PAGE 8A Tue DALLAS POST SUNDAY, MARCH 10, 2013 SPOrts SPORTS BRIEF LACROSSE BOOSTER CLUB POSTPONES EVENT The Dallas High School Lacrosse Booster Club has postponed its Night at the Races originally scheduled for March, waiting for legislative ruling on the Small Games of Chance Act. Members are asked to place a hold ~ on their ticket sales but to continue basket making by collecting dona- tions. BANDITS ACCEPT REGISTRATIONS Registrations are now being accept- ed via the web site at www.laxteams. net/bmylax for the Back Mountain Bandits lacrosse team Boys and girls in grades 1-3 may sign up for intramurals. Boys age groups are U-9, U-11, U-13 & U-15. Girls age groups are third and fourth grade, fifth and sixth grade and sev- enth and eighth grades. The registration fee includes US Lacrosse registration, US Lacrosse magazine and a team jersey. Participants should print the form and mail it, along with applicable fee to BMYL, P.O. Box 1746, Shavertown, PA 18708. ROCK REC BASKETBALL SEASON BEGINS The Rock Recreation Center is ac- cepting registration applications for the 2013 Upward basketball season. The league is open to girls and boys Pre-K through sixth grade. The final game is set for Saturday, March 16. For more information, contact The Rock Rec Center at 696-2769. KAPOW HOCKEY CLUB OFFERS TRAINING KaPow Field Hockey Klub is offer- ing spring training and game play age groups U6, U8, U10 and U12 directed by Olympian Lauren Poweley April 14- 19 at Wyoming Seminary, Kingston. For a registration form, email lcomiskey@kapowfh.com. Deadline is March 31. FASTPITCH PLAYERS SOUGHT The Endless Mt Blast U14 travel fastpitch program is still looking for a few qualified players to round out its teams for the upcoming season. Anyone interested is asked to call 840-6433 or email ronh@sbsmod.com. 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Wagner won two individual gold medals and two relay gold medals for the second straight year. The Mountaineers have won team championships in all four years of the high school careers of Wagner, Brian Stepniak, Jack Matusiak and Grant Luksic. “That’s pretty neat,” Wagner said of the district team title sweep. “We came in with a few more kids in our fresh- man year, but us four core kids pretty much stuck together.” The results have been impressive and went well beyond what Wagner anticipated when it all started. “I really didn’t pay attention to times until I got to high school,” Wagner said. “In age group swimming, I kind of did it just for fun. “I still have fun, but high school swimming really made us see how well we were doing as a group.” Wagner, the distance specialist, led that group. He won 200- and 500-me- ter freestyle titles each of the last three years, giving him six career individual golds. He has 10 total medals in a case in his room at home after also contrib- uting to 200 freestyle and 400 freestyle relay wins in the last two years. The highlight in the latest champi- onships March 1-2 at the Wilkes-Barre Catholic Youth Center was a personal- best performance in the 500 freestyle where he came in more than three seconds below his seeding time at Members of the Dallas High School swim and dive team who will compete in the PIAA Class AA championships at Bucknell University are, from left, first row, Matt Nonnenberg, diving coach; Patrick Gelso, Patrick Madaya, Grant Luksic, Jenn Swiderski, assistant swim coach. Second row, Jack Matusiak, Brian Stepniak, Marcus Wagner and Romayne Mosier, head swim coach. 4:51.64, destroying the field to win by more than 13 seconds. “I would probably say the 500 is the most significant one for me,” Wagner said. “I really take pride in that event because it’s the longest event there is in high school swimming.” Dallas coach Romayne Mosier said Wagner has done the work to make those results happen. “For Marcus, it’s sheer determina- tion in setting his goals to be able to accomplish that drop in time,” Mosier said. “Every practice, he has a goal. He’s not just setting a goal for the next meet.” Stepniak and Matusiak joined Wag- ner and Patrick Gelso on the two win- ning relay teams. They also joined Wagner in qualifying as individuals for the Pennsylvania Interscholastic Ath- Sem cage team wins championship The fifth/sixth grade boys basketball team from Wyoming Semi- nary recently won the East Side League Championship after finishing the regular season at 16-4. From left, first row, are Eric Berley, Kyle Hromisin and Benjamin Paglia. Second row, Daniel Meuser, Nicolas Bufalino and Jeremy Callahan. Third row, Paul Amara, Zane Nardone, Dimitri Gnall, Alex Meuser and Chris Kane. Fourth row, Coach C.J. Bu- falino. Absent at the time of the photo were Jacob Sarnevitz, Nikko Simons, Santino Gaudino, Scotty Lynett and Chris Burg. letic Association Championships at Bucknell University. Grant Luksic was part of a fourth- place finish in the 200 medley relay, along with Ezra Moore, Porter Luksic and Reid Luksic. He also contributed with an eighth-place finish in the 200 freestyle. The top 12 finishers in each event scored team points. Dallas won the team championship by outscoring Scranton Prep, 262-196. Lake-Lehman was 10th of 13 teams with 31 points. Projecting the meet based on seed- ing in advance would have made the Mountaineers the favorite, but the large margin of victory was impressive. “I knew it was going to be a