Douglas Demming

As another season winds down, and another state championship is on the horizon. At this time I would like to recognize some outstanding teams from District 2 with a congratulatory acknowledgment.

The Dallas Mountaineers are heading to the P.I.A.A “AAAA” State Championship game. Job well done in double overtime beating heavily favored Bishop McDevitt

Other district 2 teams to acknowledge that had successful seasons:
Lackawanna Trail
Delaware Valley
Scranton Prep
Dunmore
Valley View
Abington Heights

Congratulations to all the hard work in the season, but now the journey begins yet again, back to the weight room gentlemen. And congratulations to all the other teams in District 2 that might not have made the playoffs, but put hard work day in and day out.

Northwestern Lehigh was dominant over Scranton Prep in the AAA State quarterfinal.

Much like last week, Scranton Prep’s offense started strong, then struggled. Only this time there weren’t any dramatic fourth-quarter rallies.

Dalton Clymer carried 30 times for 115 yards and three touchdowns as host Northwestern, Lehigh rolled to a 27-6 victory over the Cavaliers.

Dunmore vs Camp Hill

Dunmore picked off four passes highlighted by Jack McNeff’s pick 6, And the Bucks ran its wing T to perfection in the second half, pulling away for a 41-25 win over Camphill in the PIAA class 2A state quarterfinals the Bucks 12-2 advanced to next week semi-finals against Southern Columbia.

Lackawanna Trails’ dream season ends without shame still the region’s best overall team.

Best of luck to Dunmore Bucks

Lackawanna football teams impress moving forward into state playoffs.

LIONS PRIDE 
Lackawanna Trail District 2 “A” Champion (13-0) and ranked #2 in the State football rankings for class “A”

Overpowers Minersville the District 11 Class “A” Champion. On Lukas Gumble’s first four carries, he didn’t gain too many positive yards. Then he struck. With a burst and some power, he scored a touchdown on carry number 8.

From there, he couldn’t be stopped. Gumbel finished with 230 yards on 10 carries and scored four touchdowns with the Lions taking the victory 40-0

The Lions will have their toughest opponent yet when they travel to Scranton High School to play Steelton-Highspire a known state football Powerhouse.

Valley View vs Dallas

The Cougars accomplished a successful season under a brand new head coach, Scot Wasilchak came to an end against undefeated Dallas Mountaineers (13-0) for the District 2 AAAA Championship, with no shame to them the Cougars gave the Mountaineers one of their best games yet of the season, only losing a close one 21-18.

Dunmore vs Williams Valley

The Dunmore Bucks are no stranger to success in the state playoffs, having won the PIAA Class “A” Championship in 1989 and having been there another handful of times throughout the years. The Buck’s playoff success continued forward overpowering Williams Valley. Dunmore read all week about the impressive numbers Williams Valley’s Alex Allenbach put up this season.

The Bucks Pigga decided to put in some impressive numbers of his own. The seniors scored five touchdowns and rushed for 234 yards as the Bucks rolled past the Vikings, 41-21, in the PIAA Class 2A first-round game Friday night at Rotary Field.

The rest of the scores

Delaware Valley 56
Whitehall 27

Dunmore 41
Williams Valley 21

Dallas 21
Valley View 18

Lackawanna Trail 40
Minersville 0

On Saturday afternoon at Dunmore high school, utilizing a plethora of talent from around the region, the Scranton Prep Cavaliers claimed their third straight District 2 AAA championship over a depleted Western Wayne squad that didn’t have powerhouse running back Josh Vinton available for the game because of a concussion, who also was a defensive All-Star for the Wildcats.

The Cavaliers will have a daunting task, as they face a similar program when they face off against,
Neumann -Goretti another Private Catholic School.

At Peckville,

Valley View beat a stout Wyoming Area team to advance to the District 2 AAAA Final.

At Dunmore,

The Dunmore Bucks winning tradition is back on track after losing last year’s District Championship to a dominant Lakeland Chiefs squad, the Bucks captured another District 2 AA Title, beating Riverside, and will face Williams Valley in the first round of the P.I.A.A playoffs.

Here are the scores:

Valley View 20
Wyoming Area 0

Dunmore 13
Riverside 7

Lackawanna Trail 47
Morrisville 6

Delaware Valley 55
Abington Heights 16

Lackawanna Trail and Delaware Valley are the Premier teams in D-2 as the rest follow their lead.

