SCRANTON – West Scranton’s Tom Hendry was the first Lackawanna County wrestler to win a title in Saturday’s final round of the Lackawanna League Wrestling Tournament at Scranton High School.

Hendry, a senior 113-pounder, improved to 27-4 on the season with three victories. He defeated Delaware Valley’s Frankie Carrozza, 14-2, in the final.

Hendry scored in the opening seconds of each of the three periods on his way to the major decision. He put Carrozza on his back in the first period and again in the closing seconds.

At presstime, seven more county wrestlers were still scheduled to compete for championships. Lackawanna Trail had three of the finalists – Marvess Rosiak at 170, Caleb Darling at 182, and Eric Laytos at 220. Michael Carr of Abington Heights and Jon Kobrynich of West Scranton were set to meet in the 152-pound final. Scranton’s Mark Granahan (160) and Valley View’s Mike Galantini (285) were the other finalists.

Greg Pascale of Abington Heights and Shane Jennings of Scranton settled for second place with one- and two-point losses in the first two bouts of the finals. Wallenpaupack’s Chase Gallik defeated Pascale, 10-9, at 106 pounds and Delaware Valley’s Richie Coslower held on to beat Jennings, 10-8, at 112.

Delaware Valley ran away with the team title. The Warriors opened a 23-point lead in the first round and tournament officials stopped keeping score because of the other paperwork necessary to run the tournament. Team scores are expected to be calculated today.

The Warriors already repeated as Lackawanna Division 1 champions during the regular season. Delaware Valley then won the District 2 championship and finished seventh in the state among Class AAA teams in dual meet competition.

Delaware Valley continued to dominate in the tournament format where each weight class has its own bracket to determine a champion.

The tournament is the last preparation for District 2, regional, and state competition.

The District 2 championships are scheduled for Friday and Saturday. Class AAA is at Hazleton Area and Class AA is at Lake-Lehman.

Action starts Friday at 5 p.m.

Semifinals are tentatively set for Saturday at 11 a.m., consolation finals at 4:30 p.m., and finals at 6:30.

Three Lackawanna County wrestlers are defending district champions.

Lackawanna Trail’s Laytos, a 2010 state Class AA champion, won at 215 last year. He is wrestling at 220 and took the Lackawanna League’s only unbeaten record (28-0) into Saturday’s final.

Valley View’s Galantini (22-2 into Saturday’s final) is the defending District 2 Class AA champion at 285.

Scranton’s Mark Granahan (33-2) is the defending District 2 Class AAA 160-pound champ.

Abington Heights captured the Wyoming Valley Conference Northern Division girls’ title Tuesday by beating Tunkhannock, 131-52, while Scranton Prep was suffering its first loss at Delaware Valley.

The Lady Comets and Classics tied earlier in the season. Abington Heights then edged Delaware Valley, 97-89, a week ago in the meet that ultimately gave the Lady Comets a half-meet lead over the second-place Lady Warriors.

Morgan Muller had an individual and two relay wins and Emma Gromelski was on all three winning relay teams in the clinching win against Tunkhannock.

The Lackawanna County Swimming and Diving Championships were held Saturday at Scranton High School, featuring county schools and a few of their nearby rivals.

Qualifying took place in the morning and afternoon to determine the entries in Saturday night’s finalists.

The first meet and pool records of the day was set during girls’ 200-yard individual medley qualifying.

Scranton Prep’s Mia Nonnenberg broke a pair of 10-year-old records by qualifying first in 2:10.26.

Ashley Bessoir, also from Scranton Prep, held the previous records. Bessoir set the meet mark of 2:13.25 in 2002. She also had the pool record of 2:11.51.

There was no team scoring in the event.

District 2 competition gets started Saturday with diving championships at the Wilkes-Barre CYC. Class AA starts at 10 a.m. Class AAA starts at 3 p.m.

The remainder of the District 2 swimming events are conducted the following weekend at the Wilkes-Barre CYC.

The Carbondale Area and Forest City Regional school boards have approved plans to begin cooperative sponsorship in some sports.

Forest City athletes will have the chance to play high school football for the first time. Carbondale will be the host school for co-sponsorship of football and boys’ and girls’ track.

Under the plan, according to Carbondale athletic director Erik Larson, Forest City will be the host school for co-sponsored boys’ and girls’ volleyball teams.

The schools are awaiting approval of the plans from District 2 and the Pennsylvania Interscholastic Athletic Association.

North Pocono has appointed Greg Dolhon as head football coach.

It is the first head coaching assignment for Dolhon, who has been serving as an assistant coach at Dunmore under his father-in-law, Jack Henzes.