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Teaneck Jamboree title Mahwah star is victor By Paul Schwartz Correspondent NEW YORK There were two antic pated showdowns at the Bergen Count, Indoor Track championships at the 168U Street Regiment Armory last night One matched Mahwah's Ian Leavesley and Ridgewood's Tom Hughes in the two-mile and the other paired the explosive 880-yard relay teams of Englewood and DonBosco. The Leavesley-Hughes battle lived up to expectations as Leavesley outran Hughes in a wire-to-wire duel, but the Don Bosco-Englewood clash ended amid a pulled muscle and a dropped baton. Leavesley and Hughes went stride for Boys track I rs -i scoring record. Bergen Catholic's 6-4 center needed 24 points to break the existing mark of 102, but he ended up with 20 for 99, the third-highest total in Jamboree history. Rob Romaine poured in a game-high 27 points for the Crusaders, whose record fell to 20-5, and Shwed threw in 20.

Teaneck, which shot 56 percent (34-for-71) for the game, also became the first team in 20 years to win the Jamboree in successive years, matching Engle-wood's efforts of 1959 and 1960. Eastern girls bow in final PATERSON Eastern Christian dominated Eastside last season, winning the three games the two girls basketball teams played, including a pulsating overtime Passaic County Tournament victory. But the Ghosts turned the tables on Eastern Christian this season, beating the Eagles three times, the last a come-from-behind 52-47 win to win the Passaic Girls Basketball Tournament last night. Sharon Jemerson hit a jumper with 2:47 left in the game, breaking a 45-45 tie and keying a six-point streak that clinched the game. A minute later, Kar-tina Bease, who had eight of her 10 points in the final period, scored on a steal.

Janine Hutchinson put the game away with two foul shots with 53 seconds to go. Eastern Christian had scored the last six points of the third quarter to take a 37-33 lead. grabbed 11 rebounds with 4:44 remaining and Teaneck ahead, 68-62. Brantley returned and promptly hit a short jumper to make it 70-62. Williams and Frank scored seven points apiece in the lastt four minutes as the Crusaders never got closer than five points.

Bergen Catholic also was shot down at the foul line. Teaneck was in a bonus situation for the final seven minutes and connected on 16 of 21 foul shots in the fourth period. Mazziotta also was forced to make some changes defensively when Campbell fouled out. The 6-foot-5 senior had been under the basket in the Highwaymen's 1-3-1 zone. Mazziotta then shifted Darren Maloney down low, and the 6-7 center responded by clogging up-the middle, blocking three shots in the last three minutes and forcing BC to the perimeter.

Williams made 11 of 14 shots from the floor to finish with 26 points. Frank had 11 points, including a 9-for-10 performance at the foul line. Maloney added 17 points and Tony Purdie 16. The Highwaymen were paced by Williams from the outset. The 5-10 senior scored 10 points on 5-for-5 shooting in the first quarter.

He scored eight of them during a 14-3 spurt that erased a 9-8 Bergen Catholic lead and gave Teaneck a 22-14 advantage at the quarter mark. The Highwaymen boosted the lead to 34-24 with 3:21 left in the first half. Then Rob McNamee and Mike Sh wed scored four points each during an 11-2 tear by the Crusaders tha sliced the deficit to 36-35 with 54 seconds remaining. Pur-die's basket concluded the half with Teaneck up by three. The 6-3 senior scored eight points in the third quarter that helped the Highwaymen withstand the loss of Campbell.

McNamee was seeking to break Campbell's one-year-old tournament Jack O'Connell rStaff Writer HACKENSACK Guards Gary Williams and Bruce Frank made up for the Uoss of forward Tony Campbell last night "as Teaneck captured its second straight JBergen County Jamboree Boys Basketball Tournament title with a 90-82 victo-ry over Bergen Catholic. A "I felt all along the backcourt was going to win it for us," Teaneck coach John Mazziotta said after the Highway-'men won their 24th game and became first unbeaten team in the 24-year history of the tournament to capture the jamboree crown. "Our guards were quicker, and they came through when we needed them most." They were needed the most at' two crucial points in the second half. Campbell picked up his fourth personal foul with 3:32 remaining in the third quarter, and Mazziotta replaced him with sixth-man Geoff Brantley. Teaneck was clinging to a 50-45 lead at the time of Campbell's departure, but the Crusaders cut the margin to 52-51 with two minutes left in the period.

