As the high school fall sports season is fast approaching, the intense heat of competition at the Riverfront Sports Complex summer basketball season winds down.<\/p>\n
On Tuesday night, local teams in the high school elite division will compete in a championship doubleheader at the West Olive Street location. The girls final is at 6:20 p.m. The LBs, a group of players from Dunmore, face the Lady Knights, the team from Scranton. The boys game follows at approximately 7:25 p.m. The Knights, also from Scranton, face the Crusaders, who play at Holy Cross during the scholastic season.<\/p>\n
This year\u2019s girls tournament started July 13 with play-in games. The Lady Warriors (Elk Lake) advanced by forfeit over the Lady Hawkeyes, and the Lady Patriots (Pittston Area) defeated the Lady Invaders (West Scranton), 54-14.<\/p>\n
In the quarterfinals, the LBs advanced via forfeit over the Lady Warriors, and the Cougars (Valley View) edged the Lady Vikes (Riverside), 33-31. The Lady Comets (Abington Heights) beat the Lady Patriots, 40-32, and the Lady Knights received a forfeit win over Wyalusing.<\/p>\n
The LBs reached the title game with a 46-45 win over the Cougars on a buzzer-beater by Michelle Nidoh. The Lady Knights advanced to the final with a 40-30 win over the Lady Comets.<\/p>\n
In addition to Nidoh, the LBs are led by twins Janessa and Janaya Martin. All three were key contributors to Dunmore\u2019s march to the District 2 Class 3A championship last winter.<\/p>\n
Rhylee Bell, Jaelyn Alers and Bianca Perez pace the Lady Knights.<\/p>\n
The boys tournament had 22 teams. There were six play-in games, followed by a round of 16, Elite Eight, Final Four and culminating in the final.<\/p>\n
Devil Dental defeated Buckhorns Basketball (Wallenpaupack), 47-44; Ignation Nation 2 edged AH Blue Crew JV, 47-45; Spartan Nation beat MMI Varsity, 50-29; Crestwood beat the Black Knights (Lake-Lehman), 64-23; NP Legion turned back HA Team A, 71-66; and Lakeland beat Nanticoke, 57-42, in the play-in games.<\/p>\n
The Vikings (Riverside), led by Nico Antoniacci and Brayden Rose, knocked out Devil Dental, 90-24; the AH Blue Crew varsity advanced with a 53-40 win over the Hornets (Honesdale); Valley AC (Valley View) beat Ignation Nation 2, 78-46, the Knights beat Spartan Nation, 55-26; the Crusaders beat Crestwood, 76-44; Dunmore beat Western Wayne, 53-36; NP Legion advanced with a 55-44 win over CA Chargers; and Ignation Nation beat Lakeland, 83-64.<\/p>\n
In the Elite Eight, the Vikings defeated the AH Blue Crew, 72-54, and the Knights beat Valley AC, 71-38, in the first half of the bracket. The Crusaders defeated Dunmore, 72-42, and NP Legion beat Ignation Nation, 64-55, in the other bracket of the tournament.<\/p>\n
The Crusaders reached the title game with an 81-68 win over NP Legion in the semifinals. The Knights upset the Vikings, 81-76, in the semifinals.<\/p>\n
CJ Thompson, Adam Badyrka, Jack Alpert and Colin Ritterbusch lead the Crusaders. The Knights\u2019 top players are Max DePietro, Jayden Mayers and Justin Mayers.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"As the high school fall sports season is fast approaching, the intense heat of competition at the Riverfront…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":253499,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[15],"tags":[305,178,180,179,726],"class_list":["post-253498","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\/253498","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=253498"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/253498\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/253499"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=253498"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=253498"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=253498"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}