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The Paul VI football team enters the field prior to the Thanksgiving Eve football game between Paul VI and Camden Catholic played at Paul VI High School on Wednesday, November 27, 2024. Paul VI defeated Camden Catholic, 42-16.
HADDON TWP. – Austin Bailey and the rest of the seniors on the Paul VI High School football team don’t know what it feels like to lose to rival Camden Catholic.
And they never will.
The Eagles’ senior class completed the sweep with a 42-16 victory over the Irish before a huge crowd at Major Timothy M. Curry Field and even more listening to the game broadcast on SportsRadio 94.1WIP-FM on Thanksgiving Eve.
“It’s the biggest game we play all season,” said Bailey, a Sicklerville native who recently committed to Wagner University. “It doesn’t matter if we are 9-0 or 0-9, this is the game you have to win.
“Being a part of this, four years with all my brothers, I couldn’t ask for anything more than to go out with a win like this one.”
Senior Jaylen Bishop added, “To finish it with some of the guys I grew up with and played football my whole life, it means everything. We had a lot of ups and a lot of downs (this season). We just kept fighting through it all.”
Paul VI has won five straight in the series, trimming Camden Catholic’s series lead to 32-25-1, going back to 1968. It’s also one of just eight remaining rival games played around the holiday in South Jersey.
The Eagles’ senior class has become a cornerstone of the program’s rebuild. The team has gone 31-11 over the last four seasons, including an 8-3 mark this fall.
Paul VI ‘s Mounir Keshen carries his team’s trophy after Paul VI defeated Camden Catholic, 42-16, in the Thanksgiving Eve football game played at Paul VI High School on Wednesday, November 27, 2024.
“I’m not sad it’s over, I’m just glad I was part of…
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Publish date : 2024-11-28 04:42:00
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