{"id":73371,"date":"2025-12-30T03:31:07","date_gmt":"2025-12-30T03:31:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/73371\/"},"modified":"2025-12-30T03:31:07","modified_gmt":"2025-12-30T03:31:07","slug":"scranton-wins-lynett-title-on-alers-shot-scranton-times-tribune","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/73371\/","title":{"rendered":"Scranton wins Lynett title on Alers\u2019 shot \u2013 Scranton Times-Tribune"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>SCRANTON \u2014\u00a0Jaelyn Alers had a rough shooting night, missing 14 of her first 16 shots.<\/p>\n<p>She never lost confidence, however, and when Scranton needed her, the junior came up clutch.<\/p>\n<p>Alers hit a 3-pointer with 10 seconds left to give the Lady Knights their first lead as they rallied for a 50-49 victory over Dunmore in the championship game of the 22nd Lynett Memorial Girls Basketball Tournament on Monday night at the Lackawanna College Student Union.<\/p>\n<p>Chrissy Jacklinski scored a game-high 24 points for Scranton (3-6), which overcame a 15-point deficit early in the second quarter to win its second Lynett title \u2014 the other came in 2023.<\/p>\n<p>Alers finished with nine points and Rhylee Bell had eight for the Lady Knights.<\/p>\n<p>Leena Conte led Dunmore (6-2) with 17 points. Michelle Nidoh added 11 and Amanda Dempsey totaled nine points, 12 rebounds and nine assists.<\/p>\n<p>Jacklinski was named the tournament Most Valuable Player. Alers and Dempsey were selected to the all-tournament team along with Chole Mamera of Scranton Prep and Ava Schmidt from Holy Cross.<\/p>\n<p>Scranton Prep defeated Holy Cross in the consolation game, 53-22.<\/p>\n<p>Check back later for more details.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"SCRANTON \u2014\u00a0Jaelyn Alers had a rough shooting night, missing 14 of her first 16 shots. She never lost&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":73372,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[15],"tags":[305,178,180,179,726],"class_list":["post-73371","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\/73371","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=73371"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/73371\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/73372"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=73371"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=73371"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=73371"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}