{"id":126283,"date":"2026-02-28T21:18:11","date_gmt":"2026-02-28T21:18:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/126283\/"},"modified":"2026-02-28T21:18:11","modified_gmt":"2026-02-28T21:18:11","slug":"lead-hill-takes-down-scranton-in-a-playoff-battle","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/126283\/","title":{"rendered":"Lead Hill Takes Down Scranton in a Playoff Battle"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>\n            <img decoding=\"async\" id=\"IDe631cb88ae474a588d8d9a86ad0094d5\" style=\"width:48px;height:48px;border-radius:24px;\" class=\"infosentience-float-left \" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/02\/2182ed63-a6d5-4d0f-bb43-8ec5e4be037b.gif\" alt=\"\" onerror=\"this.style.display=\" none=\"\"\/><\/p>\n<p id=\"IDf4fed5bdb4cd4b768726b336d3f06da7\" style=\"color:#000000;margin-left:10px;margin-right:10px;margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px;padding-top:12px;font-family:Siro-Semibold,Siro;font-size:16px !important;font-weight:500;\" class=\"infosentience-standard-text infosentience-float-left \" tabindex=\"-1\">Tigers<\/p>\n<p>11\/18\/25 vs Oark5801\/22\/26 vs Founders Classical Academy5412\/09\/25 vs Advanced Studies4712\/29\/25 vs Midland4112\/16\/25 vs Omaha40<\/p>\n<p class=\"infosentience-paragraph\" style=\"order:1\">It&#8217;s playoff time, and <a target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/www.maxpreps.com\/ar\/lead-hill\/lead-hill-tigers\/basketball\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Lead Hill<\/a> had no trouble coming through when it counted. They blew past the <a target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/www.maxpreps.com\/ar\/scranton\/scranton-rockets\/basketball\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Scranton Rockets<\/a> 80-50  on Friday. The Tigers have made a habit of sweeping their opponents off the court, having now won 21  contests by 21  points or more this season.<\/p>\n<p class=\"infosentience-paragraph\" style=\"order:2\">Lead Hill had a senior duo take command as <a target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/www.maxpreps.com\/ar\/lead-hill\/lead-hill-tigers\/athletes\/noah-royce\/?careerid=evo2jvqhoi0sc\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\"> Noah Royce<\/a>  posted 13  points along with eight  boards and seven  steals and <a target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/www.maxpreps.com\/ar\/lead-hill\/lead-hill-tigers\/athletes\/dawson-lively\/?careerid=80dndfs8teg55\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\"> Dawson Lively<\/a>  dropped  a triple-double with 12 points, ten  rebounds,  and ten  assists. Those seven  steals set a new season-high mark for  Royce. Another player making a difference was <a target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/www.maxpreps.com\/ar\/lead-hill\/lead-hill-tigers\/athletes\/hunter-rogers\/?careerid=milhqt5sj93k4\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\"> Hunter Rogers<\/a>, who  shot 75% from the field to rack up 14  points and seven  boards.<\/p>\n<p class=\"infosentience-paragraph\" style=\"order:3\"> Lead Hill  smashed the offensive glass and  finished the game with 18  offensive boards. That strong performance was nothing new for the team: they&#8217;ve now  pulled down at least 11  offensive rebounds in five consecutive  games.<\/p>\n<p class=\"infosentience-paragraph\" style=\"order:4\">Lead Hill has  been performing  incredibly well recently as they&#8217;ve  won 17 of their last 18 matchups. That&#8217;s provided a nice bump to their 33-5 record  this season. As for Scranton, their defeat dropped their record down to 20-9.<\/p>\n<p class=\"infosentience-paragraph\" style=\"order:5\"> Coming up, Lead Hill and Jasper will face off  at 7:00  p.m.  on Saturday without much rest, having both just played. Scranton does not have any more games scheduled as of now.<\/p>\n<p>Article generated by <a target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer nofollow\" href=\"https:\/\/infosentience.com\/\">infoSentience<\/a> based on data entered on MaxPreps<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Tigers 11\/18\/25 vs Oark5801\/22\/26 vs Founders Classical Academy5412\/09\/25 vs Advanced Studies4712\/29\/25 vs Midland4112\/16\/25 vs Omaha40 It&#8217;s playoff time,&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":126284,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[15],"tags":[178,180,179],"class_list":["post-126283","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-scranton","tag-scranton","tag-scranton-headlines","tag-scranton-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/126283","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=126283"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/126283\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/126284"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=126283"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=126283"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=126283"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}