Four Lackawanna League teams are in pursuit of District 2 title on a busy Saturday at Mohegan Arena that wraps up championship weekend.<\/p>\n
Delaware Valley, Scranton Prep, Old Forge and Susquehanna are playing in their respective tournament finals during a five-game schedule that starts with the girls Class 2A championship between Holy Redeemer and Dunmore at noon.<\/p>\n
The Class 2A game is the first of three boys\u2019 games. Defending champion Old Forge (17-6) faces Susquehanna (19-5) at 2 p.m. That is followed by the Class 4A final, where a new champion will be crowned as Scranton Prep (19-5) plays Dallas (23-3) at 4 p.m. Delaware Valley (16-8) will face Wilkes-Barre Area (14-9) at 8 p.m.<\/p>\n
Class 2A<\/p>\n
Top-seeded Old Forge is on a four-game winning streak.<\/p>\n
The Blue Devils\u2019 senior-laden roster navigated a challenging Lackawanna Division II schedule, posting wins over Holy Cross and Dunmore, and suffering losses to PIAA qualifiers Valley View, Riverside and Dunmore by an average of 3.6 points.<\/p>\n
Logan Fanning, a 6-7 senior center, gives Old Forge an advantage inside. He leads the team in scoring with 16.7 points per game. He had 12 points in the semifinal win over Blue Ridge.<\/p>\n
Cameron Parker, a career 1,000-point scorer, is second on the team, averaging 16.4 points per game.<\/p>\n
Cam Krushnowski scored 22 points in the semifinal win over Blue Ridge and is third on the team in scoring, and Ryan DeMarco averages 9.3 points per game.<\/p>\n
As a team, Old Forge has 128 3-pointers.<\/p>\n
Susquehanna challenged Elk Lake for the Lackawanna Division III championship this season.<\/p>\n
Junior Griffin Fisk averages 22 points per game, and had 15 points in a semifinal win over Lackawanna Trail. Mason Keyes scored 21 points in that game, and Hudson Stengel had 10 points.<\/p>\n
The Sabers are averaging 71.3 points in their last three games \u2014 all wins.<\/p>\n
Class 4A<\/p>\n
Scranton Prep has dominated the championship finals, but is on a season-long quest to avenge a loss in last season\u2019s title game against Valley View.<\/p>\n
The Cavaliers are playing for the 10th time at Mohegan Arena and have eight championship wins.<\/p>\n
Packy Doherty is an impact player in the postseason, scoring 21 points in a win over Honesdale, and 30 in a semifinal win over Wyoming Area.<\/p>\n
Brody Martin, a defensive standout, averages 12 points per game, while Chicky Skoff scores 8.8 points per game to support an up-tempo offense that scored more than 80 points five times this season.<\/p>\n
Dallas, winners of 14 straight games, took the Wyoming Valley Conference postseason tournament. The Mountaineers are undefeated against District 2 opponents this season, with their losses coming to West Philadelphia, Williamsport and Central York.<\/p>\n
Pat Flanagan kept Dallas\u2019 district championship hopes alive with a buzzer-beating 3-pointer, defeating last year\u2019s champion Valley View, 46-43, in the semifinals.<\/p>\n
The last time the two teams met, Scranton Prep defeated the Mountaineers, 55-48, in the season opener in 2023-24.<\/p>\n
Class 6A<\/p>\n
Delaware Valley made program history with its win over Williamsport in the semifinals.\u00a0The Warriors are in their first District 2 Class 6A final and will make their first appearance at Mohegan Arena.<\/p>\n
They enter on a six-game winning streak, led by sophomore guard Trey Newton, who is averaging 17 points per game during the winning surge. Tyler Lombardo scored 16 points in the win over Williamsport.<\/p>\n
Wilkes-Barre Area overcame adversity, as well. The Wolfpack lost their final three games of the regular season, but beat Hazleton Area in the semifinals of the tournament.<\/p>\n
David Januzzi led the way with 17 points, and Mike Keating added 16 points in Wilkes-Barre Area\u2019s win. Januzzi (18.5) and Keating (13.9) are averaging double figures this season.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Four Lackawanna League teams are in pursuit of District 2 title on a busy Saturday at Mohegan Arena…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":124821,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[15],"tags":[305,178,180,179,726],"class_list":["post-124820","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\/124820","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=124820"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/124820\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/124821"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=124820"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=124820"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=124820"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}