Crusaders defeat Bucks for Intra Borough Basketball Championship

Posted on February 1, 2023 by The Dunmorean

The Intra Borough Boys Basketball Championship Game between Dunmore and Holy Cross High Schools was held on Jan. 17 at Holy Cross High School, sponsored by the Dunmore Lions Club to help defray its College Scholarship Program which is now in its 42nd year of existence.

This year the Holy Cross Boys defeated the Dunmore Boys by a score of 58 to 27. Holy Cross is ranked third by the Scranton Times sport writers and have beaten five straight Division III opponents.

Holy Cross team members and staff are shown, front row from left: Kaeden Carr, Nick Calciano, Logan Tierney, D.J. Smith, Gabe Gonzales, Hayden Hosie, Lion Renee Iezzi, and Lion Stephanie Juarez-Ventura.

Back row, same order: Assistant Coach Corey Joyce, Assistant Coach Kyler Kovaleski, Charlie O’Malley, Assistant Coach Rich LaRussa, Austin Bicking, Michael Hughes, Mario Matrone, Joshua Lentowski, Matt Lyons, Joseph lalli, Head Coach Al Callejas, Lion President Sam Sebastianelli, Brayden Moran, Cullen Moran, Gavin Monahan, Steve Yorkovic, Conor Farrell, Lucas Urban, Lion Gino Tempesta, event chairman; Assistant Coach Al Callejas, and Lion Angelo Martarano.

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Members of the Dunmore High School Boys Basketball Team who participated in the Intra Borough Boys Basketball Championship Game include, front row, from left: Lion Stephanie Juarez-Ventura, Brayden Canavan, Nate Aviles, Nico Ruggiero, Cal Talutto, Evan Capooci, and Jimmy Clark.

Back row, same order: Cullen Smith, Max Forgione, Lion Renee Iezzi, Bobby Hoban, Lion Angelo Martarano, Assistant Coach Paul Biagioli, Lion President Sam Sebastianelli, Assistant Coach Sal Marchese, Domenic Desando, Thomas Bowen, Jack McNeff, Assistant Coach Pat Clark, and Lion Gino Tempesta, Event Chairman.

Absent from photo is Head Coach Kevin Clark.

Dunmore High School announced honor roll students

Posted on February 1, 2023 by The Dunmorean

Dunmore High School has announced the following students on the honor roll:

GRADE 12

Distinguished honors: Anna Acculto, Hannah Albano, Kristian Balingasa, Jacquelyn Bitter, Colleen Blockberger, Michael Bonavoglia, Carl Boone, Faith Bravo, Anthony Cantafio, Cole Capocci, Julia Cirba, Anthony Colborn, John Costanzi, Nicholas Creed, John Crespo Clark, Quinn Davis, Nathan DeSando, Zachary Eynon, Kristine Fagioli, Andrew Fazio, Cameron Gerrity, Jacob Grande, Nicola Hart, Kieran Hinton, Gregory Hunt, Abigail Kopacz, Cadence Lewis, Evan Makowski, Joshua Malone, Sonny Mattern, Nicholas Mecca, Mitchell Meglvern, David Milbut, Ayman Mounota, Angelo Naro, Osselle Nedd, Bastianna Orr, Adriana Pacewicz, Thomas Pavlowski, Kaylee Pinto, Patrick Pucilowski, Morgan Quinn, Breanna Ramos, Alyssa Renna, Nico Ruggiero, Anthony Sabia, Brian Santarsiero, Morgan Seamon, Maura Sheets, Ashley Stefanac, Cataldo Talutto, Adeline Tobble, Ciera Toomey, Caroline Valunas Madolyn Valvano and Madison Waltz.

Honors: Baraa Alobid, Cheyanne Antoniotti, Ryan Aviles, Megan Brace, Nico Buckley, Nasir Creed, Krystal Crespo Clark, Colin Hartman, Belinda Hysa, Kelis Laborde, Alexander Leggat, Sairis Lozado, Joseph Lucas, Brianna Murphy. Dylan Overholtz, Eva Patel, Nicholas Pierro, Riley Robinson, Dale Salzmann, Michelle Sanders, Lola Summa, Dale Symons, Melazia Travis-Carter, Kamryn Tsikalas, Kollin Ware and Haris Zia.

GRADE 11

Distinguished honors: Abilene Antoniotti, Julianna Argust, Anna Belko, Alexander Blasi, FCollin Blasi, Thomas Bowen, Grace Burrell, Tristan Canavan, Mia Capooci, Christopher Conte, Masiahs Cruz, Sienna Delfino, Allison Dempsey, Domenic DeSando, Molly Dingwell, Nicholas Donvito, Noah Dougherty, Tiffany Dudick, Abigail Earley, Chloe Ezzell, Serenity Fox, Gianna Frank, Sean Gallagher, Molly Gatto, Megan Gilhooley, Andrew Haser, Jacob Hickey, Giulian Hopkins-Morell, Nathan Howey-Reuther, Safwan Jolya, Aiden Kearney, Caden Kirby, Geanna Kirchner, Brynn Kochis, Savannah Lockwood, Alexa Marone, Camden McCarthy, Evan McHale, Maura Michalczyk, Lorenzo Mitchell, Daniel Pigga, Nataly Portanova, Emma Waters and Mackenzie Witkowski.