Lackawanna Trail won their 12th District 2 Class A championship and 13th all-time.

Trail beat Old Forge for the title. Top-seeded Lackawanna Trail continued its outstanding run with a 40-0 thumping of OF
On Friday night. The Lions will advance to face Morrisville, which won the District 1 Class A title with a win over Jenkintown as the PIAA playoffs move to the sub-regional final.

This senior class at Lackawanna Trail has a record of 27-9 in the last three seasons.

Delaware Valley Rolls past Pittston Area

Ryder Machado and Delaware Valley made quick work of the Pittston Area.
The standout senior running back scored three touchdowns in the opening 6 minutes Friday night and the Warriors rolled to a convincing 42-7 in a convincing victory over the Patriots and the district to the Class 5A semi-final at Warrior Stadium.

Valley View tops Berwick 12-7

Two of the most championship-storied programs in District 2 over the course of history met up on Friday night the Cougars took the win over the Dawgs.

Tyler Scoblick knew a pass was coming after five straight runs to the same side. So with Berwick driving toward the Red Zone and his team season on the line, the Valley View Junior faked a run Pursuit and jumped a pass route. His intuition sent the second-seated Cougars to the next round of the District 2 Class 4A playoffs.

The rest of the scores:

Delaware Valley 42 Pittston Area 7
Western Wayne 21 Lake Lehman 16
Dallas 43 Wallenpaupack 11
Riverside 28 Mid Valley 6
Dunmore 49 Susquehanna 22
Valley View 12 Berwick 7
Wyoming area 31 North Pocono 19
Lackawanna Trail 40 Old Forge 0
Scranton Prep 54 Hanover area 0

Champions were crowned in the
Lackawanna football conference

LFC Division 1 (7-3)
Delaware Valley

Note: DV’s 3 losses were all out of the
LFC region

LFC Division 2
Dunmore ( 8-2 )

LFC Division 3
Lackawanna Trail ( 10-0 )

Delaware Valley at Abington Heights
Clarks Summit –

After 3 weeks, Delaware Valley didn’t have a win, but the Warriors knew the season was far from over. 7 weeks later, the Scranton Times top-ranked Warriors are champions. On Saturday, Ryder Machado ran for 193 yards and scored three touchdowns in a dominant 42-7 win over #6 Abington Heights at Comets Stadium.

(Rest of the scores )

Riverside 56 Holy Cross 0
North Pocono 27 Crestwood 10
Montrose 40 Holy Redeemer 0
Old Forge 33 Carbondale Area 10
Lackawanna Trail 46 Susquehanna 0
Western Wayne 35 Honesdale 20
Mid Valley 28 Lakeland 17
Dunmore 42 West Scranton 19
Delaware Valley 42 Abington Heights 7
Scranton 35 Wallenpaupack 14
Scranton Prep 26 Valley View 6

Also –
Congratulations to the Scranton Prep
Class PIAA “2A” STATE CHAMPION
Girls tennis team with a 21-1 final record.

The end of the regular season is coming near, and the stage is set for the two perennial powerhouses to have a much anticipated hard fought old style Smash Mouth football game, Just like the old big 11 days.

The Scranton prep Cavaliers and the Valley View Cougars both have a common foe that being the Delaware Valley Warriors. Valley View losing their game to Delaware Valley by a score of 30-12 Scranton Prep also losing their game to Delaware Valley 31-27.

If these two Powerhouse teams keep doing well both will represent District 2 very well in the PIAA state playoffs.

Valley View at Scranton Prep
1:00 PM Saturday Oct 28
At Dunmore high school field

Friday night recap:

Scranton Prep continued their dominating ways as they rolled over the Wyoming Valley West Spartans 41-21.

With Monsoon like rain pelting the players as they played at Spartan Stadium, Liam Barrett scored two touchdowns in the opening half as Scranton prep jumped out to a 41 point lead and rolled to a 41-21 victory over Wyoming Valley West in the non-league action.

Prep, honorable mention in the latest PIAA class 3A State rankings on both sides of the ball just kept hammering the Spartans. Barrett had himself quite the night. He returned a punt 42 yards nearly untouched, to give Prep a 21- 0 lead.

That came just after he almost ripped another one off returning it 21 yards before the last Spartan defender got him before the goal line. The senior later made a highlight reel catch for a 27-yard touchdown sidestepping a defender and making a one-handed grab and he also picked off a pass on the Spartans first offensive series leading to the Cavaliers second touchdown of the night.

