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HIGH SCHOOL GIRLS TENNIS
COLLEGE FOOTBALL
Seminary unable to pass Prep
King’s must navigate another miserly D
By TOM ROBINSON For The Times Leader
CLARKS SUMMIT – Weather forced the final two rounds of the District 2 Class 2A girls tennis team tournament to be spread over two days and four locations. Once the finalists gathered at Birchwood Racquet Club on Friday afternoon, Scranton Prep brought a quick end to the tournament with a 3-0 shutout of Wyoming Seminary. “It was almost a flawless performance,” Wyoming Seminary coach Mike Balutanski said. “Scranton Prep made very few errors and played very intelligent tennis.” The Classics, the unbeaten champions of Division 2 of the Lackawanna League, won the first set in all five matches and were ahead in the two matches that were halted once the championship was clinched. “We played very well (Friday),” Scranton Prep coach Kathleen McKenna said. “It was
a tough tournament for everybody with the stop and start because of weather. “The girls played well. They kept their composure.” Wyoming Seminary was locked into a tight semifinal match with Holy Redeemer when play was suspended Thursday. The Blue Knights picked up action on their home courts Friday and took control for a 3-0 victory over the Royals before traveling to Clarks Summit for the final. Scranton Prep, also playing at home, beat Valley View, 3-1, in the other semifinal. “When the rain came (Thursday), it didn’t appear that either team had the momentum,” Balutanski said. “It seemed the match could turn either way. “We had the lead in three of five matches, but it didn’t seem like a sure thing.” Madison Nardone had dropped the first three games Thursday and still trailed Holy Redeemer’s Emily Suchoski, 3-2,
bles sweep to go along with when play was suspended. Emily Walsh’s victory at No. 2 Nardone took four straight singles. games to start play Friday and Class 2A wound up winning the No. 3 District 2 Final Scranton Prep 3, Wyoming Seminary 0 singles match, 6-3, 6-3. Singles – Kendra Croker v. Nathalie Joan“When one player comes lanne, 6-2, 3-1, match halted; Emily Walsh d. Sheena Syal, 6-2, 6-2; Grace Reilly v. Madison back like that, it seems as Nardone, 6-3, 3-0. though it has a positive effect Doubles – Elizabeth Hyers-Emilia Jakubek d. Emma Path-Jane Henry, 6-0, 6-4; Annie Tressleron everyone,” Balutanski said. Mara Silvon d. Thoegan Coulter-Anita Ghosh, 6-1, No. 1 singles player Nathalie 6-3. District 2 Semifinals Joanlanne, the other player Wyoming Seminary 3, Holy Redeemer 0 Singles – Nathalie Joanlanne v. Fallyn Boich, who trailed at the time of sus1-6, 6-0, 4-1, match halted; Sheena Syal d. Nellie pension, rallied to move in front Chmil, 6-3, 6-3; Madison Nardone d. Emily Suchocki, 6-3, 6-3. of Fallyn Boich, 1-6, 6-0, 4-1. Doubles – Emma Path-Jane Henry v. Allison Wyoming Seminary clinched Muth-Shaina Daugherty, 6-2, 5-7, 2-1, match halted; Alaina Schukraft-Anita Ghosh d. Beth the win when Sheena Syal, at Chmil-Trish Harenza, 6-1, 6-3. No. 2 singles, and Alaina Scranton Prep 3, Valley View 1 Singles – Kendra Croker (SP) d. Jessica Schukraft-Anita Ghosh, at secLochie, 6-0, 6-0; Emily Walsh (SP) d. Kaitlin Barno, 6-0, 6-1; Grace Reilly (SP) d. Amber ond doubles, extended their Jadus, 6-1, 6-3. leads and closed out victories. Doubles – Liz Aniska-Joelle Kaszuba (VV) v. Emma Path-Jane Henry were Elizabeth Hyers-Emilia Jakubek, 7-5, 4-6, 2-0, match halted; Carly Young-Brittney Mecca (VV) d. also ahead for the Blue Knights Annie Tressler-Mara Silvon, 6-3, 6-0. Class 3A at first doubles