Dallas reached rare heights when the school’s baseball team defeated South Park, 5-0, June 16 in the Class 4A state championship game at Penn State.
With the expansion in the number of classifications in many sports, the Pennsylvania Interscholastic Athletic Association awarded 79 state team championships in the 2016-17 academic year.
Only two of those titles came home to District 2, both to Dallas, which also won its second straight Class 2A boys cross country championship in November.
Dallas became the first District 2 school to win two state team titles in the same school year since Elk Lake won both the boys and girls Class A cross country titles in 2010.
Dallas, which also won a girls cross country championship in 2013, is responsible for four of the five state titles by District 2 public schools in the last four school years. Tunkhannock won the other in boys cross country in 2013.
Of the more than 700 high schools in the PIAA, only nine won more than one state championship.
Dallas was the only public school to win boys state titles in two different sports.
Reynolds and Nazareth each won two titles in the only sport to award two team championships, wrestling, which has both a dual meet and a tournament format champion.
Avon Grove, Donegal and Minersville were the other public schools to win two titles.
Philadelphia private schools Neumann-Goretti (boys and girls basketball, baseball and girls track and field) and Archbishop Wood (football and boys and girls basketball) were the only schools to win more than two titles.
Sewickley Academy, a private school from District 7, the Pittsburgh suburbs, also won two boys titles.