Following a Teaneck timeout, Bergen Catholic went to a press in hopes of grabbing the lead. Williams and Frank, however, succeeded in breaking the press continually, and the Highwaymen still owned a four-point edge at the quarter's end. Campbell returned two minutes into the last period, but was caught reaching in for his fifth foul and headed for the bench having scored 14 points and BERGEN CATH. (12). Burke 1-1-3.

Somaine 10-7-27 Cosarove 0-0-0, Shwed 7-6-20, Pi AArNamf 1-4-20, 12, Move 'arsells 6-0- g-g-g. 0-0. Tolali 32-18-82. TEANECK (M) iwaione Frank 34-22-90. lalonev 6-S-17, Campbell 6-2-14, Williams 11-4-26, -y-ll, Brannev i'l-o, rwam to.

iwioi (20-5) Bergen Catholic 14 22 ,6 11 (24-0) le Teaneck EASTERN CHRISTIAN (47) Groenewal 3-6-12. Peterson Mable 4-0-1. Drukker S-l-11, Ovknou j-e- if. reierson --o. oust 4-o-e, wi Use 1-0-2.

Totals iv--. EASTSIDE Brtggs, Bease 4-2-10. Hutchinson 8-5-21, Green 0-2-2. Totals 20-12-52. Koime au 6-0-12.

Sparrow sparrow g-g-g, jemerson i-i-i, (19-4) Eastern Chrlstlan-(22-2) Eastside 13 i Staff photo by Dan Oliver Rob Romaine (24) of Bergen Catholic drives the lane against Teaneck' Gary Williams (22), Darren Maloney, and Geoff Brantley. Valle leads Hackensack 9H, Cavos, Fort Lee also are triumphant prised Elmwood Park veteran Frank Ca-talano, 9-2, at 115. George Angelidis, Vanya Bojanovic, and Eric Bernstein (in 43 sections) pitched in with pins for the 14-0 Bridgemen. Unbeaten 188-pounder Pat Reilly didn't get to wrestle in Emerson's first-round win over Cresskill, but found plenty of weight on his shoulders, when his name was called in earnest. With the Cavos holding a precarious 23-19 lead, Reilly decisioned Nick Casbar, 9-5, for his 15th win and the clinching points.

Three backpoints off a cradle in the second period proved to be the difference. Sophomore Alfonse Grillo added to the lustre with a decision over Joe Pallotta. Don Spataro also stood out for Emerson, recording a 1-0 win over Palisades Park's Mark Chase in the 108 clash. Spataro is 19-5 and Chase 19-2. The win came on an escape only 10 seconds into the second period.

DePaul charged to its win, taking two pins (by Sal LaCorte and T.J. Hargrave) and shutouts by Tom Palmer and Steve DePetro in the first four bouts for a 21-0 lead that was never threatened. DePetro, who didn't allow an offensive point in his two bouts, scored the momentum-building win by downing Matty Satenburg, 9-0, in the 122 match. Satenburg had entered the day with 12 wins to his credit. Superior decisions were added by Joe Taranto and Jamie Eilert for the Spartans, who won for the 13th time.

The biggest upset of the proceedings came in the semifinal round when West Milford's unbeaten season ended with a 26-25 upset by third-seeded Ramapo in the Group 3 opener. Wins by Craig Shaw, Bob Green, and Brian Trava brought the Raiders back from the brink of elimination to take a 26-19 lead over the Passaic County Tournament-champion Highlanders. It was enough of a cushion to absorb a closing pin by 320-pound Perry Van Dunk. Pascack Hills advanced to the final by crushing Dumont, 48-8. stride for the first 10 laps on the 220-yard wooden track, with Old Tap-pan's John Nelson staying with the leaders for the first mile.

But Leavesley and Hughes, among the State's top distance runners all winter, pulled away from Nelson after a 4:46 mile and with the pace remaining at a steady 35-36 second 220 lap, lapped almost the entire field as they continued their duel. Leavesley, the Bergen County and New Jersey Group 1 cross-country champion, continued unbeaten against local competition in 10 cross-country and indoor races as he sped to a 9:26.8 win, less than two seconds slower than his best outdoor time last season. "I felt good and I was following the schedule we had laid out for the race," said Leavesley, pointing to a chart that showed projected 220 splits for a 9:28 two mile. But Tommy is tough, and I knew that if I had a bad lap, he'd be right by me, so I couldn't let up. I don't envy anyone that has to run against him this year and especially next year." Hughes just a junior, finished in 9:30, nine see onds faster than his best 1979 outdoor, time.

