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Hazleton Standard Speaker, Friday, April 30, 1993 1 5 Lady Cougars, Lady Vikings lose in WVC Freshman Kate Orloski struck out 13 batters and allowed just two hits Thursday afternoon to lead Crestwood past Hazleton Area, 8-1, in Wyoming Valley Conference Class AAA Softball play. In a AA matchup, Meyers beat Bishop Hafey, 10-2. CRESTWOOD HAZLETON AREA 8 1 The Lady Cougars held a 1-0 lead after 2 Vi innings when Heidi Rittenhouse scored from third base on a passed ball, but that was the only highlight in the contest for Hazleton Area as the Lady Comets scored three runs in the bottom of the third to take control. Crestwood scored its runs on an Orloski leadoff single followed by a hit batsman. A passed ball advanced the runners before Laura Phelan stroked a two-run double prior followed by Kim Hollock's RBI single.

The Lady Comets scored an unearned run in the fourth and secured the outcome with four tallies in the bottom of the sixth. Hollock paced the winners with three singles followed by Phelan's double and single. Orloski added two singles and Kristin Kirkutis singled. Chrissy Swank and Kim Mistiszyn singled for the Lady Cougars. Hazleton Area dropped to 3-4, 1-3, and will host Nanticoke Monday.

COUGARS HONORED The Hazleton Area High School basketball team was honored Thursday by the Greater Hazleton Chamber of Commerce during a Red Carpet Breakfast at Genettl's Best Western Hall of Presidents. Pictured, left to right, are: Seated, Jayson Ewer, Pete Dougherty, Terry Kringe, Tom Kundrat, John Dubravski, Ben Ziek, Jarett Makara and Gary Pressler. Standing, Rocco Colangelo (Chamber of Commerce president), Gary Generose, John Dacostino, Chris Long, Hassan Abdullah, Anthony Falvello, Paul Shershen, Kevin Zelechoski, Jeff Williams and Molly Blasko (program chairman). Cougars, Lady Cougars sweep Titans rally to down Bishop Hafey, 6-4 adding his talents to the winning (45.9) 400-meter relay along with Justin Veazie, Jasen Scott and Jerry Evangelista. Hazleton Area's final triumph in the field events came from Joe Galada, who won the pole vault (12-0).

Jake Reiff captured the 110-meter low hurdles in 16.3 and the 300-meter intermediate hurdles in 43.1 while Veazie won the 100 (11.2) and 200 (23.1) meter dashes. Eric Marsch won the run Scott took the 400-meter dash (54.6) and Jeff Krulick finished first (10:58) in the run. Second-place points were contributed by Scott, 100-meter dash (11.5) and javelin (125-9); John Kuczynski, 1,600 (4:59.5) and 800 (2:19.7) meter runs; Evangelista, 200-meter dash (24.2); Jeff Bradbury, run Mike Gau-diano, shot put (39-9 Vi); Keith Bolish, discus (105-1O); Brown, high jump (5-8); and Jamie Dixon, pole vault (12-0). Third-place points came from Houser, 110-meter high hurdles (16.9) and 300-meter hurdles (45.4); Evangelista, 100-meter dash (11.5); Marsch, 800-meter run Keith Junas, run Bolish, shot put (37'2); Jeff Cusat, discus (88-7); Galada, javelin (122-5); Greg Maru'yak, triple jump (33-10); and Dixon, high jump (5-6). 0l0 000 0 1 2 5 .009 1041-1 I Snyder, Miituzyn (4) tad Rittcobome: Oiloiki tad Kiikutii.

Orlotkl Snyder. MEYERS BISHOP HAFEY 10 2 Amy Rosengrant was the winning pitcher and also the hitting star for the Lady Mohawks as she collected four singles and drove in four runs for the winning Lady Mohawks. Bishop Hafey trailed 8-0 before scoring a run in the bottom of the fourth. Traci Smith contributed a double and single to the winning offense followed by Carrie Kelsch, Danielle Benson and Jamie Miller all with two singles. Lynn Milewski doubled and Becky Brominski, Tammy Phillips and Karen Ostrowski each had a single.

