30 years ago<\/p>\n
Dunmore\u2019s Harry Kirias and Riverside\u2019s Ben Thomas were recipients of the Hookey Reap Award, presented to the top offensive and defensive linemen in Lackawanna County. \u2026 Jen Nish scored a game-high 28 points, including two free throws with two seconds left in overtime, to give the University of Scranton women\u2019s basketball team a 76-75 win over King\u2019s College at Scandlon Gymnasium in Wilkes-Barre. \u2026 Rob Walton (119), Ken Cook (125) and Steve Leventhal (171) each recorded pins as Abington Heights defeated Honesdale, 33-28, in the Lackawanna Wrestling League opener. \u2026\u00a0 Mike Reno of Bishop O\u2019Hara scored his 1,000th career point on a 3-pointer with 1:40 remaining in the Bruins\u2019 67-56 loss to Bishop Hannan.<\/p>\n
20 years ago<\/p>\n
Lincoln Gabriel tied a Carbondale Area record by going 7 for 7 from 3-point range in an 80-51 win over Montrose. Gary DeRichie also accomplished the feat in December 1987 against Mid Valley. \u2026 Stephen Bennett from Lakeland and Frank Emmett of Abington Heights were winners of the Hookey Reap Award as top offensive and defensive linemen in Lackawanna County. \u2026 Marywood University\u2019s Tim Smallwood became the fifth Pacer to score 1,000 career points in a 92-64 loss to Alvernia College. \u2026 Jenn King scored a career-high 25 points and grabbed 11 rebounds to lead Riverside past Bishop Hannan, 63-50. The upset created a tie for the Lackawanna League Division II first-half title between Bishop Hannan and Dunmore.<\/p>\n
10 years ago<\/p>\n
Joe Kilhullen scored 15 points and Bobby Salitsky added 11 as Carbondale Area defeated Holy Cross, 53-46, snapping a 15-game losing streak to the Crusaders. \u2026 Charisse Mulherin and Natalie Wasilchak finished 1-2 in the 100-yard breaststroke to give Valley View the lead, and the Cougars went on to defeat Abington Heights, 94-91, for the first time in program history that began in 1994-95. \u2026 In a 69-42 win over Forest City, Kayla Agentowicz scored 27 points to become Lakeland girls basketball all-time leading scorer with 1,352 points, surpassing Lee Mosley Keller. \u2026 Scranton Prep swept the Hookey Reap Award for best linemen in Lackawanna County. Corey Christian was the offensive recipient and Thor Balavage took the defensive honor.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"30 years ago Dunmore\u2019s Harry Kirias and Riverside\u2019s Ben Thomas were recipients of the Hookey Reap Award, presented…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":83574,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[15],"tags":[178,180,179,726],"class_list":{"0":"post-83573","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-scranton","8":"tag-scranton","9":"tag-scranton-headlines","10":"tag-scranton-news","11":"tag-sports"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/83573","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=83573"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/83573\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/83574"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=83573"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=83573"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=83573"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}