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LEHMAN TWP. — Mark LeValley was appointed the new varsity baseball head coach at Lake-Lehman at a school board meeting on Monday. The board also voted to keep five other coaches for seven varsity coaching spots.
Carl Kern (football), Jean Lipski (field hockey), Noah Pickett (boys and girls volleyball), John Sobocinski (track and field, cross country) and Kelly Spencer (girls soccer) will return to the positions they held previously.
LeValley replaces Brian Gorski, who last season coached the Black Knights to the Wyoming Valley Conference Division II title, the District 2 Class 2A championship and a spot in the PIAA 2A quarterfinals. It was the school’s first district championship in baseball since 1988.
A teacher’s strike in the school district coincided with the Knights’ postseason run last spring and Gorski and part of his staff watched two playoff games, including the district championship, from the stands. Scorekeeper Bill Holena Sr. and district superintendent Jim McGovern split coaching duties in the interim.
Gorski had coached at Lake-Lehman since 2003.