Scranton boys basketball coach Tony Battaglia will have one more opportunity to be on the sidelines with his son playing for his team.

The Lackawanna Interscholastic Athletic Association will sponsor the annual boys’ and girls’ senior all-star games Monday at Scranton High School. The girls game tips off at 6 p.m. followed by the boys’ game.

Battaglia’s son, Tony, will headline the boys Red team. A four year starter, Tony was a career 1,000-point scorer and a Lackawanna League Division I Coaches’ first-team all-star.

Other member of the Red roster are: Scranton Prep’s Packy Doherty and Brody Martin; Valley View’s Jagger Roe, Noah Symuleski and Aiden Plotkin; Dunmore’s Brayden Canavan, Nate Aviles and Jimmy Clark; Riverside’s Michael Schimelfenig and Kyle Connor; and West Scranton’s Nate Schimelfenig.

Doherty, Canavan and Nate Schimelfenig are all career 1,000-point scorers, while Martin, Aviles and Michael Schimelfenig were all selected to the Lackawanna League Coaches all-defensive team.

Delaware Valley coach Kris Holtzer, whose team won the District 2 Class 6A championship, will guide the Blue team. He will have three of his players on the roster in Tyler Lombardo, Scott Nielsen and Craig Newton.

Also selected to the Blue roster are: Abington Heights’ Jordan Shaffer, Andrew Kettel and Finn Goldberg; Old Forge’s Cameron Parker, Logan Fanning and Ryan DeMarco; Elk Lake’s John Heitsman; Wallenpaupack’s Nick VanBuskirk; Mid Valley’s Landon Pratt; Honesdale’s Levi Martin; and Montrose’s Jude Adams.

Shaffer is the Lackawanna Division I Player of the Year and a career 1,000-point scorer, as is Parker. Heitsman is the Division III Player of the Year and Defensive Player of the Year,

In the girls’ game, Dunmore coach Carrie Toomey, who guided her team to the District 2 Class 3A championship, will coach the Red team. North Pocono coach Joe Ferguson, whose team won the Lackawanna Division I title, will coach the Blue team.

The Red team consists of: Dunmore’s Amanda Dempsey, Jackie Brown and Leena Conte; Elk Lake’s Madisyn Casselbury, Celeste Clark and Kylie Shingler; Riverside’s Kiley Williams, Cassidy Merrifield and Gabi Blasi; Wallenpaupack’s Lily Mancino and Abby Cykosky; and Holy Cross’s Ava Schmidt.

North Pocono seniors Celia DeCesare and Aleah Quinn will play for the final time for coach Ferguson as members of the Blue team.

Mountain View’s record-setting senior and four-time District 2 champion, Addison Kilmer, leads the Blue team. She is the second all-time leading scorer in Lackawanna League history with more than 2,000 points and led the Lady Eagles to the PIAA semifinals twice, a PIAA Class 1A final as a sophomore, and the PIAA Class 2A quarterfinals this past season.

Other Blue team members include: Delaware Valley’s Leah Bird and Jordan Dickerson; Valley View’s Ava Gazoo; Blue Ridge’s Addison Welch; Western Wayne’s Khloe Mistishin; Carbondale Area’s Maurie Newcomb; First City’s Mehlayia St. Hilaire; Honesdale’s Karsyn Kromko; and Lackawanna Trail’s Ayla Seigle.

Coaching vacancies

Two Lackawanna League programs have coach openings.

Lakeland and Mountain View school districts each posted requests for applicants for their boys’ basketball teams.

Lakeland coach Trevor Tellip resigned after leading the Chiefs to the District 2 Class 3A semifinals with an upset over third-seeded Elk Lake.

Tellip, a Lakeland graduate, rejuvenated the program since taking over in the 2017-18 season and has 90 career wins. Lakeland’s best season came in 2019-20 when the team finished 18-6 overall. Three seasons ago, the Chiefs also had an upset over Holy Redeemer in the District 2 Class 3A playoffs.

Mountain View coach Jim McAndrew also resigned following the season due to a family move out of the area.

McAndrew was appointed coach for the 2023-24 season. The former Scranton High School standout and Marywood University assistant led the Eagles to the District 2 Class 2A semifinals in two of his three seasons.