schools across the state. Athletics The Pennsville Memorial High School Eagles compete as one of the member schools in the Tri-County Conference, which is comprised of public and private high schools located in Camden, Cape May, Cumberland, Gloucester and Salem counties. The conference is overseen by the New Jersey State Interscholastic Athletic Association (NJSIAA). With 326 students in grades 10–12, the school was classified by the NJSIAA for the 2022–24 school years as Group I South for most athletic competition purposes. The football team competes in the Royal Division of the 94-team West Jersey Football League superconference and was classified by the NJSIAA as Group I South for football for 2022–2024. The football team won the South Jersey Group II state sectional titles in both 1974 (awarded by NJSIAA) and 1981, and the South Jersey Group I in 2015. The 1984 team finished the season with an 11–0 record after winning the South Jersey Group II state sectional title by defeating Haddon Township High School by a score of 6–0 in the playoff finals. The team won the South Jersey Group I state sectional championship in 2015 against Clayton High School by a score of 28–6 in the tournament final. The team finished with an 11–1 record, and marked the first time the football team had won a state championship in 34 years and the first time they won in Group I. Every year before Thanksgiving (except for the 2018 season where the game was held on the first game of the season), there's a memorial football game between Pennsville and Pennsgrove and whoever wins receive the Norm Willy Boot Trophy as a tribute to one of Pennsville's fallen coaches and former defensive lineman for the Philadelphia Eagles. Pennsville also competes for the Old Oaken Bucket Trophy, a prize for the winner of Pennsville/Salem game. The healthy competition of passing the bucket started more than 50 years ago during the first Pennsville/Salem football game. Between 1985 and 2005, Salem had a winning streak and was in possession of the Old Oaken Bucket until Pennsville won it back in fall 2005. The Old Oaken Bucket Trophy would go missing until it was found on the front lawn of Pennsville Memorial High School nine years later. The baseball team won the Group II state championship in 1981 (defeating Saddle Brook High/Middle School in the tournament final) and 1984 (vs. Lyndhurst High School),