Expand<\/a><\/p>\nLackawanna League wrestlers earned milestones during the holiday wrestling tournaments over the past few days, as Scranton\u2019s Drew Leonori, Wallenpaupack\u2019s Gio Lomonaco and Honesdale\u2019s Saige Olver reached 100 career victories.<\/p>\n
Leonori went 2-0 in the opening rounds of the Frank Wadas Memorial tournament to secure his 100th and 101st career victories Monday at Tunkhannock High School.<\/p>\n
The Scranton senior advanced to the 133-pound semifinals where he will face Lackawanna Trail\u2019s Riley Borruso on Tuesday.<\/p>\n
Leonori has a 101-31 career record, and is a two-time District 2 Class 3A bronze medalist and a 2025 Northeast Regional six-place finisher \u2014 one place from making the state tournament.<\/p>\n
Lomonaco (133) went 3-0 to advance to the semifinals of the Jim Thorpe Christmas Tournament on Monday at Jim Thorpe High School. He will face Wyalusing Valley Area\u2019s Cole Patrick on Tuesday.<\/p>\n
The Wallenpaupack senior and Times-Tribune All-Region wrestler is 101-38 in his career and captured a district title last season.<\/p>\n
Olver (124) went 4-2 to place fifth and reach her milestone Sunday at the Powerade tournament at Canon-McMillan High School. The Honesdale senior, two-time All-Region wrestler and 2024 Times-Tribune Wrestler of the Year is a two-time state medalist (third and eighth), a Central Regional champion and silver medalist and a two-time district champion.<\/p>\n
Bethlehem Holiday Classic<\/p>\n
Nathan Schuman placed third at 114 pounds to lead Honesdale to a 15th-place finish at the Bethlehem Holiday Classic at Bethlehem Liberty High School.<\/p>\n
Bobby MacDowell (285) placed fourth, Duke Martin (189) and Levi Landry (215) finished fifth and Justin Scanlan took eighth for the Hornets.<\/p>\n
Tommy Schechterly (172) secured fourth place to lead West Scranton to a 20th-place finish. Santino Aniska (121) and Connor Lagier (127) each finished sixth for the Invaders.<\/p>\n
Zion Colon (114) and Jeremiah Segal (189) each finished eighth as Delaware Valley placed 26th.<\/p>\n
Frank Wadas Memorial<\/p>\n
North Pocono\u2019s Antonio Cintron (145) advanced to the semifinals, as the Trojans are in seventh place.<\/p>\n
Montrose\u2019s Sawyer Brander (107) and Wyatt Steele (152) advanced to the semifinals, as the Meteors are in eighth place.<\/p>\n
Besides Leonori, Austin Gottstein (285) is in the semifinals for Scranton, which sits in 11th place.<\/p>\n
Lackawanna Trail\u2019s Cidney Schaffer (107), Matthew Shafer (114) and Riley Borruso (133) advanced to the semifinals, as the Lions are in 13th.<\/p>\n
Elk Lake\u2019s Ben Hillier (172), Colby Ruark (215), Nathaniel Thurman (285) and Ethan Smith (285) advanced to the semifinals, as the Warriors are in 14th.<\/p>\n
Jim Thorpe Christmas Tournament<\/p>\n
Wallenpaupack\u2019s Ayden Blaut (127), Gio Lomonaco (133), Tristan Braxton (160) and Gabe Caufield (172) advanced to the semifinals, as the Buckhorns are tied for first place after Day 1 of the Jim Thorpe Christmas Tournament at Jim Thorpe High School.<\/p>\n
Valley View\u2019s Tywone Giles (152) advanced to the semifinals, as the Cougars are tied for 15th.<\/p>\n
Girls Powerade<\/p>\n
Maddison Miller (142) placed fourth to lead Honesdale to a 19th-place finish at the Powerade tournament at Canon-McMillan on Sunday. Olver (124) placed fifth for the Lady Hornets.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Giovanni Lomonaco, Wallenpaupack Saige Olver, Honesdale Show Caption 1 of 2 Giovanni Lomonaco, Wallenpaupack Expand Lackawanna League wrestlers…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":73409,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[15],"tags":[305,178,180,179,726],"class_list":["post-73408","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\/73408","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=73408"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/73408\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/73409"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=73408"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=73408"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=73408"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}
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