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Dalas High School senior
guiles Lady Mountaineers
fron point guard position.
By TOM ROBINSON
For the Dallas Post
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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-
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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.
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