{"id":271606,"date":"2026-08-25T01:18:08","date_gmt":"2026-08-25T01:18:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/271606\/"},"modified":"2026-08-25T01:18:08","modified_gmt":"2026-08-25T01:18:08","slug":"girls-tennis-holy-cross-edges-north-pocono-in-season-opener-scranton-times-tribune","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/271606\/","title":{"rendered":"GIRLS TENNIS: Holy Cross edges North Pocono in season opener \u2013 Scranton Times-Tribune"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Mollie Urban earned a win at No. 2 singles, Jennifer Azzarelli won at No. 3, and the doubles team of Jessica Azzarelli and Anna Polishan won to secure Holy Cross a 3-2 win over North Pocono in a Lackawanna League Division I girls tennis match on Monday.<\/p>\n<p>Urban defeated Cameron Forgione, 6-4, 4-6, 6-1, and freshman Jennifer Azzarelli defeated Kayli McHigh, 6-2, 6-3, in singles for the Lady Crusaders. Jessica Azzarelli and Polishan defeated Julia Shandra and Olivia Pionzio, 6-1, 6-2.<\/p>\n<p>For North Pocono, Anna Clementoni earned a three-set win over Madyson Mace, 6-2, 2-6, 6-3, at No. 1 singles. Bryn Palmer and Kyra Williams won at No. 2 doubles.<\/p>\n<p>Singles:\u00a0Clementoni (NP) over Mace, 6-2, 2-6, 6-3. Urban (HC) over Forgione, 6-4, 4-6, 6-1. Jen. Azzarelli (HC) over McHugh, 6-2, 6-3;\u00a0Doubles:\u00a0Jes. Azzarelli-Polishan (HC) over Shandra-Pionzio, 6-1, 6-2. Palmer-Williams (NP) over Villano-Zhang, 6-1, 6-1;\u00a0Records:\u00a0HC 1-0, NP 0-1.<\/p>\n<p>Scranton Prep 5, Wallenpaupack 0: Lily Lengyel, Adithi Velago and Hannah LaCoe had straight-set wins as the defending PIAA Class 2A champion opened with a sweep of Wallenpaupack in Division I.<\/p>\n<p>Singles:\u00a0Lengyel (SP) over Ezzo, 6-0, 6-0. Velaga (SP) over Lopes-Torres, 6-2, 6-1. LaCoe (SP) over Spritzler, 6-3, 6-0;\u00a0Doubles: Michel-DeNaples (SP) over Golsharizi-Jensen, 6-2, 6-1. James-Bovani (SP) over Madrigal-Hirzallah, 6-1, 6-2;\u00a0Records: SP 1-0, WAL 0-1.<\/p>\n<p>Abington Heights 5, Valley View:\u00a0Amishi Amit, Addie Stark and Katherine Arp earned wins in singles to lead the Lady Comets to a sweep in Division I.<\/p>\n<p>Singles: Amit (AH) over Kelly, 6-0, 6-1. Stark (AH) over Ritzco, 6-0, 6-0.\u00a0Arp (AH) over Cole, 6-0, 6-0;\u00a0Doubles:\u00a0Rosenstein-Rubner (AH) over O\u2019Shea-Anderson, 6-1, 6-0.\u00a0McVety-Rothwell (AH) over Minor-Wynn, 6-0, 6-2;\u00a0Records:\u00a0AH 1-0, VV 0-1.<\/p>\n<p>Montrose 5, Riverside 0:\u00a0Cara Evans, Anna Evans and Eislee Giannone had straight-set wins in singles to lead the Lady Meteors to a Division II win.<\/p>\n<p>Singles: C. Evans (MON) over Fanning, 6-0, 6-0. A. Evans (MON) over Reynolds, 6-0, 6-0. Giannone (MON) over Castillo, 6-2, 6-0;\u00a0Doubles: E. Tillotson-A. Tillotson (MON) over Telipski-Trescavage, 6-0, 6-0. Schell-Booth (MON) over Barnett-Fox, 6-1;\u00a0Records: MON 1-0, RIV 0-1.<\/p>\n<p>West Scranton 5, Dunmore 0: Chiara Pugliese, Marissa Shafer, and Alyssa Heffron earned straight-set wins to lead the Lady Invaders in a Division II match.<\/p>\n<p>Singles: Pugliese (WS) over Novak, 6-0, 6-0. Shafer (WS) over Cuchara, 6-0, 6-1. Heffron (WS) over Bonavaglia, 6-0, 6-0; Doubles: Armstrong-Deeley (WS) by forfeit. Carvalho-Bryson (WS) by forfeit;\u00a0Records: WS 1-0, DUN 0-1.<\/p>\n<p>Scranton 5 Western Wayne 0: Dean Edwards, Lucy Bergman, and Pal Patel won their singles matches in the Lady Knights\u2019 season-opening Division II win.<\/p>\n<p>Singles: Edwards (SCR) over Wertman, 6-0, 6-1. Bergman (SCR) over McClure, 6-2, 6-1. P. Patel (SCR) over Fischer, 6-4, 3-6, 10-4;\u00a0Doubles: Palar-Williams (SCR) over Spewak-Peraud, 6-2, 6-1. V. Patel-McDonnell (SCR) over Fox-Owens, 6-0, 2-6, 10-8;\u00a0Records:\u00a0SCR 1-0, WW 0-1.<\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Mollie Urban earned a win at No. 2 singles, Jennifer Azzarelli won at No. 3, and the doubles&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":271607,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[15],"tags":[305,178,180,179,726],"class_list":["post-271606","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\/271606","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=271606"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/271606\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/271607"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=271606"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=271606"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=271606"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}