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Blackhawk's Hamilton latest member of 300-win club
The Associated Press:
(AP) — The 300-win club for Pennsylvania high school football coaches has grown much larger this season.
Three weeks after Dunmore's Jack Henzes became the fifth state coach to win 300 games, Blackhawk's Joe Hamilton became the sixth.
Hamilton's Blackhawk team defeated Hampton 44-14 in the quarterfinals of the W.P.I.A.L. Class (AAA) playoffs, giving him a 300-132-11 record as a coach.
Along with Henzes, Hamilton joins all-time Pennsylvania leader George Curry, currently at Wyoming Valley West; Central Buck West's Mike Pettine; Valley View's Frank Pazzaglia; and Upper St. Clair's Jim Render as 300-game winners.
Curry's Wyoming Valley West team was beaten by Easton 28-0 in the first round of the District #2-11 Class (AAAA) sub-region last week to finish with a 9-2 record. Curry has a career mark of 396-85-5.
Hamilton, whose team barely survived a wild finish in a 7-6 first-round playoff triumph over Chartiers Valley the previous week, was carried off of the field at Ambridge High School by his players to the cheers of "Three-hun-dred."
"It's a pretty neat thing," said Hamilton, whose teams have three P.I.A.A. runner-up finishes but no championships. Two of those losses came to Berwick, in 1992 and 1996, when Curry was the coach there.
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PERRY'S OUT:@ For the first time in seven years, a school other than Perry Traditional Academy will win the Pittsburgh City League football championship.
Perry, which had won the last six District #8 titles, was defeated by Brashear 19-7 in one of two City League semifinals last week.
Brashear, which lost to Perry in three of the last four District #8 championship games, faces Oliver in the final. Both teams will advance to their respective P.I.A.A. playoffs — Brashear to Class (AAAA) and Oliver to Class (AAA) — regardless of the outcome of Saturday's game at Heinz Field.
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HOME IS WHERE YOU MAKE IT:@ Saturday's District #2-11 Class (AAAA) semifinal game between a pair of once-beaten teams, Abington Heights and Bethlehem Liberty, was to have been played at Abington Heights' home field.
Liberty officials felt Abington Heights' stadium, which seats 3,000, was too small to accommodate its crowd and 230-member band. So the District # 2 committee decided to move the game to Pittston Area's Charley Trippi Stadium, which seats about 8,000.
Abington Heights officials offered several concessions, including relocating students to the end zone and reserving one-half of the home stands for Liberty's fans.
"Our kids worked very hard for a home game," Abington Heights athletic director Jim Warner said. "We tried everything we could to convince the committee that we could handle it. Unfortunately, the committee saw it differently."
Abington Heights officials were not happy with the loss of the home game, but did get one thing they wanted: a grass field.
District #2 initially chose Scranton Memorial Stadium, not far from Clarks Summit, where Abington Heights is located. But Abington Heights protested because the Memorial Stadium artificial turf is similar to the artificial turf installed at Liberty's home field.
The committee then moved the game to Pittston, which has grass.
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The Associated Press:
(AP) — The 300-win club for Pennsylvania high school football coaches has grown much larger this season.
Three weeks after Dunmore's Jack Henzes became the fifth state coach to win 300 games, Blackhawk's Joe Hamilton became the sixth.
Hamilton's Blackhawk team defeated Hampton 44-14 in the quarterfinals of the W.P.I.A.L. Class (AAA) playoffs, giving him a 300-132-11 record as a coach.
Along with Henzes, Hamilton joins all-time Pennsylvania leader George Curry, currently at Wyoming Valley West; Central Buck West's Mike Pettine; Valley View's Frank Pazzaglia; and Upper St. Clair's Jim Render as 300-game winners.
Curry's Wyoming Valley West team was beaten by Easton 28-0 in the first round of the District #2-11 Class (AAAA) sub-region last week to finish with a 9-2 record. Curry has a career mark of 396-85-5.
Hamilton, whose team barely survived a wild finish in a 7-6 first-round playoff triumph over Chartiers Valley the previous week, was carried off of the field at Ambridge High School by his players to the cheers of "Three-hun-dred."
"It's a pretty neat thing," said Hamilton, whose teams have three P.I.A.A. runner-up finishes but no championships. Two of those losses came to Berwick, in 1992 and 1996, when Curry was the coach there.
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PERRY'S OUT:@ For the first time in seven years, a school other than Perry Traditional Academy will win the Pittsburgh City League football championship.
Perry, which had won the last six District #8 titles, was defeated by Brashear 19-7 in one of two City League semifinals last week.
Brashear, which lost to Perry in three of the last four District #8 championship games, faces Oliver in the final. Both teams will advance to their respective P.I.A.A. playoffs — Brashear to Class (AAAA) and Oliver to Class (AAA) — regardless of the outcome of Saturday's game at Heinz Field.
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HOME IS WHERE YOU MAKE IT:@ Saturday's District #2-11 Class (AAAA) semifinal game between a pair of once-beaten teams, Abington Heights and Bethlehem Liberty, was to have been played at Abington Heights' home field.
Liberty officials felt Abington Heights' stadium, which seats 3,000, was too small to accommodate its crowd and 230-member band. So the District # 2 committee decided to move the game to Pittston Area's Charley Trippi Stadium, which seats about 8,000.
Abington Heights officials offered several concessions, including relocating students to the end zone and reserving one-half of the home stands for Liberty's fans.
"Our kids worked very hard for a home game," Abington Heights athletic director Jim Warner said. "We tried everything we could to convince the committee that we could handle it. Unfortunately, the committee saw it differently."
Abington Heights officials were not happy with the loss of the home game, but did get one thing they wanted: a grass field.
District #2 initially chose Scranton Memorial Stadium, not far from Clarks Summit, where Abington Heights is located. But Abington Heights protested because the Memorial Stadium artificial turf is similar to the artificial turf installed at Liberty's home field.
The committee then moved the game to Pittston, which has grass.
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