Gazette
High School Notebook: What a run for Jeannette seniors
Monday, March 17, 2008
By Mike White, Pittsburgh Post-Gazette
Pam Panchak/Post-Gazette
Terrelle Pryor scored a team-high 23 points in Jeannette's PIAA Class AA championship game win Saturday against Strawberry Mansion in University Park, Pa.
UNIVERSITY PARK, Pa. -- Jeannette's victory in the PIAA Class AA championship game Saturday ended one of the greatest two-year runs by a group of WPIAL athletes.
All of the players on Jeannette's basketball team the past two years also were football players. On the Class AA level, it wouldn't be an overstatement to call Jeannette's group of football-basketball athletes the best in WPIAL history. At least if you look at wins.
In a two-season period in basketball, Jeannette had a record of 53-9. In that time, Jeannette won a WPIAL championship, a PIAA title, played in another WPIAL final and advanced to the PIAA semifinals. In football the past two seasons, the Jayhawks were 30-2. That's an 83-11 record in the two sports.
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