30 years ago<\/p>\n
Scranton Prep\u2019s Will McPartland had 44 yards and one touchdown on nine carries and Dunmore\u2019s Sean Gallagher caught three passes for 61 yards and a score to help the City defeat the County, 14-7, in the 62nd Scranton Lions Club Dream Game at Lackawanna County Stadium. Darrick Goodrich of Lakeland had eight carries for 46 yards and a touchdown to lead the County. \u2026 Dave Staples fired a three-hit shutout with one walk and seven strikeouts to lead South Scranton past Honesdale, 7-0, in the deciding game of their best-of-3 District 11 American Legion baseball playoff series. Mark McDade homered and Scott O\u2019Malley had a two-run double to support Staples. The win advanced South Scranton to the Region Five tournament in Danville. \u2026 Dunmore also qualified for the Region Five tournament with a 13-2 triumph over West Scranton in the final game of its best-of-3 District 11 American Legion playoff series. Jeff Boniewicz allowed two hits in 6.1 innings for Dunmore, Tom Kelly had three hits and two RBIs and Scott Lombardi added two hits and two RBIs. \u2026 Northeast Stars 18-and-under team went 5-1 and won the second annual North American Sports Federation Fastpitch Softball World Series, defeating the Philadelphia Sting, 2-0, in the final of the 24-team event. Bishop O\u2019Hara pitcher Kristen Hricenak was 3-1 in the tournament and Valley View pitcher Lindsay Dempsey was 2-0. Hricenak and Abington Heights\u2019 Amanda Koldjeski each had nine hits in the tournament, while Michele Dreistadt of Riverside contributed seven hits.<\/p>\n
20 years ago<\/p>\n
Carbondale-Lakeland and Old Forge met in an elimination game in the Region Five American Legion baseball tournament at Artillery Park in Wilkes-Barre. Chris Coleman had three hits and four RBIs to lead Carbondale-Lakeland to a 15-8 victory. Mike Ciucolli and Steve Maro also had three hits each for the winners. Derek Gawel and Kyle McMyne both doubled for Old Forge. \u2026 Sarah Ross tossed a no-hitter with 10 strikeouts to advance Carbino Club to the Section 4 9-10 softball tournament final, 5-0, over Lehigh. Anna McElory had two hits, including an RBI double. Blayse Cholish and Kelly Mecca also had two hits. \u2026 Dalton Mecke and winning pitcher Pete Murazzi each had three hits to send Christy Mathewson to the Section 4 10-11 Little League baseball final with a 16-6 semifinal win over Plains. Josh Robinson and Vic Rosa chipped in two hits apiece and Marshall Kupinski doubled for Christy Mathewson. \u2026 Angel Chavez hit a solo inside-the-park home run in the bottom of the seventh inning and Jim Rushford led off the bottom of the ninth with a home run to give the Scranton\/Wilkes-Barre Red Barons a 2-1 victory over the Ottawa Lynx at Lackawanna County Stadium, extending their winning streak to seven.<\/p>\n
10 years ago<\/p>\n
Maranda Runco fired a four-inning no-hitter with nine strikeouts as Section 5 champion Archbald blanked Montoursville, 10-0, to advance to the winners\u2019 bracket final of the state 10-11 all-star softball tournament at Fairchance Little League. Runco also helped her cause with an RBI triple. Morgan McVicar went 3 for 3 for Archbald and Natalie Borosky had a double and two RBIs. \u2026 Winning pitcher Garrett Pietryka had three hits, including a grand slam, and seven RBIs to power Abington American to a 20-10 victory over Providence in its opener at the state 10-11 all-star baseball tournament. Colin Davis and Nico Bossi also had three hits each, including a home run, for Abington. \u2026 Eighteen-year-old William Byron led 44 of 60 laps to win the Pocono Mountains 150 NASCAR Camping World Truck Series race at Pocono Raceway. It was Byron\u2019s fifth victory, setting a series rookie-season record, breaking the previous mark of four set in 2000 by Kurt Busch. \u2026\u00a0Tim Hinton-Jim Haggerty Jr. won the championship of the Country Club of Scranton Member-Guest Tournament,\u00a0defeating Charles Dennis-Tyler Brewington in the final.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"30 years ago Scranton Prep\u2019s Will McPartland had 44 yards and one touchdown on nine carries and Dunmore\u2019s…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":252621,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[15],"tags":[178,180,179,726],"class_list":["post-252620","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\/252620","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=252620"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/252620\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/252621"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=252620"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=252620"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=252620"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}