H.S. Baseball: Comets beat reigning WVC king Wyoming Valley West

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Holy Redeemer rallies quickly for win over Hanover Area

Sam Sebia took the No. 1 singles match in straight sets as Coughlin swept every set in a 5-0 win over the Warriors in Wyoming Valley Conference boys tennis on Friday.Sebia won 6-1, 6-1 to spark the win, and the Coughlin tandem of Frank Castellana and Matt Frankelli won at No. 1 doubles 6-1, 6-4.Wyoming Seminary 5, Wyoming Valley West 0Eamon Gibbons won the top singles match and the Blue Knights won every set in a victory.Sem&#8217;s Adrian Sung at No. 3, along with the top doubles team of Jiayi Song and Andrew Schukraft and the No. 2 doubles team of Will Ziegler and Samir Singh all swept their matches by scores of 6-0, 6-0.Dallas 5, Pittston Area 0Jason Homschek led the Mountaineers charge with a 6-1, 6-2 win in the top singles match and Dallas swept to victory, winning in straight sets in all five matches.Tunkhannock 5, Crestwood 0Luke Straley took the top singles match 6-2, 6-1 as the Tigers cruised to a 6-2 record.Avery Newhart also won in straight sets for Tunkhannock in the No. 2 singles match, while the Tigers top doubles team of Ben Keiser and Justin Phillips recorded a 6-2, 7-5 victory.Boys VolleyballNanticoke Area 3, Lake-Lehman 0Brent Piontkowski made 18 kills and Ed Lukowski fed his teammates for 36 assists as the Trojans took a 25-8, 25-9, 25-13 victory.Josh Baranowski finished with seven kills and five digs in the win.Charles Hennebaul had seven digs and three kills for Lehman, Nick Wnuk finished with nine assists and Zack Corey added four kills, three blocks and two digs in defeat.Boys LacrosseDelaware Valley 14, Lake-Lehman 3Nick Pampalone scored five goals and added two assists and Tim Cohen registered three goals and four assists in Delaware Valley&#8217;s victory.P.J. Matarazzo and Rhett Padget scored three goals apiece in the victory.Crestwood 12, Tunkhannock 11 (OT)Crestwood Senior Ryan Magin ripped the winning goal as the Comets pulled out a back-and-forth battle in overtime.Lance Lysaik led Crestwood with three goals and dished out four assists, while Magin Zachary Anderson both added two goals and an assist in the win. Mathew Tirpak finished with two goals as the Tigers improved to 2-0 in conference play.Tunkhannock used four-goal games by Damon Williams and Sean Andres to force the extra session.Delaware Valley 16, Tunkhannock 4Nick Pampalone finished with five goals and three assists to account for half the scoring in Delaware Valley&#8217;s victory on Tuesday.Tim Cohen finished with three goals and three assists in the victory, while P.J. Matarazzo and Reilly Van Wie each hit a pair of goals.Sean Andres scored three of Tunkhannock&#8217;s four goals.Girls trackNanticoke Area 102, GAR 21Amiah Lukowski sprinted to a pair of victories Friday and Alexis Selli captured a pair of jumps and ran on the winning 3,200 relay as the Trojanettes won all but two events to pull out their first victory of the season.Selli finished first in the long jump and triple jump, while Lukowski won the 100-meter dash in 13 seconds and also took victory in the 200 dash as Nanticoke Area moved to 1-3 in the Wyoming Valley Conference Division 2.Marie Skrepenak earned GAR&#8217;s two event wins by finishing first in the shot put and discus throws.CollegesBaseballKing&#8217;s 4, Eastern 0Junior pitcher Zach Palansky thew the first nine-inning complete game shutout of his career as the Monarchs picked up a big Freedom Conference road victory in St. Davids.The teams entered the weekend tied for fourth in the Freedom Conference standings. With the win King&#8217;s improved to 15-7 and 5-4 in Freedom Conference games while Eastern fell to 10-12 and 4-5.Palansky gutted out his first nine-inning win in his three years with the Monarchs, throwing a career-high 128 pitches while scattering 10 hits and striking out four.Tom Gibbons was 2-for-5 with a double and two RBI while Bruce Beithaupt was 2-for-5 with a solo home run for King&#8217;s. Chris Rebar added a solo homer in the victory.Delaware Valley 6, Misericordia 4D.J. Navoczynski went 2-5 with a double, RBI and two runs scored, but the Cougars couldn&#8217;t quite complete a comeback attempt.The Cougars had a batter at the plate in the bottom of the ninth with the bases loaded and two outs, but a fly to center field ended the game.Mike Comerford was 2-4 with a double and two RBI for Misericordia, while Jeremy DeCotiis went 3-4 with a run scored.The loss drops Misericordia to 17-8 overall and to 8-3 in the MAC Freedom Conference.Manhattanville 7, Wilkes 1The Wilkes University baseball team was held scoreless until the top of the ninth, falling to 16-13 overall and 5-8 in MAC Freedom play.Wilkes freshman Jack Fischer earned a bases loaded walk to drive in junior Joshua Slocum in the top of the ninth with the Colonels lone run.Wilkes junior Chris Nixon suffered the loss, pitching the first 6.2 innings and surrendering six earned runs on four hits while walking five and striking out a career-high 12 batters. Freshman Noah Durnin threw the final 1.1 innings.