30 years ago<\/p>\n
Quarterback Jeff Fitch threw a 16-yard touchdown pass to Joe Ralicke on fourth-and-6 with 2:59 left for the game\u2019s lone score as Dunmore defeated Mid Valley, 7-0, in the season opener. \u2026 Craig Pfaff ran 30 times for 174 yards, caught three passes for 99 yards and totaled three touchdowns to lead Honesdale past Wallenpaupack, 34-7, in its opener. \u2026 Jeff Ricketts ran for one touchdown and passed for another in the first quarter, then returned two interceptions for scores in the second quarter to power Valley View past Crestwood, 49-13. \u2026 The Lackawanna Soccer League debuted and Bishop O\u2019Hara blanked West Scranton, 5-0, as Scott Dodgson scored three goals off assists from Joe Spinelli. In other league openers, Scranton Prep beat Valley View, 4-1; Scranton shut out Dunmore, 8-0; Wallenpaupack beat Bishop Hannan, 4-1; and North Pocono edged Honesdale, 1-0. \u2026 Identical twin brothers Jim and Mike Stanco won club championships at different clubs. Jim Stanco defeated Paul Fruehan, 3 and 1, to win at Elmhurst Country Club, while Mike Stanco won on the first hole of sudden death over Al Skoritowski at Glen Oak Country Club.<\/p>\n
20 years ago<\/p>\n
It was quite a week for the Scranton\/Wilkes-Barre Red Barons. First, manager John Russell was named International League Manager of the Year after leading the team to its first North Division title since 2002. Then, pitcher Jeremy Cummings threw the first nine-inning no-hitter in team history, 5-0, against the Rochester Red Wings at Frontier Field in New York. He walked four and struck out nine. \u2026 Drew Babcanec\u2019s 10-yard touchdown run on Lakeland\u2019s first play of overtime and Spencer Clauss-Walton\u2019s extra point gave the Chiefs a 14-13 win over Valley View in the season opener. Kyle Passeri scored on a 10-yard run on the Cougars possession in OT, but Justin Virbitsky and Joe Lemoncelli combined to block the extra point. \u2026 Andrew Torch led Carbondale Area to a 20-16 opening win over Athens. He had 82 rushing yards, 118 receiving yards, completed a 30-yard pass, scored two touchdowns and had an interception. \u2026 Michael Olivieri sank a 30-foot birdie putt on the final hole of the front nine at Stone Hedge to give Abington Heights a 5-4 win over Scranton Prep in a Lackawanna Golf League Southern Division match. It was the Cavaliers\u2019 first division loss in seven years.<\/p>\n
10 years ago<\/p>\n
Ben Gamel of the Scranton\/Wilkes-Barre RailRiders was named International League Most Valuable Player, while Al Pedrique was chosen Manager of the Year. Gamel also was named to the league\u2019s postseason all-star team along with teammates Gary Sanchez at catcher, Donovan Solano at second base and Aaron Judge in the outfield. One day later, Gamel was traded by the Yankees to the Seattle Mariners for a pair of minor-league pitchers. \u2026 West Scranton forced six turnovers, including four fumbles and two interceptions by Austin Lipowitch, in a 41-10 victory over Wallenpaupack. Offensively, Tamon Brown ran 13 times for 152 yards and three touchdowns for the Invaders. \u2026 Jennifer Korty of Forest City won the 42nd annual Cliff Robbins Memorial Cross Country girls race, covering the 3.1-mile course at Misericordia\u2019s Letterkenny Fields in 19 minutes, 27 seconds. Hannah Perkins from Montrose was second in 20:10. \u2026 Rachael Tirjan scored four first-half goals as Wallenpaupack defeated North Pocono, 7-1, in the girls final of the Jamie Kotula Soccer Classic. In the boys final, Gio Vega\u2019s second goal lifted Holy Cross to a 2-1 win over Western Wayne.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"30 years ago Quarterback Jeff Fitch threw a 16-yard touchdown pass to Joe Ralicke on fourth-and-6 with 2:59…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":275585,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[15],"tags":[178,180,179,726],"class_list":["post-275584","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\/275584","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=275584"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/275584\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/275585"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=275584"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=275584"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=275584"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}