Lackawanna College erased an eight-point deficit in the final nine minutes to defeat Essex County College, 93-87, and clinch a NJCAA Region 19 Division II men\u2019s basketball playoff berth.<\/p>\n
Essex led, 71-63, when Lackawanna went on an 18-2 run to open an 81-73 lead with 3:30 left. The Wolverines got as close as three points with 40 seconds left, but the Falcons hit free throws down the stretch to seal the win.<\/p>\n
Xavier Spears led Lackawanna (6-6 region, 15-13 overall) with 18 points. Jaksa Pejovic added 16 points, Latrell Mark chipped in 12 points and Noah Elias wound up with 12.<\/p>\n
The Falcons will wait to see their seeding for the Region 19 playoffs, which begin next week. They have two nonregion regular-season games remaining: Thursday at home against Monroe University and Saturday at Cecil College in Maryland.<\/p>\n
Women\u2019s basketball<\/p>\n
At Newark, New Jersey, Lackawanna College lost its ninth straight game, 86-34, to Essex County College in a NJCAA Region 19 Division II game Tuesday.<\/p>\n
Sophia Summa led the Lady Falcons (1-13, 7-19) with 14 points. Alania Ortiz had seven points and Canyah Randle six points.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Lackawanna College erased an eight-point deficit in the final nine minutes to defeat Essex County College, 93-87, and…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":27552,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[15],"tags":[2300,178,180,179,726],"class_list":["post-116796","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-scranton","tag-college-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\/116796","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=116796"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/116796\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/27552"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=116796"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=116796"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=116796"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}