BY HEIDI ZENEFSKI
Correspondent

Coming off a tough win over Elk Lake on Tuesday, Montrose took the Lackawanna League Division IV boys basketball championship with a 38-37 win over the Foresters on Thursday.

Forest City started the game with a lead and would go on to outscore the Meteors in three of the four quarters of the low scoring game.

Montose was plagued by turnovers with seven of them in the first eight minutes. It was Jack Fruehan’s dominance under the basket that kept the Meteors in the

game.

Montrose dominated the sceond quarter, outscoring the Foresters by 10; but Forest City cut down the Meteor lead to three by the end of the third.

The Foresters had all the momentum going into the fourth quarter and Montrose fought to hang on to the little lead that they had. It didn’t take long for Fedak to score his only basket of the quarter, but it was the go-ahead basket which gave Forest City their first lead since the end of the first quarter.

In the final minutes of the game Brendan Buck scored a basket for the Meteors and then Austin Smith, scored his first and only basket of the game; a 3-pointer, which tied the score. Troy Ely was fouled and went to the line with only a few seconds left. He sank the first of two shots to give Montrose a one point lead.

With 2.1 seconds left in the game, Forest City inbounded the ball to Adam Kowalewski. As he went up to take the final and potentially game winning shot, Fruehan jumped and blocked the shot, securing the victory for Montrose.

The high scorer for Montrose was Ely with 15 points; Fruehan and Buck each added 10.

Forest City was led by Kowalewski and Fedak with 15 points.

The Meteors have a BYE for the first round of District AA Playoffs and will face the winner of the Riverside/Elk Lake playoff game on Saturday, February 21. Forest City also has a BYE for the first round of District A Playoffs and will face the winner of the Susquehanna/MMI game on Friday, February 20.

In other boys basketball action last week:

At Blue Ridge, Austin Darrow scored 30 points to lead the Raiders to a 54-43 win over Elk Lake on Thursday.

Jarred Mills added 11 points for the winners.

Dalton Sherman and Hunter Watkins each scored 13 points to pace Elk Lake.

At Mountain View, Matt Lavin scored 13 points to lead the Eagles, 40-38 over the Sabers.

Luke Falletta had 13 points for Susquehanna.

On Tuesday at Susquehanna, Tyler Williams hit a jump shot with 2 seconds left in overtime to give Susquehanna the 54-53 win over the Raiders.

Luke Falletta hit five 3-pointers and scored 18 points for the Sabers, Williams had 17 and Christian Miller scored 12.

Jared Mills led Blue Ridge with 16 points and Ty Herbert had 14.

At Forest City, Noah Fedak scored 25 points, including four 3-pointers, to lead the Foresters, 64-45 over Lackawanna Trail.

Adam Kowalewski added 19 points for the winners.
Lakeland 61
Mountain View 40
At Lakeland, Mountain View fell 61-40 to the Chiefs in a Division III-IV crossover game.
Matt Lavin led Mountain View with nine points.