tougher time to win this year because of the additional teams that dropped down from Triple-A to Double-A,” Mosier said. “We had to beat more teams.” Stepniak contributed three gold medals and a silver. He won the 50 freestyle in 21.88 seconds, earning a sixth-seed at the state meet, the high- est of any Mountaineer. Stepniak also qualified for the state meet while fin- ishing second in the 100 freestyle be- cause his time ranked high enough among performances in district cham- pionships around Pennsylvania. Matusiak qualified for the state meet on time with his third-place finish in the 200 individual medley. He was also sixth in the 100 breaststroke. Patrick Madaya was third in the div- ing, which was held a week earlier. Ezra Moore, who was third in the 500 freestyle, joined Stepniak, Jack Matusiak, Porter Luksic, Reid Luksic . and Gelso in scoring points in two individual events. Nick Malkenes and Owen Kiluk also contributed points to 4 the team title. i® Most of Lake-Lehman’s points came from Matthew Edkins winning and Dustin Zeiler finishing fourth in div- ing. Edkins will also compete in the state championships. Edkins repeated the district title he captured last year as a sophomore on the way to a sixth-place finish in the state. Dallas finished sixth and Lake- Lehman ninth out of 17 teams in Class AA girls, which was won by Holy Re- deemer. Sami Sabol took third in the 100 backstroke and sixth in the 200 free- style for Lake-Lehman. Kaylin Augustine tied for fifth in the 100 backstroke for Dallas and was part of a fourth-place 400 freestyle re- lay team with Abby Berger, Amanda Schwerdtman and Lauren Finnegan. Sun team wins DYB s ills competition The Dallas Youth Basketball League held a skills competition recently at the Wycallis Elementary School gymnasium. Girls and boys participated in a variety of games like the “3 Point Shot” and the "Hot Spot,” amassing different points on a degree of difficulty. | The competition was sponsored by the Gattuso Group Accountants & Consultants. The Sun won the girls competition with over 67 points. Team members are, from left, first row, Maria Bednar, Sam Banks and Rachel Sarley. Second row, Olivia King, Riley Oremus, Maria Ostrum and Kaitlyn Pike. Absent at the time of the photo were Katie Romanowski and Erica McGovern. Back Mountain Bombers hope to play in Cooperstown 0 Nocito, Frank Nockley, Brett Os- troski, Todd Phillips and Dylan The golf tournament will be By TOM ROBINSON cility in West Pittston and is look For The Dallas Post ing ahead to the possibility of The Back Mountain 10-year- playing as 12-year-oldsin2014at Schuster. old, all-stars rolled through the the Cooperstown Dreams Park 2012 district and section Little in upstate New York. League Baseball Tournaments, capturing a pair of titles. By the time the playoff run came to an end in the state tour- nament, the team members and their families had decided they were not done playing together. “After that, the parents decid- ed to get together as a group and form our own travel team,” said coach Joe Phillips. The Back Mountain Bombers have stuck together with all 12 members of the Little League all-star squad. “It was because of the camara- derie from going to all the tour- naments and of the parents get- ting along so well and the kids getting along so well,” Phillips said. The team continued into travel tournaments last summer, has already begun taking batting practice together at an indoor fa- Along with practicing and playing together before and af- ter the Little League season, the 12 team members and their fam- ilies are working on fundraising for the group to help pay for the Cooperstown trip. A Comedy Night was held last weekend and plans are under- way for a golf tournament May 5 at Mill Race Golf Club in Ben- ton. The team’s on-field success continued beyond Little League last summer. In their first at- tempt at a wooden-bat event, the Bombers advanced to the championship game in Chester, N.Y. before losing by one run. Phillips is assisted by Al Fin- arelli and Joe Nocito. The team consists of Jake Connolly, Justin Finarelli, Chris- topher Langan, Jack Lukasav- age, Matt Maransky, Will Mc- Crum, Lucas McGeehan, Sam a captain-and-crew event begin- ning at 12:30 p.m. on May 5. En- try fee of $100 includes, greens fees, cart, food and beverage on the course and after the tourna- ment, a gift, trophies and prizes. Tournament and hole sponsors are also being sought. The Back Mountain Bombers formed a 501(c)3 non-profit or- ganization and all donations are tax deducitble. For more information on the golf tournament, contact Ray at 690-8444. Cooperstown Dreams Park hosts up to 104 teams a week in the summer for tournaments. According to its website, cooper- stowndreamspark.com, it brings in more than 1,350 teams of 12-and-under players each sum- mer. The experience includes a chance for the players to visit the Baseball Hall of Fame in Cooperstown. ES Members of the Back Mountain Bombers team are, from left, first row, Jake Connolly, Lucas McGeehan, Will McCrum, Matt Maransky, Christopher Langan. Second row, Frank Nockley, Justin Finarelli, Todd Phillips, Dylan Schuster, Sam Nocito, Brett Ostroski. Third row, Al Finarelli, assistant coach; Joe Phillips, head coach; and Joe Nocito, assistant coach. Absent from photo: Jack Lukasavage
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