{"id":304714,"date":"2026-10-11T23:36:22","date_gmt":"2026-10-11T23:36:22","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/304714\/"},"modified":"2026-10-11T23:36:22","modified_gmt":"2026-10-11T23:36:22","slug":"remember-when-scranton-times-tribune-47","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/304714\/","title":{"rendered":"REMEMBER WHEN \u2013 Scranton Times-Tribune"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>30 years ago<\/p>\n<p>Sean Fisher eclipsed 4,000 career yards rushing, as he ran for 167 yards and three touchdowns on 26 carries in Valley View\u2019s 42-13 victory over Honesdale. Fisher became the second back in Big 11 football history to reach the 4,000-yard plateau. At 4,005 yards rushing, he was 37 yards short of passing Abington Heights\u2019 Billy James for the career rushing record. Jeff Ricketts completed all eight of his passes for 173 yards and a touchdown, and had the game-turning 76-yard interception return. \u2026 Jeremy Rozina had 172 yards rushing and three touchdowns on 24 carries and ran in for a two-point conversion to lead Abington Heights to a 36-27 win over North Pocono. \u2026 Tim Charles had 99 yards rushing and two touchdowns on 15 carries, completed 4 of 5 passes for 109 yards and intercepted two passes to lead West Scranton to a 26-19 victory over Dunmore in a Big 11 football game. Chris Eiden added 109 yards rushing on 20 carries for the Invaders. \u2026 Jeff Katchmore ran for 165 yards and two touchdowns, as Carbondale Area rallied to beat Western Wayne, 18-7, in a Suburban Conference football game.<\/p>\n<p>20 years ago<\/p>\n<p>Kyle Passeri had 246 yards rushing and four touchdowns on 24 carries to lead Valley View to a 35-32 victory over Scranton.\u00a0Kyle Calachino completed 6 of 10 passes for 131 yards and a TD with an interception, and Dave Abdalla had four catches for 100 yards and a TD for the Cougars. Kawon Shell had 132 yards rushing and three TDs on 28 carries, and Dan Scherle completed 17 of 30 passes for 239 yards and two TDs with an interception for the Knights. \u2026 Craig Chopko had 138 yards rushing and 10 tackles to lead Lakeland to a 35-0 win over Dunmore. \u2026 C.J. Passeri ran for 121 yards and two scores on 12 carries and completed 6 of 8 passes for 126 yards and a TD with an interception in a 33-7 win over North Pocono. \u2026 Richard Fricke completed 6 of 14 passes for 185 yards passing and a TD with an interception, and had 78 yards rushing and two TDs on 12 carries to lead Lackawanna Trail to a 28-16 victory over Bishop O\u2019Hara. Josh Dixon added 127 yards rushing and a touchdown on 11 carries for the Lions. Sean McGowan had 139 yards rushing and a touchdown on 25 carries for the Bruins.<\/p>\n<p>10 years ago<\/p>\n<p>Joe Galenas carried seven times for 34 yards and a touchdown, and had seven tackles, three solo, in Dunmore\u2019s 47-3 win over Mid Valley in a Lackawanna Football Conference Division III game. Colin Holmes had 155 yards rushing and two TDs on 11 carries, and Kyle Lasher added 69 yards rushing and three TDs on six carries for the Bucks. \u2026 Sam Pittsman ran for 59 yards on 12 carries, made a team-high six tackles, had one interception and secured the game-clinching sack to lead Valley View to a 12-7 win over North Pocono in an LFC Division II game. \u2026 Tamon Brown ran for 187 yards and three TDs, including a 74-yarder, on 15 carries to lead West Scranton to a 40-6 victory over Honesdale in an LFC Division II game. DaShawn Minnick added four catches for 138 yards and two TDs for the Invaders. \u2026 Nick Sottile scored four TDs \u2014 two rushing, one passing and one 67-yard kickoff return \u2014 in Riverside\u2019s 48-8 victory over Holy Cross. \u2026 Ricky Morgan ran for 150 yards and three TDs and surpassed 1,000 yards rushing in Scranton Prep\u2019s 36-0 win over Western Wayne in an LFC Division II game.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"30 years ago Sean Fisher eclipsed 4,000 career yards rushing, as he ran for 167 yards and three&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":304715,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[15],"tags":[178,180,179,726],"class_list":["post-304714","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\/304714","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=304714"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/304714\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/304715"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=304714"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=304714"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=304714"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}