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Tuesday, November 19, 1996 Page:
Lake-Lehman, Hanover join the list of winners
What a great winning streak students in several Wyoming Valley schools are
onAnd how proud their parents should be — especially in the Hanover Area and
Lake-Lehman districts, which many of the champions call home.
The Hanover Area Marching Band won a major championship a week ago. The
band won the Group 1 division contest at the Atlantic Coast Tournament of
Bands Competition, which was held at Lackawanna County Stadium in Moosic.
Like the Lake-Lehman band’s achievement — that band took home the Group 2
division trophy, and was saluted in Sunday’s editorial — the Hanover Area win
is a big-league victory. The Atlantic Coast conference pits hundreds of school
bands from nine states against each other. The students who triumph are superb
musicians, guided by outstanding leaders — in Hanover Area’s case, Robert
Jones as band director and Ed Teleky as music arranger.
And the band’s accomplishment was no fluke. The Hanover Area Marching Band
is going places: They won first place at the Atlantic Coast contest in three
out of the past four years, and earned a runner-up ranking in the fourth.
Not bad, kids. Not bad at all.
The same goes for the girls on the Lake-Lehman field hockey team, who took
home a state championship Saturday.
The Class AA win was the first state title in field hockey for any Wyoming
Valley team since Crestwood’s in 1988, noted Sports Writer Steve Sembrat in
Monday’s Times Leader. The Lake-Lehman team’s championship quality shines
through Sembrat’s story: a 21-1-1 record over the season … going through the
state playoffs without allowing a single goal … matching the records for
most goals by one team and margin of victory in a PIAA field-hockey state
championship.
Those numbers reflect a winning blend of talent, dedication and leadership.
That savory mix is the formula for success in American life, and the
Lake-Lehman girls (like the Hanover Area band) should remember the recipe for
the rest of their lives.