{"id":306020,"date":"2026-10-13T21:52:20","date_gmt":"2026-10-13T21:52:20","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/306020\/"},"modified":"2026-10-13T21:52:20","modified_gmt":"2026-10-13T21:52:20","slug":"hs-roundup-riverside-boys-take-cross-country-duel-with-abington-heights-scranton-times-tribune","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/306020\/","title":{"rendered":"HS ROUNDUP: Riverside boys take cross country duel with Abington Heights \u2013 Scranton Times-Tribune"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Jack Davies and Marco Nardone finished 1-2 to help Riverside win three times, including a 24-31 victory over Abington Heights in a showdown of Lackawanna League boys cross country unbeatens Wednesday at McDade Park in Scranton.<\/p>\n<p>Davies covered the 3.11-mile course in 16:56.1 and Nardone followed one second behind. Connor Moore was fourth and Brady Higgins seventh for the Vikings, who also beat North Pocono and Valley View.<\/p>\n<p>Abington Heights, Valley View and North Pocono each had two wins. Joseph Grad was top finisher for the Comets in third. Michael Head led the Cougars in 11th and Gavin Best was 13th for the Trojans.<\/p>\n<p>Scores: Riverside 16, Valley View 42. Riverside 15, North Pocono 46. Riverside 24, Abington Heights 31. Valley View 15, Old Forge 47. Valley View 20, Dunmore 43. North Pocono 15, Old Forge 46. Abington Heights 15, Old Forge 50. North Pocono 20, Dunmore 43. Abington Heights 17, Dunmore 46; Records: RIV 16-0, AH 15-1, NP 12-4, VV 6-10, OF 6-10, DUN 4-12<\/p>\n<p>Top 15: Davies (RIV) 16:56.1, Nardone (RIV) 16:57.1, Grad (AH) 17:26.0, Moore (RIV) 17:31.3, Spatz (AH) 17:46.8, Sutton (AH) 17:49.0, Higgins (RIV) 17:51.4, LaRoche (DUN) 17:54.5, Scharle (AH) 17:56.8, Thomas (AH) 18:14.5, Head (VV) 18:17.3, Schield (RIV) 18:17.7, Best (NP) 18:24.1, Marsala (AH) 18:26.9, Courtright (VV) 18:31.0.<\/p>\n<p>\u2022 At Delaware Valley, Wallenpaupack placed its first five runners in the top nine to earn wins over Scranton Prep and Holy Cross in a Lackawanna League meet.<\/p>\n<p>A.J. Freeman was second, Dan Salinas third and Chase Predmore fourth for the Buckhorns. Seth Predmore followed in eighth and Jaden Jovanovic was ninth.<\/p>\n<p>Nick Michel won in 17:04.03 to help Scranton Prep get wins over Delaware Valley and Honesdale. Holy Cross also won twice with Elias Stabinski placing fifth for the Crusaders.<\/p>\n<p>Scores: Scranton Prep 24, Delaware Valley 31. Wallenpaupack 22, Scranton Prep 33. Scranton Prep 15, Honesdale 48. Holy Cross 22, Delaware Valley 33. Wallenpaupack 17, Holy Cross 38. Holy Cross 15, Honesdale 45; Records: WAL 14-2, HC 12-4, SP 9-7, DV 4-12, HON 2-14<\/p>\n<p>Top 15: Michel (SP) 17:04.03, Freeman (WAL) 17:16.14, Salinas (WAL) 17:22.92, C. Predmore (WAL) 17:31.24, Stabinski (HC) 17:39.27, Cohen (SP) 17:51.71, Haggerty (DV) 18:10.38, S. Predmore (WAL) 18:25.52, Jovanovic (WAL) 18:37.80, Sandrowicz (HC) 18:38.84, Sheerin (HC) 18:40.62, Sheils (HC) 18:52.45, Kameen (DV) 19:08.72, Dempsey (SP) 19:15.48, Jacobs (DV) 19:15.89.<\/p>\n<p>Girls cross country<\/p>\n<p>At Delaware Valley, Vella Byrne won by 16.07 seconds over Delaware Valley\u2019s Grace Holderith to lead Scranton Prep to three wins in a Lackawanna League girls cross country meet Wednesday.<\/p>\n<p>Aileana Connor took fourth for the Classics, who defeated Wallenpaupack, Honesdale and the host Lady Warriors.<\/p>\n<p>Scores: Scranton Prep 16, Delaware Valley 42. Scranton Prep 26, Wallenpaupack 29. Scranton Prep 16, Honesdale 42. Delaware Valley 25, Holy Cross 30. Wallenpaupack 15, Holy Cross 42. Honesdale 26, Holy Cross 31; Records: SP 15-1, WAL 13-3, HON 9-7, HC 7-9, DV 5-11<\/p>\n<p>Top 15: Byrne (SP) 18:05.36, Holderith (DV) 18:21.43, Brown (WAL) 18:55.64, Connor (SP) 19:07.20, Kilker (HON) 19:51.36, Fillebrown (WAL) 20:47.15, S. Schoenwetter (SP) 20:55.76, Olsommer (WAL) 21:28.26, Brandt (WAL) 21:43.52, Yeager (SP) 21:48.34, Schofield (SP) 21:52.54. Lojewski (WAL) 21:57.18, Voytek (SP) 22:12.39, Egan (SP) 22:14.00, E. Schoenwetter (SP) 22:45.81.<\/p>\n<p>\u2022 At McDade Park in Scranton, Sadie Loftus won in 19:31.2 to help lead Valley View to three victories over Dunmore, Riverside and Old Forge in the Lackawanna League.