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Article: High School spotlight: Proviso East
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- Chicago Sun-Times
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- November 7, 2007
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Top sports moments: Pirates have rich athletic tradition
Three Amigos and more
1Proviso East has won four state basketball titles. The 1969
state champs featured Jim Brewer, and the 1974 team was led by Joe
Ponsetto, Ron Hodges, Marlin Thomas and Roderick Floyd. The Three
Amigos of Sherell Ford, Michael Finley and Donnie Boyce catapulted
the Pirates to the first of two consecutive Class AA state titles in
1991. The Pirates went 33-0 and repeated in 1992.
Mythical state champs
2 Before the state football playoffs began, Proviso East won two
"unofficial" championships as members of the old Suburban League.
Then known as Proviso Township, Ray Nitschke quarterbacked the 1953
team to a ...