I The Don Bosco-Englewood showdown was hampered when Englewood's Brian' Anthony, arguably the County's best sprinter, pulled up after winning his 60-yard semifinal heat. Tad Fennar replaced him as anchor and Englewood held a good lead with a lap to go, but Don Bosco's anchorman John McLaughlin pulled alongside Fennar as they hit the next-to-last turn. Suddenly, McLaughlin zoomed past as Fennar lost the baton and Don Bosco raced to an easy victory. Fennar had brought his baton hand in contact with McLaughlin's arm and the contact pushed the baton through his hand and onto the floor. "I was afraid we might be disqualified," said McLaughlin, who took seconds in the 60- and 600-yard runs, "His arm just hit mine as I was starting to pass him." There was no team championship awarded but Don Bosco in unofficial scoring had 36 points to 22 for Queen of Peace and 18 for Pascack Valley.

The Dons got wins from Mike Geraghty in an impressive 1:16.6 600 and the mile relay team which edged Englewood at the tape. Queen of Peace was paced by a 1-2 finish in the 1,000 by junior Pat Fogarty and John Pedati, and also ran an impressive two-mile relay. Doug Jackson of Hackensack, tuning up for the outdoor season in the intermediate hurdles, where he is expected to be one of the top runners in the nation, blazed to a 33.3 300 after a slow start Englewood's Sam Cureton won the 100 and Steve Miller of Midland Park (Group 1) edged Dan Porter of PV (Group 3) on misses in a battle of State group high jump champions. Related story on Page B-10. letter of intent to attend Manhattan College.

Jim Walters broke seven school basketball records this season at Ridgefield Park. The 5-9 guard set single-game marks for most point in a quarter (20 vs. Elmwood Park), most points in a half (30 vs. Elmwood Park), and most free throws in a game (15 against Fair Lawn). He also established season standards in free throw attempts (197), free throws made (161), and scoring average (26.7), plus the career mark in steals (234).

Walters, who had a high game of 42 points against Garfield, ranks third in Scarlets scoring history with 1,136 points. Ginsberg of Wyck-off, a junior at the Loomis Chaffee School in Windsor, won a Connecticut State interscholastic wrestling title for the third straight year. The 126-pounder also was honored as the most valuable wrestler in the tournament and received a trophy for the most pins in the least aggregate time DiTrani bowls to second I rr Kevin Valle was worth 12 points to Hackensack last night and that is why the Comets are the Section 1, Group 4 wrestling team champions. Much of what occurred the first time the two teams met a 28-26 North Bergen win Wrestling happened again in the sectional final yesterday. Except, that is, for Valle.

The Hackensack 108-pounder, pinned by Tom Flynn last time, turned the tables by shouldering Flynn in 3:06 to get the Comets off to an 11-0 start (Tom Ve-lez had opened with a 12-0 superior decision). After North Bergen's splendid mid-dleweights took the lead, 22-14, all Hackensack's upper weightmen had to do was follow the old script. Alan Ellis decisioned, Jack DuBose and Vince Trovini superior decisioned, and Jeff Sgro pinned for the victory. In other sectional finals last night, Pascack Hills defeated Ramapo, 40-16, for the Group 3 title; Fort Lee completed an unbeaten season by battering wood Park, 32-18; Emerson battled to overcome Palisades Park for a second time, 29-19, in Group and De Paul eased to a devastating 46-10 triumph over St Joseph in Parochial A. In the Hackensack win, DuBose rolled Rene Quintero onto his back for a total of 13 back points for an 18-0 decision.

Trovini followed with a 22-5 victory fashioned on five takedowns of Perry Zlotkin. Fort Lee, wrestling without 115-pound star Jim Angelidis, still jumped out to a 22-3 lead as sophomore Ben Ryu sur ley would not accept it So the game remains a 44-42 Wayne Hills victory. "It wasn't our intent to win a championship in a situation like this," Pascack Valley athletic director Jeff Jasper said. "We're not headhunters. We don't want to embarrass anyone.

