{"id":73150,"date":"2025-12-29T22:41:07","date_gmt":"2025-12-29T22:41:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/73150\/"},"modified":"2025-12-29T22:41:07","modified_gmt":"2025-12-29T22:41:07","slug":"scrantons-battaglia-scores-47-points-in-lynett-consolation-game-scranton-times-tribune","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/73150\/","title":{"rendered":"Scranton\u2019s Battaglia scores 47 points in Lynett consolation game \u2013 Scranton Times-Tribune"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Tony Battaglia scored 47 points and made 10 3-pointers to lead <a href=\"http:\/\/varsity.the570.com\/Scranton\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Scranton to a 73-51 win over Holy Cross in the third-place game<\/a> of the Lynett Memorial Boys Basketball Tournament on Monday at the Lackawanna College Student Union.<\/p>\n<p>Battaglia made 17 of 35 shots and went 10 of 22 on 3-pointers, while also handing out three assists for the Knights. His 47 points broke the school record of 43 points set in 2022 by Jason Shields against Wilkes-Barre Area. He also tied Shields\u2019 school record for 3-pointers in a game.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cComing into the game off the loss to Scranton Prep, we wanted to make a statement and build some momentum,\u201d said Battaglia, who said he was battling a headache. \u201cWe didn\u2019t want to lose two games in a row heading into our league game against Prep.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The guard, who also made the 200th 3-pointer of his career, had 11 points in the first quarter and 15 in the second. He scored all 12 of his team\u2019s points in the third and finished with nine points in the fourth.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe rim looked like an ocean to me,\u201d Battaglia said. \u201cI just got into a rhythm. I had no idea that I had that many points. I was just out there playing basketball.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Max DePietro added 11 points, Deondre Dickey had seven rebounds, four assists, and three steals, and Brady Hopkins had seven rebounds for Scranton (4-4).<\/p>\n<p>Finn Kennedy scored 11 points and Colin Farrell had 10 points to lead Holy Cross (4-5).<\/p>\n<p>Girls<\/p>\n<p>Chloe Mamera scored 19 points to lead <a href=\"http:\/\/varsity.the570.com\/Scranton_Prep\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Scranton Prep to a 53-22 win<\/a> and a third-place finish in the Lynett Memorial Girls Basketball Tournament.<\/p>\n<p>Eva Kaszuba added seven points and five rebounds, and Ava Fenton, Shannon Bestrycki and Carly Krzywiec each scored six points for Scranton Prep (5-3).<\/p>\n<p>Aniya Osgood led Holy Cross with eight points and four steals. Ava Schmidt and Mollie Urban scored seven points each for the Lady Crusaders (3-6).<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Tony Battaglia scored 47 points and made 10 3-pointers to lead Scranton to a 73-51 win over Holy&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":73151,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[15],"tags":[305,178,180,179,726],"class_list":{"0":"post-73150","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-scranton","8":"tag-high-school-sports","9":"tag-scranton","10":"tag-scranton-headlines","11":"tag-scranton-news","12":"tag-sports"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/73150","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=73150"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/73150\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/73151"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=73150"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=73150"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=73150"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}