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Mountain View's Addison Kilmer is a first-team, all-state girls' basketball selection by Pennsylvania Sports Writers for the third straight year, this time on the Class 2A level.
The Lady Eagles were in Class A for Kilmer's first two seasons. She was the state Class A Player of the Year last year as a sophomore.
Kilmer has more than 1,500 points and 1,000 rebounds with one year left in her high school career.
The junior center led Mountain View in points (18.4 per game), rebounds (11.5), blocked shots (3.6), steals (2.4), field goal percentage (49), free throw percentage (75) and 3-pointers made (2.0). She hit 36 percent from 3-point range and dished out 2.0 assists per game.
Kilmer was one of three Lackawanna League players to receive all-state recognition and one of eight from District 2. She was the only first-teamer from the conference and one of only two from the district, joining Pittston Area's Daniella Ranieli, who made it in Class 5A.
The other players from the Lackawanna were second-teamers Jenna Hillebrand from Scranton Prep in Class 4A and Sophia Talutto from Dunmore in Class 3A.
The other all-staters from District 2 were: Hazleton Area's Kailtyn Bindas, second team in Class 6A; Crestwood's Jackie Gallagher, third team in Class 5A; Lake-Lehman's Ella Wilson, third team in Class 3A; and Wyoming Seminary's Ella Stambaugh, third team in Class 2A.
Mountain View has reached the state semifinals in all three of Kilmer's seasons.
Kendel Jones and Kate Korty each ran to two first-place finishes Thursday night in the Walter J. Godek Twilight Invitational at North Pocono High School.
Elk Lake's Jones won the boys' 1600-meter run in 4:27.85 and 3200 in 9:49.45.
Teammate Cody Adams was second to Jones in the 3200 in 9:53.75 and placed third in the 1600 in 4:32.29.
Korty, a Forest City student competing for Carbondale as part of a cooperative sponsorship of the sport, won the 400 in 58.03 and the 800 in 2:18.02. As the only 400 runner to break a minute, Korty won by 5.5 seconds. She also won the 800 by more than five seconds.
The Dunmore boys and Crestwood girls won the team titles.
Jones and Adams led Elk Lake to eighth place out of the 22 boys' teams that scored. Mountain View was 17th and Susquehanna 21st.
Carbondale was 10th of 19 in the girls' standings. Elk Lake was 15th.
Jacob Ficarro from Mountain View was second in the triple jump with 42-7 and eighth in the long jump with 19-7½.
Susquehanna County runners accounted for four of the top eight spots in the two longest boys' races, the 1600 and 3200.
Maxx Kelly from Susquehanna joined Jones and Adams in both, placing sixth in the 1600 and eighth in the 3200.
Elk Lake's Parker Upright was fifth in the 3200 and Mountain View's Michael Beach was eighth in the 1600.
Weston Yannone was fifth in the 110 high hurdles and joined Preston Wolf, Jeffrey Benson and Zakkery Ace for a Susquehanna team that placed seventh in the 1600 relay.
The Elk Lake girls were led by Gianna Tewksbury taking second in the discus with a throw of 116-9. Katie McGlynn, with 32-9, and Tewksbury, with 30-9, were third and sixth in the shot put.
Susquehanna's 1600 relay team of Kiera Burke, Kaylee Shimer, Mandolay Velez and Bailee Norris was eighth.
The top six scored points in each event.
Montrose competed in the 14th annual Red & Black Invitational at East Stroudsburg University Saturday.
The Lady Meteors were 11th out of the 26 girls' team that scored points and the Meteors were 20th out of 27 boys' teams. The Stroudsburg girls and East Stroudsburg South boys won the team titles.
Sadie Jones led the way for Montrose by placing third in both the triple jump with 36-0¼ and javelin with 111-8.
Anna Tillotson was sixth in the shot put, Carly Frey was eighth in the 400, the 1600 relay team was sixth and the 400 relay team was seventh.
Lorenzo Christian was sixth in the 3200 to lead the Montrose boys. The 3200 relay team was sixth and Jamier Robinson was seventh in the long jump.
On the diamonds, both Elk Lake teams won first-place showdowns with Montrose to emerge as the final unbeaten in Lackawanna League Division 3 baseball and softball.
In baseball, the Warriors won on three straight days to extend their winning streak to eight. They improved to 5-0 in the division and 9-1 overall.
Elk Lake edged host Montrose, 2-1, Thursday between pounding two opponents at home, beating Carbondale, 20-4, Wednesday and Mountain View, 13-2, Friday.
Dawson Sherman and Noah Gesford combined on a five-hitter against Montrose.
Sherman held the Meteors scoreless for six innings, striking out 12 while allowing just four hits and three walks.
Gesford worked through the seventh, giving up one run, but retiring the last two batters for the save.
Elk Lake's Logan Ayotte was the only player with two hits.
Chris McGee also struck out 12 while going the distance for the Meteors.
Brayden McMicken was 5-for-5 with six RBI and all extra-base hits against Carbondale. He had three doubles and two triples.
Elk Lake gave up three runs in the top of the first, but scored 11 runs in the bottom of the inning and ended the game on his triple with one out in the bottom of the fourth.
Gesford went 3-for-3 with three doubles and drove in five runs in the five-inning win over Mountain View.
Montrose was involved in one-run games on consecutive days, beating Susquehanna, 3-2, with a run in the bottom of the seventh Wednesday.
In softball, the Lady Warriors have outscored five division opponents by a total of 79-9 after beating Carbondale, 18-3, Wednesday, then handing Montrose its first division loss, 17-4, Thursday.
Leah Traver homered twice and drove in four runs in the four-inning game against Carbondale.
Aleece Greenley hit a three-run, inside-the-park homer as Elk Lake scored eight runs in the top of the first against Montrose. She also doubled and drove in two more runs to help the Lady Warriors win in five innings.
Tatum Norris was part of a third-place finish by the Binghamton University 400-meter relay team April 13 at the Bucknell Outdoor Track & Field Challenge.
The team finished in 47.66 seconds.
Norris, a sophomore from Susquehanna, tied for seventh in the pole vault, clearing 11-0¾.
Two of the top four teams in Lackawanna League boys' volleyball are scheduled to meet in the regular-season finale Tuesday, April 29.
Western Wayne, which entered this week tied for second at 6-1 with three matches left, is at fourth-place Blue Ridge. The Raiders have won their last four league matches to improve to 5-2 in the league and 6-3 overall.
TOM ROBINSON writes a weekly local sports column for the Susquehanna County Transcript. He can be reached online at RobbyTR@aol.com or followed on Twitter at @tomjrobinson.