{"id":102547,"date":"2026-02-01T22:48:06","date_gmt":"2026-02-01T22:48:06","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/102547\/"},"modified":"2026-02-01T22:48:06","modified_gmt":"2026-02-01T22:48:06","slug":"abington-heights-and-tunkhannock-claim-team-championships-at-classic-gold-relays-scranton-times-tribune","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/102547\/","title":{"rendered":"Abington Heights and Tunkhannock claim team championships at Classic Gold Relays \u2013 Scranton Times-Tribune"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Abington Heights earned the girls\u2019 team and the combined team championships at the 24th Classic Gold Relay Invitational on Sunday at the University of Scranton.<\/p>\n<p>Tunkhannock earned the boys\u2019 team title, with Abington Heights finishing second.<\/p>\n<p>Abington Heights girls won four races and set a pair of meet records, and totaled 55 team points. Scranton Prep finished second with 49.5 points, and Delaware Valley was third with 37 points.<\/p>\n<p>Gianna Vachino, Ella Bannon, Katie Giermanski, and Hadley Pallman combined to win the 400 Free Relay in 3 minutes, 52.40 seconds. That shattered the meet record of 3:54.21 set in 2023 by Scranton Prep. The Lady Comets defeated Scranton Prep, which finished second in 3:53.21, which also beat the meet record.<\/p>\n<p>Grace Moran, Giermanski, Pallman, and Reese Azar won the 500 Crescendo Relay in 5:03.34. That beat the record time of 5:16.18 set last season by Abington Heights.<\/p>\n<p>Abington Heights\u2019 team of Audra Wimmer, Emma Adamsky, Elise Brown, and Azar won the 200 backstroke relay in 2:17.26. The team of Vachino, Bannon, Kacey Johnson, and Pallman won the 800 free relay in 9:04.63.<\/p>\n<p>Tunkhannock set a pair of meet records.<\/p>\n<p>Logan Teeman, Braydon Christopher, Kyle Kozloski, and Jaden Baltrusaitis won the 800 free relay in 7:39.87. That effort beat the old mark of 7:43.84 set in 2003 by Danville.<\/p>\n<p>Chase Newhart, Kozloski, Christopher, and Baltrusaitis set a record, winning the 500 Crescendo relay in 4:19.46.<\/p>\n<p>Tunkhannock boys won four other relays, including the 200 free, 200 backstroke, 200 butterfly, and 200 medley.<\/p>\n<p>Tunkhannock\u2019s mixed team of Miranda Anderson, Kaitlyn Keown, Eliza Talcott, Madelyn Graves, Annie Bonnice, Baltrusaitis, Christopher, Kosloski, Aidan Mislevy, and Chase Newhart set a meet record by winning the meet\u2019s final race in 1:57.64.<\/p>\n<p>Abington Heights\u2019 team of Geoff Stanton, Derek Williams, Jason Casper, and Charles Voytek won the 400 medley relay in 3:44.48, breaking the old mark of 3:55.53 set in 2014 by Scranton Prep.<\/p>\n<p>Williams, Judah Donnelly, Stanton, and Casper set a mark in the 400 free relay (3:25.46). That surpassed the record of 3:31.03 set last season by Tunkhannock.<\/p>\n<p>Abington Heights also won the 200 breaststroke relay.<\/p>\n<p>GIRLS RESULTS<\/p>\n<p>Team standings: Abington Heights 55, Scranton Prep 49.5, Delaware Valley 37, Tunkhannock 28, Lake-Lehman 24.5.<\/p>\n<p>200 Free Relay:\u00a0Delaware Valley (Elizabeth Bailey, Kayleigh Jagger, Isabella Cady, Sasha Novikov) 1:53.07, Scranton Prep 1:53.96, Abington Heights 2:03.29, Tunkhannock 2:29.31, Lake-Lehman 2:35.41; 400 Medley Relay:\u00a0Scranton Prep (Sophia Galko, Eva Kaszuba, Anna Millett, Rebecca Oakes) 4:18.64, Abington Heights 4:28.45, Tunkhannock 4:41.09, Lake-Lehman 4:49.28, Delaware Valley 5:29.94;\u00a0200 Backstroke Relay:\u00a0Abington Heights (Audra Wimmer, Emma Adamsky, Elise Brown, Reese Azar) 2:17.26, Scranton Prep 2:17.74, Delaware Valley 2:49.13, Lake-Lehman 2:50.25, Tunkhannock 3:02.09;\u00a0800 Free Relay: Abington Heights (Gianna Vachino, Ella Bannon, Kacey Johnson, Hadley Pallman) 9:04.63, Delaware Valley 9:49.51, Scranton Prep 10:57.38;\u00a0200 Breaststroke Relay:\u00a0Scranton Prep (Ella Schofield, Anna Millett, Myla Kopa, Eva Kaszuba) 2:16.26, Abington Heights 2:28.58, Lake-Lehman 2:30.83, Tunkhannock 2:37.22, Delaware Valley 2:40.12;\u00a0400 IM Relay: Scranton Prep (Rebecca Oakes, Myla Kopa, Sophia Galko, Eva Kaszuba) 4:35.98, Abington Heights 4:54.63, Lake-Lehman 4:59.68, Tunkhannock 5:00.99;\u00a0200 Butterfly Relay:\u00a0Delaware Valley (Sasha Novikov, Sophia Perez, Megan O\u2019Connell, Grace