High School Sports

November 8, 2009

Coaches unveil rosters for Nov. 25 UNICO game

By John Erzar jerzar@timesleader.com
Sports Reporter
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Local high school coaches met recently to select the rosters for the UNICO Football Classic which will be held 7 p.m. Wednesday, Nov. 25, at Wilkes-Barre Memorial Stadium.

The game is the longest running charity football game in the nation. This will be the 59th playing of the game, which features top seniors from the Wyoming Valley Conference as well as Northwest and Wyoming Seminary.

Players whose teams are still participating in the postseason are ineligible to play. The coaches also selected alternatives in case selected players are unable to play.

Here are the rosters, which are subject to change:

UNICO EAST

COUGHLIN – Derrick Harold; Mike Kearney; Brandon Geasey; Dave Lalla; Matt Shimshock; Eli Tohme.

CRESTWOOD – Adam Kiti; Matt Krupa; John Lasko; Shane Mitchell; Mark Orloski; Jake Rebarchak; Chris Vega.

GAR – Billy Gates; Mark Glowinski; Rich Ivanov; Joe Oldziejewski; Kyle Paul; Darian Twyman; Cody Welgosh.

HANOVER AREA – Tomas Cabrera; Brandon Colorusso; Steve Pask; Mike Redick; Dave Tomko; Bob Wivel.

HAZLETON AREA – Matt Manfredi; Chad Nicholas; A.J. Petrone; Joe Semanchik; Matt Starrick.

HOLY REDEEMER – Mike Desciak.

MEYERS – Ira Miller; Matt Richelmi; Max Rottenecker; Julian Truskowski

NANTICOKE – Andrew Agustini; Deric Grohowski; Jake Myers.

UNICO WEST

BERWICK – Brett Bodwalk; Pete Ervin; Lou Hampton; Tyson Kelly; David Kitchen; Alec Ladonis.

DALLAS – Mike Adams; Ryan Bump; Taylor Dunn; Nick Lombard; Joe Murray; Andrew Ondish; Cody Plesnar.

LAKE-LEHMAN – Adam Holena; Chris Prater.

NORTHWEST – Steve Merth.

PITTSTON AREA – Mike Capone; Chris Price; Jesse Smiegel; Brett Strunk.

TUNKHANNOCK – Shawn Caines; Steve Harris; T.J. Jenkins.

WYOMING AREA – Matt Chipolis; Bret Davis; Sam Eramo; Leo Malsky; Adian Marich; Lucas Stemba.

WYOMING SEMINARY – Evan Byers; Tom Romanowski.

WYOMING VALLEY WEST – David Davidson; Connor Haggerty; Christian Martinez; A.J. McGovern; Shawn Mahon; Angelo Scaffido; Justin Shimko; Kyle Wallace

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