Scranton boys basketball coach Tony Battaglia will have one more opportunity to be on the sidelines with his son playing for his team.<\/p>\n
The Lackawanna Interscholastic Athletic Association will sponsor the annual boys\u2019 and girls\u2019 senior all-star games Monday at Scranton High School. The girls game tips off at 6 p.m. followed by the boys\u2019 game.<\/p>\n
Battaglia\u2019s son, Tony, will headline the boys Red team. A four year starter, Tony was a career 1,000-point scorer and a Lackawanna League Division I Coaches\u2019 first-team all-star.<\/p>\n
Other member of the Red roster are: Scranton Prep\u2019s Packy Doherty and Brody Martin; Valley View\u2019s Jagger Roe, Noah Symuleski and Aiden Plotkin; Dunmore\u2019s Brayden Canavan, Nate Aviles and Jimmy Clark; Riverside\u2019s Michael Schimelfenig and Kyle Connor; and West Scranton\u2019s Nate Schimelfenig.<\/p>\n
Doherty, Canavan and Nate Schimelfenig are all career 1,000-point scorers, while Martin, Aviles and Michael Schimelfenig were all selected to the Lackawanna League Coaches all-defensive team.<\/p>\n
Delaware Valley coach Kris Holtzer, whose team won the District 2 Class 6A championship, will guide the Blue team. He will have three of his players on the roster in\u00a0Tyler Lombardo, Scott Nielsen and Craig Newton.<\/p>\n
Also selected to the Blue roster are: Abington Heights\u2019 Jordan Shaffer, Andrew Kettel and Finn Goldberg; Old Forge\u2019s Cameron Parker, Logan Fanning and Ryan DeMarco; Elk Lake\u2019s John Heitsman; Wallenpaupack\u2019s Nick VanBuskirk; Mid Valley\u2019s Landon Pratt; Honesdale\u2019s Levi Martin; and Montrose\u2019s Jude Adams.<\/p>\n
Shaffer is the Lackawanna Division I Player of the Year and a career 1,000-point scorer, as is Parker. Heitsman is\u00a0the Division III Player of the Year and Defensive Player of the Year,<\/p>\n
In the girls\u2019 game, Dunmore coach Carrie Toomey, who guided her team to the District 2 Class 3A championship, will coach the Red team. North Pocono coach Joe Ferguson, whose team won the Lackawanna Division I title, will coach the Blue team.<\/p>\n
The Red team consists of: Dunmore\u2019s Amanda Dempsey, Jackie Brown and Leena Conte; Elk Lake\u2019s\u00a0Madisyn Casselbury, Celeste Clark and Kylie Shingler; Riverside\u2019s Kiley Williams, Cassidy Merrifield and Gabi Blasi;\u00a0Wallenpaupack\u2019s Lily Mancino and Abby Cykosky; and Holy Cross\u2019s Ava Schmidt.<\/p>\n
North Pocono seniors Celia DeCesare and Aleah Quinn will play for the final time for coach Ferguson as members of the Blue team.<\/p>\n
Mountain View\u2019s record-setting senior and four-time District 2 champion, Addison Kilmer, leads the Blue team. She is the second all-time leading scorer in Lackawanna League history with more than 2,000 points and led the Lady Eagles to the PIAA semifinals twice, a PIAA Class 1A final as a sophomore, and the PIAA Class 2A quarterfinals this past season.<\/p>\n
Other Blue team members include:\u00a0Delaware Valley\u2019s Leah Bird and Jordan Dickerson;\u00a0Valley View\u2019s Ava Gazoo; Blue Ridge\u2019s Addison Welch; Western Wayne\u2019s Khloe Mistishin; Carbondale Area\u2019s Maurie Newcomb; First City\u2019s Mehlayia St. Hilaire; Honesdale\u2019s Karsyn Kromko; and Lackawanna Trail\u2019s Ayla Seigle.<\/p>\n
Coaching vacancies<\/p>\n
Two Lackawanna League programs have coach openings.<\/p>\n
Lakeland and Mountain View school districts each posted requests for applicants for their boys\u2019 basketball teams.<\/p>\n
Lakeland coach Trevor Tellip resigned after leading the Chiefs to the District 2 Class 3A semifinals with an upset over third-seeded Elk Lake.<\/p>\n
Tellip, a Lakeland graduate, rejuvenated the program since taking over in the 2017-18 season and has 90 career wins. Lakeland\u2019s best season came in 2019-20 when the team finished 18-6 overall. Three seasons ago, the Chiefs also had an upset over Holy Redeemer in the District 2 Class 3A playoffs.<\/p>\n
Mountain View coach Jim McAndrew also resigned following the season due to a family move out of the area.<\/p>\n
McAndrew was appointed coach for the 2023-24 season. The former Scranton High School standout and Marywood University assistant led the Eagles to the District 2 Class 2A semifinals in two of his three seasons.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Scranton boys basketball coach Tony Battaglia will have one more opportunity to be on the sidelines with his…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":42656,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[15],"tags":[305,178,180,179,726],"class_list":["post-145445","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\/145445","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=145445"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/145445\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/42656"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=145445"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=145445"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=145445"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}