{"id":83039,"date":"2026-01-10T05:01:07","date_gmt":"2026-01-10T05:01:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/83039\/"},"modified":"2026-01-10T05:01:07","modified_gmt":"2026-01-10T05:01:07","slug":"schimelfenig-leads-west-scranton-past-scranton-in-city-rivalry-game-scranton-times-tribune","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/83039\/","title":{"rendered":"Schimelfenig leads West Scranton past Scranton in City Rivalry game \u2013 Scranton Times-Tribune"},"content":{"rendered":"

Nate Schimelfenig scored 17 points and Seamus Wallace helped spark a third-quarter surge to lift West Scranton over No. 9 Scranton, 54-41<\/a>, on Friday night in a Lackawanna Division I boys basketball game.<\/p>\n

Wallace finished with 13 points, and he, Schimelfenig and Brian Fried combined for 16 points while making four 3-pointers, in a 21-point third quarter for the Invaders.<\/p>\n

Cayden Farr contributed 10 points for West Scranton (5-7, 2-2).<\/p>\n

Tony Battaglia scored 12 points and Justin Mayers had 10 for Scranton (4-7, 1-3).<\/p>\n

Abington Heights 55, North Pocono 36:\u00a0Jordan Shaffer scored 13 points to lead the sixth-ranked Comets to a Division I win<\/a>.<\/p>\n

Ben Reese contributed 10 points and Andrew Kettel had nine for Abington Heights (7-5, 4-0).<\/p>\n

Noah DeSantis scored nine points and Cole West had eight for North Pocono (3-9, 0-4).<\/p>\n

Delaware Valley 64, Wallenpaupack 59:\u00a0James Dabney and Trey Newton helped the seventh-ranked Warriors recover from a slow start to post a win in Division I<\/a>.<\/p>\n

Dabney led four players in double figures with 18 points, and Newton added 16 to lead Delaware Valley (9-3, 2-2). Sam Wood and Colin McGarvey each scored 12 points in the win.<\/p>\n

Nick VanBuskirk scored nine of his 20 points in the first quarter when Wallenpaupack built a 17-8 lead. JP Yeo added 18 points, which all came on 3-pointers for the Buckhorns (3-6, 0-3).<\/p>\n

Old Forge 50, Western Wayne 33: Cameron Parker scored 20 points to lead the fifth-ranked Blue Devils to a Division II win<\/a>.<\/p>\n

Ryan DeMarco added 15 points, and Cameron Krushnowski had 10 for Old Forge (9-2, 4-0).<\/p>\n

Omar Vargas scored 11 points to lead Western Wayne (2-8, 0-3).<\/p>\n

Riverside 77, Honesdale 47:\u00a0Nico Antoniacci scored 26 points and Brayden Rose added 19 as No. 1 Riverside bounced back from its first loss of the season to beat the Hornets in a Division II game<\/a>.<\/p>\n

Michael Schimelfenig contributed 12 points for the Vikings (10-1, 3-1).<\/p>\n

Gavin Briggs scored 17 of his 25 points in the second half, and Owen Pender had 11 points for Honesdale (6-6, 2-2).<\/p>\n

Holy Cross 59, Lakeland 43:\u00a0CJ Thompson scored 21 points to lead three Crusaders in double figures in a Division II<\/a>.<\/p>\n

Colin Farrell contributed 17 points while hitting five 3-pointers, and Colin Rittenbusch scored 15 points for Holy Cross (6-6, 2-2).<\/p>\n

Chase Rosenkrans scored 12 points and David Naniewicz added nine for Lakeland (5-7, 0-4).<\/p>\n

Susquehanna 50, Lackawanna Trail 46:\u00a0Griffin Fisk scored 21 points to lead the Sabers to a win in a battle of teams tied for first place in Division III<\/a>.<\/p>\n

Fisk helped Susquehanna hold off a rally by the Lions with 11 points in the second half. Mason Keyes contributed 13 points and Hudson Stengel had eight for the Sabers (9-2, 4-0).<\/p>\n

Lucas Filipek scored 11 points, Jimmy Phillips had eight of his 10 points in the third quarter, and Hayden Bluhm also scored 10 points for Lackawanna Trail (8-3, 3-1).<\/p>\n

Elk Lake 66, Mountain View 36: Chase Pond scored 17 points to lead the Warriors to a win that keeps them tied for first place in Division III with Susquehanna<\/a>.<\/p>\n

John Heitsman added 16 points and Connor Stephens finished with 14 for the balanced attack by Elk Lake (11-1, 4-0).<\/p>\n

Hudson Bain led Mountain View (3-8, 1-3) with 14 points.<\/p>\n

Blue Ridge 59, Montrose 56:\u00a0Paxton Pingarelli scored 26 points, including 18 in the first half, to lead the Raiders to the Division III win<\/a>.<\/p>\n

Landon Bishop drilled five 3-pointers for 15 points for Blue Ridge (4-6, 2-2).<\/p>\n

Evan McComb scored 13 points and Sawyer Brown added 12 for Montrose (4-8, 2-2).<\/p>\n

Carbondale Area 40, Forest City 30:\u00a0Cole Becchetti scored 12 points to lead the Chargers to a win in Division III<\/a>.<\/p>\n

Cameron Williams added 10 points and Francisco Roman had seven for Carbondale Area (2-10, 1-3).<\/p>\n

TJ Collins led Forest City (0-12, 0-4) with 16 points.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Nate Schimelfenig scored 17 points and Seamus Wallace helped spark a third-quarter surge to lift West Scranton over…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":54011,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[15],"tags":[305,178,180,179,726],"class_list":["post-83039","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\/83039","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=83039"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/83039\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/54011"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=83039"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=83039"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=83039"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}