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05 Valley West-Tunkhannock tilt highlights card- CO I Scho as -fdniahf tic kic MJ to CL ro CO By PHIL GIANFICARO Citinns' Vote Staff CD 0 rtvu wife; PS-n0 VU Th Someone I think it was Dan Quayle coined the phrase: "What you don't know won't hurt you." Just don't try convincing that to Tunkhannock head coach Tom Oldziejewski. The Tiger coach is faced with just that dilemma as his team opens its Wyoming Valley Conference Division I season at home against Wyoming Valley West and its first-year coach Bill Chase. How will Chase, the former' Elizabethtown High School assistant and the man who replaced long-time Spartan coach Jim Fen-nell, react in certain situations in his first WVC game? What are his tendencies in particular situations? Will he throw on third-and-short? Will he insert a second tight end in pass situations? Does he prefer Coke or Pepsi? "His being a new coach presents some problems," Oldziejewski said as his team readies for a defense of its WVC title and, hopefully, another berth in December's Eastern Conference Class A (now Division I) championship game. "You really can't tell what he might do in different situations. We did see Valley West in both scrimmages, so we did see some things that we think he might use at certain times during the game." Chase, however, has had the chance to see live scrimmages and a chance to review game film of the Tigers.

Does he feel he has the advantage here? "Yes, because Tunkhannock uses a similar system all the time," Chase said. "I've also seen them on film and saw certain things and talked to my assistants about what they know of them. "Ours is a new system (multiple offense, emphasis on passing), and I don't think they've had the opportunity to pick up any tendencies from our scrimmages." Chase, admittedly somewhat nervous before his WVC coaching debut, doesn't feel much different as a head coach as opposed to his years as an assistant. It's a big game anyway you slice it. "I'm a little bit nervous," Chase said.

"I think it's more to do with this being a big game rather than it being my first game at Valley West. I always felt this way the week of a big game." Tunkhannock returns seven starters on offense and five on defense. Leading the offense will be 6-2, 170-pound senior quarterback Mike Voorhees, who last sea- (See 5 GAMES, page 67) CitiKK' VokeWantfi Rudt Coughlin players and cheerleaders gather for annual bonfire last night at Plains Stadium. Crusaders open Saturday Guides bid adieu to Maine become Red Barons in ScrantonWilkes-Barre Red owned by Northeastern 1 11 tt A A The Ballpark, which can seat more than 6,000 fans, was built by Jordan Kobritz, a young lawyer from Bangor who dreamed of leaving the legal profession in favor of a baseball career. He bought the Charleston (W.Va.) Charlies of the International League and renamed the franchise the Maine Guides, an affiliate of the American League's Cleveland Indians.

The opening season in 1984 went well, with more than 180,000 fans turning out to watch the Guides. But the crowds declined in number every year, to about 80,000 this year, and Kobritz soon found himself in financial trouble. Many reasons were advanced for sagging attendance, including mosquitoes, a lack of promotion and the decision to build a stadium in coastal Old Orchard Beach rather than populous Portland, 20 miles to the north. Kobritz sold the franchise to a Pennsylvania group last year, and the team affiliated itself with the National League's Philadelphia Phillies and was renamed the Maine Phillies. Kobritz changed his mind and tried to get out of that deal, but the Pennsylvania group won a court fight and decided to move the team to a new stadium at Montage next season.

The team will be known as the Staff and wire reports OLD, ORCHARD BEACH, Maine (UPI) Maine bid adieu Thursday to its minor league baseball franchise, the Maine leaving a resort town with an empty stadium built just four years ago. The Phillies, part of the AAA International League, closed the season by hosting the Rochester Red Wings in a twi-night double-header at The Ballpark, a cozy baseball stadium built in time for the 1984 season. The team plays next season in Northeastern Pennsylvania, the result of sagging attendance, financial woes and a lengthy court battle over the team. Doacudii, inc. uiiauucuuu ui a multi-purpose stadium is underway.

The park will hold approximately 12,000 fans. Meanwhile, Kobritz failed to meet his mortgage payments, and the Maine Guarantee Authority declared that the town of Old Orchard Beach was responsible for the payments. The town took over ownership of the Ballpark, but does not expect to have a team use the facility next season. The Town Council voted last month to bar rock concerts at the stadium, citing noise and traffic problems..