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Dante Tanzini, Brice Woodruff, Richard Lord, Donovin Baldwin and Zach Krupovich all posted pins Wednesday night to lift Blue Ridge past Valley View, 33-30, and into the District 2 Class 2A Dual Meet Wrestling Championships semifinals.
The Raiders then lost to the eventual first- and third-place teams and settled for a tie for fifth place in the eight-team tournament at Honesdale.
Top-seeded Honesdale handled Blue Ridge, 64-11, in Wednesday's semifinal. Berwick defeated the Raiders, 40-29, in Saturday's consolation semifinals.
Montrose lost twice Wednesday and was one of two teams that did not advance to Saturday.
The Meteors were shut out by Honesdale, 77-0, then lost to Valley View, 42-34.
Trinity Lord pulled out a 6-4 decision to help Blue Ridge get past Valley View in the quarterfinals.
Krupovich had a pin at 172 and Woodruff a technical fall at 127 during the loss to Honesdale. They both went 3-0 for the tournament.
Jason Luce had a pin in 25 seconds at 133 against Berwick.
Woodruff, at 139, and Krupovich, at 172, also had first-period pins and Baldwin won by pin at 189. Tanzini posted a technical fall at 114.
Montrose got pins from Carl Nolt (139), Wyatt Steele (145) and Corey Anderson (215) and technical falls from Sawyer Brander (107) and Delos Stone (133) in its loss to Valley View.
Susquehanna won twice in three days to improve its boys' basketball records to 9-1 in Lackawanna League Division 3 and 14-4 overall.
The Sabers rolled at Mountain View, 66-33, Jan. 27 and Forest City, 59-32, Thursday.
Griffin Fisk hit three 3-pointers while scoring 18 points against Mountain View. Linden Baker added 14 points while Jaxon Downton had 11 points and three steals. Mason Keyes grabbed 12 rebounds and blocked three shots. Hudson Stengel had eight assists and three steals.
Baker hit two 3-pointers and scored eight points in the second quarter when Susquehanna built the lead from 12-7 to 30-19.
Hudson Bain led Mountain View with 15 points.
Susquehanna forced 27 Forest City turnovers.
Fisk led four players in double figures with 15 points. Baker had 14, Stengel 11 and Keyes 10.
Baker led the defense with six steals and also grabbed a team-high seven rebounds. Stengel, who had nine assists, and Keyes each made four steals.
Elk Lake remained unbeaten in the division by winning its only game while Susquehanna, Montrose and Lackawanna Trail won twice each.
The Warriors (10-0, 17-1) had a battle at Blue Ridge Thursday before winning, 56-47.
Blue Ridge led 19-10 after one quarter and 24-23 at halftime.
John Heitsman had six of his seven field goals and 15 of his 20 points in the second half for Elk Lake.
Heitsman scored 10 of Elk Lake's 12 points in the third quarter when the Warriors tied the game. Parker Upright then had eight of his 11 in the fourth to help pull out the victory.
Paxton Pingarelli had seven points in the first quarter when Blue Ridge hit four 3-pointers, two by Brandon Marvin and one each by Travis Rutter and Landon Bishop, to jump in front.
Pingarelli finished with 13 points and Marvin had 10.
Montrose topped visiting Forest City, 41-38, Jan. 27 and won at Carbondale, 64-47, Friday to reach .500 in the division and move into a fourth-place tie with Blue Ridge.
Evan McComb went 3-for-4 from the foul line in the fourth quarter and led Montrose with 11 points in the win over Forest City.
The winless Foresters led 12-6 after one quarter. They got 14 points from T.J. Collins.
Jai Herman scored 17 points and McComb had 12 for Montrose, which opened a 52-26 lead through three quarters at Carbondale.
Blue Ridge and Mountain View were each beaten by Lackawanna Trail, which held on to third place, one game behind Susquehanna and two behind Elk Lake.
Hayden Bluhm scored 21 points as Lackawanna Trail topped Blue Ridge, 55-40, Wednesday.
Pingarelli led Blue Ridge with 11.
Lackawanna Trail handled Mountain View, 65-43, Thursday.
Bain had 13 points and Jordan Jagger 11 for the Eagles in the loss.
In girls' basketball, Mountain View ran its winning streak to nine games and Montrose extended its streak to five to hold on to first and second place in Lackawanna Division 3.
The Lady Eagles, Lady Meteors and third-place Elk Lake all had 2-0 weeks.
Mountain View won twice on the road, beating Susquehanna, 61-29, Wednesday and Lackawanna Trail, 63-44, Friday.
Addison Kilmer scored 38 points, including the 2,000th of her career, at Susquehanna.
Kilmer had 14 points in the first quarter and 24 by halftime to help the Lady Eagles to a 40-12 lead. She reached the mark on a 3-pointer in the third quarter and finished the game with five 3-pointers while going 7-for-8 from the line.
Aubrey Sanders added 15 points in the win.
Keira Burke and Esther Davis had eight points each for Susquehanna.
Kilmer had 31 points while Emily Trichilo added 13 and Sanders had 12 against Lackawanna Trail.
Montrose won, 49-22, at Forest City Jan. 27 and, 57-18, over visiting Carbondale Friday.
Sadie Jones scored 21 points and Molly Weller 14 against Forest City.
Vivy Nabywaniec scored 16 points and Jones had 13 against Carbondale.
The Lady Meteors shut out the Chargerettes in the second quarter for a 40-2 halftime lead.
Elk Lake won on consecutive days Friday and Saturday. The Lady Warriors beat visiting Blue Ridge, 46-42, and host Carbondale, 61-29.
Madisyn Casselbury had 14 points and Piper Keeney 12 to help Elk Lake get through the Blue Ridge game, which was close throughout.
Abigail Gelinger scored 21 points for Blue Ridge.
Blue Ridge and Forest City each won once during the week.
Gelinger poured in 34 points in Blue Ridge's 61-50 victory over Lackawanna Trail Jan. 27.
Addison Welch added 12 points and Lynndee Barbour grabbed eight rebounds.
Forest City downed host Susquehanna, 55-38, Friday with the help of nine 3-pointers.
Michaela Zaveri hit three times from long range while scoring 22 points. Kayla Pecko had five 3-pointers and 20 points.
Madisyn Beach scored 14 for Susquehanna, which led at halftime before Forest City put up 25 points in the third quarter.
California of Pennsylvania women's track and field thrower Gianna Tewksbury finished 13th in the shot put and 20th in the weight throw Saturday during the Youngstown State Mid-Major Invitational.
Going against a field that included many National Collegiate Athletic Association Division I athletes, Tewksbury was 13th of 71 entries in the shot put with 35-8. She was 20th of 61 in the weight throw.
The freshman from Elk Lake's best finish to date was a week earlier when she was sixth in the weight throw with 45-11ΒΌ at the SPIRE Midwest Open.
The Lackawanna League Division 3 basketball titles could be decided in the next week.
The Elk Lake boys and Mountain View girls are each unbeaten in their divisions.
Elk Lake plays at third-place Lackawanna Trail Thursday, then at second-place Susquehanna Monday, Feb. 9.
The Warriors could have more room to operate depending on the result of a game that was scheduled to be played Monday between Susquehanna and Lackawanna Trail.
Mountain View is at second-place Montrose in a girls' game Friday.
Before that, the Lady Eagles were scheduled to face another challenge Tuesday at home against Elk Lake, the defending champion and team that gave them their closest league challenge to date this season.
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.