{"id":190029,"date":"2026-05-12T10:44:11","date_gmt":"2026-05-12T10:44:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/190029\/"},"modified":"2026-05-12T10:44:11","modified_gmt":"2026-05-12T10:44:11","slug":"abington-heights-defends-title-in-playoff-against-valley-view-scranton-times-tribune","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/190029\/","title":{"rendered":"Abington Heights defends title in playoff against Valley View \u2013 Scranton Times-Tribune"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Abington Heights earned a second straight Lackawanna League boys volleyball championship on Monday night, beating Valley View, 3-1 (27-25, 25-16, 14-25, 25-19) at North Pocono High School.<\/p>\n<p>In a playoff for the title after both finished the regular season at 9-1. Abington Heights handed Valley View earlier in the season.<\/p>\n<p>Chris Cummins had 20 digs and provided four aces. Ryan Horutz led the Comets\u2019 offense with 33 assists, six aces, and four blocks.<\/p>\n<p>Dan Berk led the offense, with 11 kills and two blocks. Ben Reese had eight kills.<\/p>\n<p>Valley View had 13 kills, four blocks, and four digs. Mike Shemonski had 10 kills and five digs, and Antonio Farina had 26 assists.<\/p>\n<p>Blue Ridge 3, Dallas 0: Landon Bishop had 14 kills and five digs, and Bryce Conklin contributed 16 digs for the Raiders, 25-16, 25-21, 25-14 in a nonleague win.<\/p>\n<p>Jacob Brown added eight kills and three blocks. Michael Rosa had three kills, and Riley Phillips.<\/p>\n<p>Tunkhannock 3, Lackawanna Trail 0: At Tunkhannock on Monday night, the Tigers beat Lackawanna Trail (25-19, 25-22, 25-18).<\/p>\n<p>For Tunkhannock, Rowan Hunter had 12 kills, 10 assists, and four blocks; Christian Stevens had six kills, Braydon Christopher had five kills, and 3 aces.<\/p>\n<p>Trevor Wert had 12 kills, four service points, seven digs;\u00a0 Holden Edwards had nine kills, and nine kills; Laubach had 26 assists with three digs.<\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Abington Heights earned a second straight Lackawanna League boys volleyball championship on Monday night, beating Valley View, 3-1&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":190030,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[15],"tags":[305,178,180,179,726],"class_list":["post-190029","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\/190029","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=190029"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/190029\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/190030"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=190029"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=190029"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=190029"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}