|
New Sullivan West coaching
staff takes over
By TOM KANE
JEFFERSONVILLE
- Everybody was new at last week's practice of the Sullivan West
football team at Jeffersonville. The fresh line-up for the Bulldogs
included five new coaches and 42 new players-varsity and junior
varsity.
The team is
the conglomeration of Delaware Valley (DV) and Jeffersonville/Youngsville
football teams. Narrowsburg hasn't had a football team for decades
but students from there will play on the Bulldogs.
This fall is
the first season for the merged team. The Bulldogs' home field will
be at Jeffersonville (Jeff). Leading the staff is head coach Ron
Bauer.
Bauer has been
teaching social studies and coaching football since 1966. "I began
teaching and coaching at Delaware Valley (DV) as assistant coach
that year," Bauer said.
He was head
coach at DV from 1976 to 1979 and moved to Jeffersonville where
he was head coach from 1984 to 1988. Then he moved again to DV where
he was head coach until 1999. During his tenure, DV won seven Section
9 Class D titles.
Tony Durkin,
first assistant, coached football at Jeffersonville since 1990 as
assistant coach and then head coach in 1998 and 1999. "Ron Bauer
was my coach when I played for Jeff," he said.
Keith Travers
is another assistant coach. Travers played at Roscoe from 1988 to
1990. He coached the modified program at Roscoe for four years.
He has been at Jeffersonville for five seasons as head JV coach.
He was named assistant varsity coach this year.
The fourth
and fifth members of the staff are Kevin Clifford who will assist
with the JV team and Chris Reichmann who will be the head JV coach.
Joe Hernandez, who played for Jeffersonville last year as guard and middle linebacker,
said, "The merger will make us more versatile on offense and defense.
As long as we play like a family we're going to be good."
Adam Dobell,
a junior who played at Jeff last year, is happy to be side-by-side
with players from schools he went up against last year.
"Even though
these kids have been rivals, they're working together very well,"
Bauer said.
Sullivan West
will be playing in the C-class of the Orange County Interscholastic
Athletic League. Classes are determined by the enrollment of the
school.
Team member
Cheryl Bernhardt, who played split end at Jeffersonville last year,
said, "I'm having a lot of fun and I want to continue playing."
Summer
basketball league at SCCC
By TOM KANE
LOCH SHELDRAKE
- Eight local adult basketball teams are on the courts in the Sullivan
Generals Summer League 2000 at Sullivan County Community College
for the remainder of August. League play continues for the next
two weeks on Tuesday and Thursday evenings at 7:30 p.m., ending
with a championship game on Monday September 4 at 7:30 p.m. in the
college gymnasium.
Last Tuesday
the Delaware Valley Job Corps team played E&T Landscape of Liberty
on one court while a team called MEN played Daytop Village on the
other court. MEN beat Daytop 81 to 62 and E&T routed the Job Corps
by a score of 57 to 39.
Later at, 8:30
p.m., the Sullivan Warriors took on Kapito Tires and a team called
the Hoosiers played the Jeffersonville/Youngsville group. The Hoosiers
topped Jeff 86 to 79 and Kapito Tires outlasted Sullivan Warriors
87 to 61.
Kapito player
D. J. Pugh said, "We love getting out to play. We need more places
like this. All summer long."
League organizer
Dean Smith, SCCC women's basketball coach and adjunct professor,
said the idea came from College Vice President Elizabeth Kubinick
who wanted to do something for the business and adult community.
"We did a boys
and girls high school league so now we want to do an adult league,"
Smith said. "Every team is from Sullivan County."
Kapito Tires
has members of the state troopers on the team, Sullivan Warriors
are from the Sullivan Correctional Facility and MEN are from Monticello,
Smith said.
Daytop members
also assisted with organizing the tournament, he said.
|
