30 years ago<\/p>\n
Ryan Wynn hit a two-run home run to lead Abington Heights to an 8-5 exhibition baseball victory over Tunkhannock in a rematch of last season\u2019s District 2 Class AAA championship game. Jason Muchler was the winning pitcher for the Comets. Pat Regan had two hits for the Tigers. \u2026 Bishop O\u2019Hara basketball star Sara Harris was named to the Eastern Pennsylvania All-Star team for the Eat\u2019n Park Girls Roundball Classic at the University of Pittsburgh\u2019s Fitzgerald Fieldhouse. \u2026 Clevio Rogo, Thomas Francis Gavin Sr. and Joseph Battaglia were named to be inducted posthumously into the Scranton Area Sports Hall of Fame. Rogo, who died while serving in the military, excelled in athletics at Old Forge High School and West Chester University in addition to coaching at Old Forge, where he played on a state championship basketball team. Gavin was long involved in Sloan Little League activities, as well as in Senior Babe Ruth League, serving in roles as an officer and coach. Battaglia excelled in football at Dunmore High School and later went on to play at Penn State University on a football scholarship.<\/p>\n
20 years ago<\/p>\n
Chris Osborne scored 18 points and nine rebounds in Bishop Hannan\u2019s 71-61 loss to District 9 champion Elk County Catholic in the PIAA Class A boys basketball title game. Justin Kearney added 17 points and Brian Siemion tacked on 16 points and 15 rebounds for the Golden Lancers. \u2026 Abington Heights\u2019 Becky Burke earned Times-Tribune Girls Basketball Player of the Year. Dunmore\u2019s Lauren Carra, Montrose\u2019s Chelsey Parvin, Scranton Prep\u2019s Kristen Folk and Riverside\u2019s Jenn King also earned All-Region selections, with Scranton\u2019s Pat Ferguson securing Coach of the Year. \u2026 Bishop Hannan\u2019s Chris Osborne earned Times-Tribune Boys Basketball Player of the Year. Dunmore\u2019s Kevin Clark, Scranton\u2019s A.J. McKenna, Old Forge\u2019s Jared Yanniello and Mountain View\u2019s Rob Johnson were also All-Region selections, with Bishop Hannan\u2019s Paul Johnson securing Coach of the Year. \u2026 Ryan Ruddy won the long, triple and high jumps and added a leg on the 400 relay team, as Abington Heights beat Honesdale, 81-68, for its first Lackawanna Track Conference meet victory in five years in a Division I opener.<\/p>\n
10 years ago<\/p>\n
Lakeland\u2019s Tony Harding had a 10-point surge in the fourth quarter helped push the Red Team to a 126-122 win over the Blue Team in the annual Lackawanna League Senior All-Star game at Valley View High School. He finished with 15 points, which featured two fourth-quarter 3-pointers from beyond 25 feet, and earned the team\u2019s Most Valuable Player award. Honesdale\u2019s Ian Langendoerfer had 20 points for the Red Team. Holy Cross\u2019 Billy Trainor led the Blue Team with 17 points, including three 3-pointers. \u2026 Abington Heights\u2019 Nick Carr earned Times-Tribune Wrestler of the Year. Other All-Region selections were Abington Heights\u2019 Noah Sirianni, Lackawanna Trail\u2019s Trent Phillips, Scranton\u2019s Willy Evanitsky, Scranton Prep\u2019s Thor Balavage, Valley View\u2019s Brandon Judge, Wallenpaupack\u2019s Kyle Hartman, Valley View\u2019s Brett Uhrin, West Scranton\u2019s Jimmy Forsette, Scranton\u2019s Andrew Burgette, Western Wayne\u2019s Cole Fuller, West Scranton\u2019s Bubba Novak, Scranton\u2019s Aidan McNally and Wallenpaupack\u2019s Todd Frick, with Montrose\u2019s Matt Hawley securing Coach of the Year.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"30 years ago Ryan Wynn hit a two-run home run to lead Abington Heights to an 8-5 exhibition…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":145120,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[15],"tags":[178,180,179,726],"class_list":["post-145119","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-scranton","tag-scranton","tag-scranton-headlines","tag-scranton-news","tag-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/145119","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=145119"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/145119\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/145120"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=145119"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=145119"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=145119"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}