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This site is about the sports doings -- mainly football -- of the high schools in Venango County, Pa. Contact:


Ben Schill (right) poses with his brother Jay (left) and former Oiler basketball coach Dan Fry at his retirement party.
Ben Schill earned his wings
without forgetting his roots
Ben Schill is the only Oil City basketball player to score 1,000 points -- all in an Oiler uniform. That was 29 years ago.
Since then he matriculated to the Air Force Academy in Colorado, became a pilot -- of F-16s yet -- flying dangerous missions over places like Afghanistan. Now a Texas resident, he recently retired and shared his at times complicated story (9.21.25 and 9.22.25) with Joe Henderson of The Derrick/The News Herald.

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