{"id":108095,"date":"2026-02-07T23:05:07","date_gmt":"2026-02-07T23:05:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/108095\/"},"modified":"2026-02-07T23:05:07","modified_gmt":"2026-02-07T23:05:07","slug":"west-scrantons-schimelfenig-reaches-1000-career-points-in-win-over-wallenpaupack-scranton-times-tribune","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/108095\/","title":{"rendered":"West Scranton\u2019s Schimelfenig reaches 1,000 career points in win over Wallenpaupack \u2013 Scranton Times-Tribune"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Nate Schimelfenig scored the 1,000th point of his career and finished with 18 points to lead West Scranton to a 53-44 win over Wallenpaupack in a Lackawanna Division I boys basketball game.<\/p>\n<p>Schimelfenig needed only four points coming into the game to achieve the milestone, and did so with 4:40 left on the clock in the first quarter.<\/p>\n<p>Brian Fried added 13 points and Jahmeir Rivera scored 12 for the Invaders (8-12, 5-7).<\/p>\n<p>Nick VanBuskirk scored 15 points and JP Yeo made three 3-pointers for nine points to lead Wallenpaupack (7-13, 3-9).<\/p>\n<p>Girls basketball<\/p>\n<p>Lily Mancino scored 10 of her 16 points in the third quarter to help <a href=\"http:\/\/varsity.the570.com\/Wallenpaupack\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Wallenpaupack rally for a 59-49 win over West Scranton<\/a> in a Lackawanna League girls basketball game.<\/p>\n<p>Ashley Vanderputten scored 12 points in the fourth quarter and finished with a team-high 17 points for the Lady Buckhorns (8-12, 3-9).<\/p>\n<p>Lillian Williams added nine points for Wallenpaupack.<\/p>\n<p>Morgan Baumgardner led West Scranton (3-17, 0-12) with 17 points. Aubrey Kerrigan added 15 for the Lady Invaders.<\/p>\n<p>Hughesville 53, Elk Lake 28:\u00a0Maddie Smith scored 15 of her 24 points in the first half to lead <a href=\"http:\/\/varsity.the570.com\/Elk_Lake\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">the Spartans to a nonleague victory<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Vivian Draper and Anna Easton each scored seven points for Hughesville (20-2).<\/p>\n<p>Laci Ayotte scored eight points for Elk Lake (12-8).<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Nate Schimelfenig scored the 1,000th point of his career and finished with 18 points to lead West Scranton&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":102002,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[15],"tags":[305,178,180,179,726],"class_list":["post-108095","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\/108095","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=108095"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/108095\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/102002"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=108095"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=108095"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=108095"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}