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Following the Pack: New era begins for Wilkes-Barre Area football

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RailRiders stay hot at the plate, smash IronPigs in series opener

Dallas showed off a variety of offensive weapons while getting its Wyoming Valley Conference Class 4A Division title defense off to a positive start.The Mountaineers had four players account for at least 91 yards and two touchdowns while another provided 84 yards in a 49-13 romp at Tunkhannock Friday night.Danny Meuser and Lenny Kelley combined for 256 yards and five touchdowns on the ground. Michael Starbuck threw for 200 yards and two touchdowns, both to Luke DelGaudio. Jack Farrell added to the 466-yard attack by catching four passes for 84 yards.The Mountaineers got started immediately.Dallas forced a Tunkhannock punt to start the game, then scored in two plays.Meuser broke an 82-yard run and Ryan Fisher added the first of seven straight extra-point kicks for a 7-0 lead. Meuser ran for 141 yards and two touchdowns on five carries.Lenny Kelley scored touchdowns in each of the first three quarters while running for 115 yards. He boosted the lead to 14-0 after one quarter.Starbuck hit DelGaudio with a 16-yard touchdown on the second play of the second quarter for a 21-0 lead. That same combination connected again late in the quarter for a 35-6 halftime lead.DelGaudio finished with six catches for 91 yards.Tunkhannock got on the scoreboard after Dallas fumbled a punt.Jack Chilson passed 4 yards to Gavin D&#8217;Amato to cut the deficit to 21-6 before Kelley and DelGaudio scored in the last five minutes of the half to break the game open.The game moved into the mercy rule when Dallas took the second-half kickoff and drove for another score.Ben Chilson threw a 19-yard, fourth-quarter touchdown pass to Michael Sickler as part of a 28-for-36 effort in Tunkhannock&#8217;s short passing game.<ins>Dallas 49, Tunkhannock 13</ins><ins>Dallas`14`21`14`0 &#8212; 49</ins><ins>Tunkhannock`0`6`0`7 &#8212; 13</ins><ins>First quarter</ins><ins>DAL &#8211; Danny Meuser 82 run (Ryan Fisher), 8:58</ins><ins>DAL &#8211; Lenny Kelley 3 run (Fisher kick), 2:54</ins><ins>Second quarter</ins><ins>DAL &#8211; Luke DelGaudio 16 pass from Michael Starbuck (Fisher kick), 11:20</ins><ins>TUNK &#8211; Gavin D&#8217;Amato 4 pass from Jack Chilson (kick blocked), 8:08</ins><ins>DAL &#8211; Kelley 7 run (Fisher kick), 4:48</ins><ins>DAL &#8211; DelGaudio 18 pass from Starbuck (Fisher), 1:04</ins><ins>Third quarter</ins><ins>DAL &#8211; Kelley 1 run (Fisher kick), 8:52</ins><ins>DAL &#8211; Meuser 31 run (Fisher kick), 1:17</ins><ins>Fourth quarter</ins><ins>TUNK &#8211; Michael Sickler 19 pass from Ben Chilson (Jaxson Montross kick), 8:08</ins><ins>Team statistics`DAL`TUNK</ins><ins>First downs`17`11</ins><ins>Rushes-yards`23-266`20-43</ins><ins>Passing yards`200`203</ins><ins>Total yards`466`246</ins><ins>Passing`12-20-0`28-36-0</ins><ins>Sacked-yards lost`0-0`0-0</ins><ins>Punts-avg.`1-21.0`4-38.5</ins><ins>Fumbles-lost`1-1`1-1</ins><ins>Penalties-yards`5-40`1-15</ins><ins>INDIVIDUAL STATISTICS</ins><ins>RUSHING &#8212; DAL, Danny Meuser 5-141, Lenny Kelley 13-115, Matt Maransky 1-8, Michael Starbuck 2-1, Jake DelGaudio 2-1. TUNK, Ty Konen 5-16, Jake Frisco 5-7, Gavin D&#8217;Amato 6-6, Jeffrey Meader 1-4, Matt Prebola 3-4, Jhamal Zacharias 1-3, Jack Chilson 3-3.</ins><ins>PASSING &#8212; DAL, Starbuck 12-18-0-200, Jackson Wydra 0-2-0-0. TUNK, J. Chilson 20-28-0-115, Ben Chilson 8-8-0-88.</ins><ins>RECEIVING &#8212; DAL, Luke DelGaudio 6-91, Jack Farrell 4-84, Meuser 2-25. TUNK, D&#8217;Amato 6-11, Riley Jones 5-33, Zacharias 4-37, Frisco 3-10, Michael Sickler 2-33, Nathan Lord 2-25, Prebola 2-13, Meader 2-8, Ryan Simmons 1-25.</ins><ins>INTERCEPTIONS &#8212; None.</ins><ins>MISSED FIELD GOALS &#8211; None.</ins><style>
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Dallas dominates in opening win against Tunkhannock