BY MARTY MYERS
Times-Shamrock Writer

A week ago, Lackawanna League golf coaches could have employed a line from Captain Renault in the movie classic “Casablanca.”

“Round up the usual suspects.”

After Friday’s Jackman Memorial Tournament, that might not be sufficient.

Forest City had a nice campaign a year ago, finishing third with an 11-3-1 mark, but expectations have been raised as the Foresters are now the pick to unseat the two-time champion Crusaders, the coaches’ consensus validated by posting the best score (320) of any of the small schools.

“We definitely have to be focused,” senior Adam Kowalewski said. “Being the favorite, we don’t want to be too overconfident.”

Senior Dylan O’Dell shot a 3-over 75 at the Jackman, but the Foresters got big efforts from freshmen Chris Bebla and Collin Ennis.

Holy Cross returns individual state qualifier Tom Dzwonczyk along with Angelo Mancinelli, and the addition of Tressler gives the Crusaders three solid players, which can be enough to win five points in the league format of six individual and three better-ball matches.

Riverside lost a key component with the transfer of a student to Wyoming Seminary, but Matt Torrisi was unbeaten in league play last year and joins Aaron Oustrich, Justin Copp and Tyler Gaidula as returning starters.

Dunmore has five starters back, led by senior Joe Weber, as both the Bucks and Riverside figure to have a say in the division race. So might Old Forge, which returns three starters.

And no one should count out Montrose, which always seems to find a way to win and is led by Austin Smith, a state qualifier and All-Region player a year ago.

At the Jackman Tournament, Montrose’s Smith (75) eagled the par-5 first hole to win a sudden-death playoff with North Pocono’s Bowen and Forest City’s Dylan O’Dell to claim the low senior scoring award.

IRVING JACKMAN
MEMORIAL TOURNAMENT
At Scranton Municipal G.C.
Par 72
Top individuals
Ronnie Yanoski, Valley View 71
Austin Smith, Montrose 75
Kyle Bowen, North Pocono 75
Dylan O’Dell, Forest City 75
Jack Hauber, North Pocono 75
Jack Habeeb, Scranton Prep 76
Tyler Marchese, Scranton Prep 76
Luke Fayocavitz, Abington Heights 77
Tom Dzwonczyk, Holy Cross 77
Ian Langendoerfer, Honesdale 77
Andrew Jalowiec, Abington Heights 78
Joe Weber, Dunmore 78
Sean Pittack, Lakeland 78
Adam Kowalewski, Forest City 78
Jim Tressler, Holy Cross 78
Alex Pillar, Wallenpaupack 78
Nate Trout, Wallenpaupack 78
Matt Mecca, Abington Heights 79
Sahas Chandragiri, Abington Heights 79
Paul Pisarcik, Carbondale 79
Angelo Mancinelli, Holy Cross 79
Nick Mokay, North Pocono 79
Jordan Tisehler, North Pocono 79
Corbin Babyak, Wallenpaupack 79

Team Scoring
North Pocono (308): Kyle Bowen 75, Jack Hauber 75, Nick Mokay 79, Jordan Tisehler 79
Scranton Prep (312): Jack Habeeb 76, Tyler Marchese 76, Marco Nieto 80, Sebastian Cimoch 80
Abington Heights (313): Luke Fayocavitz 77, Andrew Jalowiec 78, Matt Mecca 79, Sahas Chandragiri 79,
Wallenpaupack (317): Alex Pillar 78, Nate Trout 78, Corbin Babyak 79, Nick Bates 82
Forest City (320): Dylan O’Dell 75, Adam Kowalewski 78, Chris Bebla 82, Collin Ennis 85
Valley View (325): Ronnie Yanoski 71, A.J. Ceccarelli 82, Mitchell Mazza 84, Louis Rosetti 88
Holy Cross (331): Tom Dzwonczyk 77, Jim Tressler 78, Angelo Mancinelli 79, Declan Tokash 97
Dunmore (345): Joe Weber 78, Dominic DiPietro 86, Chris Murray 88, Paul Scalese 93
Lakeland (351): Sean Pittack 78, Conner Albino 80, Tony Harding 96, John Wanas 97
Honesdale (355): Ian Langendoerfer 77, Konner Burke 89, Luke Flederbach 93, Spencer Goyette 96
Riverside (356): Matt Torrisi 82, Evan Carrabua 89, Colin Quinn 91, Tyler Gadula 94
Montrose (359): Austin Smith 75, Paul Motisko 84, Riley Brown 100, Issac Walker 100
Old Forge (386): Nick Lisowski 82, Tom Domzych 98, Brandon Nee 101, Nick Pelosi 105
Lackawanna Trail (387): Andy Faist 87, Cody Stvenzi 99, Matt Kwiatkowski 100, Owen Hyde 101
Mid Valley (395): R.J. Gouldsbury 85, Noah Tanner 89, Aaron Polon 94, Brad Kalinoski 127
Carbondale (399): Paul Pisarcik 79, Justin Potis 102, Nic Pugliese 105, Bob Salitsky and Marino DePalma 113
Delaware Valley (399): Jacob Ganz 99, Kyle Norman 100, Tanner Burns 100, Liam Naturale 100
Scranton (423): Seamus Moran (90), Devin Lynch 103, Collin McHugh 113, Frank Cwalinski 117
Blue Ridge, Elk Lake, West Scranton and Western Wayne competed but did not enter full teams.