when the match District 2-4 Final ended. Abington Heights 3, Williamsport 1 Singles – Taquoia Lee (W) d. Courtney Wyoming Seminary never Ostrowski, 6-1, 6-1; Alexa Abdalla (AH) v. Maggie Manchester, 6-3, 0-3, match halted; Tyra Aballa had anything more than a one(AH) d. Trisha Synoracki, 6-0, 6-0. game lead – and that was early Doubles – Allie Pusateri-Alyssa Laubham (AH) d. Oliviz-Kuzio-Diana Valyeyeva, 6-0, 7-5; Liz – in any game during the final. Archibald (AH)-Mary Chuff d. Livia Nash-Canisha Scranton Prep clinched the Belle, 6-1, 6-0. title when it locked up a dou-
COLLEGE FOOTBALL
Orange peels off rout of West Virginia
proval with thunderous cheers as third-year head coach Doug SYRACUSE, N.Y. — Ryan Nas- Marrone enjoyed the most sigsib threw three touchdown pas- nificant win of his brief tenure. ses to tight end Nick Provo, Dorian Graham returned a kickoff 98 Louisville 16, Rutgers 14 LOUISVILLE, Ky. — Chris yards for another score, and Syracuse stunned No. 11 West Vir- Philpott tied a school record ginia 49-23 on Friday night with with a 52-yard field goal, and a spirited effort on both sides of Teddy Bridgewater threw a touchdown pass in the third the ball. Syracuse (5-2, 1-1 Big East) quarter as Louisville beat Rutghadn’t beaten West Virginia (5-2, ers 16-14 Friday night, snapping 1-1) in the Carrier Dome in a dec- a three-game skid. Louisville (3-4,1-1Big East) alade, and the Orange played a near flawless game to break the so capped a week in which coach streak just as they did last year in Charlie Strong signed a new cona 19-14 upset of the Mountain- tract. The Cardinals picked off eers in Morgantown. That victo- three passes, ending Rutgers’ ry stopped an eight-game losing first two drives and Dexter Heystreak to West Virginia, and this man picked off Gary Nova with one was even more impressive. 1:41 left to preserve the victory. Jeremy Wright ran for a careerSyracuse hadn’t scored that many points in the series since a high 108 yards on just 11 carries, AP PHOTO 45-0 win in 1960, and a Carrier the first Cardinals running back Dome crowd of 45,265, the large- to top 100 yards this season. Do- Syracuse’s Nick Provo (80) celebrates after catching a TD pass st in three years, roared its ap- minique Brown also ran for a TD. on Friday against West Virginia in Syracuse, N.Y. By JOHN KEKIS AP Sports Writer
NHL
Sharks skate to shootout victory over Devils The Associated Press
NEWARK, N.J. — Michal Handzus and Ryane Clowe scored shootout goals and the San Jose Sharks celebrated
H.S. ROUNDUP
Tigers qualify for district tourney LEHMAN TWP. -- Tunkhannock defeated Scranton 4-1 in high school boys soccer play Friday at Lake-Lehman behind three scores from Ryan Karnopp. The victory allows the Tigers to advance to the District 2 Class 3A tournament next week. Contributing to the win was Brian Ly with a score, while Jacob Hughes and Aiden Cronin each had two assists. For Scranton, Jaime Fernandes scored its only goal, with the assist from Zeke Larson.
Tunkhannock ........................................2 2 0 0 — 0 Scranton ................................................. 0 1 0 0 — 0 First half: 1. TUNK, Ryan Karnopp (Jacob Hughes), 13:00; 2. Karnopp (Hughes), 33:00 Second half: 3. TUNK, Brian Ly (Aiden Cronin), 45:00; 4. Karnopp (Cronin) 63:00; 5. SCR, Jaime Fernandes (Zeke Larson), 66:00 Shots: TUNK 11, SCR 7; Saves: TUNK 4 (Zack Daniels), SCR 4 (Tim Davis); Corners: TUNK 4, SCR 2
Field hockey GAR 3, Berwick 0
Brea Seabrook notched two scores to lead GAR to a shutout. Jordan Ligouri contributed a goal and Tara Kolativa had an assist for GAR.
