Published March 22. 2026 11:28AM<\/p>\n
Heading into the second half of last week\u2019s boys basketball state playoff game, Salisbury needed to chip away at a double-digit deficit.<\/p>\n
But Scranton Prep had other plans. The Cavaliers went on a run to start the half and never looked back en route to a 57-42 win that ended the Falcons\u2019 24-win season.<\/p>\n
\u201cWe were down 11 at halftime,\u201d said Salisbury head coach Jason Weaver. \u201cWe had a chance to get back into it and then they went on that 9-0 run to start the third quarter and we\u2019re down 20.\u201d<\/p>\n
The Falcons cut the lead to 37-21 near the middle of the third quarter, but another 9-0 run gave SP a 46-21 lead with a minute left in the period.<\/p>\n
Salisbury cut the lead to 15 again when a Drew Petrie three-pointer made it 51-36 late in the fourth, but it was too late to mount a comeback.<\/p>\n
\u201cThey are one of the best defensive teams we have ever seen,\u201d said Falcon senior Bryan Gonzalez. \u201cKudos to them. They hit their shots when they needed to.\u201d<\/p>\n
The Falcons couldn\u2019t get to the basket like that do against most teams, and the Cavaliers were quick enough to get in the face of outside shooters.<\/p>\n
\u201cThey were able to step in and take away our penetration,\u201d said Weaver. \u201cWe were a little slow reversing the basketball and things we can get in other games weren\u2019t there.\u201d<\/p>\n
Steven Lozada led Salisbury with 12 points in the loss, while Gonzalez chipped in with 11.<\/p>\n
Chicky Skoff had a game-high 20 points for Scranton Prep.<\/p>\n
Salisbury entered the game against Scranton Prep coming a state playoff win over West Philadelphia, 54-45 in the first round on Saturday, March 7.<\/p>\n
Lozada poured in 25 points against West Philly, while Petrie added 10.<\/p>\n
The Falcons finish the season 24-4 overall, the most wins in Weaver\u2019s 18 years at the helm. This year\u2019s senior class helped change the direction of the program.<\/p>\n
\u201cThere might not be banners or titles, but we set a new standard in Salisbury basketball,\u201d said Gonzalez. \u201cWhen I was a freshman there were 30-40 parents in the gym. Now there\u2019s almost 200 people. We almost put Salisbury basketball back on the map.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Published March 22. 2026 11:28AM Heading into the second half of last week\u2019s boys basketball state playoff game,…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":1834,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[15],"tags":[178,180,179],"class_list":["post-145350","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\/145350","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=145350"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/145350\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1834"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=145350"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=145350"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=145350"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}