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The Streak

The Cranberry girls won 202 straight games in the Triple-County Athletic Conference (Division II) from Feb. 13, 1990 to Jan. 16, 2003.

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It began after a 41-40 loss to East Forest in 1990. It ended with a 54-44 loss to Youngsville 13 years and 202 games later.

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The Berries had little trouble disposing of league foes through 1995. That's when they won three state championships and four District 10 crowns. 

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Their average winning margins in those years were: 48.06 in 1991, 63.87 in 1992, 59.37 in 1993, 54.31 in 1994 and 62.81 in 1995.

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But there were some close calls after that:

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  • a 3-point victory over Youngsville (59-56) in 1996

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  • another 3-point win, this time over Eisenhower (39-36) in 1997 when they also survived 8- and 9-point decisions over Eisenhower and East Forest. Their averaging winning margin dropped to 21.43.

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  • three straight close calls against Sheffield (44-40), Youngsville  (34-33) and West Forest (52-49) and one game later a five-point victory over Rocky Grove in 1998.

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  • Their closest games in 1999 were six and seven points, and in 2000, six and nine points before 2001 turned out to be another waltz (44-point average winning margin.)

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  • The nail-biters returned in 2002 with a pair of two-point victories, on in overtime, against East Forest. Still, that average winning margin was a pretty good 33.8.

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  • Venango Catholic gave the Berries a scare in 2002 with a 41-38 victory. One game later, after wallowing Tidioute by 54 points, Cranberry met its Waterloo with a 54-44 loss to Youngsville.

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Largest margins of victory

 

  • 105 vs. Tidioute (125-20) in 1991-92

  • 90 vs. Eisenhower (112-22) in 1995

  • 88 vs. Venango Christian (103-15) in 1993-94

  • 86 vs. Rocky Grove (97-11) in 1995-96

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Special thanks to Ed Brannon, sports editor of The Derrick/The News-Herald, for providing me with the numbers.

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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