{"id":651480,"date":"2026-03-13T00:43:26","date_gmt":"2026-03-13T00:43:26","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/651480\/"},"modified":"2026-03-13T00:43:26","modified_gmt":"2026-03-13T00:43:26","slug":"bishop-kenny-girls-roar-back-to-win-first-hoops-title-since-1992","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/651480\/","title":{"rendered":"Bishop Kenny girls roar back to win first hoops title since 1992"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"dist__Box-sc-1fnzlkn-0 dist__TextBase-sc-1fnzlkn-3 bYFsJw cuqaEv article-text\"><strong>JACKSONVILLE, Fla.<\/strong> \u2013 The Bishop Kenny girls basketball team got it done. <\/p>\n<p class=\"dist__Box-sc-1fnzlkn-0 dist__TextBase-sc-1fnzlkn-3 bYFsJw cuqaEv article-text\">The Crusaders won their first state championship since their dynasty days in the early 1990s, topping Bishop Moore 58-48 in the Class 4A game at UNF on Thursday. Shea Donovan had 16 points followed by Makala DesJarlais (13) and Kathleen Crawley (10).<\/p>\n<p class=\"dist__Box-sc-1fnzlkn-0 dist__TextBase-sc-1fnzlkn-3 bYFsJw cuqaEv article-text\">The Crusaders were a girls basketball dynasty from 1990-92, winning three consecutive championships. <\/p>\n<p class=\"dist__Box-sc-1fnzlkn-0 dist__TextBase-sc-1fnzlkn-3 bYFsJw cuqaEv article-text\">It ended a streak of four championship game losses for the Crusaders and put an exclamation point on so many close calls. Head coach Will Mayer took Kenny to finals in 2023 and \u201924, only to come up short against Lake Highland Prep. And it delivered the area\u2019s first girls championship since Ribault last brought it home in 2017. Since then, area girls teams had combined to go 0-10 in the final. <\/p>\n<p class=\"dist__Box-sc-1fnzlkn-0 dist__TextBase-sc-1fnzlkn-3 bYFsJw cuqaEv article-text\">Kenny (28-4) trailed 31-28 at half but flipped things with excellent defense to start the third quarter. The Hornets bumped that lead to five but the Crusaders cranked up the intensity and took control. An Elle Deegan 3-pointer with three-and-a-half minutes left in the quarter gave Kenny a lead it wouldn\u2019t give back. <\/p>\n<p class=\"dist__Box-sc-1fnzlkn-0 dist__TextBase-sc-1fnzlkn-3 bYFsJw cuqaEv article-text\">On the defensive end, the Crusaders, much like they did in their semifinal romp, locked up the Hornets. After Kylee Trent knocked down a 3-pointer to push Bishop Moore ahead 36-31, the Crusaders locked them down after that. Bishop Moore didn\u2019t score for the next six-and-a-half minutes and Kenny seized control. <\/p>\n<p>Copyright 2026 by WJXT News4JAX &#8211; All rights reserved.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"JACKSONVILLE, Fla. \u2013 The Bishop Kenny girls basketball team got it done. The Crusaders won their first state&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":651481,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","_share_on_mastodon":"0"},"categories":[5136],"tags":[5229,3188,723,26251,7310,76542,67,586,132,5230,68,2969,150539],"class_list":["post-651480","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-jacksonville","tag-america","tag-fl","tag-florida","tag-high-school","tag-jacksonville","tag-sports4jax","tag-united-states","tag-united-states-of-america","tag-unitedstates","tag-unitedstatesofamerica","tag-us","tag-usa","tag-varsity-4"],"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@us\/116219098319293391","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/651480","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=651480"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/651480\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/651481"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=651480"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=651480"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=651480"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}