{"id":101330,"date":"2026-01-31T03:27:07","date_gmt":"2026-01-31T03:27:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/101330\/"},"modified":"2026-01-31T03:27:07","modified_gmt":"2026-01-31T03:27:07","slug":"abington-heights-edges-scranton-in-a-key-division-i-girls-basketball-game-scranton-times-tribune","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/101330\/","title":{"rendered":"Abington Heights edges Scranton in a key Division I girls basketball game \u2013 Scranton Times-Tribune"},"content":{"rendered":"

Abby Schneider made a pair of free throws to provide No. 4 Abington Heights a three-point lead with 15 seconds remaining and the cushion needed to post a 46-43 win over No. 5 Scranton<\/a> on Friday night in a Lackawanna League Division I girls basketball game.<\/p>\n

Sydney Pallman led the Lady Comets (13-5, 8-2) with 17 points. She made five of six free throws in the fourth quarter to help secure the win. Emma Coleman scored 13 points, including eight in the fourth.<\/p>\n

Chrissy Jacklinski scored 22 points and helped Scranton build a 35-29 lead after three quarters. Rhylee Bell finished with 11 points for the Lady Knights (7-10, 4-5).<\/p>\n

Valley View 49, Wallenpaupack 20:\u00a0Cora Castellani scored 24 points and had five steals to lead the sixth-ranked Cougars to a win in Division I<\/a>.<\/p>\n

Castellani scored 11 points in the first half, then had 13 points as part of a 20-point third quarter by the Cougars.<\/p>\n

Alivia Yurkovic added 10 points. Sadie Cardoni had seven rebounds and five assists, and Mady Minelli contributed five steals for Valley View (14-4, 7-3).<\/p>\n

Lily Williams scored six points to lead Wallenpaupack (6-11, 1-8).<\/p>\n

Delaware Valley 59, West Scranton 44:\u00a0Amanda Argona scored 20 points and made three 3-pointers to lead the eighth-ranked Lady Warriors past West Scranton<\/a> in a Division I game.<\/p>\n

Leah Bird added 12 points, scoring eight in the first half for Delaware Valley (11-7, 3-7).<\/p>\n

Morgan Baumgardner and Aubrey Kerrigan each scored 18 points to lead West Scranton (3-14, 0-9).<\/p>\n

Dunmore 51, Riverside 30:\u00a0Amanda Dempsey scored eight of her 12 points in the first quarter for the third-ranked Lady Bucks in a Division III win<\/a>.<\/p>\n

Janaya Martin and Leena Conte each added nine points, and Jackie Brown scored eight points for Dunmore (15-3, 10-0).<\/p>\n

Faith Pavalonis scored nine points, and Kiley Williams added six for Riverside (10-8, 6-4).<\/p>\n

Honesdale 44, Western Wayne 30:\u00a0Karsyn\u00a0Kromko drilled three 3-pointers and finished with a team-high 11 points to lead the seventh-ranked Lady Hornets to a win in Division II<\/a>.<\/p>\n

Ruby Martin added 10 points and Lily Murray scored nine for Honesdale (14-3, 8-1).<\/p>\n

Haley McGuire scored nine points, and Raeleigh Kromko and Skyla McGuire each added six for Western Wayne (8-10, 4-6).<\/p>\n

Holy Cross 29, Mid Valley 19: Aniya Osgood scored 10 points, including five in the fourth quarter, to help the 10th-ranked Lady Crusaders to a win in Division III<\/a>.<\/p>\n

Ava Schmidt contributed eight points for Holy Cross (10-8, 7-3), which has won three straight.<\/p>\n

Mackenzie Richards scored eight points for Mid Valley (3-15, 0-10).<\/p>\n

Lakeland 30, Old Forge 25:\u00a0Kamri Naniewicz scored 14 points and helped the Lady Chiefs rally for a win in a Division II game<\/a>.<\/p>\n

Naomi Rude scored nine points, and Reina Walters added six for Lakeland (6-11, 2-7), which overcame an 11-2 first-quarter deficit.<\/p>\n

