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Cody Adams, Kendel Jones and Kendyl Weisgold all won individual titles for Elk Lake Friday night in the Walter Godek Twilight Track and Field Invitational at the North Pocono Middle School in Moscow.

Adams and Jones also teamed on a relay win to help Elk Lake finish third among 29 boys’ teams that scored in the event.

Former Susquehanna athlete Weston Yannone helped Dunmore to the team title with 71 points.

Yannone was one of the meet’s top overall performers with two wins and a second-place finish. He won both hurdles races, taking the 110-meter high hurdles in 14.65 seconds and 300 hurdles in 39.26, finished second in the 100 dash in 11.22 and led off the 1600 relay team that finished sixth.

Wallenpaupack edged Elk Lake, 46½-45, for second place.

Adams won the 1600 in 4:25.92. Jones won the 3200 in 9:23.69. They joined Trevor Upright and Whalen Kinney to run the 3200 relay in a winning time of 8:13.89.

Brody Crissman was second with a high jump of 6-4, the 1600 relay team was third and Brent Drost was sixth in the 400.

Mountain View tied for 16th with 12 points; Susquehanna tied for 20th with seven; Montrose tied for 24th with two points.

Jacob Ficarro led the Eagles, placing second in the triple jump with 44-3 and fourth in the long jump with 20-5.

Susquehanna was led by Preston Wolff taking fourth in the 300 hurdles in 41.70. Maxx Kelly was fifth in the 1600 and broke two minutes in the 800 to place sixth.

Montrose’s Kendrick Ross placed fifth in the 800.

Weisgold won the girls’ 1600 with a time of 5:12.01.

Sadie Warnero, in the shot put, and the 3200 relay team, placed fourth to help Elk Lake finish with 18 points.

Montrose led Susquehanna County girls’ teams, taking 11th among 25 teams that scored points.

Crestwood ran away with the team title, 89-49, over host North Pocono and Wallenpaupack.

Erin Tillotson led the Lady Meteors by placing second in the discus with a throw of 107-7 and taking fifth in the shot put.

Carly Frey, Ava Rebello, Addison Stephens and Avery Kerr combined for second with a 3200 relay time of 10:13.83.

Kerr, in the 1600, and the 1600 relay team were each sixth.

Elk Lake was 13th in the team standings.

Susquehanna was tied for 21st with four points while Mountain View was 24th with a point.

Keira Burke scored the points for the Lady Sabers by placing fourth in the 1600 in 5:26.29.

Mountain View’s Rhys Evans was sixth in the 100.

WEEK IN REVIEW

Elk Lake took over the Lackawanna League Division 3 baseball lead by winning its only divisional game of the week while Lackawanna Trail and Susquehanna were each suffering their first two league losses.

The Warriors moved into a first-place tie with a 15-0 rout of visiting Susquehanna April 13, then took over sole possession later in the week without playing another division game.

Stephen Newhart and Nathaniel Thurman combined on a four-inning, no-hitter to lead Elk Lake past Susquehanna.

Newhart overcame six walks in three innings. He also went 2-for-2 and drove in three runs.

Thurman struck out two of the three batters he faced in the top of the fourth inning and the Warriors ended the game on the Mercy Rule with a run in the bottom of the inning.

Connor Stephens went 3-for-3 with two doubles and two runs scored.

The Warriors lost a non-league game at Holy Redeemer, 6-2, Saturday. They finished the week 4-1 in the division and 7-4 overall.

Montrose went 3-0 on the week, winning both of its division games to improve to 4-2 in the league and 6-2 overall. The Meteors moved into a second-place tie with Lackawanna Trail.

The Meteors won, 8-1, over Lackawanna Trail April 13; 2-1 at Susquehanna Thursday; and 13-3 over visiting Tunkhannock in Saturday’s non-league game.

Winning pitcher and leadoff hitter Adam Sorensen had three hits, including a double, while driving in three runs, scoring three and stealing three bases against Lackawanna Trail. Sorensen struck out eight and walked four.

Alexander Arndt finished off the combined two-hitter with two hitless innings.

Evan McComb had two hits and drove in two runs. He also stole three bases.

Arndt and Chase Harman combined on a one-hitter against Susquehanna. Arndt worked three more hitless innings.

Sawyer Aukema, who doubled, and McComb each had two hits.

Owen Cook doubled for the only Susquehanna hit.

The Meteors (4-2, 6-2) closed out the win over Tunkhannock with six runs in the bottom of the sixth.

