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Jerry Kincel is now the Riverside boys' basketball all-time leading scorer - and counting - with every basket, free-throw and three-pointer he scores the rest of the season. The senior scored 30 points in an overtime win against Valley View two weeks ago and moved into first place on Riverside's all-time scoring list.
"It was a great feeling," Kincel said. "To be among the guys who went along the same way I did, took the same steps in the program I did, played the same type of teams I did in the same atmospheres I played. "It is an honor to be on the same list as them, let alone lead them."
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The Triboro area has already had a great basketball season with many solid players and teams making noise this season. Riverside and Old Forge get most of the attention, but Triboro Christian Academy, located in Old Forge, also sports both boys and girls basketball teams.
Both teams are sitting in third place in the New York Pennsylvania Christian Athletic Conference, important because the league has a tournament at the end of the season. The tournament will decided the champion of the league, with the top four teams will make the tournament.
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Cheer Clinic
The Lackawanna County Department of Parks and Recreation will present the first All Star Cheer Academy cheerleading clinic for girls and boys ages 6-14 from 5-6:30 p.m. on March 3, 10, 17, and 24, at All Star Cheer Academy, 1258 Mid Valley Drive, Jessup. The four-week clinic is an introduction to the sport of cheerleading. The clinic will cover the basics of tumbling, jumps, stunts and side-line cheers. Cost for the four Saturdays is $50.
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