<\/p>\n<p>Abington Heights also had three wins to remain unbeaten. Marley Gilboy and Calli Gilboy finished second and third, respectively, for the Lady Comets. North Pocono had three wins as well. Top finisher for the Lady Trojans was Evolette Reinard in eighth place.<\/p>\n<p>Scores: Valley View 15, Riverside 50. North Pocono 15, Riverside 50. Abington Heights 15, Riverside 50. Valley View 27, Old Forge 29. Valley View 19, Dunmore 44, North Pocono 27, Old Forge 29, Abington Heights 17, Old Forge 43, North Pocono 20, Dunmore 43, Abington Heights 16, Dunmore 45; Records: AH 16-0, NP 12-4, VV 11-5, OF 8-8, DUN 3-13, RIV 0-16<\/p>\n<p>Top 15: Loftus (VV) 19:31.2, M. Gilboy (AH) 19:47.0, C. Gilboy (AH) 20:20.8, O\u2019Brien (DUN) 20:34.8, Lovecchio (AH) 20:50.6, Negvesky (OF) 20:52.7, Healey (AH) 20:54.7, Reinard (NP) 20:57.9, Williams (AH) 21:18.9, Bialkowski (OF) 21:25.2, M. O\u2019Donnell (NP) 21:42.2, Grady (AH) 21:45.1, S. O\u2019Donnell (NP) 21:48.0, Talarico (OF) 21:49.9, Caraballo (AH) 22:05.1.<\/p>\n<p>Girls volleyball<\/p>\n<p>Abigail Gelinger had 25 kills and 12 service points, leading Blue Ridge to a 3-1 (27-29, 25-17, 25-16, 25-21) win over North Pocono in a Lackawanna League Division I game.<\/p>\n<p>Lyndee Barbour contributed 17 kills and six digs, Mckenna Zick had 41 assists and eight digs and Payton Perrington had six digs for the Lady Raiders (6-5).<\/p>\n<p>Avarie Roscioli had 22 kills, 20 digs and six aces to lead North Pocono (8-2). Ashtynne DeLucy contributed 15 kills, Julia Black had 37 assists and 16 digs, Ryan Masters had 16 digs and Hailey Calkins had five blocks.<\/p>\n<p>Abington Heights 3, Dunmore 0: Brielle Wentz had 11 assists, four digs, and three kills, leading Abington Heights to a 25-15, 25-6, 25-15 win over Dunmore in Lackawanna Division I.<\/p>\n<p>Abington Heights improved to 11-0 in league play. Hilde Temblador added nine assists, four kills, and four aces and Bella Carr had 12 digs, six aces and five kills for the Lady Comets.<\/p>\n<p>Lanie Piepoli had nine digs and Katelyn Henry had four assists, three kills and two blocks for Dunmore (3-8). Michelle Nidoh added three kills, Madison Morgan had three kills and Kierstyn Yannone had five digs.<\/p>\n<p>Montrose 3, Western Wayne 2:\u00a0At Western Wayne, Sadie Jones had 12 kills and five blocks and Gracie Jones had 15 assists, leading the Lady Meteors to a 25-11, 20-25, 23-25, 25-11, 16-14 win in Division I.<\/p>\n<p>Kirsten Eschbach had 19 digs and Ava Bell had 14 service points for Montrose (7-2).<\/p>\n<p>Olivia Haines had 16 kills, 10 blocks and seven digs. Abbie Washine added 22 assists; Skyla McGuire had five kills and three blocks and Haley McGuire had five kills for Western Wayne (2-9).<\/p>\n<p>Mountain View 3, Scranton 1:\u00a0At Scranton, Addison Tompkins had 13 kills, seven service points and three aces and Aubrey Sanders had 32 assists and 22 service points in a 25-17, 22-25, 25-17, 25-22 win in Division I.<\/p>\n<p>Karley Norton had eight kills and eight service points, Abbie Mitchell added six kills and five service points and Mia Thomas had three kills and four digs for Mountain View (4-7).<\/p>\n<p>Mariangelys Torres Leon had 24 service points with six aces and 15 assists and Nakaira Quintana added eight kills and eight blocks and 25 service points for Scranton (0-9).<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Jack Davies and Marco Nardone finished 1-2 to help Riverside win three times, including a 24-31 victory over&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":306021,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[15],"tags":[305,178,180,179,726],"class_list":["post-306020","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\/306020","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=306020"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/306020\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/306021"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=306020"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=306020"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=306020"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}