Honors: Logan Baum, Art Cedrick DeNucci, Rogan Dougherty, Guilietta Escobar, Catherine Gihooley, Alishba Islam, Jacqueline Kelly, Jackson Madajeski, Nathan McMynne, Lucy Monahan-Gann, Brett Monelli, Talan Mullarkey, Mia Novak, Thomas Robinson, Anthony Santarsiero, Dino Scotti, Dereck Soto, Sophia Summa, Bryce Talutto, Alan Walton, Mia Waters, Sophia Welk, Julia White, Lawrence Zeller, Kamran Zia and Kaylie Zimmer.

GRADE 10

Distinguished honors: Anthony Anelli, Jatan Avasatthi, Aaliyah Boone,Charles Calciano, Arthur Christiano, Thomas Clark, Madden De’Angelo, Hayden Delbridge, Elizabeth DePrimo, Jack DiCindio, Tuan Doan, Cole Fangio, Ava Ferraro, Max Forgione, Gabriel Franek, Sophia Gabello, Sydney Harding, Aiden Hart, Lauren Henry, Shamus Hinton, Robert Hoban, Matthew Iezzi, Margaret Jimmie, Asher Jones, Abigail Kocher-Vinton, Patrick Kopacz, Emily Lam, John Madaferri, Bethany Mazurick, Cullen McCarthy, Jack McNeff, Leah Mezick, Tyara Misian, Madeline Mislinski, Hailey Moffitt, Ariana Napolitano, Oseem Need, Ethan Parra, Isabella Pasko, Mir Patel, Radha Patel, Delfino Ramirez, Eric Reesey, Aviana Rivera, Isabelle Rought, Lucy Seibert, Savanna Sherman, Loren Spudic, Sophia Talutto, Conor Toole, Holly Tosto, Anna Trauger and Aidan Walsh.

Honors: Mia Bannon, Nico Barchak, Anthony Bonavoglia, Damelon Bostic, Jake Cortazar, Adam Cusick, Scott Czankner, Alisha Davis, Angelo Gambo, Andrew Gatto, Julianna Grow, Christian Jaramillo, John Juarez Martin, Anel Lozada, Skye Madrazo, Daniel Malos, Lily Massaro, Natalie Mecca, Audessa Mocco, Connor Mullaney, Mya Orr, Rudra Patel, Molly Rafferty-Donahoe, Jacob Ramos, Dhruvi Ray, Timothy Redding, Olivia Santarsiero, John Silvi, Nathan Steele, Michael Williams and Cheng Zhang.

Senior Cadie Lewis picking up Dunmore Lady Bucks

Posted on February 1, 2023 by The Dunmorean

By Steve Svetovich

With teammates Ciera Toomey and Sophia Talutto out with injuries, Dunmore senior point guard Cadie Lewis is picking up the number two ranked Lady Bucks.

And the team just keeps rolling along and winning.

After Talutto was injured at the end of the first quarter in a recent game against Riverside, Cadie picked her team up and scored 26 points in leading her team to a 65-36 win over the Lady Vikings.

Daughter of Tom and Michelle Lewis, Cadie is among the league’s leading scorers averaging 10 points per contest. She also leads the league in 3-pointers averaging over two per game. An unselfish player, Cadie averages 4.5 assists per game from her point guard position.

A four-year member of the basketball team, the well-spoken senior has a highly impressive 99 academic average. She is a four-year member and co-captain of the Dunmore football cheerleaders. She is a two year member and captain of the Lady Bucks softball team.

Cadie is also a member of the National Honor Society, TACT, SADD, and the Service Club.

She talked about what it takes to excel at the point guard position in high school basketball. “You need to be both confident and humble in your game,” she said. “You need to know your teammates well, make the right shots, and take care of the ball.”

With two starters injured, Cadie knew she had to pick her game up. “With Ciera out a good part of the season, and then with Sophia out, I knew it was time to step it up. I had to make the right plays and right shots. I’m used to being a defensive player, so I had to step it up a bit on the offensive end.”

Articulate and hard-working, Cadie said she has applied to Marywood University, Kings College, and Neumann University to study in the physician’s assistant program. All are five-year programs.

“I want to study to become a physician’s assistant,” she said. “I definitely would love to play college basketball if given the opportunity.”

Cadie has other goals in her future. “I want to become financially independent and travel the world,” she said. “I would love to travel to Italy and Greece.”

The senior scholar-athlete said she loves the musical artist Adele. “I would absolutely love to see her in concert. No matter where, I would try to get there. If I had the time to get there, I would. I love her.”

Cadie, who always seems to look at the bottle as half-full, praised new Dunmore basketball coach Carrie Bowen Toomey. “She showed me how to read my teammates out on the floor. She gave me more confidence to get to the basket and look for my shot.”

Cool and confident, Cadie has learned a lot from her parents. “They taught me the importance of hard work,” she said. “They tell me to work to the best of my ability and put my best foot forward.”

Cadie said she has enjoyed her experience at Dunmore. “I love Dunmore,” she said. “It is a close knit community. It’s a great place to grow up. Dunmore is a great school. You see all familiar faces in the crowd at the games. Everyone supports us. We see the teachers the day after a game at school and they are all congratulating us. Everyone is just so supportive both in and out of school.”