30 years ago<\/p>\n
For the second consecutive year, Mike Brigante of Abington Heights was selected to the Pennsylvania Soccer Coaches Association All-State boys soccer team. Brigante scored 32 goals and added six assists to help the Comets go 17-2-1 and win the Wyoming Valley Conference regular-season title. \u2026 Damon Verton carried 34 times for 232 yards and Dave Elias added 140 yards and two touchdowns on 22 carries as Western Wayne beat Wyalusing, 21-7, in the District 4-12 Class AA semifinals. \u2026 Sean Fisher ran for a District 2-record 299 yards and two touchdowns as Valley View blanked Wallenpaupack, 34-0, in the Class AAA semifinals. \u2026 Corey Smith of Wallenpaupack was named boys Runner of the year, while Wallenpaupack\u2019s Lisa Roder was selected girls Runner of the Year on the Times-Tribune All-Region Cross Country teams.<\/p>\n
20 years ago<\/p>\n
Lackawanna Trail scored four times on its first six plays to roll to a 49-6 win over Mid Valley and claim its fourth straight District 2 Class A championship. Colin Dwyer ran for one touchdown and threw for another for the Lions and Josh Dixon finished with two rushing touchdowns. \u2026 Craig Chopko ran for 198 yards and two touchdowns as Lakeland shut out Wilkes-Barre Meyers, 25-0, in the District 2 Class AA semifinals. \u2026 Brendan Gatto (117) and Stephen Bieryla (101) each rushed for more than 100 yards and Mike Doran passed for 126 yards and two first-quarter touchdowns as Old Forge beat Cardinal Brennan, 43-14, in the Eastern Conference Class A semifinals. \u2026\u00a0A five-goal second period and Dany Sabourin\u2019s 28 saves lifted the Wilkes-Barre\/Scranton Penguins to a 6-0 road win over the Portland Pirates. It was the 200th victory in franchise history and gave the Penguins a 12-0-1-0 start to the season.<\/p>\n
10 years ago<\/p>\n
District 2 announced that it would host its girls and boys basketball championships at Mohegan Sun Arena. \u2026 Jacob Watts scored on a 1-yard sneak on fourth down in overtime to give Scranton its fifth straight win over rival West Scranton, 21-14, in the annual Battle for the Bell matchup. The game was a makeup from the originally scheduled contest in the middle of the season due to the teachers strike in the Scranton School District. \u2026 Pat Reese rans for 123 yards and two touchdowns on just three carries as Dunmore cruised past Northwest Area, 41-20, in the District 2 Class AA semifinals. \u2026 Making just his second career start at quarterback, Kevin Holmes went 10-for-10 passing for 161 yards and two touchdowns as Scranton Prep downed Dallas, 28-2, in the District 2 Class AAA semifinals. Holmes also intercepted a pass on defense.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"30 years ago For the second consecutive year, Mike Brigante of Abington Heights was selected to the Pennsylvania…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":29244,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[15],"tags":[178,180,179,726],"class_list":{"0":"post-29243","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-scranton","8":"tag-scranton","9":"tag-scranton-headlines","10":"tag-scranton-news","11":"tag-sports"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/29243","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=29243"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/29243\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/29244"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=29243"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=29243"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=29243"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}