{"id":169929,"date":"2026-04-19T05:24:07","date_gmt":"2026-04-19T05:24:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/169929\/"},"modified":"2026-04-19T05:24:07","modified_gmt":"2026-04-19T05:24:07","slug":"remember-when-scranton-times-tribune-26","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/169929\/","title":{"rendered":"Remember when \u2013 Scranton Times-Tribune"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>30 years ago<\/p>\n<p>Michelle Dreistadt\u2019s two-run single in the bottom of the fifth inning lifted Riverside over Lakeland, 3-2, in a Lackawanna Class AA Division softball game. \u2026 Mandy Edwards, Julie Washine and Kelly Hartill had two hits apiece to lead Western Wayne past Carbondale Sacred Heart, 12-3. Edwards\u2019 hits were a triple and a double. \u2026 Joe Leach threw a four-hitter and hit a home run, as Bishop Hannan beat Old Forge, 3-1, in a Lackawanna Class AA Division baseball game. \u2026 Brian Forgione and Sean Gallagher drove in two runs each, as Dunmore defeated Lakeland, 8-6. \u2026 Dave Staples tripled in two runs in the top of the third inning then scored on a Greg Hoffner single to lead Scranton to a 4-2 victory over Abington Heights in a Lackawanna League Class AAA Division game. Staples also tripled and scored in the first inning. \u2026 Brian Callahan\u2019s two-run double in the fifth inning put Scranton Prep ahead on its way to a 4-2 victory over Wallenpaupack. \u2026 Jim Powell\u2019s home run in the bottom of the seventh ended North Pocono\u2019s 15-12 victory over Honesdale. Powell, Mark Pitta and John Laird all had three hits.<\/p>\n<p>20 years ago<\/p>\n<p>Chris Rinaldi laced a two-run double in the eighth inning to lift Dunmore to an 11-9 victory over Old Forge in a Lackawanna League Division III-IV crossover baseball game. Old Forge\u2019s Mike Doran belted a two-run, inside-the-park home run to force extra innings. Cameron Bryer and Mike Stremski had three hits each for the Bucks. Doran and Jim DeStefano had three hits for the Blue Devils. \u2026 Dom Marion homered and drove in two runs while Mitchell Pope tossed a four-hitter, as Carbondale Area beat Riverside, 6-1, in Lackawanna Division III baseball. Marion, Louie Montione, Steve Moro and Corey Wright each had two hits for the Chargers. \u2026 Matt Norton and Anthony Beston each belted two-run homers in the fourth inning to lift Lakeland to an 8-6 victory over Honesdale. Ben Monahan also drove in two runs for the Chiefs. \u2026 Charlie Rizzo tossed a two-hitter and Adam Wahlers drove in two runs in Scranton\u2019s 4-1 victory over Valley View. \u2026 Dean Pettinato homered and drove in five runs in Abington Heights\u2019 14-7 win over West Scranton in a Lackawanna Division I-II crossover baseball game.<\/p>\n<p>10 years ago<\/p>\n<p>Alison Kane tripled, scored three runs and drove in one to lead Abington Heights to an 8-4 win over Scranton in a Lackawanna League Division I softball game Tuesday. Samantha Pecek doubled and drove in two runs for Scranton. \u2026 Emily Yontas had a triple and two RBIs to lead Valley View past Scranton Prep, 4-2. Isabella Gorzkowski hit a two-run home run for the Classics. \u2026 Carissa Giordano and Nicole Zasada scored on a passed ball with two outs in the bottom of the seventh inning to give North Pocono an 18-17 victory over Honesdale in Division II softball. Casey Carpenter had three hits, including a double and a home run, and five RBIs for the Lady Trojans. Kaitlyn Price had four hits and four RBIs for the Lady Hornets. \u2026 R.J. Kilmer had two hits, including a double, and three RBIs to lead Valley View to a 10-3 win over Scranton Prep in Lackawanna League Division I baseball. Jake Grady had two RBIs for the Classics. \u2026 Anthony Duboski and Jake Swank each drove in two runs to lead Abington Heights to a 12-2 win over Scranton. Sam Arnold had three hits, two runs and one RBI for the Comets.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"30 years ago Michelle Dreistadt\u2019s two-run single in the bottom of the fifth inning lifted Riverside over Lakeland,&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":169930,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[15],"tags":[178,180,179,726],"class_list":["post-169929","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\/169929","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=169929"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/169929\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/169930"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=169929"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=169929"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=169929"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}