30 years ago<\/p>\n
Former Boston Red Sox manager Butch Hobson was tabbed as manager of the Scranton\/Wilkes-Barre Red Barons for the 1996 season. \u2026\u00a0Dunmore\u2019s Brian Forgione scored three touchdowns for the fifth straight week as the Bucks edged West Scranton, 22-15, in a Big 11 Football Conference game. Forgione finished with 133 yards on 30 carries. \u2026 Ed Weidow ran for 124 yards and two touchdowns to lead Scranton to a 32-6 win over Mid Valley in a nonleague football matchup. \u2026 With its defense forcing seven turnovers, the No. 11 Lackawanna Junior College football team beat a ranked opponent for the first time in its three-year history, 20-14, over No. 6 Middle Georgia College. Linebacker and Scranton graduate Chris Dippre had two interceptions and recovered a fumble for the Falcons, who improved to 7-0. \u2026\u00a0Marisa LaPorta became the seventh straight Scranton Prep player to win a District 2 tennis championship by defeating Leah Rubin of Wyoming Valley West, 6-0, 2-6, 6-4, in the final.<\/p>\n
20 years ago<\/p>\n
Lackawanna League champion Scranton Prep rolled to its third straight District 2 team golf title, 390-445, over Wyoming Valley Conference champion Dallas at Glenmaura National. Brendan Carney shot a 1-over-par 72 for the Cavaliers. Mike Gross added a 74 and Bill Ciccotti carded a 77. \u2026 Whitney Williams scored four goals, including the 100th of her career, as Mountain View beat Elk Lake, 8-2, in a Lackawanna League Northern Division girls soccer game. \u2026 Zach Lasavage ran for a school-record 339 yards and scored three touchdowns on 19 carries as Carbondale Area blanked Dunmore, 28-0, in a Lackawanna Football Conference Division II game. Lasavage broke the mark of 326 yards set by Jim Tierney in 1986. \u2026\u00a0 Michel Ouellet had two goals and one assist as the Wilkes-Barre\/Scranton Penguins beat the Bridgeport Sound Tigers, 8-3, to run their season-opening winning streak to seven games.<\/p>\n
10 years ago<\/p>\n
Goalie Tristan Jarry stopped 35 shots in his professional debut as the Wilkes-Barre\/Scranton Penguins handed the Bridgeport Sound Tigers their first loss of the season after a 5-0 start, 5-1. \u2026 Justin Hammert scored three second-half goals to rally Scranton Prep to a 3-1 win over Abington Heights and clinch the Lackawanna League Division I boys soccer title, the Cavaliers\u2019 first division crown since 2003. \u2026 Austin Cernek ran for four touchdowns and Dylan Kelly caught three passes for 91 yards and a touchdown and returned a kickoff 79 yards for a score as Delaware Valley outlasted Scranton, 52-33, in Lackawanna Football Conference Division I football game. \u2026 Mikkell Green ran for 301 yards and five touchdowns as Riverside beat Montrose, 51-20. Three of his TD runs went for 50 or more yards.<\/p>\n
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