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Venango County
state champions

TEAM

Basketball

PCIAA

1939 -- Oil City St. Joseph

1941 -- Oil City St. Joseph

PIAA

1980 -- Venango Christian (now Catholic) girls, 1A

1992 -- Cranberry girls, 2A

1993 -- Cranberry girls, 2A

1994 -- Cranberry girls, 2A

2001 -- Franklin boys, 3A

2006 -- Franklin boys, 3A

Baseball

2018 -- Rocky Grove, 2A

Cross country

2024 -- Cranberry girls, 1A

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INDIVIDUAL

Golf

1935 -- Barrett Melvin, Franklin

1936 -- Barrett Melvin, Franklin

Barrett Melvin
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Track

1954 -- Charlie Winger, Oil City, Class A mile

1955 -- Charlie Winger, Oil City, Class A 880

1955 -- Charlie Winger, Oil City, Class A mile

1959 -- Bob Flickner, Rocky Grove, Class B 100

1959 -- DeWitt Green, Rocky Grove, Class B pole vault

1969 -- Rick Weaver, Oil City, Class A 880

1981 -- Scott Moon, Oil City, 3A javelin

1982 -- Scott Moon, Oil City, 3A javelin

1985 -- Mike Renninger, Oil City, 3A 1600

1985 -- Ed Munoz, Oil City, 3A 800

1986 -- Chris Conway, Oil City, 3A long jump

1995 -- Liz Bodnar, Franklin, 3A high jump

1997 -- Kacey Neely, Cranberry, 2A 300 hurdles

2015 -- Abby Jones, Franklin, 3A high jump

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Chris Conway
Abby Jones

Pictured are Barrett Melvin, Fred Young, Chris Conway (who ran a sub-10 at 100 yards), Abby Jones and Dakota Geer.

Swimming

1990 -- Alison Conrad, Oil City, diving

1995 -- Jill Wilkinson, Franklin, 2A breaststroke

1996 -- Jill Wilkinson, Franklin, 2A breaststroke

1996 -- Franklin (Darren Livezy, Mike Frederick, Ryan Fennick, Nate Edmundson, 2A medley relay

1997 -- Andy Fischer, Oil City, 2A diving

1997 -- Franklin (Jill Wilkinson, Amanda Armburger, Gwynne Junkin, Katie Findlan), 2A medley relay

2012 -- Phil Emerson, Franklin, 2A 100 free

2013 -- Phil Emerson, Franklin, 2A, 50 free

2013 -- Phil Emerson, Franklin, 2A 100 free

2013 -- Franklin (Phil Emerson, Andy Frederick, Quinn Heffernan, Isaac Cooke), 2A 200 free relay

2014 -- Phil Emerson, 2A 50 free

2014 -- Phil Emerson, Franklin, 2A 100 free

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Wrestling

1973 -- Ray Frantz, Cranberry, 98 pounds

1974 -- Ray Frantz, Cranberry, Class B 105

1994 -- Bret Ruth, Oil City, 3A 171

1998 -- Cory Ace, Franklin, 3A 135

2015 -- Dakota Geer, Franklin (Rocky Grove student), 2A 182

Gymnastics

1940 -- Fred Young, Oil City, rope climb

ABOUT THIS SITE

If you are from Anywhere, USA, and happened to stumble upon this site, Franklin and Oil City are about eight miles apart along Route 8 in Venango County, Pa. -- which is about halfway between Pittsburgh and Erie in the western part of the state.

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yardsandpoints.com (formerly venangofootball.com and then route8rivalry.com) covers the grid doings of Oil City and Franklin high schools in Venango County. It also includes the football histories of the two schools, which date back to 1896, along with that of Venango Catholic (nee Christian and formerly St. Joseph in Oil City), which dropped the sport in the 1990s. VC has been in co-ops with Oil City and Franklin since then. I've recently included more stuff on basketball concerning Venango County's five PIAA schools as well as the doings in other sports, fall through spring.

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This is a Wix site with longtime but former Derrick sports editor Penny Weichel serving as webmaster. She is the former webmaster of ocpafootball.com and franklinpafootball.com, and most of the information found there can be found here. 

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Contact pennyweichel@outlook.com if need be.

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