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PENNSBURY BASKETBALL:
Pennsbury eyes elusive state title
By Bill Kenny; For Buckslocalsports.com
The Pennsbury High School boys basketball team may be the most dissatisfied bunch ever to win a conference championship with an undefeated record.
That’s because Suburban One League National Conference perfection has become the norm for the Falcons over the last four years with all-everything senior Dalton Pepper leading a repeatedly underrated supporting cast throughout that time.
So when the Falcons clinched their fourth straight unblemished SOL season with a win over their school’s chief football rival, Neshaminy, last Friday, the celebration was actually quite subdued. Much like any other home game, the Falcons patted one another on the backs, shook hands with their defeated foes and began answering questions from the news media.
The obligatory cutting down of the nets was literally an afterthought.
And even while they set up a ladder underneath one of the backboards and scaled it one-by-one with scissors in hand, there was little reflection on what had just been accomplished. Rather, the most popular topic was what still lay ahead — the current group’s final chance at claiming a coveted PIAA state title.
“To all of us, that’s the one thing we want to do,” Pepper said after the final league game of the season against Neshaminy, one in which he scored 28 points to surpass 2,000 for his career. “If we get anything less, we’ll be disappointed.”
Pennsbury will take its first step toward that lofty goal tonight when it hosts another SOL National team, Council Rock South, in the opening round of the 32-team District One tournament. (Tickets go on sale at 5 p.m.
Pennsbury (19-3), the No. 4 seed, is expected to breeze through the first round, having beaten CR South (11-11), the No. 29 seed, twice in the regular season by an average 18.5 points.
In tonight’s other Lower Bucks playoff encounter, No. 14 Bensalem (17-5) will host No. 19 Great Valley (17-5). Meanwhile, No. 21 CR North (13-9) will visit No. 12 Glen Mills (15-6) and No. 23 Neshaminy (13-8) will play at No. 10 Penncrest (18-5).
Because District One is so dominant at the state level in Class AAAA, Pennsylvania’s large-school bracket, the district gets nine automatic bids in the forthcoming PIAA tournament. So, a team need only win two district games to get to states.
The Pennsbury High School boys basketball team may be the most dissatisfied bunch ever to win a conference championship with an undefeated record.
That’s because Suburban One League National Conference perfection has become the norm for the Falcons over the last four years with all-everything senior Dalton Pepper leading a repeatedly underrated supporting cast throughout that time.
So when the Falcons clinched their fourth straight unblemished SOL season with a win over their school’s chief football rival, Neshaminy, last Friday, the celebration was actually quite subdued. Much like any other home game, the Falcons patted one another on the backs, shook hands with their defeated foes and began answering questions from the news media.
The obligatory cutting down of the nets was literally an afterthought.
And even while they set up a ladder underneath one of the backboards and scaled it one-by-one with scissors in hand, there was little reflection on what had just been accomplished. Rather, the most popular topic was what still lay ahead — the current group’s final chance at claiming a coveted PIAA state title.
“To all of us, that’s the one thing we want to do,” Pepper said after the final league game of the season against Neshaminy, one in which he scored 28 points to surpass 2,000 for his career. “If we get anything less, we’ll be disappointed.”
Pennsbury will take its first step toward that lofty goal tonight when it hosts another SOL National team, Council Rock South, in the opening round of the 32-team District One tournament. (Tickets go on sale at 5 p.m.
Pennsbury (19-3), the No. 4 seed, is expected to breeze through the first round, having beaten CR South (11-11), the No. 29 seed, twice in the regular season by an average 18.5 points.
In tonight’s other Lower Bucks playoff encounter, No. 14 Bensalem (17-5) will host No. 19 Great Valley (17-5). Meanwhile, No. 21 CR North (13-9) will visit No. 12 Glen Mills (15-6) and No. 23 Neshaminy (13-8) will play at No. 10 Penncrest (18-5).
Because District One is so dominant at the state level in Class AAAA, Pennsylvania’s large-school bracket, the district gets nine automatic bids in the forthcoming PIAA tournament. So, a team need only win two district games to get to states.
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