{"id":118415,"date":"2026-02-19T21:13:18","date_gmt":"2026-02-19T21:13:18","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/118415\/"},"modified":"2026-02-19T21:13:18","modified_gmt":"2026-02-19T21:13:18","slug":"wilkes-womens-basketball-falls-to-no-2-scranton-the-beacon","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/118415\/","title":{"rendered":"Wilkes Women\u2019s Basketball Falls to No. 2 Scranton \u2013 The Beacon"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The Wilkes University Women\u2019s basketball team dropped their road contest against No.2 ranked Scranton 93-42 on Wednesday night.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Scranton jumped out to an early 11-2 lead and kept their foot on the gas, the Royals held a 54-23 lead at the half.<\/p>\n<p>This would continue throughout the last two quarters as the Royals outscored the Colonels 39-19 after the half.<\/p>\n<p>Scranton went on a 19-0 run going into the third quarter until Anya Richet broke that run with a layup.<\/p>\n<p>Maliyah Warren led the Colonels with 18 points while Yamirelis Matos and Richet followed behind with six each.<\/p>\n<p>Kaci Kranson led the Royals with 20 points.<\/p>\n<p>The Colonels fall to 5-19 overall and 2-15 in the Landmark Conference, they will conclude their season at home against Goucher College on Saturday.<\/p>\n<p>Scranton stays a perfect 24-0 and will finish their regular season on the road at Catholic University.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The Wilkes University Women\u2019s basketball team dropped their road contest against No.2 ranked Scranton 93-42 on Wednesday night.\u00a0&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":26240,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[15],"tags":[178,180,179],"class_list":{"0":"post-118415","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-scranton","8":"tag-scranton","9":"tag-scranton-headlines","10":"tag-scranton-news"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/118415","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=118415"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/118415\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/26240"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=118415"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=118415"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=118415"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}