The Dallas Kiwanis Club has scheduled the 39th annual Robert L. Dolbear Senior Girls All-Star Softball Game for Wednesday, June 27 at the Back Mountain Little League Field.

The game, for graduating Wyoming Valley Conference players, features an East-West format and is played on the field that also serves as the home field for Dallas High School softball games.

According to Harold Stout from the Kiwanis Club, game time will be finalized June 24, depending on whether the Back Mountain All-Star Major softball team earns the home site for the Pennsylvania District 31 championship game.

If the Back Mountain Little League softball team is home, it will play a championship game at 5:30 p.m. and the all-star game will be at 7:30 p.m. If there is not a Little League game to be played, the all-star game will start at 6 p.m.

Dallas head coach Joyce Tinner will coach the West team. She will be assisted by Jennifer Yanuskavich, a Dallas assistant, and John McNeil, a former Dallas assistant who is now Wyoming Area head coach.

Olivia Johnson, Peyton Ross and Kendra Saba will all represent Dallas in the game.

The West roster will have five players from McNeil’s Wyoming Area team and five others from Berwick. It will also draw players from Northwest and Wyoming Valley West.

Jessica Ras from Wyoming Valley West will coach the East with assistance from Pittston Area’s Vito Quaglia and Nanticoke’s Ryan Stetz.

The East team will feature players from Crestwood, Coughlin, Hazleton Area, Meyers, Nanticoke and Pittston Area along with Samantha Rajza from Holy Redeemer’s state finalist team.

BASEBALL

The sixth annual Field of Dreams, pitting WVC seniors against the Lackawanna League, will split into two games this year.

The games scheduled for Sunday at PNC Field in Moosic, home of the Triple-A Scranton/Wilkes-Barre RailRiders, will start with a Small School game at 1:30 p.m. followed by the Big Schools at 4.

Lake-Lehman third baseman Chris Hadsall and pitcher Henry Selingo are part of the WVC Small School team.

Dallas, the 2017 state Class 4A champion and this year’s WVC Division 2 champion, has four players on the WVC Big School team.

The Mountaineers will be represented by pitchers Nick Kocher and Josh Lydon, outfielder Drew Patton and catcher Matt Mathers.

Tunkhannock’s Gary Custer will manage the team, which also includes Tigers outfielder Connor Munley.

GAR’s Kyle Paul will manage the WVC Small Schools while Jamie Higgins from Scranton and Sandy Menichetti from Holy Cross lead the Lackawanna League teams.

Admission to the game is $5. A portion of the proceeds goes to the Bill Howerton Strike Out Cancer Scholarship Fund.

GIRLS LACROSSE

Lake-Lehman had five players named to the first team when the Wyoming Valley Conference coaches selected their all-star team.

Attackers Alicia Galasso and Katie Roberts, midfielder Jess Evans, defender Mackenzie Lasinski and goalie Grace Butler made the team.

Dallas placed attacker Lauren Delamater on the team.

Wyoming Seminary’s first-teamers included defender Kaitlyn Metz and goalie Mia Raineri, both from Shavertown.

Dallas had midfielders Melinda Ratchford and Grace Young and defender Claudia Leu named to the second team.

The second team also included Lake-Lehman midfielder Hallie Jenkins.

Tunkhannock midfielder Quinlan Hammersley received honorable mention.

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By Tom Robinson

For Dallas Post

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