The Lady Vikings were led by Debbie Leonard's three singles and Nicole Evans triple and single. Rose Petruzzi chipped in with an RBI double and Leslie Evans, Amanda Hanincik and Mae Umbriac each contributed a single. Rosengrant was the winning pitcher and Leonard was tagged with the loss. Bishop Hafey will host Bishop O'Reilly today. Meyeri 240 200 2 10 16 1 Bishop Harcy.

000 200 0 2 9 6 Rosen grant, Benton (4) and Brominski; Leonard and Hudik. Rosengrant. Leonard. followed with a run-scoring single before Toby Harris came through with a two-run double. After the Vikings went ahead 4-3 in the fourth, the Titans tied the score with a run in the bottom of the stanza and then broke the deadlock with two runs in the fifth.

Brian Strish walked and Jack Washko doubled before Holena drove in the go-ahead runs with a double. Washko paced the winners with a pair of doubles followed by Holena's double and single. Freshman Lee Tripp contributed a double. Dudeck and Harris each collected a double and single for the Vikings while Frank DeFalco and Merrigan both had two singles. Ciavarella and Jason Lagowy singled.

Tripp was the winning pitcher and Mike rugger suffered the loss. Bishop Hafey (2-4) returns to the diamond today at GAR. Bishop Hafey 030 100 0 4 10 1 West Side Tech 012120x-6 5 1 PUtukis, Brugger (4), Shupp and Merrick (6); Tripp and Faidowsld. Tripp. Brugger.

Icebreaker event Sat. at Drifton The Hazleton Area Business Slow-Pitch Softball League will hold an icebreaker tournament Saturday at the Drifton Complex. The schedule: 10 a.m., Kama vs. Hazleton St. Joseph Hospital and Owens-Corning vs.

Citterio's; 11:15 a.m., Federal Paper vs. Original Pizza and Baboli Company vs. Hershey U.S.A.; 12:30 p.m., Hazleton General Hospital vs. Dorr-Oliver and Chromatex vs. Union Camp; 1:45 p.m..

Fabri-Kal vs. Allen-Stevens. Phils-Cards trip The Most Precious Blood Holy Name Society will run a group trip to the Philadelphia Pbillies-St. Louis Cardinals National League East baseball game Sunday, May 9, at Veterans Stadium. All ladies 15 years of age and older will receive a free umbrella.

For more information, contact Frank Cera at 454-5420 or Rex Pauline at 454-7536. Hazleton 454-4897 Aren't Just A Memory Huktoa An. Just Change Your Filter Our 20 Point and Pacelli claimed the 400-meter dash. Eckert captured the javelin for the Lady Cougars. Second-place points were provided by Lynn Ritz, 100-low (16.6) and 300-meter (50.5) hurdles; Koren and Rachel Ritz tied in the 100-meter dash (12.9) before Koren placed runncrup in the long jump (15-7); Zucatti, run Barletta, 800-meter run Benn-inger, 200-meter dash (29.5); Costell, triple jump (31-8); Mrazik, shot put (31-OVi) and javelin (90-11); and Babula, discus (91-10).

Third-place points came from Rose Chinni, 100-low hurdles (17.6); Tracy King, run Fellin, 400-meter dash Lisa Osadche, 300-meter hurdles (54.2); Witkowski, 800-meter run Zucatti, run Melody Labanosky, triple jump (30-2) and long jump (15-1); Michele LaBuda, shot put (28-1 llA); Kristen Doyle, discus (74-7); and Babula, javelin (77-7). Hazleton Area improved to 8-1 and will compete today in the Breslin Relays at Mount Carmel. Corrado (Continued from page 13) John Salko was the winning pitcher and Paczewski took the loss. Hazleton Area will host Nanticoke Saturday at 2 p.m. Dallai 200010 4 7 12 0 Uulcton Arra 000 001 9 10 0 Paczewski and Barbose; Baran, Tanner (7), Salko (7) and Leonard.

