{"id":153816,"date":"2026-02-06T15:53:21","date_gmt":"2026-02-06T15:53:21","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/153816\/"},"modified":"2026-02-06T15:53:21","modified_gmt":"2026-02-06T15:53:21","slug":"dallas-knocks-off-comets-in-wvc-regular-season-finale-hazleton-standard-speaker","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/153816\/","title":{"rendered":"Dallas knocks off Comets in WVC regular-season finale \u2013 Hazleton Standard Speaker"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Pat Flanagan scored 14 points and Kael Berry finished with 13 to lead Dallas to a 47-38 win over Crestwood in a Wyoming Valley Conference Division 1 boys\u2019 basketball game on Thursday night in Dallas Twp.<\/p>\n<p>The Division 1 champion Mountaineers close the regular season with a 12-0 record. They will head to the WVC tournament to take on the No. 2 seed from Division 2 on Thursday at Wilkes-Barre Area at a time to be announced. Crestwood ends the regular season at 8-4, but qualifies for the WVC tournament and will play the No. 1 seed from Division 2, Wyoming Area, on Thursday at Wilkes-Barre Area at a time to be announced.<\/p>\n<p>Brady Mizzer scored six points for Dallas, while Joey Nocito, Tyce Mason and Chris Flanagan each scored four.<\/p>\n<p>Ayden Agapito led Crestwood with 14 points. Gio Barnia scored 13, and Miles Metz finished with six.<\/p>\n<p>MMI Prep 50, Lake-Lehman 38<\/p>\n<p>Jandel Figueroa led all scorers with 18 points and Nate Kringe had 15 to lead the host Preppers.<\/p>\n<p>Josef Doviciak added 10 points for the Preppers, who swept the season series from the Black Knights.<\/p>\n<p>Alex Smith led Lake-Lehman with 16 points, Robbie Wilson scored seven and Gavin Smigielski had five.<\/p>\n<p>Weatherly 57, Palmerton 54<\/p>\n<p>Corbin Wagner netted 21 points and Ian Mckeegan added 19 as the Wreckers ended their regular season with a non-league victory over visiting Palmerton,<\/p>\n<p>Weatherly (15-7) trailed, 41-36, after three quarters, but rallied behind Mckeegan\u2019s nine points and Wagner\u2019s seven in the fourth period.<\/p>\n<p>Cameron Pengelly topped rhe Blue Bombers with 19 points.<\/p>\n<p>The Wreckers next will be in action in the District 2-11 Class A Subregional Tournament against an opponent to be determined and at a site, date and time to be announced.<\/p>\n<p>Mahanoy Area 57, Tamaqua 51<\/p>\n<p>In Tamaqua, Cam Smith paced the Golden Bears with 20 points in their Schuylkill League Division I make-up game. Ryan Zilker and Nico Dicasimirro added 14 and 12, respectively, and Connor Bowman tossed in eight.<\/p>\n<p>The Blue Raiders\u2019 Gavin Edmonds led all scorers with 22 points. Teammate Jakin Edmonds contributed 16, including four three-point baskets.<\/p>\n<p>H.S. Girls\u2019 Basketball<br \/>\nWeatherly 36, Columbia-Montour Vo-Tech 25<\/p>\n<p>Kelly Reiner canned 14 points and Maci Kane had 10, including 6-of-8 free throws, to spark the Lady Wreckers\u2019 win.<\/p>\n<p>Clara Guyer showed the way for the Rams with nine points.<\/p>\n<p>Freshman Girls\u2019 Basketball<br \/>\nHazleton Area 46, Wilkes-Barre Area 13<\/p>\n<p>Ava Lenko and Ella Bartholomew each scored 15 points and Leila Walck also played well offensively for the Lady Cougars.<\/p>\n<p>Ella Sones, Lisnett Pena and Sonia Diaz led the locals on defense.<\/p>\n<p>H.S. Swimming<br \/>\nColts\u2019, Raiders split<br \/>\nBoys<\/p>\n<p>Andrew Metters and Michael Strucko both swam to two individual first-place finishes and were part of two winning relay teams, as the Colts took the boys\u2019 potion of the Schuylkill League meet, 59-56.<\/p>\n<p>Metters touched the wall first in the 50 and 100-yard freestyle. He joined Strucko, Reece Steibler and Ryan Metters for the winning 200 freestyle relay and was with James Gomez, Steibler and Strucko on the first-place 400-freestyle relay team.<\/p>\n<p>Strucko added individual firsts in the 200 free 100 backstroke.<\/p>\n<p>For the Blue Raiders, Aidan Elston led the way with a win in the 500 freestyle; Brandon Temarantz added a first in the 100 breaststroke. Thomas Graham and William Behun joined Elston for the winning medley relay.<\/p>\n<p>Girls<\/p>\n<p>Janna Brown (200 free, 100 free), Shayleee Gormely (200 IM, 100 butterfly) and Savannah Wilson (50 free, 100 breaststroke) were double winners for Tamaqua, which beat Marian, 105-30. Lyla Clemson chipped a win in the 500<\/p>\n<p>Relay winners included the 200-medley foursome of Kate Behun, Wilsnon, Audrey Nattress and Ava Jones; the 200-freestyle quartet of Brown, Matteo, Jones and Gormley; and 400 relay team of Behun, Brown, Wilson and Gormley.<\/p>\n<p>Marian\u2019s Lydia Strucko placed first in the 100 backstroke.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Pat Flanagan scored 14 points and Kael Berry finished with 13 to lead Dallas to a 47-38 win&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":153817,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[9014,102,104,103,2291,7630,7631,9015,154],"class_list":{"0":"post-153816","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-dallas","8":"tag-carbon-county","9":"tag-dallas","10":"tag-dallas-headlines","11":"tag-dallas-news","12":"tag-high-school-sports","13":"tag-luzerne-county","14":"tag-pennsylvania","15":"tag-schuylkill-county","16":"tag-sports"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/153816","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=153816"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/153816\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/153817"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=153816"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=153816"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=153816"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}