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.

In football, Jeannette won two WPIAL Class AA titles, one PIAA championship and played in another PIAA final.

A number of Jeannette's seniors also were on the school's varsity squads as sophomores. In that time, the basketball and football teams were a combined 111-17 (38-4 in football and 73-13 in basketball).

"They are the most focused, determined kids I've ever been around," Jeannette basketball coach Jim Nesser said. "To go through what they went through ... It's just an unbelievable bunch of kids. They play together, have great chemistry and they're unselfish."

The game also marked the career end of one of the greatest athletes in WPIAL history. Terrelle Pryor probably wore a Jeannette jersey for the last time Saturday and his career numbers are staggering. He finished his basketball career eighth on the WPIAL's all-time scoring list with 2,285 points. In football, he was the first player in Pennsylvania history to rush for more than 4,000 career yards and pass for more than 4,000.

Pryor was a starter in football and basketball since his freshman year. Jeannette's record during that time in both sports was 143-25 (98-18 in basketball, 45-7 in football).

After winning his third PIAA title Saturday night, highly successful Chester boys' coach Fred Pickett announced his retirement after the game. In 13 seasons, Pickett was 331-80 (.805 percentage).

Serra Catholic boys' basketball coach Bob Rozanski seriously considered retiring after last season, but Rozanski decided to come back for his 30th year. After winning WPIAL and PIAA Class A titles for the first time, does he want to come back for another season?

"I'll do what I've always done," Rozanski said. "I'll wait two weeks and then decide if I still have the desire and the passion for it."

Jeannette junior guard Jordan Hall scored his 1,000th career point in the PIAA Class AA boys' final. Hall was Jeannette's second-leading scorer this season (15 ppg.) and was a major factor on offense and defense. You wonder where Jeannette would have been if Hall had not decided to transfer from Southmoreland after his freshman year.

Chester's Nasir Robinson is a Pitt basketball recruit. A 6-foot-5 senior, he played power forward for the Clippers, but insists he will play a much different role at Pitt.

"Everyone sees me at the 4 position [power forward]," Robinson said. "That's what I had to play here. But at Pitt I'll be playing the 2 [shooting guard] or 3 position [small forward]. I can play either. I'm going to work on my ballhandling and shooting over the summer and be ready to go for next year."

The WPIAL failed to win a PIAA girls' championship for the first time since 1998. Since the start of four classifications in the 1983-84 season, the WPIAL has won at least one title 19 times.

Jeannette and Serra gave the WPIAL two boys' championships. That's significant, considering the WPIAL did not have one champion the past two years.

In fact, over the previous two seasons, the WPIAL had only six champions and three of those came in 2004. In six of the 10 previous seasons, the WPIAL did not win a PIAA title. Three other times the WPIAL won only one title.

• Serra's Pat Grubbs, who scored 31 points in the Class A final, will attend Pitt-Johnstown.

• This was the second year the championships were played at Penn State's Bryce Jordan Center, and the PIAA has one year left on a three-year contract with Penn State. After that, the PIAA will put the championship games up for bid.

• Attendance for the eight games was 22,539, well short of last year's mark of 30,338.

• Strangest cheer of the weekend goes to Freire Charter. During a timeout in the Class A boys' final, the Freire Charter cheerleading squad took the court and chanted time after time, "No biggie. No sweat. This game ain't over yet."

Nice rhyme, but Freire Charter was winning at the time.

Jeannette coach Jim Nesser, when he came out of the locker room after the Class AA final and was met by a throng of more than a dozen reporters. "Wow. I feel like Britney Spears."