Berwick ........................................................... 0 0 — 0 GAR................................................................. 2 1 — 3 First half: 1. Brea Seabrook (Tara Kolativa), 12:01; 2. Jordan Ligouri, 5:06 Second half: 3. Seabrook, 8:57 Shots: BER 2, GAR 7; Saves: BER 4 (Lizzie Dyer), GAR 2 (Elissa Domzalski); Corners: BER 7, GAR 8.
captain Joe Thornton’s 1,000th NHL game with a 4-3 victory over the New Jersey Devils on Friday night. Thornton had a goal and set up Joe Pavelski’s tying tally with 32.4 seconds left in regulation to help the Sharks snap a three-game losing streak and end the Devils’ three-game winning streak. Clowe also scored in regulation for San Jose. Zach Parise scored on a second-period penalty shot, and Patrik Elias and David Clarkson had the other goals for New Jersey, which got a 38save performance from Johan Hedberg. Ilya Kovalchuk put the Devils ahead in the shootout, beating Antii Niemi with a slick backhander on the first try. After Pavelski missed the net with his chance, Niemi stopped Parise’s backhander, which was
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after a 1-yard TD run by Marc Romanczyk. The Dawgs drove right down the field after that score, going 63 yards on just four plays with Freeman’s 10-yard TD run giving his team a 35-31 lead. The Patriots had an opportunity on their next drive, but Romanczyk coughed up the ball for the first time this season and Berwick’s Adam Harrison recovered. That helped the Dawgs put the game away, with Freeman carrying three times for 40 yards, including a 32-yard score to extend
the same type of shot the New Jersey captain used on the penalty shot.
stopped 28 shots.
Red Wings 5, Blue Jackets 2 DETROIT — Johan Franzen scored two power-play goals and added an assist, and Valtteri Filppula had a goal and three assists to help Detroit remain unbeaten with a victory over Columbus. Detroit (5-0-0) and the Washington Capitals (6-0-0) — who play the Red Wings in Washington on Saturday night — are the NHL’s only two unbeaten teams. Columbus (0-6-1) is the league’s only winless squad. Nicklas Lidstrom had a goal and an assist for Detroit, Pavel Datsyuk also scored, Tomas Holmstrom added two assists, and Jimmy Howard made 32 saves. Derick Brassard and Aaron Johnson scored for the Blue Jackets and Steve Mason
Blues 3, Hurricanes 2, OT ST. LOUIS — Matt D’Agostini scored at 3:58 of overtime to give St. Louis a comeback victory over Carolina. Jason Arnott and David Backes scored in regulation, and Brian Elliott made 27 saves for St. Louis. In overtime after the Blues killed a penalty, Vladimir Sobotka won a faceoff, got the puck back from Pietrangelo and fed D’Agostini in the slot for a redirection past goalie Cam Ward. Brandon Sutter had a goal and an assist for Carolina, Jay Harrison also scored, and Ward stopped 40 shots. The Blues snapped a twogame losing streak and ended the Hurricanes’ winning streak at three.
the lead to 42-31 with 2:39 remaining. “He’s beating himself right now, but he’s tough,” Patriots coach Mike Barrett said of Romanczyk. “But he’s an emotional kid. He’s playing with emotion and things are going to happen. He’s a reason we were in the situation we were in.” Berwick opened the scoring in the first quarter driving 68 yards on seven plays, capped by Freeman’s first score, a 5-yard dive for a 7-0 lead at the 9:14 mark. The Dawgs had a similar drive in the third quarter after the Patriots were forced to punt on their first drive after halftime. They went 78 yards on 15 plays, taking nearly seven minutes off the clock.
