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Elk Lake sports teams combined to win more than 70 percent of their contests in Lackawanna Interscholastic Athletic Association events throughout the 2024-25 school year.
The Warriors finished with the best cumulative record in boys' events, girls' events and therefore combined in our annual review of records in Lackawanna competition.
Three Elk Lake girls' teams – basketball, swimming and softball – were unbeaten in league play while four boys' teams – cross country, baseball, basketball and track and field – lost only one time each.
Elk Lake teams combined to go 74-18, an .804 winning percentage in Lackawanna girls' events and 68-40 in Lackawanna boys' events.
The Warriors went 142-58 overall for a .710 percentage.
Elk Lake was followed in boys' competition by: Susquehanna, 35-26, .574; Montrose, 43-46, .483; Mountain View, 44-53, .454; Blue Ridge, 43-55-1, .439; and Forest City, 12-77-1, .139.
An unbeaten track and field season helped Susquehanna into the second spot.
Blue Ridge went unbeaten in wrestling.
Elk Lake was followed in girls' competition by: Mountain View, 55-28, .663; Montrose, 61-35, .635; Blue Ridge, 41-30, .577; Susquehanna, 17-54, .239; and Forest City, 15-63, .192.
Five of Mountain View's six girls' teams posted winning records, with four of them winning more than two-thirds of their league events.
Montrose was unbeaten in track and field.
Following Elk Lake in combined records were: Montrose, 104-81, .562; Mountain View, 99-81, .550; Blue Ridge, 84-85-1, .497; Susquehanna, 52-80, .394; Forest City, 27-140-1, .164.
The sports year is complete for all Susquehanna County teams.
Three District 2 sports teams, all Lackawanna League members, made it through two rounds of competition and into the Pennsylvania Interscholastic Athletic Association state semifinals.
The Valley View (Class 4A) and Mid Valley (3A) softball teams advanced while Abington Heights (2A) became the first District 2 girls' lacrosse team to ever reach the state semifinals.
All three put together back-to-back wins last week.
Susquehanna baseball player Travis Rooney has committed to continue his academic and athletic careers at the University of Northwestern Ohio.
Rooney was second on the Sabers with a .368 batting average and 22 runs batted in. He had three doubles, a home run and 10 runs.
On the mound, he was second on the team in innings pitched. He struck out 49 in 37 2/3 innings while posting a 4.83 earned run average.
Four Penn State University sites will serve as the hosts when the high school sports season around the state culminates this weekend.
Baseball and softball championships will be held Thursday and Friday with tripleheaders each day.
Boys' volleyball champions will be determined in a Saturday doubleheader.
Boys' and girls' lacrosse titles will be decided in a series of four games Saturday.
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.
Gianna Tewksbury, Elk Lake, girls track and field
Elk Lake senior Gianna Tewksbury collected track and field medals throughout May, the final month of her high school career.
That collection culminated in a fourth-place medal at the Pennsylvania Interscholastic Athletic Association Championships in Shippensburg University, the highest finish by a Susquehanna County athlete in state competition this spring.
As a result, Tewksbury is the latest selection as the Susquehanna County Transcript Athlete of the Month.
Tewksbury came through with a throw of 123-5 on the final day of the season.
"I was a little nervous because the day before we went up to practice at Shippensburg," Tewksbury said. "It was just a cold, rainy day. My throws weren't great. I slept it off, hoping that I'd come up with a better attitude and I did.
"I just told myself this was just like any other meet."
Tewksbury said she was still nervous, but the field of athletes at the state meet all shared in the accomplishment of making it there and encouraged each other at the same time they were competing.
Tewksbury was a thrower from the moment she joined track and field as a seventh-grader, only to have that season lost to COVID before league meets could begin. Even her second junior high season was shortened somewhat by the pandemic.
"I think I only competed in actual (junior high) meets three or four times," she said. "Ninth grade was like the real deal. We had more meets and I was getting more used to the competitive atmosphere.
"It started off as something new to try just to keep me in shape, then I fell in love with the sport."
Also accomplished in the shot put, Tewksbury said she always liked discus the best.
Tewksbury won the shot put and finished second in the discus at the Robert Spagna Lackawanna Track Conference Championship Meet. She won the discus and finished second, a half-inch behind teammate Katie McGlynn, at the District 2 Class 2A Championships.
Tewksbury was also a four-year team member and three-year starter in volleyball. She played basketball for two seasons before switching to swimming the last two and contributed to Elk Lake's first-ever Lackawanna League championship in that sport where she competed mainly in the 100-yard backstroke and 200 freestyle.
Gianna, from Meshoppen, is the daughter of Wilbert Jones and Kristin Tewksbury.