In the time that has passed, our coach Mike O'Brien was ill, and the Wayne Hills game just doesn't seem as im- portant anymore. There's no antimos-ity. We just didn't think this was worth upsetting the relationships we have with other schools in the league. Such compatability is unusual in this dog-eat-dog world." Very unusual, but welcomed. PASSAIC WHICH ignited a probe into scheduling practices when it questioned the criteria used by the New Jersey State Interscholastic Athletic Association to determine qualifying teams for the.

State football playoffs, has an argument about the boys basketball seedings as well In a letter to executive secretary-treasur Staff photo by Joe Gtardetli Dan McHugh ofDumont works to turn Pascack Hills' Scott KeUey, who not pinned the Huskies' 101-pounder. ranks first in sportsmanship league Old Tappan to seventh place. The Knights had a three-game total of 2,271 (724-800-747), 153 pins behind South Plainfield and Lenape Valley, which tied for first place with 2,424 totals. Hackensack, which had series of 737, 746, and 808, was sixth with a 2,291 total, while Fair Lawn was eighth with 2260. ern New Jersey Interscholastic League teams who have gone against each other twice already, Teaneck-Bergenfield, Hackensack-Wayne Valley, and Ridgewood-Passaic Valley.

And if Teaneck and Ridgewood advance into the semifinals, that game would be their fourth of the season. It's called the luck of the draw. Or lack of it THREE BROTHERS won matches in the same wrestling dual match Thursday. Seniors Steve Kennelly (129 pounds) and. Ed Kennelly (135), identical twins, have wrestled all season for the Leonia varsity.

Daa Kea-nelly, a sophomore, was brought up from the JV to go at 148. AO earned victories when the Lions crushed Bergen Tech, 41-12. The deadline for applications for the head football coaching job'at Bergenfield is Friday. Resumes from certified teachers should be sent to athletic director Kea Golnick. McLellan, the Bears' 6-foot-7 center, has signed a Debbie DiTrani of Old Tappan rolled games of 189, 161, and 190 yesterday for a 540 series and a tie for second in the New Jersey State Inter-scholastic Athletic Association Girls Bowling Championships.

DiTrani, who was 17 pins behind first-place finisher Toni DeBlasi, led er James Growney, Passaic basketball coach Larry Cirignano urged the NJSIAA to avoid pairing the Indians against Kennedy in the opening round of the Group 4, North Jersey Section 1 tournament The two teams have faced each other three times this season. Growney's said the NJSIAA determined its seedings through established criteria, and there was nothing that could be done to prevent teams in the same league from competing against each other in the same bracket of the draw. Seeds were drawn up on the basis of a team's record as of Feb. 1. At that time Passaic was 7-7.

True, the Indians haven't lost since then, but the NJSIAA had no way to forsee that As it turned out, Cirignano's worst fears were realized. Kennedy, seeded third in Group 4, is host to Passaic in the opening round Tuesday night This is not an isolated case, however. In the upper half of the bracket are three first-round games pitting North point in the game. Based on O'Connor's testimony and other evidence, league representatives voted to uphold the Indians' protest and suggested the final six seconds be replayed. Since Pascack Valley and Pascack Hills ended the season tied for first place with 16-2 records, a Valley vie- High School tory against Wayne Hills would give the Indians the NBIL title.

Wayne Hills, however, declined to replay the end of the game. The penalty for this was to be a forfeit, but Pascack Val Jack O'Connell Sit Lmm Pascack Valley proved Friday winning isn't everything by turning down the opportunity to be declared the outright boys basketball champion of the Northern Bergen Interscholastic League. How this came about was the result of an NBIL inquiry into the final moments of the Indians' loss at Wayne Hills Feb. 18. At question was when the Pat O'Connor, the official timekeeper, started the clock when the Patriots had the ball underneath their basket with six seconds left and the score tied at 42.

Observers felt, and the officials working the game agreed, that more than six seconds elapsed before Pete Yalck scored the winning basket There were three passes and two shots attempted before Yalch's basket Pascack Valley lodged a protest with the NBIL, which heard the case this past week. Northern Highlands athletic direc-tor Mickey Corcoran, who chaired the committee of athletic directors, said O'Connor admitted he was unsure when he began the clock at the crucial.