Kaci Kranson scored a game-high 22 points and the University of Scranton women\u2019s basketball team pulled away in the fourth quarter to a 79-57 victory over Susquehanna University in a Landmark Conference women\u2019s basketball game Sunday afternoon at The Palestra in Philadelphia.<\/p>\n
Katie Gorski and Elizabeth Bennett added 14 points apiece, while Meghan Lamanna and Kaeli Romanowski both finished with 10 points for the Lady Royals (6-0 league, 13-0 overall), who are ranked No. 2 in NCAA Division III. Romanowski also had nine rebounds, three steals and two assists. Gorski grabbed six rebounds and Bennett had five boards.<\/p>\n
Scranton lead after three quarters, 57-47, but Susquehanna closed to within 59-54 two minutes into the fourth. However, that\u2019s when the Lady Royals put together an game-clinching 14-1 run.<\/p>\n
Kranson started it with a pair of free throws and Romanowski had a steal-and-layup. After Susquehanna hit a foul shot, Bennett hit a 3-pointer, then put back a missed shot. After another steal-and-layup by Romanowski, Lamanna capped the outburst with a 3-point play that gave the Lady Royals a 73-55 advantage with four minutes to play.<\/p>\n
Monroe CC 60, Lackawanna 42: At Scranton, Monroe Community College used a 26-3 run bridging the last three minutes of the third quarter and opening 5\u00bd minutes of the fourth to break a tie and pull away to a nonregion win over Lackawanna College at the Lackawanna College Student Union.<\/p>\n
Alania Ortiz led the Lady Falcons (4-10) with 16 points. Canyah Randle added seven points and 14 rebounds and Ali Johns totaled six points and 11 rebounds.<\/p>\n
Gloria Sylla paced Monroe (13-2) with 12 points and 17 rebounds.<\/p>\n
Men\u2019s basketball<\/p>\n
At Scranton, Monroe Community College held Lackawanna College scoreless for the final four-plus minutes to pull out a 65-60 nonregion victory Sunday afternoon at the Lackawanna College Student Union.<\/p>\n
David Popson hit a 3-pointer with 4:11 left to give Lackawanna a 60-58 lead. However, those would be the final points for the Falcons as they missed their last six shots.<\/p>\n
Nate Brazill had the final seven points for Monroe (18-3), which is ranked No. 9 in NJCAA Division II, and finished with 29 points for the Tribunes.<\/p>\n
Jaksa Pejovic led Lackawanna (8-7) with 20 points. Latrell Nash added 13 points and six assists, whule Noah Elias chipped in 11 points and six rebounds. Elijah Smith grabbed 10 rebounds.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Kaci Kranson scored a game-high 22 points and the University of Scranton women\u2019s basketball team pulled away in…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":48754,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[15],"tags":[2300,178,180,179,726],"class_list":{"0":"post-84276","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-scranton","8":"tag-college-sports","9":"tag-scranton","10":"tag-scranton-headlines","11":"tag-scranton-news","12":"tag-sports"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/84276","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=84276"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/84276\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/48754"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=84276"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=84276"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=84276"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}