Holderith) 2:13.76, Abington Heights, Scranton Prep;\u00a0500 Crescendo Relay: Abington Heights (Grace Moran, Katie Giermanski, Hadley Pallman, Reese Azar) 5:03.34 (meet record; old mark, 5:16.18, Abington Heights, 2025); Lake-Lehman 5:27.76, Delaware Valley 5:36.01, Tunkhannock 6:09.79;\u00a0200 Medley Relay:\u00a0Scranton Prep (Katherine Kolosovsky, Grace Shursky, Maizie Davolos, Bella Stefanelli) 2:22.39, Abington Heights 2:23.06, Delaware Valley 2:32.83, Tunkhannock 3:01.65;\u00a0400 Free Relay: Abington Heights (Gianna Vachino, Ella Bannon, Katie Giermanski, Hadley Pallman) 3:52.40 (meet record; old mark, 3:54.21, Scranton Prep, 2023), Scranton Prep 3:53.21, Tunkhannock 4:11.90, Delaware Valley 4:32.28, Lake-Lehman 5:01.89;\u00a0Mixed Free Relay: Tunkhannock (Miranda Anderson, Kaitlyn Keown, Eliza Talcott, Madelyn Graves, Annie Bonnice, Jaden Baltrusaitis, Brayden Christopher, Kyle Kozloski, Aidan Mislevy, Chase Newhart) 1:57.64 (meet record; old mark, 1:58.15, Scranton Prep, 2024), Scranton Prep 1:58.88, Abington Heights 1:59.68, Lake-Lehman 2:01.61, Delaware Valley 2:02.49.<\/p>\n<p>BOYS RESULTS<\/p>\n<p>Team standings: Tunkhannock 57, Abington Heights 46, Lake-Lehman 39.5, Delaware Valley 31, Scranton Prep 25.5.<\/p>\n<p>200 Free Relay: Tunkhannock (Logan Teeman, Noah Salters, Callum Jerome, Chase Newhart) 1:36.27, Abington Heights, Lake-Lehman, Delaware Valley;\u00a0400 Medley Relay:\u00a0Abington Heights (Geoff Stanton, Derek Williams, Jason Casper, Charles Voytek) 3:44.48 (meet record; old mark, 3:55.53, Scranton Prep, 2014), Tunkhannock 3:46.56, Lake-Lehman 3:56.64, Scranton Prep 4:06.20, Delaware Valley 4:14.85;\u00a0200 Backstroke Relay: Tunkhannock (Landon Harvatine, Noah Fry, Jayden Valvano, Mike Milz) 2:03.94, Abington Heights 2:04.53, Delaware Valley 2:07.35, Lake-Lehman 2:17.69;\u00a0800 Free Relay: Tunkhannock (Logan Teeman, Braydon Christopher, Kyle Kozloski, Jaden Baltrusaitis) 7:39.87 (meet record; old mark, 7:43.84, Danville, 2003), Lake-Lehman 7:48.25, Abington Heights 7:56.55, Scranton Prep 8:25.48; Delaware Valley 8:39.40;\u00a0200 Breaststroke Relay:\u00a0Abington Heights (Adrian Azar, Kevin Farrelly, Alex Allspaugh, Derek Williams) 2:06.04, Scranton Prep 2:08.56, Tunkhannock 2:11.94, Lake-Lehman 2:15.47, Delaware Valley 2:21.21;\u00a0400 IM Relay: Lake-Lehman (Andrew Morris, Ryan McGurk, Josiah Frey, Jack Kashatus) 4:11.34, Delaware Valley 4:23.80, Tunkhannock 4:53.33;\u00a0200 Butterfly Relay:\u00a0Tunkhannock (Mike Milz, Aidan Mislevy, Kyle Kozloski, Jaden Baltrusaitis) 1:43.84, Lake-Lehman 1:51.22, Abington Heights 1:55.34, Delaware Valley 2:03.00;\u00a0500 Crescendo Relay: Tunkhannock (Chase Newhart, Kyle Kozloski, Braydon Christopher, Jaden Baltrusaitis) 4:19.46 (meet record; old mark, 4:25.75, Tunkhannock, 2025); Scranton Prep 4:34.80, Delaware Valley 4:52.63, Abington Heights 4:55.12, Lake-Lehman 5:05.68;\u00a0200 Medley Relay:\u00a0Tunkhannock (Logan Teeman, Noah Salters, Mike Milz, Callum Jerome) 1:49.28, Abington Heights 2:07.56, Scranton Prep 2:08.56, Delaware Valley 2:13.00, Lake-Lehman 2:15.41;\u00a0400 Free Relay: Abington Heights (Derek Williams, Judah Donnelly, Geoff Stanton, Jason Casper) 3:25.46 (meet record; old mark, 3:31.03, Tunkhannock, 2025), Tunkhannock 3:30.85, Lake-Lehman 3:33.01, Scranton Prep 4:18.44, Delaware Valley 4:56.47.<\/p>\n<p>Combined team standings:\u00a0Abington Heights 101, Tunkhannock 85, Scranton Prep 75, Delaware Valley 68, Lake-Lehman 64.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Abington Heights earned the girls\u2019 team and the combined team championships at the 24th Classic Gold Relay Invitational&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":89744,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[15],"tags":[305,178,180,179,726],"class_list":["post-102547","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\/102547","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=102547"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/102547\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/89744"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=102547"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=102547"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=102547"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}