30 years ago<\/p>\n
Michael Letwinsky poured in seven points in the second overtime as St. Paul\u2019s of Scranton edged St. Vincent DePaul, 57-56, in the quarterfinals of the state CYO Eighth Grade Diocesan tournament. Letwinsky finished with 16 points. Carlos Gibson had 16 points and six assists and forced both overtime periods. Gibson hit a 15-footer with 36 seconds left in regulation, then knotted the game at 46 with the final points of the first overtime. John Byrne added 15 points for St. Paul\u2019s. \u2026 Lakeland scored two unearned runs in the bottom of the fifth to win its Lackawanna League Class AA opener, 6-5, over Carbondale Area. Bruce Smallacombe walked and Tom Anuszewski singled to start the winning rally and both came around to score on errors. Carbondale Area led, 5-2, after 3\u00bd innings, but the Chiefs rallied on RBI singles by Steve Lezinski and Paul Warrick. Lezinski also tripled and Warrick had two hits as each drove in two runs. \u2026 Sarah Flynn had 21 points and Michelle Murphy added 19 to lead the Bishop Hannan girls basketball team to the Feldman Tournament final with a 64-50 win over Abington Heights. Meredith Myers led Abington Heights with 12 points.<\/p>\n
20 years ago<\/p>\n
West Scranton scored three times in the fifth and sixth innings to rally for a 6-5 victory over Scranton Prep in a softball game. Kelly Zaccheo, Jessica Pehanick, Kayleigh Crockenburg and Kailey Bedford had two hits apiece for the Lady Invaders. Michelle Santoli had two hits and Ann Zeleniak tripled for the Classics. \u2026 Courtney Roegner had three hits, including two doubles, and Andrea Beck added two hits to lead Western Wayne to a 4-2 victory over Montrose. \u2026 Amy Umerich started the eighth inning with a triple and RBI doubles followed from Dana Krenitsky and Peanie Columbo, as Abington Heights beat Scranton, 7-5. Krenitsky had three doubles and three runs. Ellen Fallon doubled twice and had three RBIs for Scranton. \u2026 Jordan Reedy\u2019s squeeze bunt scored Kevin Hollenback in the bottom of the seventh inning to rally North Pocono to a 7-6 win over Wallenpaupack in the Lackawanna League Division I baseball opener. Cain Pauluk hit a three-run homer in the top of the sixth to give the Buckhorns the lead, but Jamie Gouldsbury\u2019s RBI single tied the game in the seventh before Reedy\u2019s bunt. Hollenback hit a two-run homer for North Pocono.<\/p>\n
10 years ago<\/p>\n
Nick Bastian swept the jumping events as Scranton opened its boys Lackawanna Track Conference season with a 114-36 win over Honesdale. Andrew Lopez won the 800 and 1,600 runs for the Knights. \u2026 Jason Jablonowski won the javelin and long and triple jumps to lead Carbondale Area to a 100-40 win over Blue Ridge. Marcos Ortiz, Devin Smith and Nathan Houman each had two wins for the Chargers. \u2026 Martin Monahan (110 hurdles, 300 hurdles), Tom Egnotovich (100, 200), Angel Ortiz (800, 1,600) and Tom Malandri (shot put, discus) each had two wins to lead Mid Valley to a 104-30 victory over Susquehanna. \u2026 Jess Millan won the 1,600 and 200 and Brooke Walters won the shot put and discus to lead Riverside to an 82-54 win over Lackawanna Trail. Courtney Petrilak finished first in both hurdles and the long jump for the Lady Lions. \u2026 Zoey Rosensweet won the shot put, discus and pole vault to lead Western Wayne to an 85-64 win over Scranton Prep. Kaitlin McGrath finished first in the 100 hurdles, 100 and triple jump for the Classics. \u2026 Alexis Killino won the 300 hurdles and triple jump to lead Mid Valley to a 75-63 win over Susquehanna.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"30 years ago Michael Letwinsky poured in seven points in the second overtime as St. Paul\u2019s of Scranton…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":151714,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[15],"tags":[178,180,179,726],"class_list":["post-151713","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\/151713","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=151713"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/151713\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/151714"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=151713"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=151713"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=151713"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}