This was supposed to be the game in which Jeannette's starters finally would get a chance to play four quarters. Once-beaten East Allegheny surely would give Jeannette a game last night -- at least for a while.
But all East Allegheny turned into was victim No. 8. The Wildcats had the yellow tape around themselves in the second half as Jeannette turned McKee Stadium into another mercy scene.
Jeannette walloped visiting East Allegheny, 77-6, in a WPIAL Class AA Interstate Conference game in front of a packed house.
Jeannette, the Post-Gazette's No. 1 Class AA team in the WPIAL and PIAA, is 8-0 and the Jayhawks have forced the mercy rule in all eight games. Under the rule, the clock runs continuously in the second half when a team gets ahead by 35 points or more. Eight games. Eight mercy victims.
"They're a complete team," said East Allegheny coach Dennis Edwards.
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