Sorensen and Aukema each doubled, singled and drove in two runs. Kasey Carey also had two hits and two RBI.

Mountain View improved to 3-2 and 3-6 by winning both division games and losing its non-league game.

The Eagles won 13-0 at Forest City April 13; edged Lackawanna Trail, 2-1, Thursday; and lost to Hanover Area, 8-4, Saturday.

Josh Miller and Jordan Jagger combined on a one-hitter in Mountain View’s five-inning win over the Foresters.

Miller went 4-for-4 with a double and three runs scored.

Jagger homered, singled, drove in four runs and scored three.

Ian Briechle, who scored three times, and Hudson Bain had two hits each.

Miller’s bases-loaded single with none out in the bottom of the seventh lifted Mountain View over Lackawanna Trail.

Jagger and Miller again handled the pitching, holding the Lions to three hits. Jagger gave up two hits and five walks while striking out nine in 5 2/3 innings. Miller struck out one and allowed one hit while getting the last four outs to earn the win.

In softball, Montrose held on to first place with a pair of Lackawanna Division 3 victories, while Elk Lake had a 4-0 week.

The Lady Warriors had three of their wins in the division and are in second place.

Montrose is 5-0 and 5-2. Elk Lake is 4-1 and 5-4.

The Lady Meteors routed Lackawanna Trail, 15-0, April 14; lost at Riverside, 7-4, Wednesday; shut out Susquehanna, 13-0 Thursday; and lost at Dunmore, 5-4, Saturday.

Montrose scored nine runs in the bottom of the first and needed just four innings to get past Lackawanna Trail.

MycKenna Kublo went 4-for-4 with a double, triple, three RBI and two runs scored against Susquehanna.

Alayna Mott struck out five and walked one in a two-hitter.

The Lady Meteors had 17 hits.

Isabella Owen had three hits and scored three times. Alyssa Wiser doubled, singled and drove in three runs. Kyleise Kublo had two doubles and drove in two runs. Ally Legg had two hits, two runs and two RBI.

Mott struck out eight and walked one in a one-hitter in the five-inning shutout at Susquehanna.

MycKenna Kublo was 3-for-4 with a homer, double, three runs and two RBI.

Cara Evans drove in three runs on two hits.

Elk Lake won, 17-2, over Susquehanna April 13; 18-8 over Mountain View April 14; 16-1 at Carbondale Thursday and 16-9 in a non-league game against Nanticoke Saturday.

They scored 67 times in 20 innings during the week.

Celeste Clark and Paige Keeney each had home runs against Susquehanna in a three-inning romp. Clark had another hit, scored three runs and drove in three. Keeney went 2-for-2.

Lydia Howell and Miah Rosin each had two hits and two RBI.

Rosin did not walk a batter while striking out five and giving up three hits.

Taylor Traver doubled twice.

Each of the first three batters – Howell, Rosin and Brynn Warriner – had four hits in the six-inning win over Mountain View.

Warriner homered and drove in five runs. Howell had a double and triple. Rosin doubled, scored three runs and drove in two.

Maddy Ely drove in four runs.

Warriner and Clark homered against Carbondale.

The Lady Warriors scored seven times in the first inning and needed just four innings to beat the Chargerettes.

Nami Patton struck out six in the pitching win and had two doubles.

Aleece Greenley drove in six runs with a homer and two doubles against Nanticoke.

Clark hit another home run.

COLLEGE CORNER

Dylan Way is a junior middle distance runner on the Lock Haven University men’s track and field team.

The Elk Lake graduate was part of the school’s 17th-place finish of 25 men’s teams in the Messiah Invitational April 10-11.

Way was on a 1600 relay team that placed eighth of 11 with a time of 3:41.25. He was 37th of 69 in the 800-meter run in 2:08.05.

THE WEEK AHEAD

The Lackawanna Track Conference Division 4 titles are likely to come down to Thursday’s meet which sends Elk Lake to Montrose.

Both teams are 3-0 in both the boys’ and girls’ standings, meaning Thursday’s winners will clinch at least a first-place tie.

In baseball, Mountain View has back-to-back games involving two of the other four teams that are in a tight five-way pack, separated by a total of one game when the week began. Mountain View is at Susquehanna Thursday and home with first-place Elk Lake Monday, April 27.

In boys’ volleyball, Western Wayne is at Blue Ridge Tuesday, April 28. The two teams entered this week tied for third with 5-1 records.

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.