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Page 12 Thursday, January 1,1998 TIMES of Scotch Bairn - Faawood A WATCHUNG COMMUNICATIONS, INC. PUBLICAHON
THE WEEK IN SPORTSBALY WINS 160: TEZUCAR. FRIEDMAN. TODD TAKE 2Nn
Roselle Park Matmen SecureVictory at Blue Devil Classic
By BAVH> B. CORMNW h T h f i S J l d r
--CLEARING THE WRISTS... Blue Devil 140-poand wrestler TRYING A TAKEDOWN...Senior Baa Todd of die Blue• 'Nick Friedman, bottom, attempts to break the wis t grip of D*vik, left, makes aa attempt to take Nick Cflento ofThU Torino of Roselfc Park Coloaia to the mats ID fee 125-pound finals.
GEWIRTZHITS FOR 25 POINTS
Raider Boys CrumbleColumbia in Classic
The Scotch Plasns-Fanwood High"School boys* basketball team won its";ifaini straight game of the season, by«•• bouncing Columbia Higii School, 62-51,
in the opening round of the Cindv Pools• " € t e ^ at Scotch Rains on December 27.-r- • Senior guard Dave Gewirtz led the assault-by mikiag 25 points..•""'" Gewsrtz sent Columbia reeling when* be Bailed 14 points in the fast quarter to
•>~give i « Raiders a 20-7 lead over the' Coajpirs. THnp evened in. the second
*''-quarter, as the Coaaars out shot feeRates , 19-16.
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Raiders virtually traded point for pointwith the Cougars in the second half.Senior Raiders JefFFeighner and DonaldPsttason hit for 10 and nine points,respectively, junior Ben Martinez andsophomore Ron Jenerette had sevenpoiats each, and senior Doug Bishopadded four points.
Cari Thompson ted Columbia in scor-ing wMt 16 points, followed by KehhMkfdJston wish 10 points and Dotig Th-ompson with eight The Raiders improvedto 3-0, white Columbia slipped to 1-2
Kashlak BecomesState Ice HockeyScoring LeaderWeafieM High School ioe hockey
junior center Ronnie Kasblak has beenon a scoring teai this season. Kashlafchas scored 29 goals and added 13assiS3to total 42 points in only sight games lobecome the s&ie tee hockey coringleader.
Blue Devi! Brandon Kape has scored10 goals and added 10 assists to rankeighth among the public schools scor-ing leaders. Josh Fak»ae has scorednine goals for ths Blue Devils.
The very strong Roselfe Baric HighSchool wrestling team took top honors atthe Blue Devil Invitational WrestlingTournament hdd in WestfieH on Decem-ber 27, totaling 197 points. WestfieldHigh School, with the leadership of MikeBah?, Dan Todd, Onur Tezucar and NickFriedman, placed fifth with 95 pants.
Bah/, in the 160-pound finals, had hiswork cut out for him when he narrowlydefeated a tenacious Kevin Kolbeck ofRosefe Park, 6-5. Baly, seeded first drewa bye-, &en won by majority decision overBrad Fetter of HoweS, 10-2.
No points were scored in the firstperiod, Sen Kolbeefc went ahead, 1-0, onan escape eariy in the second period. Bah/seized the lead, 2-1, when he scored on afcow-by takedown. Kolbeek escaped,feat Baly again look him down as the leadincreased to 4-2. Kolbeck added anotherescape and the score was 4-3, as the thirdperiod began.
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remaining, each wrestler was penalizedone more point for staffing and Baly hadpulled out a strategic, 6-5, victory.
Todd laced two-time state qualifierNick Cilento of Colonia at 125, and fei!victim to a pin in 1:50. Cilento scored ona dtick-under takedown, a two-pointtBt, then caught Todd in a cradle pinningcombination. Todd pinned Clem Walkerof Morristown in 1:57, then pinnedMike Davis of Coionia in 5:03 lo reachthe finals.