“That’s pretty big because that’s pretty demoralizing for a team,” Freeman said. “With the clock going down, and a team going down and scoring.” But Pittston Area wasn’t going down easily, scoring on its first play from scrimmage when quarterback Anthony Schwab hooked up with Jordan Houseman for a 71yard strike on a fly pattern to even the score at 7. In the first half, Houseman totaled three catches for 114 yards and two touchdowns, but was held to just one reception for 22 yards in the second half. Part of that was because Campbell zoned in on the junior and played at least three different defenses to stop him, which forced
Delaware Valley is ranked eighth in the country in total defense coming into today. By DAVE ROSENGRANT drosengrant@timesleader.com
When it last stepped on the field two weeks ago, King’s faced a stiff defense in Lycoming. Today, the Monarchs travel to face another top defense in threetime defending MAC champion Delaware Valley. Like the Warriors, the Aggies are ranked nationally in total defense. While Lyco is first in the country, DelVal ranks eighth, yielding 229.7 yards per game. But the Monarchs (1-4, 1-3 MAC) had a bye after the loss to Lycoming, which means extra time to prepare for DV (7-0, 5-0). The squad lucked out having the bye at the same time as the school’s fall break to get away from things and regroup. The team practiced three times last week during the breather to work on fundamentals. “Their defense is pretty good. They bounce around and try to confuse you,” King’s coach Jeff Knarr said about the Aggies. “That’s what is carrying them right now. Lycoming is statistically better, but DelVal is giving up just (10 points per game).” The Aggies have been winning games with their defense. Although they have many returning starters on offense, the scoring group is rather young. With the exception of blowout wins over FDUFlorham and Stevenson by a combined score of 108-20, Delaware Valley has been in tight games this season with a margin of victory in four wins being a total of 18 points. That may be something King’s can take advantage of having experienced linebackers in juniors Ryan Cordingly and Ryan Kelly, who have combined for 68 tackles this season. The defensive line for the Mon-
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ing one of a 43-yard run. “It feels great,” Cwalina said. “I don’t need the credit. It feels awesome.” The line allowed the skill players to pile up 413 yards in the first half. “I think our guys up front on both sides of the ball are a little tired of listening each week that they’re small and they’re undersized, they’re going to get outphysicaled and outmuscled at the line of scrimmage,” Valley West coach Pat Keating said. “I know they came out with a chip on their shoulder and wanted to establish themselves on both sides of the ball.” Bunch established the tone for the Valley West defense on the first play from scrimmage. He slanted in from his outside linebacker position, blindsided Crestwood quarterback Nick Aigeldinger and forced a fumble. Crestwood (6-2) recovered the fumble, but never recovered from the running of Bunch and Lewis. Lewis finished with a season-low 88 yards as he and the rest of the starters watched the second half from the sideline. Crestwood was playing its second game in five days, having upset Dallas 7-6 on Monday. And Schwab (12-for-19, 237 yards) to throw an interception in the second quarter. The Patriots focused on running a little more and it worked well as Romanczyk ran for 102 yards on 17 carries and a touchdown. “Obviously, one-on-one, we had trouble stopping him and we had to change coverages,” Campbell noted. Jared Pierce added 87 rushing yards and a pair of touchdowns for Berwick. Berwick 42, Pittston Area 31 Pittston Area ........................ 7 14 0 10 — 31 Berwick ................................. 7 14 7 14 — 42 First Quarter BER -- Freeman – 5 run (Oliver kick), 9:14 PA – Houseman 71 pass from Schwab (Musto kick), 8:57 Second Quarter PA – Schwab 1 run (Musto kick), 11:14
K I N G ’ S AT D E L . VA L L E Y When: 1 p.m. today at James Work Memorial Stadium, Doylestown Records: King’s (1-4, 1-3 MAC); Delaware Valley (7-0, 5-0) Last meeting: In 2010, the Aggies smacked the Monarchs 51-7. Matchup to watch: The King’s offensive line has been steadily progressing this season. Today it sees a DV front that racked up five sacks and allowed only 82 rushing yards last week to Albright. Noteworthy: King’s had a sixgame win streak against DelVal from 1998-2003, but now is in the midst of a seven-game skid.
archs has also been seeing some standout efforts recently with defensive end Jake Lehnowsky, a Crestwood grad, coming off a twosack performance against Lycoming. “Hopefully our defense can do some things to control their offenseandnotgiveupthebigplays,” Knarr noted. “Then if we can get a turnover or make a break, something to put our offense in good field position it’s going to help us. “They know they have the challenge in that DelVal is good, but we match up better defensively with their offense.” King’s is expected to be near full strength this afternoon with quarterback Joe Kirchon (805 yards, 4 TDs, 3 interceptions) taking the snaps coming back from an injury. Tailback Eric Ofcharsky, who battled an injury missing some time, is also expected to see action sharing duties with freshman Kyle McGrath, a top recruit for the team. Coming up: The annual Mayor’s Cup game against Wilkes is on the docket next week at McCarthy Stadium. while Valley West had a lot to do with the poor performance, the Comets seemed a bit worn down at times. “It was a little bit of both,” Crestwood coach Greg Myers said. “Our kids were sluggish tonight, but at the same time we played a very good football team with one the best players in the eastern half of the state (Lewis). Definitely, the combination of the two didn’t help. We were a couple steps behind them.”
