30 years ago<\/p>\n
Abington American won the District 17 Little League All-Star Tournament title with a 12-0 win in 3\u00bd innings over Abington National.\u00a0 Jon Walski fired a four-inning no-hitter with seven strikeouts. He also contributed a three-run home run. \u2026 Carbino Club completed a run through the losers\u2019 bracket to win the District 17 Senior Little League championship with a 16-3 victory over Lakeland.\u00a0 John Bzdick and winning pitcher Joe Canevari each had three hits. \u2026\u00a0 Jason Sarcinelli had a home run, double and four RBIs to help the Northeastern Pennsylvania Big League all-stars blank District 16 Wilkes-Barre in five innings, 13-0, to complete a two-game series sweep and qualify for the state tournament. \u2026 Rusty Wallace took the lead with 30 laps remaining and drove on to victory in the Miller 500 NASCAR Winston Cup Series race at Pocono Raceway.\u00a0 Ricky Rudd finished second and Dale Jarrett was third.<\/p>\n
20 years ago<\/p>\n
Abington Heights graduate Amber Jacobs scored a career-high 24 points to help the Minnesota Lynx beat the Chicago Sky, 90-82, in WNBA action. \u2026 Rookie Denny Hamlin started on the pole and led 151 of 200 laps to win the Pennsylvania 500 at Pocono Raceway, completing a sweep of the two NASCAR Nextel Cup races at the 2.5-mile triangular track in Long Pond. He is the sixth driver to take both races at Pocono in a season since the series started coming to the track twice in 1982. \u2026\u00a0 Winning pitcher Shawn Eiffert struck out 10 and helped his cause with three hits as Weston Park beat Pennridge, 10-2, to claim the Section 4 title and return to the Senior League baseball state tournament.\u00a0 Steve Marciano and Bobby Markowski added two hits apiece for Weston Park. \u2026\u00a0 Andrew Muckin cracked a three-run home run in the top of the sixth inning to lift Christy Mathewson to a 12-10 win over South Scranton and the District 17 10-11 baseball championship.<\/p>\n
10 years ago<\/p>\n
North Pocono\u2019s Tim Blaine caught four passes for 91 yards and one touchdown to help lead the City over the County, 35-8, in the 82nd Scranton Lions Club Dream Game.\u00a0 Quarterback Matt Gaul from West Scranton passed for 83 yards and two scores, while\u00a0Matt Kelly, also of North Pocono, returned an interception 85 yards for a touchdown. \u2026 District 11 captured the Region 5 Senior Legion All-Star Tournament title with a 9-4 win over Bradford County, Vince Cimini had two hits, Cory Miller doubled and Jordan Art and Pat Belardi each drove in two runs to back winning pitcher Ross Zhangi. \u2026\u00a0 The Scranton\/Wilkes-Barre RailRiders franchise a team record for runs in an inning by scoring 12 times in the top of the sixth in a 14-2 win at the Charlotte Knights. The RailRiders sent 16 batters to the plate and collected 11 hits in the inning.\u00a0 Mason Williams had a sacrifice fly, Ike Davis a two-run single, Tyler Austin, Donovan Solano and Jake Cave RBI singles and Pete Kozma a two-run single before Gary Sanchez capped the outburst with a grand slam. Scranton\/Wilkes-Barre also scored 12 runs, coincidentally at Charlotte, on Aug. 17, 1993.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"30 years ago Abington American won the District 17 Little League All-Star Tournament title with a 12-0 win…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":247067,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[15],"tags":[178,180,179,726],"class_list":["post-247066","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\/247066","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=247066"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/247066\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/247067"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=247066"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=247066"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=247066"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}