Irish favorites for next season's title?
So if a York Catholic team that lost four of it's five starters can manage to win another YAIAA, District 3 and PIAA Class AA championships and goes 34-1, what happens when the program returns three of its starters, including the two leading scorers?
In other words, how can the Fighting Irish be considered anything but heavy favorites to win the school's fourth consecutive state title in girls' basketball?
"I think they can do it," senior Ashton Bankos said. "They have an extreme amount of talent on that team. You have Kady (Schrann), you have the McGanns. You have Brittany (Hicks). And then you have all those other players that didn't get as much playing time, but they work so hard at practice and they are going to be able to play so hard."
Coach Kevin Bankos was a little more hesitant than his daughter, stressing the amount of work that needs to be done.
"As double-A goes, we're going to set them up with the same routine as the past years to have them ready for this run," Bankos said. "It may look easy, but it's a long season. Keeping kids focused into March with a lot of distractions is tough."
The freshman Schrann, who averaged a team-high 13.7 points this season, isn't looking at the big picture yet and said the Irish need to maintain their grounded approach.
"We don't really talk about states, like we never say: 'We better get to states,'" Schrann said. "We just look at each game and we're going to do that next year."
