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.
Class of 2004