Rest of the scores:

Abington Heights 27 North Pocono 9
Delaware Valley 40 Scranton 0
Valley View 31 Wallenpaupack 16
Western Wayne 41 Lakeland 14
Dunmore 47 Honesdale 21
Riverside 45 Old Forge 7
Susquehanna 14 Carbondale Area 7
Scranton Prep 41 Wyoming Valley West 21
Lackawanna Trail 66 Holy Cross 0

At Lackawanna Trail success runs deep, starting at the youth programs upwards to varsity level . Both the varsity and Trail youth C football programs are undefeated. As everybody knows to have a successful program it starts at the youth level upwards having a strong fan base and community, helps build structure and respect for the game and others.

Lackawanna Trail 41
Carbondale Area 14

ACCJFL SUPER BOWL
PLAYOFFS
Lackawanna Trail ( C) 33
Western Wayne 0

Lackawanna Trail ( B ) 12
Old Forge 0

(Note: proud uncle moment)
Congratulations Trail junior cheer teams on bring home lots of metals lots of hard work went into the recent ACCJFL cheerleading competition held at
Old forge. Great job Natalia

Here are the recent scores:

Mid Valley 26
Honesdale 25

Delaware Valley 30
Valley View 12

Dallas 31
Wallenpaupack 3

Riverside 37
Susquehanna 6

Old Forge 48
Holy Cross 6

Dunmore 20
Western Wayne 12

Abington Heights 14
Scranton 0

Scranton Prep 49
North Pocono 6

Freshman HB Carrie’s Carbondale area to Big win

At Dunmore – Holy Cross

Anthony Prince rushes for 256 yards and 3 TDs touchdowns , Prince drenched with mud and grass stains all over his uniform along with everybody else on this muddy swampy day did more than his share of workload shuffling through the slop created by the driving rain at St Anthony’s memorial Park. He carried the ball 31 times for 256 yards and all three of Carbondale Area’s touchdowns in a 20 – 7 win over Holy Cross on Saturday in the Lackawanna football conference division 3 game. Carbondale area snapped a three-game losing skid and improved to 2-5 overall and a 1-1 record in their division.

Here are the rest of the scores

Old Forge 41
Susquehanna 0

Lackawanna Trail 28
Riverside 21

Western Wayne 28
Mid Valley 13

Dunmore 55
Lakeland 7

Honesdale 41
West Scranton 6

North Pocono 28
Wallenpaupack 14

Valley View 20
Scranton 6

Carbondale Area 20
Holy Cross 7

Scranton Prep 50
Abington Heights 21

Valley View / Lackawanna Trail is still kings of the LFC jungle, both are the only two undefeated teams left in the Lackawanna Football Conference at 6-0.

At Clark’s Summit (aka the pit)

Facing a 14-7 halftime deficit to the bruising Abington Heights Comets, the Cougars came out ready to Preserve their undefeated record. Head Coach Scot Wasilchak said, “I told them we weren’t going to change the game plan they had to make a decision, did they want to be 6-0 or 5-1 ? “.

Lots of players stepped up for VV, Camryn Higgins led the rushing attack for Valley View with 221 yards and one touchdown on 32 Carries.

As a team, the Cougars ran 61 times for 351 yards and five touchdowns. Zach Cwalinski added a pair of rushing touchdowns in the third quarter to seal the deal for Valley View keeping the Cougars record perfect.

Valley View 35 Abington Heights 14

Here are the rest of the scores:

Lackawanna Trail 41, Old Forge 14
Western Wayne 21, West Scranton 14
Dunmore 46, Mid Valley 6
Riverside 63, Carbondale 14
Wyoming Area 35, Scranton 19
Delaware Valley 42, North Pocono 0
Susquehanna 50, Holy Cross 14
Honesdale 48, Lakeland 7
Scranton Prep 37, Wallenpaupack 3

Things are heating up halfway through the season, as Delaware Valley proves its supremacy over Scranton Prep, 31-27

At Dunmore up against the 4th and long and one yard to go at his team’s 19-yard line also protecting a four-point lead in the final two minutes of play, Delaware Valley coach Keith Olsommer heard what his players were saying. Tight end Aidon Black Fullback Justin Kalitsnik and running back Rydor Machado
All seniors and all-region players to coach they wanted to go for it!