Salko. Paczewski. Penn State cage camp planned for June, July The 11th annual Penn State Basketball School will be held with three different sessions planned for June and July at the Penn State-Hazleton gymnasium. The camp is open to all boys and girls in fifth through 10th grades. The first session, for girls, will be held the week of June 21-25.

Two sessions for boys will be held. The first session for boys will be held June 28 to July 2 and the second boys' session will be held July 12-16. Brochures will be available by calling the Penn State Continuing Education Office at 450-3110 or 450-3075. WVC Track run; and Galada, javelin. Hazleton Area will compete today in the Breslin Relays at Mount Carmel.

GIRLS HAZLETON AREA 133 LAKE-LEHMAN 7 The Lady Cougars won all 17 events against the out-manned Lady Black Knights. Hazleton Area displayed balance throughout the race as Lynn Ritz showed her form in taking the 100-meter (16.6) and 300-meter (50.5) hurdles while Gcnine Darrough was a triple winner as she claimed the 100 (12.8) and 200 (27.6) meter dashes before joining with Christine Koren, Stephanie Benn-inger and Rachel Ritz to win the 400-meter relay in 52.9. Jamie Hospador, Gina Barletta, Tracy Witkowski and Meredith Marko combined to run a 12:13.4 and win the relay. Marko claimed the run in 13:31 and Barletta took the 800-meter run in 2:56.9. Tawnya Zucatti captured the run in 6:40.1 and Cindy Pacelli took the 400-meter dash in 1:00.5.

Kimberly Mollath, Renee Eckert, Melissa Costell and Barletta won the relay in 5:02. Erin Costell won the triple jump with a 31-8 and Koren took the long jump with a 15-7. Jennifer Fellin captured the high jump with a 4-6 and Mrazik finished first in the shot put with a 31-0 followed by Kathy Babula's victory (91-10) in the discus and Renee Eckert's win (95-10) in the javelin. HAZLETON AREA HANOVER AREA 85 Vi 55 Vi The Lady Cougars used superior depth in overcoming the Lady Hawkeyes, who won nine of the 17 events, but could not match Hazleton Area in second and third place points. Darrough claimed three first-place finishes with wins in the 100- and 200-meter dashes along with running a leg of the vctorious 400-meter relay while the team of Hospador, Barletta, Witkowski and Marko won the relay.

Marko won the run Bishop Hafey was unable to hold leads of 3-0 and 4-3 and West Side Tech rallied for two runs in the bottom of the fifth for the Wyoming Valley Conference victory Thursday afternoon. Bishop Hafey took a 3-0 lead when Matt Dudeck doubled and moved to third on Eamon Mer-rigan's single. Tony Ciavarella Lady Wreckers fall to CB, 6-4 Cardinal Brennan jumped to a 6-1 lead after three innings and held on for a 6-4 victory over Weatherly Thursday afternoon in Schuylkill League Division III softball. Carolyn Klimas had a triple and single for the winners, Heather Robbins doubled and singled, Jesse Crea doubled and Stef Kowalonek singled. Heather Radjavitch homered for the Lady Wreckers, Mandy O'Donnell doubled and Fran Keener, Vicky Pilecki and Stephanie Malisko singled.

The Lady Chargers took a 2-0 lead in the bottom of the first on a single by Klimas and back-to-back doubles by Crea and Rob-bins. Radjavitch's home run cut the deficit in half in the top of the first, but Cardinal Brennan scored three runs in the bottom of the second on a pair of walks, an error, a fielder's choice and a single. The Lady Chargers scored a run in the third on Kowalonek's single and Klimas' triple. The Lady Wreckers scored twice in the fourth. Pilecki singled, stole second and took third when O'Donnell reached on an error.

