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Page 6-January 30,1986-Fort Covington Sun-Fort Covington, N.Y. Son Sforiseenter ^^ i Ru Sandu Co RIFLE It was a tough one to lose, but the outlook is brighter for the SRCS rifle squad. Even though they dropped a narrow decision at Massena a week ago, the Shamrock marksmen are showing con- tinued improvement. And Coach Jack Buchanan is hop- ing the upward climb wil con- tinue through the next month or so, and on to the sectionals to be held here. Salmon River lost by only two at Massena last Thursday, 1106-1104. Kenny Williams was the leader of the match, marking a 282 that included a perfect score of 100 from the prone position. Jeff Jock was next in line for the Shamrocks with a 275. Corey Carrier was close behind at 274. Kevin Boyea filled in the fourth team slot at 273. Those three shoot- ers posted a 99 prone. James Jock, Tommy Smiddy, Mark Dietz, and Russell Phillips also took rifles in hand for SRCS, and none shot less than 260-meaning all members of the team are com- ing up with better scores as the season goes on. Coach Buchanan's sharp- shooters are lodged in third place in the Adirondack Smal- lbore Rifle League with a record of 4-4. Sports Schedule Today, January 30—Girls varsity (only) basketball home vs. Chateauguay, 6 PM; boys Swimming at an away invita- tional meet, 4:30 PM. Friday, Jan. 31—Boys JV and varsity basketball home vs. Colton-Pierrrepont, 6:30 PM; Girls Jr. High basketball home (Mohawk School) vs. St. Regis Falls, 4:15PM. Saturday, Feb. 1—Hockey home vs. Massena, 7 PM (but plan to come early!) Monday, Feb. 3—Girls JV and varsity basketball at St. Regis Falls, 6 PM; Boys Jr. High basketball home (Mohawk School) vs. St. Regis Falls, 4:15 PM. Tuesday, Feb. 4—Boys JV and varsity basketball home vs. Parishville-Hopkinton, 6:30 PM; Hockey home vs. Saranac Lake, 7 PM; Girls Jr. High basketball home vs. Malone, 4:15 PM. Wednesday, Feb. 5—Boys Jr. High basketball home vs. Chateauguay, 4:15 PM. Thursday, Feb. 6—Boys swimming at Ausable Valley, 4:30 PM; Girls JV and Varsity basketball home vs. Madrid- Wadington, 6 PM; Girls Jr. High basketball final game home vs. Chateauguay, 4:15 PM. Friday, Feb. 7—Boys Jr. High basketball final game at St. Regis Falls, 4:15 PM; boys JV and Varsity basketball at Chateauguay, 6:30 PM; Hockey at 1000 Islands (Clay- ton), 7:30PM. By Sandy Cook HOCKEY Salmon River's hockey team so far has been a lot like the Super Bowl champion Chi- cago Bears-totally dominant in their league, at times looking like an unstoppable jugger- naut. Now, they're emulating the Bears in another way-by not being able to go through the league schedule without a loss. The Malone Huskies played the role of undefeated season spoiler by handing SRCS its initial notch in the loss column, 4-3, last Saturday. That brings the Shamrock ice mark to 14-2 overall, and 11-1 in Division 11-West of the N AC. Jf course, the green and white icemen will have their real chance to prove dom- inance this Saturday night. The Massena Red Raiders will come to the SRC Arena for a 7 PM contest, and arena crews are preparing for what could be the biggest crowd for a game there in some years. Salmon's icemen will have to regain their composure a bit after Saturday's defeat at the Malone Rec Park Arena. That affair started out all right, as Tracy Burl took passes from Marcel Almond and Craig Richards to open the scoring at 4:38 of the first period. Almost five minutes after that, FA tal- lied to tie it at 1-1. Andreas Birch-iensen gave SRCS a 2-1 lead 15 seconds later, with an assist to Peter Radlein. Malone kept the pressure on, though, and sent the clubs to the dressing room in a 2-2 deadlock by notching a goal about a minute and a half from the end of the first period. With a little added confi- dence, Malone scored the only goal of the second stanza, while holding the Shamrocks off the board. The Huskies killed a two-man advantage situation for Salmon in the process. Birch-iensen struck back to knot the count at 3-3 early in the third period, and the battle was on. (Radlein and Richards drew assists on that marker.) Unfortunately for local fans, the curtain was drawn on an undefeated league campaign when Malone's Mike Holland scored with 5:06 to play in the game. Although SRCS threw many last-ditch attempts at the FA net, goalie David LaPlante kept them all out. The Malone crowd broke out in wild celebration at the final buzzer. It marked the second win for the Huskies over the Shamrocks in three years. Their first victory was a lot more devastating-it knocked Salmon out of the playoffs in 1984. So, the Shamrock Express will try to get rolling again this Saturday night. But what a team to try to regroup against. The Massena Red Raiders will roll into town, knowing Sal- mon River's varsity hockey 1972. BOYS BASKETBALL It looked like the Shamrock boys varsity basketball cart had been righted and started chugging along full speed ahead toward the top of Div- ision 11. That certainly seemed to be the case after last Tues- day's satisfying 65-55 win over St. Lawrence Central at home. But the wheels came off in Brushton last Friday night, as SRCS had a hard time keeping pace with the Panthers and lost, 67-50. Last week's split brings the record of Coach Wayne Wal- bridge and his net crew to 5-4 in the NAC's Division II race, tied for fourth with Chateau- guay and Brushton-Moira. The fans at the Shamrock gym were treated to a highly entertaining contest last Tuesday. Both the Larries and the home club were hot, and played flashy basketball the whole night. Lots of fine pass- ing and pinpoint shooting made for one of the most fun games to watch in some time. Especially on fire for the green and white was Matt Pyle. The senior off-guard displayed the full capacity of his deadly shooting touch, and wound u£ with 22 points-a game and career high. All of Pyle's field goals (two-point baskets) were from 16 feet away from the hoop or further. The only points he scored from a snorter distance were two foul shots, from the char- ity stripe at 15 feet. And few of the attempts he made hit any- thing but the bottom of the net as the ball went through. SLC had to become frus- trated. It seemed for a while that every time one of their sharpshooters would score- and the Larries ended up with three players in double figures-the Shamrocks would come back by getting the ball to Pyle and letting him fire away. That turned out to be a winning game plan. After trailing 14-9 at the end of one quarter and 28-23 at halftime, SRCS scrounged and scraped to a 43-42 lead after three. That's when Coach Walbridge changed the stra- tegy a bit. After relying on Pyle's hot hand most of the evening, the Shamrocks started to work inside, where their bread and better has been all season. And when given the chal- lenge, senior center Paul Ghostlaw responded like the two-time All-Northern he is.