Boston University - HUB Yearbook (Boston, MA)

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1 A hit or a miss? Kwik MacLeod peers in for his sign Coming into the hot corner Ed Asaley and Len Dempsey drove in five runs be- tween them to spark the Terriers to a 9-Q win over Bates. VVenzel went nine innings for the first time in his varsity career to subdue Brandeis by the same score. Daring base running highlighted a 7-5 Terrier win over UMass as Koppel and O'Hara stole home back to back. MacLeod, who fired a four hitter, was the Winning pitcher. The Terriers prevailed over Providence in an 8-7 slugfest. Wenzel relieved Stone in the first inning and scattered 10 hits to chalk up the win. Possiel stopped Colby on four hits as the Terriers gained a 3-1 victory. O'Hara blasted one over the fence while Carl Cohen connected for his first round tripper of the season. Tufts continued its six game winning streak by dump- ing the Terriers, 8-5. 0,Hara hit the seats for the second game in a row. Don MacLeod turned in the greatest performance of his varsity career, retiring the first Q5 batters to face him in a one hit, 6-0 decision over the University of New Hampshire. A triple by the second batter to face him in the ninth inning ruined the slender Canadianis bid for a perfect game. MacLeod set six batters down on strikes. Terrier hitters exploded with a rash of base hits in the late innings to down Brandeis, 13-8. Bill Stone picked up his third win in relief. A three run outburst in the sixth gave Springfield a 6-4 win over the Terriers. MacLeod was pinned with the loss. Losses to Boston College and Holy Cross in the final week of the season crushed Terrier hopes of competing in the NCAA tournament. 329

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BASEBALL MacLeod blazes one in Coach Harry CleVerly's Terriers were thwarted in their bid for a berth in the NCAA tournament, but still had a good season, winning 13 of the 20 games on their schedule. Bill Possiel, in his first varsity start, allowed but three hits and fanned 11 as he blanked Northeastern, 16-0, in the Terriers opening game of the season. The Terriers continued their winning ways as they fought back from a four run deficit to edge MIT, 7-6. Bill Stone was the winning pitcher with Bill Wenzel coming in to protect his victory. Harvard's Bob lNIcGinnis handed the Terriers their Hrst setback as he gave up just six hits in a 7-1 victory. Possiel went all the way, getting tagged for 11 hits. The Terriers bounced back on the winning path with a 5-4 victory over Northeastern. Jim Palavaras threw a three hitter but had to snuff out a three run ninth in- ning rally by the Huskies. Len Dempsey homered to lead the attack. The game ended with the tieing and winning runs for Northeastern on base. The Terriers went on a batting rampage, walloping Boston College, 15-8. Don lNIaeLeod picked up the win as he permitted just two runs and fanned eight in the five frames he worked. MacLeod also blasted a three run homer and doubled to knock in four runs. Joe O'Hara slammed out four hits while Dempsey and Nat Koppel chipped in with three apiece. Terrier bats remained hot as they shellacked BIIT, 18-4. The hard hitting Dempsey drove in six runs while Ed Keyes twirled a five hitter. The Terriers fell into a slump, losing to Bowdoin, 10-5 and UConn, Q-0. MacLeod allowed but four hits against the Huskies, both runs coming in on sacrifice flies. A tally for the Crusaders fl-sly., 28

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Terriers N. E. Champs Coach Raymond Settele tries to clear the bar The 1957 spring track team completed another suc- cessful season by winning the New England Champion- ship meet for the fourth year in a row. The Terriers won six of the 15 events and finished 17 points ahead of their nearest competitor. Eino Keerd, Dave Settele, Larry Cafarella and Gene Ellis were the victorious Terriers. The Thinclads opened their season by finishing third in a triangular meet with Army and NYU. Settele won both the 190-yard high-hurdles and 220 low-hurdles. Cafarella won the shot put event with a toss of 50 feet, 95 inches. Other point gatherers were: Keerd who won the discus with an effort of 138 feet and Ellis who fin- ished second in the 880. Army piled up 88M points, NYU 47, and the Terriers 3'7M. The Terriers posted their Hrst victory of the season, 832 to 55M over Tufts. Settele led the way as he fin- ished first in the high and low hurdles, tied for first in the pole vault, and came in second in the broad jump, and third in the high jump. Keerd was first in the dis- cus and hammer while Cafarella set a new meet record in the shot put with a heave of 51 feet, 3 inches. In the distance events, George Hillier won the two mile while Don Lendry won the mile. The relay team of Ellis, Don Cobleigh, Henry Dionisio and Fred Dunbury breezed to an easy victory. Keerd was the only Terrier to place in the Penn Re- lays, coming in fifth in the shot put event. 330