&#92;Slocum led the Colonels at the plate, going 2-for-4 with one run scored.Women&#8217;s tennisWilkes 9, King&#8217;s 0Kendra Croker won the top singles match and teamed with Jordan Vasarkovy to win at No. 1 doubles as the Colonels swept single play in straight sets and won the three doubles matches by a combined score of 24-5.Croker won 6-2, 6-3 at No. 1 and Vasarkovy earned a 6-2, 6-0 victory at No. 2 singles.Wilkes Women&#8217;s Tennis Cruises Past King&#8217;s 9-0Boys TennisCoughlin 5, Wyoming Area 0SINGLES &#8212; Sam Sebia (C) d. Austin Alder 6-1, 6-1; Michael Klimek (C) d. Joe Skrip 6-1, 6-2; Pabel Svintoselskiy (C) d. Aaron Lewis 6-1, 6-1.DOUBLES &#8212; Frank Castellana/Matt Frankelli (C) d. Alex Chronokowsi/Justin Alder 6-1, 6-4; Stefan Johnson/Jacob Kuna won by default.Wyoming Seminary 5, Wyoming Valley West 0SINGLES &#8212; Eamon Gibbons (Sem) d. Matt Finnegan 6-0, 6-2; Sam Desai (Sem) d. Jorge Lopez 6-0, 6-1; Adrian Sung (Sem) d. Anthony Barbose 6-0, 6-0.Dallas 5, Pittston Area 0SINGLES &#8212; Jason Homschek (Dal) d. Anthony Delvea 6-1, 6-1; Johnathon Durling (Dal) d. Anthony Brominski 6-0, 6-0; Nick Alfano (Dal) d. Frank Bevevino 6-1, 6-2.DOUBLES &#8212; Mike Mazurkevich/Eric Fritz (Dal) d. Joe Bevevino/Adam Niznik 6-2, 6-3; Delmar Guzewicz/Juan Martinez (Dal) d. Cameron Tuck/Billy Rabins 6-1, 6-2.Tunkhannock 5, Crestwood 0SINGLES &#8212; Luke Straley (Tun) d. Brandon Krupa 6-2, 6-1; Avery Newhart (Tun) d. Rob Shovlin 6-1, 6-3; Patrick Cronin (Tun) d. Ryan Rogan 6-1, 2-6, 6-2.DOUBLES &#8212; Ben Keiser/Justin Phillips (Tun) d. Gabe Hagen/Noah Kulp 6-2, 7-5; Colin Franko/Gerard Mirabelli (Tun) d. Nick Andrews/Kyle Gegaris 6-2, 2-6, 10-4.Boys LacrosseDelaware Valley 14, Lake-Lehman 3SCORING &#8212; LL, Kuchke (1g); Chad Grzesnikowski (1g); Sabre (1g). DV, Tim Cohen (3g, 3a); Nick Pampalone (5g, 3a); Anton Mackey (1a); P.J. Matarazzo (2g, 1a); Trevor Martin (1g, 1a); Neil Roche (1g); Reilly Van Wie (2g); Parker Hamil (1a); Rhett Padget (1g).Delaware Valley 16, Tunkhannock 4SCORING &#8212; TUN, Pat Casey (1g, 1a); Sean Andres (3g, 1a); Demon Williams (1a). DV, Nick Pampalone (5g, 2a); Tim Cohen (3g, 4a); P.J. Matarazzo (3g, 2a); Rhett Padget (3g, 1a); Trevor Martin (1g); Dave Bell (1g); Dan Matarazzo (1a)Name (xg, xa); Name (xg, xa). HOM, Name (xg, xa); Name (xg, xa).Shots &#8212; Tun 14; DV 25. Saves &#8212; Tun 9 (Jergy Montross); DV 10 (Neil Roche 7, Bryce Haraldsen 3).Crestwood 12, Tunkhannock 11 (OT)Crestwood`1`4`4`3` &#8212;`12Tunkhannock`1`6`4`0` &#8212;`11SCORING &#8212; CRE, Lance Lysaik (3g, 4a); Ryan Magin (2g, 1a); Zachary Anderson (2g, 1a); Matt Tirpak (2g); Kyle Richards (1g); Sam Majdic (1g); Justin McCloskey (1g); Owen Grigas (1a). TUN, Damon Williams (4g, 2a); Sean Andres (4g); Hunter Grow (2g, 3a); Andrew Mills (1g); Christian Scotti (1a).Girls TrackNanticoke Area 102, GAR 213,200 relay &#8212; 1. Nan (Scott, Witts, Selli, Penko) 13:11. 100 hurdles &#8212; 1. Nan, Day 19.1. 100 &#8212; 1. Nan, Lukowski 13.0; 2. GAR, Winstead; 3. Nan, Mulhern. 1,600 &#8212; 1. Nan, Scott 6:51. 400 &#8212; 1. Nan, Gomelko 75.9; 2. Nan, Witts.300 hurdles &#8212; 1. Nan, Penko 58.8; 2. Nan, Day; 3. Nan, Williams. 800 &#8212; 1. Nan, Penko 3:45; 2. Nan, Lopez. 200 &#8212; 1. Nan, Lukowski 28.3; 2. GAR, Winstead; 3. GAR, Braham. 3,200 &#8212; 1. Nan, Scott 15:33. 1,600 relay &#8212; 1. Nan (Penko, Witts, Gomelko, Waclawski) 5:18.High jump &#8212; 1. Nan, Day 4-4; 2. Nan, Waclawski. Long jump &#8212; 1. Nan, Selli 14-1; 2. Nan, Lukowski; 3. GAR, Genao. Triple jump &#8212; 1. Nan, Selli 26-6; 2. Nan, Scott. Shot put &#8212; 1. GAR, Skrepenak 30-10.50; 2. GAR, Lormone; 3. Nan, Mulhern. Discus &#8212; 1. GAR, Skrepenak 87-3; 2. 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Local Sports: Sam Sebia leads Coughlin’s sweep of Wyoming Area in boys tennis