Abington Heights can wrap up the Lackawanna League Division I championship Monday as the regular season is in its final week.<\/p>\n
On Monday, the Lady Comets (14-1 overall, 12-0 in division) play at Mountain View (6-10, 4-8) at 6 p.m. Abington Heights can clinch the title with a win and then finish the league season at home against North Pocono (13-3, 11-2).<\/p>\n
Abington Heights has 14 straight wins since losing the season opener to Crestwood, 3-2. The Lady Comets swept Mountain View in their first meeting.<\/p>\n
Alaina Krempasky leads Abington Heights with 133 kills, Hilde Temblador has 96 and Bella Carr has 78. Temblador also has 189 assists and 126 service points.<\/p>\n
Brielle Wentz leads the Lady Comets with 235 assists, and has 158 service points, 57 aces and 89 digs.<\/p>\n
Saloni Kishore has 91 service points, and Carr has 85.<\/p>\n
Karley Norton recorded her 500th career kill Saturday in a win over Elk Lake. She leads the Lady Eagles with 147 this season. Norton is also tied with Abigail Mitchell with 81 digs.<\/p>\n
Aubrey Sanders has 161 service points, 52 aces, 33 digs and 335 assists. Addison Tompkins has 80 kills.<\/p>\n
Also, Abington Heights is competing for playoff positioning in District 2 Class 5A. Berwick, the Wyoming Valley Conference leader, is in front with a 15-2 overall record and a .790 power rating. Dallas (16-1, .781) holds the second seed. The Lady Comets are third with a power rating of .749. North Pocono (13-3, .678) is fourth.<\/p>\n
The Class 5A playoffs start with the semifinals Oct. 29. The final is Nov. 3.<\/p>\n
Mountain View won three of its last four matches and is in third place in the District 2 Class 2A standings.<\/p>\n
Blue Ridge (13-5, .613) will be the No. 1 seed for the District 2 Class 2A playoffs. The Lady Raiders won three straight, including a 3-1 win over North Pocono, heading into their finale Monday at Dunmore.<\/p>\n
Dunmore (5-8, .437) is second in the Class 2A standings. Elk Lake (6-11, .407) is fourth; Susquehanna (5-12, .344) is fifth; and Lackawanna Trail (3-10, .324) is sixth.<\/p>\n
Quarterfinal matches in Class 2A start Oct. 26 at the home site of the higher-seeded team. The semifinals are Oct. 28, and the final is Nov. 4.<\/p>\n
Postseason glance<\/p>\n
All eight teams qualify for the District 2-4 Class 6A playoffs.<\/p>\n
Williamsport, the District 4 representative, plays Thursday at Altoona. The Millionaires lead the power-rating standings at 13-4 overall (.703).<\/p>\n
Delaware Valley (11-4, .684) plays a nonleague home match against North Pocono on Thursday.<\/p>\n
Hazleton Area (11-6, .639), Pittston Area (7-10, .492) and Wilkes-Barre Area (5-9, .468) finished their regular seasons.<\/p>\n
West Scranton is sixth (7-8, .450) and completes its regular season Tuesday against Division II champion Valley View.<\/p>\n
Wyoming Valley West (2-12, .324) is seventh, and Scranton (0-14, .258) is eighth, but has three games this week.<\/p>\n
In Class 4A, Wyoming Area (2-12, .341) will not play in the postseason.<\/p>\n
Crestwood (12-3, .731) holds the No. 1 seed, followed by Valley View (15-2, .704). Tunkhannock (7-7, .556) is third; Nanticoke Area (8-8, .554) is fourth and Forest City (0-13, .221) is fifth.<\/p>\n
Holy Redeemer (14-5, .667) is the No. 1 seed in the Class 3A standings. Mid Valley (11-4, .611) and Lakeland (11-4, .607) are in a race for the No. 2 seed. Mid Valley has two home matches remaining: Lackawanna Trail on Monday and Susquehanna on Tuesday.<\/p>\n
Montrose (8-5, .587) is fourth with a busy week ahead. The Lady Meteors play at home against Scranton on Tuesday, at Mountain View on Wednesday and at Scranton on Thursday.<\/p>\n
Lake-Lehman (10-8, .575) is fifth, and Western Wayne (2-15, .333) is sixth. Hanover Area (0-18, .255) will not participate in the playoffs.<\/p>\n
The Class 3A quarterfinals start Oct. 27. The semifinals are Oct. 29, and the final is Nov. 5.<\/p>\n
MMI Prep (9-11, .467) is the No. 1 seed for the District 2-4 Class 1A subregional. Sayre (7-9, .375) is second, Sugar Valley Rural Charter School (3-8, .259) is third, Northeast Bradford (2-15, .245) is fourth and Galeton (2-16, .204) is fifth.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Abington Heights can wrap up the Lackawanna League Division I championship Monday as the regular season is in…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":309911,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[15],"tags":[305,178,180,179,726],"class_list":["post-309910","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\/309910","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=309910"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/309910\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/309911"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=309910"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=309910"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=309910"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}