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Thursday, January 27, 2000     Page: 2B

The Dallas football team, which raised $30,000 to play a game in Florida,
has returned from the Sunshine State with plenty of sightseeing experience but
no extra game to show for it. Dallas had scheduled a game with a Florida team
for late November. But something got in the way – the Mounts won the District
2-3A championship and reached the state quarterfinal. The trip came with an
insurance policy: Dallas could make the trip in January, but could not play
because the PIAA bans its teams from playing football after Dec. 9. So about
45 players and 90 other people – coaches, parents and “friends of the
program,” as coach Ted Jackson put it – spent three days visiting Disney
World, Epcot Center and MGM Studios. “It ended up being a vacation,” Jackson
said. “We accomplished a lot and this was a nice team thing to finish it up.
It would’ve been nice to get the game but it’s nice to get into the district
playoffs and win.” Dallas raised the $30,000 by door-to-door campaigning,
sponsors’ letters and alumni contribution, Jackson said. The team returned at
3 a.m. Tuesday. BOXING New opponent for Frazier Jacqueline Frazier-Lyde, Joe
Frazier’s daughter, has a new opponent for her pro boxing debut.
   
Tella Reese, an Alaskan native, has replaced Tennielle Smith for the bout
against the former heavyweight champ’s daughter on Feb. 6 at the Scranton
Cultural Center.
    The 19-year-old Reese, who is 0-1, will face Frazier-Lyde, 38, in a
four-round fight. The card features a 12-round light heavyweight bout between
Salvatore Di Salvatore of Italy against Chris Mills of Scranton.
   
Smith was replaced because her trainer reported she wasn’t training hard
enough, said Kipp Elbaum, a spokesman for the fight’s promoter.
   
“We didn’t want a rumble or a street fight. We want a boxing match,”
Elbaum said. “I don’t want this fight to turn into a circus. It’s a circus
enough, just because it’s Jacqui Frazier-Lyde.”