Wyoming Valley West 54, Crestwood 20 Crestwood.......................... 0 0 7 13 — 20 Wyoming Valley West...... 14 28 6 6 — 54 First Quarter WVW – Lewis 4 run (kick blocked), 8:02 WVW – Lewis 43 run (Lewis run), 3:14 Second Quarter WVW – Lewis 1 run (Singer kick), 11:57 WVW – Bunch 3 run (Singer kick), 8:00 WVW – Bunch 67 run (Singer kick), 2:19 WVW – Simms 39 pass from Lewis (Singer kick), 1:35 Third Quarter CRE – Survilla 6 run (Coffin kick), 4:29 WVW – Bolling 27 run (run failed), 1:51 Fourth Quarter CRE – Callaghan 42 run (Coffin kick), 11:24 WVW – Baur 1 run (kick blocked), 8:25 CRE – J.Popson 2 run (run failed), 0:07 Team Statistics Crest WVW First downs ................................ 14 15 Rushes-yards............................ 53-229 26-395 Passing ...................................... 67 112 Total Yards ................................ 296 507 Comp-Att-Int.............................. 5-10-0 4-6-0 Sacked-Yards Lost................... 2-10 0-0 Punts-Avg. ................................. 5-29.8 1-28 Fumbles-Lost ............................ 0-0 0-0 Penalties-Yards ........................ 1-5 3-10 INDIVIDUAL STATISTICS RUSHING – Crestwood, N.Aigeldinger 13-23, Pickett 6-15, Survilla 4-18, Powell 4-29, R.Legg 1048, J.Popson 3-6, Callaghan 6-59, Cole 4-14, M.Legg 2-18, F.Aigeldinger 1-4, team 1-(minus-1). WVW, Lewis 9-88, Bunch 6-213, Baur 7-69, Bolling 3-19, Yashinski 1-6. PASSING – Crestwood, N.Aigeldinger 3-5-0-9, Powell 2-3-0-38, M.Legg 0-2-0-0. WVW, Lewis 4-50-112, Baur 0-1-0-0. RECEIVING –Crestwood, Kishel 1-4, Pickett 1(minus-1), Survilla 1-6, Ashford 2-38. WVW, Williams 2-48, Coleman 1-25, Simms 1-39. INTS – none. MISSED FGS – none.
BER – Pierce 1 run (Oliver kick), 7:24 PA – Houseman 13 pass from Schwab (Musto kick), 4:38 BER – Pierce 5 run (Oliver kick), 1:42 Third Quarter Freeman – 2 run (Oliver kick), 1:21 Fourth Quarter PA – Musto 24 field goal, 8:34 PA – Romanczyk 1 run (Musto kick), 6:31 BER – Freeman 10 run (Oliver kick), 4:57 BER – Freeman 32 run (Oliver kick), 2:39 Team Statistics Pitt Area Berwick First downs ......................... 19 20 Rushes-yards..................... 35-153 50-327 Passing................................ 237 41 Total Yards ......................... 390 368 Comp-Att-Int....................... 12-19-2 6-11-0 Sacked-Yards Lost............ 0-0 0-0 Punts-Avg. .......................... 2-19.5 2-23.5 Fumbles-Lost ..................... 1-1 1-1 Penalties-Yards ................. 4-40 6-60 INDIVIDUAL STATISTICS RUSHING – PA, Romanczyk 17-102, Wilk 1039, Houseman 1-5, Gattusso 2-1, Schwab 4-2, Giambra 1-4. BER, Freeman 34-239, Pierce 13-87, Pecorelli 1-3, TEAM 2-(minus-2). PASSING – PA, Schwab 12-19-2-237. BER, Pierce 6-11-0-41 RECEIVING – PA, Houseman 4-136, Starinsky 5-57, Hahn 2-28, Delaney 1-6. BER, PEcorelli 3-23, Klinger 1-6, Steeber 2-12 INTERCEPTIONS – BER, Pecorelli, Bushinski MISSED FGS -- None