{"id":89743,"date":"2026-01-17T23:17:07","date_gmt":"2026-01-17T23:17:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/89743\/"},"modified":"2026-01-17T23:17:07","modified_gmt":"2026-01-17T23:17:07","slug":"lackawanna-league-swimmers-shine-at-the-shartle-invitational-scranton-times-tribune","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/89743\/","title":{"rendered":"Lackawanna League swimmers shine at the Shartle Invitational \u2013 Scranton Times-Tribune"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Top swimmers turned in outstanding efforts at the Ernie Shartle Invitational at Tunkhannock High School on Saturday afternoon.<\/p>\n<p>Scranton Prep\u2019s Rebecca Oakes won the 100-yard butterfly and the 100 freestyle, and contributed to wins in the 200 medley relay and the 200 free relay in the girls meet.<\/p>\n<p>Scranton Prep teammate Eva Kaszuba set a meet record in the 100 breaststroke with a time of 1 minute, 6.12 seconds. Abington Heights\u2019 Hadley Pallman won the 200 free and the 100 back. Scranton Prep\u2019s Ella Schofield won the 200 individual medley. Elk Lake\u2019s Brynn Warriner won the 50 free. Hazleton Area\u2019s Lia Ochs won the 500 free.<\/p>\n<p>In the boys meet, Abington Heights\u2019 Jason Casper won the 500 free in a meet record time of 4:52.40, won the 100 fly, and was part of two meet-record setting relay teams. He joined Geoff Stanton, Derek Williams, and Charles Voytek to set a mark in the 200 medley relay with a time of 1:39.07. Casper, Stanton, Williams, and Judah Donnell established a meet record in the 200 free relay with a time of 1:29.23.<\/p>\n<p>Williams tied a meet record in the 50 free. He won the sprint in 21.83. Scranton Prep\u2019s Lukas Iannone set a meet record in the 100 back with a time of 53.21.<\/p>\n<p>West Scranton\u2019s Roy Ayala had wins in the 200 IM and the 100 breaststroke.\u00a0Dallas\u2019 Chase Kresge won the 200 free. Tunkhannock\u2019s Jaden Baltrusaitis won the 100 free.<\/p>\n<p>GIRLS RESULTS<\/p>\n<p>200 Medley Relay:\u00a0Scranton Prep (Sophia Galko, Eva Kaszuba, Rebecca Oakes, Ella Schofield) 1:51.57, Dallas, Athens, Elk Lake, Tunkhannock, Hazleton Area; 200 Free: Hadley Pallman (AH) 1:58.01, Macie Stauffer (DAL), Lia Ochs (HAZ), Hannah Kuhar (LL), Anna Millett (SP);\u00a0200 IM: Ella Schofield (SP) 2:14.12, Alexandra Johnson (NP), Lorelei Lucas (HAZ), Myla Kopa (SP), Kacey Johnson (AH), Kathleen Rodgers (HAZ);\u00a050 Free:\u00a0Brynn Warriner (EL) 25.50, Sophia Galko (SP), Evelyn Panek (ATH), Eva Kaszuba (SP), Olivia Thompson (ATH), Gianna Vachino (AH);\u00a0100 Fly: Rebecca Oakes (SP) 57.41, Locklynn Bienkowski (DAL), Alexandra Johnson (NP), Kaitlyn Keown (TUN), Maria-Lucia Priore (DAL); Chelsea Grosvenor (EL); 100 Free:\u00a0Rebecca Oakes (SP) 54.52, Brynn Warriner (EL), Julia Gavlick (DAL), Evelyn Panek (ATH), Olivia Thompson (ATH), Hailey Bond (LL);\u00a0500 Free:\u00a0Lia Ochs (HAZ) 5:26.32, Hannah Kuhar (LL), Annie Binnice (TUN), Alayna Stang (EL), McKenna Puterbaugh (EL), Lily Kash (HAZ);\u00a0200 Free Relay:\u00a0Scranton Prep (Eva Kaszuba, Sophia Galko, Ella Schofield, Rebecca Oakes) 1:41.30, Dallas, Athens, Abington Heights, Tunkhannock, Hazleton Area;\u00a0100 Back:\u00a0Hadley Pallman (AH) 1:01.70, Kaitlyn Keown (TUN), Macie Stauffer (DAL), Sophia Galko (SP), Maria-Lucia Priore (DAL), Chelsea Grosvenor (EL);\u00a0100 Breast: Eva Kaszuba (SP) 1:06.12 (meet record; old mark, 1:07.42, Madelyn Frey, Berwick, 2024); Ella Schofield (SP), Locklynn Bienkowski (DAL), Alexandra Johnson (NP), Elizabeth Denlinger (ATH), Miranda Anderson (TUN);\u00a0400 Free Relay: Hazleton Area (Lorelei Lucas, Kathleen Rodgers, Mariannyi Brache Minaya, Lia Ochs) 4:01.69, Elk Lake, Abington Heights, Scranton Prep, Athens, Hazleton Area.