30 years ago<\/p>\n
Jen Lewis scored on a penalty stroke with seven minutes remaining to lift Lackawanna Trail over Montrose in the District 12 field hockey championship game and give Lady Lions coach Sandy Spott her 100th victory. Goalie Toby Wilmet made 12 saves, including stopping two penalty strokes in the first half. Laura Fitzpatrick scored Trail\u2019s other goal three minutes into the second half to tie the game, 1-1. \u2026 Damon Verton scored four touchdowns and ran for 221 yards to become the school\u2019s first 2,000-yard rusher (2,013) as Western Wayne topped Montrose, 28-6, to grab a share of its first Suburban Conference title. It also gave the Wildcats the District 12 Class AA crown. \u2026 Following a 22-12 win over Lakeland, Nick Donato announced his resignation as North Pocono head football coach after 15 years and 111 wins. \u2026 At the PIAA Cross Country Championships at Penn State University, Corey Smith of Wallenpaupack finished second in the Class AAA boys race and teammate Matt Dunn was 10th, helping the Buckhorns place fourth in the team standings. Tom Zukoski of Scranton Prep finished 11th. In Class AAA girls, Lisa Roder took third. Rebecca Mack of Wilkes-Barre GAR won the Class AA girls title.<\/p>\n
20 years ago<\/p>\n
Austin Clark scored in overtime off a perfectly executed corner kick to give North Pocono a 2-1 win over Dallas in the District 2 Class AA boys soccer final at Scranton Memorial Stadium. \u2026 Delaware Valley raced to a three-goal lead in the first half on two scores by\u00a0Pat Smith and one by Keith Frischie, then withstood a Wyoming Valley West comeback bid in the second half to win the District 2 Class AAA boys soccer final, 3-2. It is the Warriors\u2019 first District 2 title and 13th district crown in school history. \u2026 John Russell was named manager of the Scranton\/Wilkes-Barre Red Barons, succeeding Gene Lamont. \u2026 Scranton Prep bunched its top five runners within 38 seconds of each other to total 138 points and win the Class AA boys title at the PIAA Cross Country Championships at Hersheypark Stadium\u2019s White Field. It was the Cavaliers\u2019 second straight state title and fifth in six years, but first under head coach Mike Ludka. Shamus McGuigan was top finisher for Scranton Prep in 28th place. Four area boys runners earned individual state medals: Lakeland\u2019s Mark Bucklaw (seventh), Kyle Pepson (24th) and Bishop O\u2019Hara\u2019s Mike May (16th) in Class AA and Wallenpaupack\u2019s Kevin Sives (14th) in Class AAA. \u2026 Mia Collarini\u2019s goal off an assist from Katie Mattise with 27 minutes left gave Valley View a 1-0 win over Lakeland in the District 2 Class AA girls soccer final.<\/p>\n
10 years ago<\/p>\n
Blue Ridge repeated as District 2 Class A girls volleyball champion with a 25-9, 25-19, 25-19 sweep of MMI Prep in the final. Megan Houlihan led the Lady Raiders with six kills and nine digs. \u2026 Delaware Valley captured its sixth straight District 2 Class AAA girls volleyball title with a 25-15, 25-12, 25-10 victory over Wyoming Valley West. Hannah Gallagher led the Lady Warriors with 12 kills. \u2026 Rhiannon Berghauser scored her third goal of the game with 27 seconds left in the first overtime to give Lakeland a 3-2 win over Mountain View in the District 2 Class A girls soccer final. \u2026 Shannon Vennie scored in the 93rd minute to lift Wallenpaupack to a 2-1 overtime victory over Williamsport in the District 2-4 Class AAA girls subregional championship game. \u2026 In just her second race back from a bout with mononucleosis, Scranton Prep\u2019s Erin Feeney finishes second in the Class AA girls race at the PIAA Cross Country Championships on the Hershey Parkview Course. Ally Rome from Dallas repeated as Class AA state champ and Katie Dammer of Abington Heights was seventh. Eight other Lackawanna League runners earned state medals: Lexi Walsh (8th) and Mackenzie Greenfield (23rd) of Holy Cross and Elk Lake\u2019s Katie Bennett (14th) and Justine Johns (19th) in Class A girls; Will Davies of Riverside (12th) and Matt Murray from Dunmore (14th) in Class A boys; North Pocono\u2019s Matthew Kravitz (third) and David Haines (23rd) in Class AA boys. Dominic Hockenbury of Lake-Lehman repeated as Class AA boys state champ and Dallas claimed the AA boys team title. \u2026 The Scranton Prep doubles team of Maansi Malhotra and Gabi Jakunek finished third at the PIAA Class AA Girls Tennis Championships.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"30 years ago Jen Lewis scored on a penalty stroke with seven minutes remaining to lift Lackawanna Trail…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":22264,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[15],"tags":[178,180,179,726],"class_list":{"0":"post-22263","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-scranton","8":"tag-scranton","9":"tag-scranton-headlines","10":"tag-scranton-news","11":"tag-sports"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22263","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=22263"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22263\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/22264"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=22263"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=22263"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=22263"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}