Logan Olsommer handed the ball to Machado, who followed a block from Black and a kick-out block from Kalitsnik and with a Barry Sanders spin made it the yardage his team needed the first down and to seal the deal.

The Lions from Lackawanna Trail were on the prowl for some Bucks. Steven Jervis faked the handoff, concealed the ball, and then launched a deep pass to Lucas Gumbel on Trail’s first play of the game. Lackawanna Trail never looked back. The fourth-ranked Lions ran outside, pounded the ball inside, and hit big plays through the air and in a convincing manner !!

Lackawanna Trail 46
Dunmore 21

The rest of the scores

Abington Heights 35
Wallenpaupack 28

Old Forge 28
Lakeland 13

Riverside 49
Mahanoy Area 28

Scranton 33
North Pocono 27

Mid Valley 35
Susquehanna 8

Valley View 41
Pittston Area 7

Western Wayne 28
Carbondale Area 0

West Scranton 41
Hazelton Area 34

Honesdale 51
Tunkhannock 6

Holy Cross 29
Col, Montour Vo Tech 28

Most impressive starts of the year!
The Comets beat a very solid Western Wayne squad

Abington Heights 34
Western Wayne 14

Dallas 56
West Scranton 20

Valley View. 14
North Pocono 7

Dunmore 20
Riverside 16

Lackawanna Trail 39
Honesdale 13

Mid Valley 41
Old Forge 14

Holy Cross 7
Montrose 6

Tunkhannock 25
Carbondale Area 14

Delaware Valley 41
Wallenpaupack 14

Scranton Prep 41
Scranton 0

Susquehanna 26
Lakeland 13

R.I.P ( Mom )
Joyce Demming 4-5-40/ 9-4-23
Longtime Lakeland Chiefs football Supporter
1970’s to 2023

LAKELAND AND OLD FORGE BOTH SHARE A COMMON GROUND, BOTH SCHOOLS ARE RICH
IN CHAMPIONSHIP TRADITION . AND THIS YEAR BOTH ARE BIT BY THE SAME GRADUATION BUG !

AT : LAKELAND

The Riverside Vikings reeling from last week’s loss to Mid Valley needed this victory to keep their composure if they wanted to compete for the league championship and also districts and they did just that they commanded an early lead and never looked back.
REESE GAUGHAN scored six times for the Vikings GAUGHAN a class AA player of the year last season was the drive behind the Vikes huge win …

RIVERSIDE 46
LAKELAND 0

AT : OLD FORGE

Western Wayne rolled into town with one mission and that was to keep pushing the gas pedal and that they did. The Wildcat lineman did extremely well opening holes they could have

AT :VALLEY VIEW

New head coach Scot Wasilchak and his undefeated Valley View cougars are making a strong statement. That statement is that they are for real the Cougars Den was rocking as the Cougars honored veterans and new members of the Armed Forces.

CASEY MALSHERGER through for 75 yards and a touchdown for the Cougars big win

VALLEY VIEW 40
HONESDALE 13

ABINGTON HEIGHTS VS BERWICK

Abington Heights were on a roll call them butter !
as they roll over the Berwick Bulldogs
First quarter it was close AH had a 14 to 7 lead then Berwick held AH to 0 points as BERWICK scored 14 in the second quarter the rest was history for Abington Heights and their big victory.

ABINGTON HEIGHTS 47
BERWICK 21

FRIDAY NIGHT SCORES

CARBONDALE AREA 14
HANOVER AREA 6

WILKES BARRE AREA 27
WALLENPAUPACK 10

LACKAWANNA TRAIL 40
NANTICOKE AREA 13

NORTH POCONO 23
HAZELTON AREA 20

SCRANTON PREP 49
LAKE LEHMAN 6

SATURDAY GAMES

DUNMORE 35
SUSQUEHANNA 12

SCRANTON 43 WINNER OF THE BELL
WEST SCRANTON 25

Standings and summaries
Lackawanna Football Conference

DIVISION 1
DIV OVERALL POINTS
Scranton 0-0 3-0 107-52
Scranton Prep 0-0 3-0 161-25
Valley View 0-0 3-0 95-46
Abington Heights 0-0 2-1 110-80
North Pocono. 0-0 2-1 46-50
Wallenpaupack 0-0 2-1 61-54
Delaware Valley 0-0 0-3 27-98

