Coming off a successful girls and boys lacrosse season, Lackawanna Interscholastic Athletic Association teams return an abundance of talent as the sport continues to gain interest.<\/p>\n
Abington Heights girls and Delaware Valley boys each went undefeated in league play and won Wyoming Valley Conference championships.<\/p>\n
In the District 2 playoffs, Abington Heights (Class 2A) and Delaware Valley (Class 3A) claimed the girls\u2019 titles, while Delaware Valley (Class 3A) and Crestwood (Class 2A) won the boys\u2019 championships.<\/p>\n
Abington Heights girls also won 22 straight games before losing in the PIAA Class 2A semifinals.<\/p>\n
The new season is upon us, and battles have already been waged early.<\/p>\n
Expectations are high for an exciting spring.<\/p>\n
Girls<\/p>\n
Abington Heights and Crestwood will renew their highly intense rivalry in the WVC and District 2 Class 2A.<\/p>\n
Morgan Davis, last season\u2019s Times-Tribune All-Region Female Player of the Year, and Allie Rothenberger, the WVC Coaches\u2019 Player of the Year, lead Abington Heights in defense of its championships.<\/p>\n
Davis, a sophomore, scored a team-high 83 goals and had 29 assists last season. She scored 11 goals during the Lady Comets\u2019 surge in the PIAA playoffs.<\/p>\n
Rothenberger, a La Salle commit, scored 70 goals and had 32 assists last season. She was The Times-Tribune All-Region Female Player of the Year in 2024.<\/p>\n
In addition to those two stars, Abington Heights also returns Rylee Yankow, an All-Region defensive standout who caused 35 turnovers, and Brielle Crowell, a second-team WVC all-star midfielder.<\/p>\n
Gia Caporuscio and Jackie Gallagher, a pair of WVC first-team all-stars, lead Crestwood. Last season, Crestwood also qualified for the state playoffs and reached the quarterfinals.<\/p>\n
Scranton Prep is led by WVC second-team midfielder McKenna Toolan, and North Pocono, which reached the District 2 Class 2A semifinals last season, returns Aniyah Brago-Jackson, a WVC second-team all-star.<\/p>\n
Wallenpaupack is a new varsity team making its debut, but is ineligible for the WVC championship. The Lady Buckhorns have 25 players on the roster.<\/p>\n
Boys<\/p>\n
Abington Heights has an experienced group and is expected to contend for the WVC championship.<\/p>\n
Gavin Anders, who is committed to McDaniel College, is a three-time All-Region selection. Last season, he had 53 goals and 24 assists.<\/p>\n
Abington Heights also returns three WVC second-team all-stars. Gavin Lindsay has scored 66 goals and has 31 assists in his career. Logan Bohn was a second-team defender, and Colton Nahalnik was named to the All-Region team as a goalie after stopping 191 shots at a 62.2% clip.<\/p>\n
Delaware Valley, which is under the guidance of first-year head coach Dan Gonzalez, must replace a lot of its offensive firepower from last season.<\/p>\n
The Warriors do return All-Region defender Justin Estevez and Shaun Cannalley and Jaxon Barbalich, who were both WVC Coaches\u2019 second-team selections.<\/p>\n
Scranton Prep, which lost in the District 2 Class 2A final to Crestwood, returns All-Region players Mackey Lynett, who had 47 goals and 36 assists, and Braedon McPartland, who had 45 goals and 28 assists.<\/p>\n
The Cavaliers also welcome back Will McPartland, who missed all of last season with an ACL injury suffered in football season. The Fairfield commit is one of the top all-around athletes in the state and had 55 goals and 29 assists in his first two seasons.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Coming off a successful girls and boys lacrosse season, Lackawanna Interscholastic Athletic Association teams return an abundance of…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":147236,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[15],"tags":[305,178,180,179,726],"class_list":["post-147235","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\/147235","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=147235"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/147235\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/147236"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=147235"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=147235"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=147235"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}