Suffern High School - Panorama Yearbook (Suffern, NY)

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FN gf, 5 6 PN ,P , X N X Y Q ri l 1. ' i ' 1 , L, - .- ' , ' ' n A fa fl' .. . - t , 1 -wt t ' e 5 ' C' ' i was M ' ,Ji Vfb ,i if A fz:.J qrlni -Fl '- WRESTLING 1946-47 The wrestling team this year scheduled ten matches winning six and losing four. The team defeated Spring Valley twice, Liberty twice and won single matches from New York Military Academy and Lodi High School. The teams defeating Suffern were Nyack High School twice, Amityville, and Teaneck once each. The squad was very strong in the light weight divi- sions but weak in the heavyweight divisions. The team felt this in the county invitation matches as we lost out to Nyack for first place by seven points. N.Y.M.A. and Spring Valley following. The individual county champions from Suffern were Philip Fasolo C95 lbs.1, Rudy Frassinelli H03 lbs.J, Richard De Joie 6 l l2 lbs.J, and Captain Frank Cata- nese 6 133 lbs.1. George Farrison placed second in the 120-lb.division, Letter winners were: Philip Fasola, Rudy Frasinelli, Richard De Joie, Louis De Joie, George Farrison, William Stalter, William Robinson, Richard August, Wayne Powell, Co-Capt. Frank Catanese, Arthur Stetz, Co-Capt. John Adduce, Fred Trojen, William Keers, Roger Bauman, and Frank Errico. Junior Varsity letter winners were: Lee De Freese, Sam De Freese, William Malone, and Edward Stokem. CROSS COUNTRY C0565-MR. JOSEPH SMITH The Cross Country team ran its most successful season in recent years as they went through a 7-meet schedule undefeated, while annexing the county and the sectional championships. Individual team honors went to Louis Boyajy, who won the county first-place medal and finished hrst in 5 of the 7 meets. Captain-JOHN ADDUcE Captain John Adduce and Amory Conklin won 2nd and 3rd medals in the county meet and were usually fighting for those positions throughout the season. Other dependable varsity lettermen who scored im- portant places in the team victories were Otis Mapes, Edward Tillman, Bill Stalter and Sam Abate. J,V. award winners were George Doremus, Bob Manning, Philip Fasola and Bob Miele.

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L .3 ff!-AR rrep, I In 1946-47 the Suffern High School Varsity Basket- ball Team played its best season in the history of the school. The team went undefeated in its l2 county league games. easily winning the Rockland County P.S.A.L. Championship for the second consecutive year. In non-league games the Mounties won 4 and lost 2. the two defeats coming at the hands of Tuxedo 151-299 and Ramsey C56-351, who were beaten in return games. -16-50 and 47-2-1 respectively. Other non- league teams met and defeated were Sea Cliff, L.l. 4-i2-201 and Rye 1-il-55 l. ln Section 9 Tournament play Suffern overwhelmed Port Jervis 62--10 and New- burgh Free Academy -I5-52. but lost the final cham- pionship game of Class A to Kingston -i9--15. The game was played on the neutral court of Middletown High School. The struggle was bitterly fought from start to finish, and only the phenomenal shooting of Glaser, Kingston forward. carried the up-staters through to victory. A summary of the entire season, then, shows Suffern winning 18 and losing 5. The three defeats were lost by a total of 9 points. The team was heavily-laden with experienced players. Pour post-graduates-Captain ,lohn Hoffman. Alyn SOYLILI. Edward XY'aligroski, and Richard Heath- formed the nucleus of the six players who carried the burden of the play. The other two regulars were Louis Rittendale, a senior. and john Dembnicl-ti, a junior. SUFFERN HIGH BASKETB , ,-. , 1 - .. Zif-all ' 3 50' C' 4 4 Two other seniors-Leroy Conklin and Bruce Williaims -played the whole season, while seniors Francis Dun- nigan and james Byrne completed part of the season. Edward Be-craft, a junior, was promoted to the varsity early in the season and shows promise for next year. During the regular 18-game season Suffern averaged -41.5 points per game while holding its opponents to an average of 28.5 points per game. Captain Hoffman climaxed a brilliant athletic career by leading the county in scoring 80 field goals and 67 free throws for a total of 227 points and an average of l2.6 per game. ln the three sectional games he scored 66 points for an average of 22 points per sectional game. He was voted the outstanding player of Rockland County. Other members of the varsity who gained positions on the County All-Star Team were Louis Rittendale. who scored ll8 pointsg Alyn Sovak, who scored 95 points: Alohn Dembnicki, who scored 86 pointsg and Richard Heath, who scored 79 points. Mr. Lawrence H. Gallagher coached the varsity. while Donald Smith was the manager. john Dembnicki was elected to captain the l947--48 team. All previous attendance records were broken as Suffern went un- defeated on its home court. New bleachers were in- stalled in the gymnasium. but on four nights the doors were closed before the junior Varsity preliminary had been completed. SCHOOL VARSITY , I Suffern ........ Piermont ......... Suffern Suffern ........ Tuxedo ............ Suffern Suffern ........ Congers ..... .. Suffern Suffern .. Tuxedo .. Suffern Suffern ........ Sea Cliff .......... Suffern Suffern ........ Nyack ...........,.. SuHern Suffern ........ Haverstraw ...... Suffern .....,.. ALL- l 9-i6-47 Spring Valley .. 23 Suffern ........ 52 Spring Valley .. Ramsey ........... 56 Suffern. .... -H Haverstraw Pearl River ..... 34 Suffern ,....... -Z' Ramsey .......... . Piermont ........ 33 SuHern ........ -35 Pearl River ...... Congers .......... 15 Suffern ........ 62 Port Jervis ...... Rye ......... ..... 3 5 Suffern ........ 45 Newburgh ...... Nyack ..... ..... 2 2 Suffern ........ 45 Kingston .........

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