SCRANTON \u2014 Due to a clerical error, Jimmy Clark, a sharpshooter all season, didn\u2019t get a chance to shoot during the 3-point contest.<\/p>\n
When he entered the Lackawanna Interscholastic Athletic Association Senior All-Star Game, he decided to show off his skills from beyond the arc.<\/p>\n
The Dunmore standout made six 3-pointers and finished with a game-high 26 points to lead the Red All-Star Team to a 115-104 win over the Blue All-Star Team on Monday night to drop the curtain on the 2025-26 boys basketball season at Scranton High School.<\/p>\n
\u201cThere was a little mix-up there where they said I was shooting last, and then Brayden (Canavan) got switched for me,\u201d said Clark, who was selected as his team\u2019s Most Valuable Player. \u201cI was a little upset, so I decided to get my 3-pointers in the game.\u201d<\/p>\n
With Clark leading the way, the Red Team rained down an attack of 3-pointers, finishing with 23.<\/p>\n
Valley View senior Noah Symuleski went 5 for 5 on his long-range shots and had 15 points. Dunmore senior Nate Aviles swished four 3-pointers and had 14 points, West Scranton\u2019s Nate Schimelfenig made three and had 13 points, Scranton senior Tony Battaglia, playing in his final game for coach and father, Tony Battaglia, had two 3-pointers and Scranton Prep\u2019s Packy Doherty and Riverside\u2019s Michael Schimelfenig each had one.<\/p>\n
Michael Schimelfenig, a Lackawanna Division II all-defensive player, put on a shooting display in the pre-game 3-point contest. He made 21 to win and outduel his cousin, Abington Heights senior Jordan Shaffer.<\/p>\n
\u201cIt\u2019s kind of funny,\u201d said Schimelfenig, who had 23 3-pointers in 27 games. \u201cComing out shooting 3s, I couldn\u2019t have shot better. Once I started making a couple, and I was going against my cousin, so I had to beat him, and I really started to get it going.\u201d<\/p>\n
The Blue Team got off to a fast start and battled the hot-shooting Red Team throughout the high-scoring battle. Shaffer, the Lackawanna Division I player of the year, led the way with 25 points and eight rebounds to earn his team\u2019s MVP award.<\/p>\n
\u201cThis was awesome,\u201d Shaffer said. \u201cGot to have some fun and play one last high school game of basketball.\u201d<\/p>\n
The fast-paced game featured outstanding performances and intense competitiveness for an all-star game.<\/p>\n
The Red Team took control with defensive pressure spearheaded by players from Dunmore. Clark scored 10 points in the second quarter when the Red Team outscored the Blue Team, 27-18, to take a 56-43 lead at the half.<\/p>\n
In the third, Shaffer scored nine points. Elk Lake\u2019s John Heitsman, the Lackawanna Division III player of the year and defensive player of the year, scored seven of his 11 points, and Delaware Valley\u2019s Tyler Lombardo, who played for his coach Kris Holtzer for the last time, scored five of his 14 points as the Blue Team seized a 76-74 lead after three quarters.<\/p>\n
\u201cIt got competitive out there,\u201d Shaffer said. \u201cWhen you have guys of this caliber, everybody wants to win, so to have a close game in the fourth quarter is great.\u201d<\/p>\n
The Red Team would not be denied and outscored the Blue Team, 41-28, in the fourth quarter. Symuleski was money and drilled three from beyond the arc, and Clark also had three, including one on the final shot of the game, to secure the win.<\/p>\n
\u201cAfter the first couple of minutes of the game, everybody was just kind of jogging around,\u201d Clark said. \u201cI told my group that when we went into the game, we were going full-court pressure man-to-man. We picked up the intensity.<\/p>\n
\u201cI love to compete, and I told the guys there was no way that I was losing my last game.\u201d<\/p>\n
Old Forge\u2019s Cameron Parker had 13 points, and teammate Logan Fanning had seven, including one of his signature two-handed dunks for the Blue Team. Heitsman had the best dunk\u2014 a windmill on a fast break \u2014 during a fourth-quarter rally by the Blue Team.<\/p>\n
Box score<\/p>\n
Blue Team: VanBuskirk 3 0-0 6, Shaffer 11 0-0 25, Kettle 4 0-0 8, Lombardo 6 1-1 14, Goldberg 1 0-0 2, Parker 6 0-0 13, Salerno 2 0-0 5, Pratt 4 0-0 9, Adams 1 0-0 2, Heitsman 5 0-0 11, Martin 1 0-0 2, Fanning 3 1-1 7, Krushnowski 0 0-0 0; Totals: 47 2-3 104.<\/p>\n
Red Team: Canavan 3 0-0 7, Doherty 6 0-0 13, N. Schimefenig 5 0-0 13, Martin 3 0-2 6, Battaglia 3 0-0 8, Clark 10 0-0 26, M. Schimefenig 3 0-0 7, Roe 3 0-0 6, Aviles 5 0-0 14, Symuleski 5 0-0 15, Plotkin 0 0-0 0, Connor 0 0-0 0; Totals: 46 0-2 115.<\/p>\n
Red Team \u00a0 25 \u2013 18 \u2013 33 \u2013 28 \u2013 104<\/p>\n
Blue Team\u00a0 29 \u2013 27 \u2013 18 \u2013 41 \u2013 115<\/p>\n
3-pointers: Shaffer 3, Lombardo 1, Parker 1, Salerno 1, Pratt 1, Heitsman 1. Clark 6, Symuleski 5, Aviles 4, N. Schimelfenig 3, Battaglia 2, Canavan 1, Doherty 1, M. Schimelfenig 1.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"SCRANTON \u2014 Due to a clerical error, Jimmy Clark, a sharpshooter all season, didn\u2019t get a chance to…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":146672,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[15],"tags":[305,178,180,179,726],"class_list":["post-146671","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\/146671","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=146671"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/146671\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/146672"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=146671"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=146671"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=146671"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}