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District 2 soccer tournament opens Wednesday

By Tom Robinson
Scranton Edition sports correspondent

Abington Heights, Holy Cross, Delaware Valley, Western Wayne and Montrose all received home games when the District 2 boys' soccer tournament pairings were officially set during a Monday night meeting at Wyoming Valley West High School.

District 2 soccer chairman Vito Quaglia announced the pairings following the meeting.

Scranton Prep, Forest City, Lakeland, Wallenpaupack, Mountain View and Elk Lake were the other Lackawanna League members awarded spots in the district tournaments based on their records in league play.

Lackawanna Division 1 champion Abington Heights (13-1) is the top seed from the league in Class AA where it will host Crestwood (9-4-1) in Wednesday's quarterfinals at 3:30.

Scranton Prep (10-3-1) plays Dallas (11-2-1) at either Dallas or Misericordia University in another 3:30 game.

The winners of those two games meet in Monday's semifinals.

Lackawanna Division 2 champion Western Wayne (10-2) is home Wednesday at 6 against Wyoming Valley Conference Division 2 champion Lake-Lehman (13-2-1) in another Class AA quarterfinal.

WVC Division 1 champion Coughlin (13-0-1) is home against Pittston Area (12-4) in the other game.

Lackawanna Division 3 champion Forest City (12-0) is on the road as the league's third seed and has to play at Wyoming Seminary, the second seed from the WVC after going 1-11-2 in Division 1.

The game is set for Thursday at 3:30.

The other three Class A quarterfinals are all Wednesday.

Mountain View (6-7-1) is at Holy Cross (8-4) at 3:30 with the winner to face the Forest City-Wyoming Seminary winner in Monday's semifinals.

Lakeland (6-6) is at Hanover Area (9-6) at 3:30 and Elk Lake (4-6-2) is at Montrose (5-6-1) at 4.

The four-team Class AAA tournament does not start until Monday.

Wallenpaupack (7-5-2) is at Wyoming Valley West (9-4-1) and Hazleton Area (3-9-1) is at top-seeded Delaware Valley (10-4) in a pair of 6 p.m. games.

The championship games are set for November 4.

For more coverage of District 2 playoffs, see Saturday's Scranton Edition of the Times Leader and return to www.scrantonedition.com/sports.