<\/p>\n<p>BOYS RESULTS<\/p>\n<p>200 Medley Relay: Abington Heights (Geoff Stanton, Derek Williams, Jason Casper, Charles Voytek) 1:39.07 (meet record; old mark, 1:40.26, Wyoming Seminary, 2024);\u00a0Tunkhannock, Scranton Prep, Tunkhannock B, Hazleton Area, West Scranton;\u00a0200 Free: Chase Kresge (DAL) 1:49.78, Connor Runquist (LL), Braydon Christopher (TUN), Logan Teeman (TUN), Nicholas Belfino (DAL), Isaiah Jones (EL); 200 IM: Roy Ayala (WS) 2:00.39, Geoff Stanton (AH), Jack Kashatus (LL), Andrew Morris (LL), Josiah Frey (LL), Cason Machey (HAZ);\u00a050 Free:\u00a0Derek Williams (AH) 21.83 (tied meet record; mark, 21.83, Maddoe Watkins, Dallas, 2022); Kyle Kozloski (TUN); Jaden Baltrusaitis (TUN), Eli Hicks (ATH), Aiden Gallagher (LL), Ben Kessler (SP);\u00a0100 Fly:\u00a0Jason Casper (AH) 51.97, Lukas Iannone (SP), Brayden Pettitt (ATH), Nico Wilk (DAL), Sawyer Valkenburg (DAL), Braydon Christopher (TUN);\u00a0100 Free:\u00a0Jaden Baltrusaitis (TUN) 48.64, Derek Williams (AH), Eli Hicks (ATH), Aiden Gallagher (LL), Chase Newhart (TUN), Nicholas Belfino (DAL);\u00a0500 Free: Jason Casper (AH) 4:52.40 (meet record; old mark, 4:53.93, Tommy Doran, Dallas, 2022); Connor Runquist (LL), Braydon Christopher (TUN), Chase Kresege (DAL), Isaiah Jones (EL), Charles Voytek (AH);\u00a0200 Free Relay: Abington Heights (Derek Williams, Geoff Stanton, Judah Donnelly, Jason Casper) 1:29.23 (meet record; old mark, 2:29.88, Tunkhannock, 2025); Lake-Lehman, Athens, Dallas, Tunkhannock, Scranton Prep;\u00a0100 Back: Lukas Iannone (SP) 53.21 (meet record; old mark, 53.62, Peter Kawash, Lakeland, 2020); Brayden Pettitt (ATH), Ben Kessler (SP), Geoff Stanton (AH), Aidan Mislevy (TUN), Nick Wilk (DAL);\u00a0100 Breast:\u00a0Roy Ayala (WS) 59.44, Kyle Kozloski (TUN), Ryan McGurk (LL), Noah Salters (TUN), Jordan Ayala (WS), Wellington Reyes (HAZ);\u00a0400 Free Relay: Tunkhannock (Kyle Kozloski, Braydon Christopher, Aidan Mislevy, Jaden Baltrusaitis) 3:18.37, Lake-Lehman, Dallas, Athens, Hazleton Area, West Scranton.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Top swimmers turned in outstanding efforts at the Ernie Shartle Invitational at Tunkhannock High School on Saturday afternoon.&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":89744,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[15],"tags":[305,178,180,179,726],"class_list":{"0":"post-89743","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-scranton","8":"tag-high-school-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\/89743","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=89743"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/89743\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/89744"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=89743"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=89743"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=89743"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}