Staten Island Sports Hall of Fame
Relive It All Again
Only three Staten Island boys’ basketball teams made it to a city championship game. The others were the 1977 McKee team led by Hall of Famer Kenny Page and the 1938 St. Peter’s team that included Hall of Famers Jack McGinley and Buddy O’Grady.
Jersey worn by St. Peter’s guard Greg Pedro, who scored 22 points and blocked the last shot in St. Peter’s 51-49 victory in the 1983 CHSAA city championship game.
Basketball from St. Peter’s High School’s historic victory in the 1983 CHSAA city championship game.
Scorebook from St. Peter’s 51-49 victory over four-time champion Archbishop Molloy in the 1983 CHSAA city championship game at Fordham University.
The 1983 St. Peter’s High School team, winner of the CHSAA city championship, is the only Stten Island boys’ basketball team – public or parochial – to win a city championship.
Led by coach Howie Ruppert, do-it-all guard Greg Pedro, and a core of determined blue-collar players – Scott Fitzgibbons, Mike Dunn, John Walsh, Ed Conroy and Mike Sanborn, who replaced the injured Danny Mills in the lineup – the Eagles won three of their last four tournament games against CHSAA heavyweights Power Memorial, Bishop Loughlin and Archbishop Molloy, by two points; and the other – a semifinal victory over Monsignor McClancy, by a single point in overtime.