First season of six classifications was a memorable one

• Best name: Quaker Valley’s Coletrane Washington. “Coletrane coming through.” In fact, Quaker Valley had the all-name team with Coletrane, Wolfie (Moser) and Amos (Luptak) all in the starting lineup. And finally … • The Pine-Richland boys came awfully close to pulling of a tremendous feat. I don’t know if people realize how unusual it would’ve been for a suburban Pittsburgh team to win a state championship in the largest classification.

• Some coaches felt PineRichland’s Phil Jurkovec was deserving of making the Fabulous 5 this season. It certainly says a lot that coaches in Pine-Richland’s section voted Jurkovec the No. 2 player in the section, ahead of teammate Andrew Petcash.

• Sewickley Academy is the team most likely to repeat as WPIAL champion next year. The Panthers return a few starters and had some talented freshmen off the bench. Pine-Richland should be strong again, but a key is whether Jurkovec (Notre Dame football recruit) plays basketball. He has said he has not made up his mind. But after the PIAA championship, Jurkovec said, “How can I not play after this?”

• I hereby declare Butler freshman Ethan Morton be called Ice Morton from this point forward. It’s hard to remember a ninth-grader with such great poise and calmness — and with such toplevel talent. He averaged 13 points and five assists, already stands about 6 feet 5 and he plays point guard. By this time next year, I’d be surprised if he doesn’t have some pretty good scholarship offers. You’re talking about a kid who has the body frame to add even a couple more inches and possibly be a 6-6 or 6-7 point guard.

• After seeing the PIAA boys championships, Archbishop Wood had the best team in the state, regardless of classification. Point guard Collin Gillespie is a Villanova recruit and plays the game like another Ryan Arcidiacono. • The complaints continue mount over Philadelphia Catholic League teams and charter schools from the Philly Public League. Boys and girls teams from those two leagues have won 50 percent of the PIAA championships over the past three years and the complaints are over the rampant transfers that go on in Philadelphia and also because schools have no geographic boundaries to draw students.

People, including some coaches and school officials, are voicing their opinion even more that there should be separate leagues for public and private/parochial/ charter schools. But it says here there is no way the PIAA ever will have separate leagues. They would probably be in court in a heartbeat. Changing transfer rules might have an effect, but it’s unlikely the PIAA will make major changes to that rule, either.

Like it or not, get used to Philly schools dominating.