Fludd Leads Boys & Girls H.S. Past Jefferson For Third Straight City Title
By John Torenli
There was nothing remotely trivial about Boys and Girls’ third consecutive Public School Athletic League championship, which was earned with a hard-fought, down-to-the-wire 71-67 victory over Thomas Jefferson in an all-Brooklyn final at Madison Square Garden Saturday afternoon.
But Kangaroos coach Ruth Lovelace, now the first and only coach in the storied program’s long history to complete a championship three-peat, couldn’t help asking moments after joining her jubilant players, “Who’s the only player to be a member of all three [championships]?”