Abington Heights girls and Scranton Prep boys finished as the Wyoming Valley Conference lacrosse champions, and are setting their sights on the postseason.<\/p>\n
The District 2 playoffs begin this week after teams conclude their nonleague schedules Monday.<\/p>\n
Abington Heights, winner of the last two District 2 Class 2A girls titles, is the No. 1 seed. The Lady Comets have a 17-1 record and open defense of their titles Thursday at home against No. 8 Tunkhannock (5-10).<\/p>\n
Crestwood is the No. 2 seed. The Comets (15-3) gave Abington Heights its closest match in the WVC season in a 15-11 loss April 28.<\/p>\n
Wyoming Seminary is the No. 3 seed, Lake-Lehman is the No. 4 seed and Dallas is the No. 5 seed.<\/p>\n
Holy Redeemer (11-6, .551) holds the No. 6 seed, and Scranton Prep (10-7, .550) is seventh. Both teams have matches that will impact their final power rating. On Monday, Scranton Prep plays at Northwestern Lehigh (10-7), and Selinsgrove (11-3) plays at Holy Redeemer.<\/p>\n
The Class 2A semifinals are May 18, and the championship match is May 21.<\/p>\n
In Class 3A, District 2 holds its own playoff as part of the District 2-11 Subregional.<\/p>\n
Wilkes-Barre Area (1-15) plays at Hazleton Area (6-10) in the semifinal Thursday. The winner advances to the final May 18 to play Delaware Valley (7-10).<\/p>\n
The Scranton Prep boys team completed an undefeated regular season with a 16-3 win over Trinity on Saturday. The Cavaliers (16-0) start the playoffs at home against Tunkhannock (2-12) on Thursday.<\/p>\n
Abington Heights (14-3), which held a lead over Scranton Prep in their WVC matchup, is the No. 2 seed. The Comets will face No. 7 Dallas (6-11) in the quarterfinals.<\/p>\n
No. 3 Crestwood (11-5) will host No. 6 Lake-Lehman (9-7), and No. 4 Wyoming Seminary (10-5) will host No. 5 North Pocono (9-6). North Pocono has a match remaining at Bellefonte Area (5-4) on Monday at 5:30 p.m.<\/p>\n
The semifinals are May 18, and the final is May 21.<\/p>\n
In Class 3A, Delaware Valley (10-6) earned the No. 3 seed for the District 2-11 Subregional playoffs. The Warriors will host No. 6 Northampton (9-9) on Friday. No. 5 seed Emmaus (10-8) plays at No. 4 Nazareth (11-7) in the other quarterfinal match.<\/p>\n
Easton (16-1), the defending champion, and Parkland (12-5) received byes into the semifinals.<\/p>\n
Boys volleyball<\/p>\n
Hazleton Area (14-2) is the No. 1 seed for the District 2 Class 3A tournament that starts Wednesday. The Cougars receive a bye into the semifinals, which will be held as a doubleheader at Hazleton Area.<\/p>\n
No. 2 seed Abington Heights (11-5), which plays Valley View on Monday for the Lackawanna League championship, is the No. 2 seed. The Comets, who are the defending champions, open the postseason at home against No. 7 Scranton (3-7) on Wednesday.<\/p>\n
No. 6 West Scranton (4-6) plays at No. 3 Wilkes-Barre Area (8-5), and No. 5 Wyoming Valley West (7-7) is at No. 4 Delaware Valley (8-7).<\/p>\n
The semifinals are May 19, and the championship game is May 21.<\/p>\n
In Class 2A, Crestwood (15-1) earned the No. 1 seed. The Comets will host the No. 8 seed, either Dallas (5-10) or Lackawanna Trail (5-10), when the quarterfinals begin Thursday. Both teams have matches Monday, with Dallas playing at Blue Ridge (11-6) and Lackawanna Trail at Tunkhannock (2-11).<\/p>\n
Holy Redeemer (16-2), last year\u2019s champion, hosts No. 7 Western Wayne (7-8); No. 3 Valley View (15-2) will host No. 6 Nanticoke Area (10-8); and No. 5 Blue Ridge (11-6) plays at No. 4 North Pocono (11-5).<\/p>\n
The semifinals are May 18 as a doubleheader at the site of the highest-seeded team, and the championship match is May 21.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Abington Heights girls and Scranton Prep boys finished as the Wyoming Valley Conference lacrosse champions, and are setting…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":177015,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[15],"tags":[305,178,180,179,726],"class_list":["post-188991","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\/188991","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=188991"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/188991\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/177015"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=188991"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=188991"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=188991"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}