Friedman pinned Dan Rodriques ofHowetl in 5:50, then pinned Tom Phillipsof Morristown in the semifinals in 1:31.Friedman battled well with two-timeRegion 3 place-winner Phil Torino ofRoselle Park at the 140-pound class anddropped a 7-2 decision.
Torino scored on a takedown with :49left of the first period. In the secondperiod, Torino added an escape and asingle-leg, back-trip takedown to take a 5-0 lead. Friedman scored on two escapes toclose the score to 5-2; however, Torinosealed the bout when he got anothertakedown with :23 remaining.
In the 152-pound finals, Tezucar wasfelled by Eric Swick of Roselie Park in1:36. Swick, who recorded his 94th highschool career victory, had placed in thetop six in the state on two occasions.Earlier, Tezucar pinned Jason Grubi ofMorristown in :35, then won by defaultover Ryan Voliva of Piscataway in thesemifinals.
Senior Jeff Kivetz defeated DaveNapoH of Colonia, 8-2, then lost to SeanMarosy of Piscataway in the semifinalsin 3:52, In the third'-place consolationround, Kivetz held a 4-1 lead over RyanBitch from Dover, but was caught in absr-ann pinning combination in Sic finalmirmte of his bout.
At 189, Rich HaifickJ defeated DavidAhwado of Morristown in 1:52, thenlost to Joe Gias» of Coionia in the
semifinals in 5:46. Hatfield faced JasonVargas of RoselkPark for third place and,after scoring on several takedowns andnear falls, Hatfield pinned Vargas ia 3:37
Brian Williams, at 215, lost Ms firstmatch to JefFRose of Morristown in :58,but came back to defeat Keori Gedelec ofColonia in 432.
TEAM SCORES:(RP) Roselle Park 197, (P) Piscataway
134,<H)Howeli 122.5,(C)CoIonial07.5'.<W) WcstficW 95, <D) Dover 70, (M)Morristown 50
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CHAMPIONSHIP BREAKDOWN:103: — Chris Hrabar (P) d. John
Colingato (H), 9-5112: — Joey Camaeho (D) d. Ed
Wittaker (H), 3-2119: — Joe Herits (C) d. David Goad
(H), 10-5125: — Nick Cilento (C) p. Dan Todd
(W),l:50130: — Craig Frost (RP) i. Shatm
Marosey (P), 4-2 {Overtime} '135: — Joe DiPillo (C) d. Kevin fckles
(H),9-7140:—PhilTorino(RP)d. Nickfried-
n»n (W). 7-2145: — Chris King (RP) p. Adrian
Vargas (D)4 3:49152: — Eric Swick (RP) p. Onar
Tezacar (W), 1:36160: — Mike Baly (W) d. Kevin
Kdbeck (RP), 6-5J71: — Doug Sehnoning (RP) md.
Rogelin Figueroa (D), 16-5189: — Joe Grasso (C> d. 1am
Deaadham <P), 7-6215: —"Pit Apdlo (RP) md. JeffRose
(M), 16-2Hwt — Mike Mttnoz (RP) p. Shawr.
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The victor} lifted the Blue Devils toAc 5-2 mark-, while Cranford drapedto 4-5. The tost time the t*o teams roetiu Ihe Cron Toarnamcnt £»o weekscariicr, the Blue Devils hsnailj dc-fsatrdthcCoagara, 13-6, Westfield hasbeaten Crmnford four straight tiroes
The Blue Dcvjls wasted r,o limefisdsng the b*ck of the net, as fresh-rocn standout Brandan Kape scoredfirst Rape's goal 'wss assfstefi b>juaior forward Josh Falcons, »ho hadVmo gj»3s and three assi&ts on thenight Junior Ronnie Ksshiak addedtwo gosls in the first penod to makethe scow 3-0 Kashlak's goals, %fatcht*me lets than a minute span. %ereassisted bs senior Brendan Hickcjand Falcone
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Kashkk i»cned aorther goal fer the De* -lis, making the score 5-6
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