Ava Arnold led Old Forge (6-11, 2-8) with six points.<\/p>\n

Elk Lake 46, Blue Ridge 42:\u00a0Madisyn Casselbury scored 14 points and helped to secure the win by making all four free-throw attempts in the fourth quarter for the Lady Warriors<\/a>.<\/p>\n

Piper Keeney contributed 12 points, and Celeste Clark scored six of her nine points in the fourth for Elk Lake (10-6, 6-3).<\/p>\n

Abigail Gelinger scored 21 points, including seven in the fourth quarter for Blue Ridge (8-9, 5-5).<\/p>\n

Montrose 57, Carbondale Area 18: Vivy Nabywaniec scored 16 points, with nine coming in the third quarter, to lead the Lady Meteors to a Division III win<\/a>.<\/p>\n

Sadie Jones contributed 13 points for Montrose (11-7, 9-1).<\/p>\n

Callie Cicio scored seven points for Carbondale Area (2-15, 0-9).<\/p>\n

Forest City 55, Susquehanna 38:\u00a0The Lady Foresters pulled away with 25 points in the third quarter as Makayla Zaverl scored 11 of her 22 points<\/a>.<\/p>\n

Zaverl also scored 11 in the first quarter, including three 3-pointers for Forest City (6-12, 5-5). The Lady Foresters made nine 3-pointers in the game.<\/p>\n

Kayla Pecko made five 3-pointers and finished with 20 points for the Lady Foresters.<\/p>\n

Madison Beach scored 14 points to lead Susquehanna (3-14, 2-8).<\/p>\n

Boys basketball<\/p>\n

Jai Herman drilled three 3-pointers and finished with 17 points to lead Montrose to a 61-47 win over Carbondale Area in a Lackawanna Division III game<\/a>.<\/p>\n

Herman had 13 points in the first half when the Meteors (7-11, 5-5) built a 32-15 advantage.<\/p>\n

Evan McComb scored 12 points and Jude Adams added nine points for Montrose.<\/p>\n

Francosco Roman scored 15 points, Cole Becchetti and Cameron Williams each scored 12 points to lead Carbondale Area (2-16, 1-9).<\/p>\n

Boys wrestling<\/p>\n

Brayden Mirarck (121), Thomas Berezovske (127), Bradley Clark (139), Evan Jones (172) and Keegan Brown (189) had pins to lead Mount Carmel to a 39-36 win over Western Wayne in a nonleague match.<\/p>\n

RJ Walton (133), Gavin Morcom (160) and Paul Borowski (285) led Western Wayne with pins.<\/p>\n

107: Mason Simpson (WW) by forfeit; 114: Nicholas Patuto (WW) by forfeit; 121: Brayden Mirarck (MC) pinned Jacob Wells, 3:20; 127: Thomas Berezovske (MC) pinned Christopher Wright, :53; 133: RJ Walton (WW) pinned Gavin Kotzo, 3:58; 139: Bradley Clark (MC) pinned Ryan Sparks, 4:40; 145: Ryan Stokesberry (WW) by forfeit; 152: Lukas Carpenter (MC) major dec. over Hunter Rodger, 13-2; 160: Gavin Morcom (WW) pinned Christopher Folk, 1:50; 172: Evan Jones (MC) pinned Riley Dunn, 1:50; 189: Keegan Brown (MC) pinned Norman Phillips, :14; 215: Chance Swatski (MC) tech. fall over Ashton Jones, 15-0; 285: Paul Borowski (WW) pinned Dominick Lentini, 5:32.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Abby Schneider made a pair of free throws to provide No. 4 Abington Heights a three-point lead with…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":42656,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[15],"tags":[305,178,180,179,726],"class_list":["post-101330","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-scranton","tag-high-school-sports","tag-scranton","tag-scranton-headlines","tag-scranton-news","tag-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/101330","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=101330"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/101330\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/42656"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=101330"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=101330"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=101330"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}