth. Williams has some less-experi- enced wrestlers that he’s working with to fill varsity spots with the hope of entering all 14 weight classes. Tomasura is back at 113 after finishing fourth in the district at 106 last season as a freshman. Becca Wright may join the li- See LEHMAN, Page 10 neup at 106 and freshman Mark Gray should be at 120. MacMillan, Harry and Stuart provide the strength of the lineup in the next few weight classes. They are followed by Sayre, who had a winning record last season as a freshman. Winters, a three-year starter, is at 145 and 152 along with Robert Wright, who started much of last season. Josh Bullock is also get- ting some time there. They could also spend some time at 160, along with freshman Tommy Wil- liams. Richard Emel and newcomer Wes
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