- Paul controlled the middle over the final eight minutes, getting 11 of his 17 total points while helping his team pull away from the visitors in the closing minutes. Salmon's other three star- ters had fine nights, too. Joel Phillips and Jon Bergeron tal- lied nine points apiece, and point guard Sean Inglee tossed in eight in the important win against SLC. However, the whole act had its troubles at Brushton last Friday. After staying even at 15-all following the first eight minutes (which started out a lot like the St. Lawrence game did), SRCS fell behind the hungry Panthers and couldn't get closer than six points the rest of the night. Ghostlaw was on top of the green and white scoresheet that night with 18 points-the only SRCS flayer in double figures. Phillips followed .with 9 points, Pyle hit for 8, Ber- geron got 7, Gino Tenace canned two long shots for 4, and Inglee and Ron Paquin tossed in a bucket each. GIRLS BASKETBALL As a result oftoo few players and too many snowflakes, the Division II leading Lady Shamrock varsity girls basket- ball squad played only one game last week-and it was a non-leaguer. Nonetheless, SRCS won it, 62-42, at Ogdensburg. That decision proves Coach Dick McLean's talented crew- which has quite a streak of consecutive divisional wins- could play ball no matter where the NAC had put them. Karen Cook continues to lead the Lady Shamrock scor- ing parade. She canned 21 points in the first half at OF A en route to a 31 point total. Freshman Claudine Tarbell also hit double figures, at 15. Stephanie Richards topped the guards with 8 points, and Michele Raville and Ellen Cook threw in four each in the victory over a Division I club. Earlier, we wrote about too few players. Well, that' s the case at Colton-Pierrepont Central, where there were not enough girls to support a var- sity basketball program. So that went on hiatus, but the JV and Jr. High programs are building back the numbers well. Two former Colton Ms. Colts are now with the boys varsity. The many snowflakes which fell Monday and closed school here also forced the post- ponement of the SRCS at Parishville girls JV and varsity games. They've been resche- duled for Friday night, 6 PM, at the PHCS gym. GIRLS JV BASKETBALL The Lady Shamrock JV had rough sledding last week, dropping two games on the road. Coach Dawn Hopson saw her charges lose a 37-21 verdict at Ogdensburg in a non-leaguer last Tuesday.- ..then endured the loss of her highest scorer for Thursday's encounter at Colton due to the player's non-attendance at school the previous day. That alone may have accounted for Salmon's 23-11 defeat at C-P. After winning their first three games, the JV has come out on the wrong end of its last three, and stands at the .5— mark at press time. A poor-shooting second quarter did Coach Hopson and company in at the Golden Dome. The Lady Shamrock JV was outscored 11-3 in that frame, and trailed 22-9 at the half. The second half was fairly even, but by then the damage had been done and the amount too high for SRCS to overcome. Dawn King mustered 11 points in the losing cause. Teammates Heather Alex- ander, Teresa Adams, and Mary Jo Jock totalled 4,4, and 2 points, respectively. King then apparently missed school the following day, rendering her unable to paly at Colton last Thursday. The result was a definite lack of offensive leadership, as wit- nessed by the 11 points scored by the whole team. That's exactly how many King had two nights before. SRCS played good early defense, holding Colton scor- less over the first seven min- utes of the contest. But they managed only three points on offense. Then, C-P turned the tide, blanking the green and white for the second quarter and running in 10 points themselves. Sr kept the third satnza even...then suffered the point blues in quarter four, with only one basket to show. Adams was the top player on the Salmon scoresheet with 8 points. Cheryl Elliott and Tina Tarbell accounted for two and one points, respec- tively. Adams was the only SRCS player to score over the final three quarters. BOYS JV BASKETBALL It was a lost week for the SRCS boys JV basketball team. After running up a first half record of 6-1, Coach Ray Drenzek's charges fell on hard times in its last two outings. Third quarter collapses led to losses to St. Lawrence Central 49-34) and Brushton-Moira (38-25), giving the JV a 6-3 mark now. In both games, Salmon placed will over the first two quarters and the margin was a point or two at halftime. But both times, the green and white apparently didn't come out ready for the second half, and got outscored by ten points in the third quarter of each contest. The opponents then just needed to maintain the margin to seal the win, and they did just that. At home versus the Larries, SRCS had a 17-15 halftime advantage that evaporated into a 34-23 third quarter deficit. SLC spread the scoring out evenly in the final seven min- utes to gain the win. Bruce Carrier did the inside damage for the Shamrocks, and wound up with 10 points. Chris Rogofsky tossed in eight. Matt Mitchell added 6, while David Stowell banged in five, Mike Ben way hit for four, and Kyle Mulvana made a second quar- ter foul shot. 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