Sunday, January 27, 2013 PAGE 9 Tue DALLAS POST Sports | Dalas High School senior guiles Lady Mountaineers fron point guard position. By TOM ROBINSON For the Dallas Post i | | Ii | | Ashley Dunbar has shown she car rack up impressive personal numbers in athletic competition. her senior season, Dunbar is : Dallas in another way, guiling an extremely balanced at- oe as the point guard for a bas- ketball team that has established itself as a serious contender for a pai of titles. ‘She’s distributing the ball more swhich is fine by me because she passes well and has good vi- sion on the court,” Dallas coach elly Jehnson said of Dunbar. Dunkar and fellow returning t-team, all-star Tanner Engle- hart hare been trading the scor- ing lead on a team that has five playersaveraging between seven and 10 points per game. That list includes Talia Szat- kowski, who piled up 26 points and 14 steals Monday night in a 57-55 victory over Wyoming Val- ley Wes, as well as Jessica Hiscox and Samantha Missal. “This year, my state of mind is everyore can do everything,” Dunbar said. “Everyone in our starting lineup can score. It’s har- der forteams to defend us.” It is Dunbar’s responsibility to make sure the ball winds up in the hands of the player with the best chance of producing points. “It’s whatever the game situa- tion presents,” Johnson said. “Some games, she has more op- portunity to score. I've never felt like she was a selfish player. She’s ateanplayer. She leads opposing t sand makes: the best. of. whatever that situation is.” The Dallas offense has been running well under Dunbar’s con- trol." The Lady Mountaineers moved up to Division 1 of the Wyoming Valley Conference this seasan and made t through the first half of that schedule tied with Crestwood far the best re- cord at 6-1. That performance also left Dal- las tied for third anong 18 teams battling for seedirg position in the District 2 ClassAAA playoffs. “She has tremendous drive and determination. She has a no-quit atti- tude. You can always count on her to go after it. She's in attack-mode most of the time and that's how she plays on the basketball court.” Kelly Johnson DHS girls basketball coach Running a balanced offense shows Dunbar’s willingness to adjust her style of play on the court and as an athlete in general. She averaged 13.1 points per game a year ago when she was the WVC Division 2 Player of the Year. In the fall, after leaving behind an all-state career in field hockey when the WVC moved soccer away from a spring schedule for the first time, Dunbar again earned Pennsylvania State Soc- cer Coaches Association All-State honors. She had started since her freshman season in both sports. “It was a really tough decision because I do love both sports and I loved both teams,” said Dunbar, who is close to the conclusion of her athletic days before going to study pharmacy at Temple Uni- versity. Dunbar scored 52 goals and as- sisted on 12 others this fall. She ended her career as the all-time scoring leader in the highly suc- cessful Dallas girls soccer pro- gram with 114 goals. Johnson has seen what makes Dunbar such an explosive player on the soccer field. Ss “She has tremendous drive and determination,” Johnson said. “She has a no-quit attitude. You can always count on her to go af- ter it. She’s in attack-mode most of the time and that’s how she plays on the basketball court.” That drive has made Dunbar one of the conference’s top bas- ketball players despite all the time she has put into being one of the state’s top soccer players. “She’s a busy kid,” Johnson said. “We like to take advantage of any opportunity to get in the gym shley Dunbar making a name for herself on court PETE G. WILCOX FILE PHOTO/ THE DALLAS POST Ashley Dunbar, of Dallas, drives the lane around Honedale's Katie Miller in the first half in the championship game of the Rotarian Mike Duda Wyoming Valley West Lady Spartans Tip-Off Classic in December 2012. that we can. She’s with us in the summer some and she did go to a team camp in the summer. Once son has arrived, Dunbar has tran- threat to leading the way for one sitioned from being the confer- of its most effective balanced at- ence’s most dominant individual tacks. the soccer season starts, obvious- ly she is very busy.” And, now that basketball sea- E Lake-Lehman grabs 31-28 wrestling victory over arch-rival Dallas. By TOM ROBINSON For the Dallas Post Lake{.ehman and Dallas took a break from their respective Wyoming Valley Conference divi- sional mces Monday night to bat- tle for Back Mountain bragging rights. Der¢k Dragon, Brady Butler and Josh Sayre provided key deci- sions lut Lake-Lehman also took advanage of a Dallas coaching error ind wrestlers avoiding giv- ing uf extra team points in losses hilepulling out a 31-28 victory @- fie host Mountaineers. Ths is the second straight closewin for the Black Knights in the sinual battle with their big- gest rival. Lake-Lehman pulled out 332-31 win over Dallas a year ago. “I{ was a team effort,” Lake- Lehnan coach Tom Williams saidin a telephone interview af- ter tie match. “There were some keyipots where we didn’t give up moe than three team points.” (he of those came in the clos- ing145-pound bout when Steve Mirgey of Dallas shut out Josh nights take advantage of rength and opponents’ error Lake-Lehman took a 13-9 lead after five bouts with the help of a clerical error by Dallas and two wrestlers avenging earlier de- feats. Winters, 7-0, but could not get the pin he needed to tie the team score and give the Mountaineers the victory on a tiebreaker. Lake-Lehman took a 13-9 lead after five bouts with the help of a clerical error by Dallas and two wrestlers avenging earlier de- feats. Tommy Williams, the son of Lake-Lehman’s coach, received a forfeit to open the bout when Dal- las coach Mike Richards mistak- enly presented a wrestler who was ineligible at the 152-pound weight class because he did not weigh in at a high enough weight. Zach Macosky pulled out an overtime win for Dallas at 160, but Dragon answered with an 11-3 win over Logan Brace at 170. After Kris Roccograndi re- ceived a forfeit for Dallas to cut the deficit to a point, Brady But- ler defeated Connor Martinez, 14-7, in a rematch of a Wyoming Valley Conference Champion- ships final. “He was a little more mentally focused and wrestled more ag- gressively on his feet this time,” coach Williams said of Butler’s victory. Dallas won the next three bouts that were wrestled on the mat during a stretch in which each team picked up a forfeit. The Mountaineers emerged with a 25-19 lead on decisions by Mark Michno (220) and Ryan Monk (285) and a major decision by Aaron Klimovich (120) for the only bonus point captured by a Dallas wrestler. Dominic DeGraba of Dallas picked up a forfeit at 113 while Re- becca Wright earned one for Lake-Lehman at 106. Zeb McMillan started the Lake-Lehman comeback by pull- ing out an overtime decision at 126. Unbeaten Austin Harry then put Lake-Lehman back in front by coming up with a pin in the first minute at 132 on a night that he called the biggest match of the season for the team. Josh Sayre, who produced a pin in the final bout to rally the Black Knights to the one-point victory over Dallas last season, again came through for Lake- See KNIGHTS, Page 10 FRED ADAMS/ FOR THE DALLAS POST Lake-Lehman's Derek Dragon takes control of Logan Brace, of Dallas, in the 170 Ibs. bout enroute to a major decision, 11-3. pars ames
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