DIVISION 2

Dunmore 0-0 2-1 77-58
Mid Valley 0-0 2-1 78-47
Western Wayne 0-0 2-1 86-30
Lakeland 0-0 1-2 27- 126
Honesdale 0-0 0-3 31-110
West Scranton 0-0 0-3 76-132

DIVISION 3

Lackawanna Trail 0-0 3-0 123-33
Riverside 0-0 2-1 105-53
Susquehanna 0-0 2-1 101-35
Carbondale Area 0-0 1-2 48-114
Old Forge 0-0 1-2 33 – 90

MID VALLEY STUNS SCRANTON TIMES 5TH RANKED  RIVERSIDE VIKINGS.

Football is a team sport and a team they were from beginning to end. Mid Valley believed in each other and their coaches one of those team members was Victor Holt who kept making huge plays for his Spartans that ultimately impacted the outcome of the game.

The senior caught a touchdown pass and had two interceptions returning one for a touchdown and then for the grand finale he tipped away a crucial pass attempt late in the 4th quarter.

MID VALLEY 14 

RIVERSIDE    12

MOUNT CARMEL TO MUCH FOR DUNMORE

The Dunmore Bucks gave a strong effort against the Red Tornadoes’ stealthy strong squad at halftime the score was very  close Mount Carmel was only up 13-7. The Bucks will regroup and will be fine.

MOUNT CARMEL 34

DUNMORE                7

ABINGTON HEIGHTS VS. WILKES BARRE AREA 

Put your telescopes away no it wasn’t a blazing red hot COMET on Friday night,  it was the Abington Heights Comets football team that lit up the night and was showing the LFC and District 2 that they are back to their winning ways of days gone by.

Sr Declan Walsh provided some key plays, the senior had two long 4th quarter touchdowns and one rushing score also one fumble recovery and return to ice the Comet victory over a very talented Wilkes Barre area team

ABINGTON HEIGHTS  35 

WILKES BARRE AREA 28

HERE ARE THE REST OF THE SCORES 

FRIDAY,.

LAKELAND         20

CARBONDALE   10

NORTH POCONO   10

WESTERN WAYNE   9

VALLEY VIEW  34 

BERWICK          19

OLD FORGE                14 

NANTICOKE AREA   13 

WYOMING AREA  47

HONESDALE          12

SCRANTON                            29

WYOMING VALLEY WEST    0

LACKAWANNA TRAIL 48

LAKE LEHMAN                 7

WALLENPAUPACK  28

HAZELTON AREA    21

SATURDAY 

HOLY CROSS         20

HOLY REDEEMER 12

FRIDAY NIGHT

Riverside held off a spicy hot West Scranton team, both squads were well-coached.

RIVERSIDE 47
WEST SCRANTON 39

At VALLEY VIEW first-time Head Coach Scot Wasilchak and his Cougars made a statement! And it was clear, Just win baby!
The Cougars avenged a loss to Crestwood in the district final and in the season last year. For the Cougars it was a close one with Chris Savkov making a thrilling reception that took him into the end zone to seal the deal for the Cougar’s victory over the Crestwood Comets

VALLEY VIEW 21
CRESTWOOD 14

At DUNMORE
The BUCKS started the season strong as expected, with many returning starters on the field. The same could not be said for Old Forge as the graduation bug bit them.

DUNMORE 35
OLD FORGE 12

Here is the rest of the Friday night scoreboard results from week #1

NANTICOKE. 35
CARBONDALE 0

WESTERN WAYNE 35
LAKE LEHMAN 13

SCRANTON 35
WILKES BARRE AREA 27

LACKAWANNA TRAIL 35
MID VALLEY 13

WYOMING VALLEY WEST 21
NORTH POCONO 13

DALLAS 31
ABINGTON HEIGHTS 28

WALLENPAUPACK 23
HONESDALE 6

SATURDAY RESULTS

SCRANTON PREP flexed their experienced muscles a little too hard on a very green LAKELAND Squad that was hit extremely hard by graduation it was a payback from last season when the CHIEFS put a beating on PREP 41-14
The Preparatory Squad boasted lots of talent.

SCRANTON PREPARATORY 70
LAKELAND 7

HANOVER AREA 51
HOLY CROSS. 20

SUSQUEHANNA 49
HOLY REDEEMER 0