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ketball team had a great sea-son last year in winning the Lackawanna League Champi-onship and then the District 2 championship and also mak-ing it into the State Playoffs. With the help of head coach, John Duffy; assistant coach, Sherry Youorski Adams; and also Tracy Stiles Hartman; the Lady Foresters appear to be a force to be reckoned with again this year.

The graduation of Captain Anna Congdon will open up a spot for another starter. The return of 4 of the starting play-ers gives plenty of reasons to be optimistic about another great season. Nothing is ever as easy as it should be and with a change in the schedule the girls will have to compete

against teams from Strouds-burg also this season.

The team officially started practice on Friday, November 18 and is hard at work prepar-ing for this upcoming season. The practice sessions are fast paced as play after play is practiced with little stoppage except for coaching in between plays. Every player moving, every player has a purpose on each play. The girls are very focused and it would be easy to lose track of the fact that this is a high school level practice as opposed to a college level practice. Coach Duffy knows basketball and the girls have full respect and dedication to the program.

Coach Duffy’s number one goal is for the girls to learn to be better basketball players. Winning is important but his

main focus is on helping each of the girls to improve. Af-ter winning the Lackawanna League and District 2 Cham-pionships last year, certainly they would like to repeat those accomplishments.

The season’s first exhibition game will be at home on De-cember 10th versus the Lake-land Chiefs and then at Valley View for a game on the 14th

and then they’ll play on the 20th versus Carbondale. The Honesdale Jaycee’s Tourna-ment will give the Lady For-esters more competition and features the teams from Hon-esdale, Western Wayne and Wallenpaupack.

The Lady Foresters also have a Facebook page at Lady-ForestersBasketball.

Justin Pecko, Browndale, got this 8 pointer while hunting at his friends house, Andy Warholic, in Clifford Township.

Pecko bags buck in Clifford Twp.

Forest City Girls Basketball 2016-17

Collin Burrell, 6 years old, of Forest City shot his first doe (above) during this year’s youth hunt at 100 yards with his 243. He also shot his first buck (seen below) opening morning of rifle season with his 243 at 30 yards while hunting with his dad. Proud parents are Brittany & Daniel Burrell.

Michael Wilcox, Forest City, shot this beautiful 6 point buck in Clifford Township on his grandmother’s property. Michael is the son of Tony and Mayor Pauline Wilcox, For-est City.

Michael Wilcox downs buck

Sydney Seman, age 10, first buck, harvested Tuesday, No-vember 29 at the Howell Farm. She is the daughter of Scott and Renee Seman, Clifford.

First buck for Sydney Seman

The Barhite family is well-known for their excavation business and now have made a home for that business as well as Barhites Sales & Rentals in Clif-ford. At the site of the former Na-tional Auto Sales what was once a showroom for automobiles has been transformed into a beautiful showroom for products includ-ing Echo chainsaws and Bear Cat pressure washers and wood chip-pers.

At the counter you will find a friendly and knowledgeable staff, Lisa Barhite, manager, and Grace Barhite Levai, sister of the owners.

They will help you find the equipment you need for your project.

Sometimes you might only need the equipment for a short while and that is when the rental side of the business comes in handy. Lisa says that the rental of equipment is roughly equal with the sales of equipment. The Sales & Rental business was formed in 2008. The business is owned by Lisa’s husband, Martin and his brother, Michael.

Next door the excavation busi-ness has a separate office. It is a family owned and operated busi-ness as it was started by Martin and Michael’s father, Marty. At the excavation office you’ll find Michael’s wife, Elki, office man-ager.

The inventory of machines and products is extensive. Need a bulldozer or a backhoe? Would you like to rent a chainsaw or log splitter for a couple of hours? Equipment can be rented for as few as 4 hours and as long as a month or more. If you are inter-ested in buying a piece of machin-ery, both new and used equip-ment are available. If you should need service or repair for your equipment their mechanic, Will Bell, is available to get you back in business as quickly as possible. Also employed with the Sales and Rental business is Bruce Edwards who makes deliveries of the rental equipment.

The Sales and Rental business has a great website at barhitessale-sandrentals.com and can give you more information on the equip-ment available. The addition of their business to Clifford has given a fresh look to the Route 106 location and will likely give their customers an opportunity to shop at other local businesses as well.

The Barhite Family includes from left to right: Michael Barhite, Martin Barhite, Lisa Barhite, Grace Barhite Levai, Bruce Edwards & Will Bell.

Equipment sales & rentalsKeep Barhite family busy

The Forest City Girls Basketball team have begun their 2016-17 season. Pictured Kneeling left to right are: Kara Kelly, Em-ily Kelleher, Mackenzie Hartman, Jess Curley, and Caitlin Bonham. Standing left to right are: Coach Duffy, Chloe Calabro, Laura Statkun, Maggie Kowalewski, Erin Urban, Kary Gillette, Haley Gillespie, Kendra Bendyk, Skylar Fortuner, and Coach Adams. Absent from photo were Kaleigh Matoushek, Maddie Bailer and Coach Tracy Hartman.

Jen Korty makes1st team CrossCountry stars

Forest City Regional High School runner Jen Korty was named to the Lackawanna League Cross Country Coach-es All Star 1st team.

The senior was a standout performer in the League this season except near season’s end when she was hampered by illness.

She participated in four In-vitationals and in the District Championships.

She should be a real contri-bution to a college cross coun-try team.

FCR girls namedSoccer all-stars

Three Lady Forester girls’ soccer team members were named to the Lackawanna League girls’ volleyball team all-stars.

Amelia Zazzera was named to the 2nd team all stars while Caitlyn Bonham and Kate-lyn Dovin received honorable mention.

Burrell bags first buck and doe

This week’s results had Guild Flagstone taking 25 1/2 points from Yacinovich Exca-vating, TMT Builder’s taking 23 points from Thiede Live-stock, and NEP Telephone tak-ing 22 points from Kozlowski Towing.

High game this week was 278 by Jim Mican and high se-ries was 248-705 by Tom John-son. Team High Scratch game and series was 1078-3071 by Guild Flagstone. Team High Handicap game and series this week was 1287-3698 by Guild Flagstone.

Other scores: Jim Mican 278-697, Ed Kozlowski Sr 246-655, Matt Tomazic 258-641, Robby Young 224-617, Paul Tomazic 217-607, Bob Smith 226-605, Blake Tyson 216-602, Derek Benson 211-596, Tim Tyson 215- 588, Ed Kozlowski Jr 211-571, Mark Opeil 203-571, Trev-or Payne 208-557, Al Snyder 200-557, Bryan Tallman 540, Bill Kovaleski 535, and Scott Dixon 535.

The following splits were converted: Jason Thiede 3-10, John Smith 2-7, Al Snyder 3-10, and Robby Young 2-7.

StandingsGuild Flagstone 178NEP Telephone 173 ½Kozlowski Towing 151Thiede Livestock 135 1/2TMT Builder’s 130 ½Yacinovich Excavating 125 1/2

CLARIFICATION

In last week’s article about Birchtown Stables, it was in-correctly stated that the stables has enough space for 20 horses while it has enough space for 60 horses to be boarded there. Sorry for any inconvenience.