O'Donnell stole second base before Missy Labanoski put down a sacrifice bunt to score Pilecki. O'Donnell also scored on the play on a throwing error. Weatherly scored a run in the sixth when Pilecki singled, stole second and scored on O'Don-nell's double. Weatherly will host Panther Valley today. Weatherly 010 201 0 4 5 3 Cardinal Brennan 231 000 1 6 6 2 O'Donnell, Radjavitch (4) and Mrozinski; Crea and Murphy.

Crea. O'Donnell. 1025 N. Church "Where Courtesy Quality Dayne MacAfee led a dominating showing in the field events with three victories Thursday afternoon to lead Hazleton Area past Hanover Area, 111-39, and Lake-Lehman, 100-50, in Wyoming Valley Conference track and field at Harman-Geist Stadium. In girls' action, the Lady Cougars beat Lake-Lehman, 133-7, and Hanover Area, 8512-5512.

BOYS HAZLETON AREA 111 HANOVER AREA 39 MacAfee helped the Cougars finish first in six of the seven field events as he captured the shot put (44-0), discus (114-3) and javelin (149-2) while Joe Longo added a pair of wins in the long (19-8) and triple (41-4 Vi) jumps before Blue Devils lose in 9th Minersville scored two runs in the top of the ninth to hand Shenandoah a 5-3 defeat in Schuylkill League Division II baseball. The teams were tied 3-3 after seven innings before the Battlin' Miners finally broke the tie in the top of the ninth as Scott Gehris walked and was forced out at second before Mitch Ritchie came through with a single. Cory Riz-zardi walked to load the bases and then Norb Brennan hit a scarifice fly to center for one run. Tom Wenner then hit an RBI single to cap the rally. Shenandoah scored twice in the third on a Brian Racis two-run double and tied the score at 3-3 in the sixth on a Jeff Maksimik RBI single.

Wenner paced the winners with a double and two singles followed by Rizzardi's double and single. Dave Zula pitched in with a double while Ritchie, Brennan, Jeff Cutler and Matt Leonard all added a single. The Blue Devils were led by Racis' double and single and Maksimik, Joe Link and Paul Sosna all with two singles. John Katulis, Gregg Mirocke, Chris Jones and Rich Yarnitsky each contributed one single. Curt Sinko was the winning pitcher with 10 strikeouts and Mirocke suffered the defeat.

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The Cougars also earned first place points from Marsch, run; Scott, 400-meter run; and Krulick, run. Second-place finishers were Reiff, 110-meter hurdles; Scott, 100-meter dash and javelin; Kuczynski, 800 and 1,600 meter runs; Evangelista, 200-meter dash; Gaudiano, shot put; Bolish, discus; Brown, high jump; and Dixon, pole vault. Third-place points were contributed by Evangelista, 100-meter dash; Marsch, 800-meter Rt. 315 Wilkes-Barre 825-6681 SATURDAY, MAY 1st 119TH RUNNING OF THE KENTUCKY DERBY FAST, COURTEOUS AND ECONOMICAL WATCH AND BET THE EXCITING FIRST LEG OF THE TRIPLE CRO EN JO A COOL MINT MIEP AND STA FOR LIVE HARNESS ACTION! We Don't Oil Watch and bet the Kentucky Derby Post Time 5:30 Receive a FREE Pocono Downs Daily Double Ticket with your $2.00 paid Derby Admission 14 LIVE HARNESS RACES (Post Time 6:30) Pocono Downs OUTDOOR BARBEQUE Check service We use Maximum protect I Motor Oil Castrol List gives you the most for your money! Quality Castrol (10W30or20W50 DOT 4 Brake Fluid. Lube and See Us Enter THERE WILL BE SIMULCAST RACING FROM PHILADELPHIA PARK ON SAL, MAY 1st, SPECIAL POSTTiME 12 NOON! HOURS OF OPERATION: Sun.

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