HS BASKETBALL: LIAA senior all-star games will wrap up season
Scranton boys basketball coach Tony Battaglia will have one more opportunity to be on the sidelines with his son playing for his team. The Lackawanna Interscholastic Athletic Association will sponsor the annual boys’ and girls’ senior all-star games Monday at Scranton High School. The girls game tips off at 6 p.
m. followed by the boys’ game. Battaglia’s son, Tony, will headline the boys Red team.
A four year starter, Tony was a career 1,000-point scorer and a Lackawanna League Division I Coaches’ first-team all-star. Other member of the Red roster are: Scranton Prep’s Packy Doherty and Brody Martin; Valley View’s Jagger Roe, Noah Symuleski and Aiden Plotkin; Dunmore’s Brayden Canavan, Nate Aviles and Jimmy Clark; Riverside’s Michael Schimelfenig and Kyle Connor; and West Scranton’s Nate Schimelfenig. Doherty, Canavan and Nate Schimelfenig are all career 1,000-point scorers, while Martin, Aviles and Michael Schimelfenig were all selected to the Lackawanna League Coaches all-defensive team.
Delaware Valley coach Kris Holtzer, whose team won the District 2 Class 6A championship, will guide the Blue team. He will have three of his players on the roster in Tyler Lombardo, Scott Nielsen and Craig Newton. Also selected to the Blue roster are: Abington Heights’ Jordan Shaffer, Andrew Kettel and Finn Goldberg; Old Forge’s Cameron Parker, Logan Fanning and Ryan DeMarco; Elk Lake’s John Heitsman; Wallenpaupack’s Nick VanBuskirk; Mid Valley’s Landon Pratt; Honesdale’s Levi Martin; and Montrose’s Jude Adams.
Shaffer is the Lackawanna Division I Player of the Year and a career 1,000-point scorer, as is Parker. Heitsman is the Division III Player of the Year and Defensive Player of the Year, In the girls’ game, Dunmore coach Carrie Toomey, who guided her team to the District 2 Class 3A championship, will coach the Red team. North Pocono coach Joe Ferguson, whose team won the Lackawanna Division I title, will coach the Blue team.