30 years ago<\/p>\n
Julie Nicholas had a record-setting performance among her three individual wins to help Abington Heights capture its Lackawanna AAA Division girls track and field showdown with North Pocono, 74-67. Nicholas established a school mark in the 400-meter run with a winning time of 59.52 seconds. The Lady Comets freshman also won the 100 in 12.83 seconds and the 200 in 26.45 seconds. Nicholas also ran the anchor leg of Abington Heights\u2019 victorious 1,600 relay team. Heather Baer captured the 1,600 and 3,200, Patricia Henzl won the shot put and the discus and Courtney McLaughlin took the long and triple jumps for North Pocono. \u2026 Nate Wilmot won the 110- and 300-meter hurdles and the long and triple jumps, and Brian Meyers won the 100, 200 and 400 to lead North Pocono to an 84-66 victory over Abington Heights in a Lackawanna AAA Division boys track and field meet. Jason Collins added victories in the shot and discus for the Trojans. Matt Alles won the 1,600 and was part of the winning 3,200 relay for the Comets. \u2026 Dave Bouselli pitched a no-hitter, striking out 11, in Dunmore\u2019s 9-1 win over Carbondale Area in a Lackawanna League Class AA Division baseball game.<\/p>\n
20 years ago<\/p>\n
Amanda Berta pitched a three-hitter with nine strikeouts as Valley View beat Delaware Valley, 2-0, in a Lackawanna League Division I-II softball crossover. Mia Collarini had an RBI single in the first that drove in Alex Blewitt. Danita Goldovich and Sam Pientak had back-to-back doubles in the second for the Cougars. \u2026 Annie Zeleniak had a triple and two RBIs, including the decisive run in the bottom of the seventh in Scranton Prep\u2019s 3-2 win over Scranton. Shawna Sandy had two hits for the Lady Knights. \u2026 Katrina Schmaltz scored twice while Jessie Fox added two assists, as Abington Heights blanked Wyoming Seminary, 5-0, in a Wyoming Valley Conference Division A girls soccer game. Caroline Hughes added a goal and an assist. \u2026 Don Bird tripled in two runs and joined John Pesota with two hits in Abington Heights\u2019 7-1 win over Lakeland in a Lackawanna League Division I-II crossover baseball game. Tom Donohue gave up two hits over six innings while Nick Pasqualichio drove in two runs. \u2026 Joe Calhoun, Ricky Clifford and Brandon Budd all had three hits to lead West Scranton past North Pocono, 12-9. Matt McGloin put the Invaders ahead for good with a three-run double in the fourth.<\/p>\n
10 years ago<\/p>\n
Abington Heights won its 61st straight dual meet and clinched at least a tie for its 10th straight Lackawanna Track Conference Division I title with a 94.5-45.5 win over Scranton Prep. Katie Dammer won the 1,600-meter run and 800, and Allyson Derry won the 100 and triple jump to lead the Lady Comets. Kate McGrath led Scranton Prep with wins in the 100 hurdles and long jump. \u2026 Awnshae Smith won the 100 hurdles and 300 hurdles, high jump and triple jump, Katie Shea won the 1,600 and 3,200 and Maryam Hamidi won the 400 and 200 to lead Scranton to a 93-53 victory over West Scranton. Taylor Robinson set a school record with a time of 12.3 in the 100 for West Scranton. \u2026 Abby Haines won the 1,600 and the 800, Grace Hamilton won the 3,200 and the long jump, Maria Piccolino won the 300 hurdles and triple jump and Jess Slagus won the shot and discus, as North Pocono defeated Honesdale, 110-40, in Lackawanna Track Conference Division II. \u2026 Colin Howe had 13 kills and 10 digs and Matt Trygar had 14 assists and 18 points to lead Western Wayne to a 3-2 win over Mountain View in a Lackawanna League volleyball match. Josh Hoch added 10 kills and nine assists for the Wildcats.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"30 years ago Julie Nicholas had a record-setting performance among her three individual wins to help Abington Heights…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":176948,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[15],"tags":[178,180,179,726],"class_list":["post-176947","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\/176947","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=176947"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/176947\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/176948"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=176947"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=176947"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=176947"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}