Easthampton High School - Echo Yearbook (Easthampton, MA)

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SPORTS On Wednesday, March 7th, Easthampton entered the Western Massachusetts Small High School Basketball Tournament, held at the Curry Hicks building, University of Massachusetts, in Amherst. The first game was against Searles High, an early tourney favorite. Easthampton entered as the underdog and was at the tail-end of a 16-10 score at the end of the first period, and left the floor at the half still trailing with a score of 39-33. After the rest period, Easthampton caught fire and out-scored Searles 17-7 by the combined precision shooting of the whole team. In the final period, Searles made a gallant bid, but this was more than offset by the scoring punch Easthampton possessed in Bruce Craig, Jim Stone, and Richard Nadolny. The final score was 66-65, and the team left the floor while the fans attempted to recover from the shock of this upset. With this first victory under their belts, the team went home to rest up for the game against Williamstown. On Friday night, Easthampton was leading by a score of 31-30 at half-time. Again every member of the team contributed to the scoring. In the third quarter, Easthampton out-scored Williamstown 22-13 to build up a 10-point lead of 53-43. In the last quarter, Bill Paradise of Williamstown caught fire for 10 points, but the scrappy Easthampton five made their lead stick and went on to win. Easthampton, who had entered the game a slight favorite if they could repeat the performance against Searles, won by a score of 64-60. In the finals on Saturday night against St. Mary's High School of Westfield, Easthampton, playing increasingly bigger clubs, played without the services of Bernie Kober. He had suffered a bone injury to his ankle in the game against Williams- town, but had 7 points to show for scarcely more than a half of playing time. Easthampton trailed by 1 basket at the end of their first and second periods with the score-board reading 11-9 and 22-20 respectively. Easthampton slipped to 7 points behind at the end of the third quarter with only Stone and Gwinner hitting. As the game went into the 4th and final period, things looked pretty bad for the Easthampton quintet. Easthampton, refusing to accept defeat, fought back with an attack spearheaded by Nadolny and Craig who hooped 8 points each and Jim Stone hitting for 4, with Easthampton outscoring St. Ma1y's 21-6. This was made possible, largely by the fine re-bounding of Ed Gwinner. With the final score reading 52-44, Easthampton had done it again. Stone and Craig were tied for scoring honors with 13 points each with Rich Nadolny close behind with 12, and Ed Gwinner and Dave jayes with 7 each. A vote of thanks goes to the cheerleaders, tumblers, majorettes, Mr. Dolloff and the band, and the fans for their loyal support and outstanding sportsmanship. ss

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Player Stone Craig N adolny Kobcr Gwinncr Worpck Ziomek Walsh Jaycs Howland Benham Totals Opponents Player Ziomek Worpek Howland Zabek Watson Adamski F ondakowski Benham Laplante Bouchard Dion Truehart Totals Opponents Vorsify Team Games Baskets Fouls 17 113 47 17 72 50 17 78 33 17 63 37 17 44 32 10 5 9 8 8 2 8 3 7 11 3 4 7 0 3 1 1 0 17 390 224 17 328 263 .lumor Vorslfy Team Games Baskets Fouls 17 70 37 17 62 50 17 31 25 17 19 22 8 22 14 5 9 6 10 5 1 11 4 1 8 3 2 8 1 2 6 1 0 2 0 0 17 227 160 17 206 133 Pts. 273 194 189 163 120 19 18 13 10 3 2 1004 919 Pts. 177 174 87 60 58 24 11 9 8 4 2 0 614 545 Ave. 16.0 11.4 11.1 9.6 7.0 1.9 2.2 1.6 0.9 0.4 2.0 59.0 54.0 Ave. 10.4 10.2 5.1 3.5 7.2 4.8 1.1 0.8 1.0 0.5 0.3 0.0 34.1 32.0

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Corinne St. Martin, Captain Theresa Baldyga Jean Kaeppel Alyce Ceryk Cheerleaders ... Ar' ' H-0 LM if First Team Cheerleaders Roh! Roh! Team These vivacious girls, with their lusty cheers and exuberant songs and dances, furnish the spectators at our basketball games with many enjoyable moments 'md the players with plenty of inspiration and encouragement. They have eapahlycled the students with good spirits and good sportsmanship, whether our teams were winning or losing, and did a splendid job cheering our team on to victory at the Cage. In assembly they were presented with certificates in recognition of their participation in the 29th Annual Small High Schools Basketball Tournament at the L'niversity of Massachusetts. Our cheerleaders, along with the team, were the guests of lN'Ir. Anthony Baldga at a spaghetti dinner at hlels' in Holyoke and hir. Ed LeBeau at a steak supper at Orchard Grove as a reward for tl1e team's hard won victory. We all owe a vote of thanks to Mr. Arnold V. Cleary whose line leadership and supervision helped make this group such a sparkling incentive to our champion- ship team. Theresa Ceberek Co-Captain Gloria Laliberte Carol Poudrier Carol Kinlock -C l Second Team Cheerleaders Irene Soja Virginia Riel Barbara Longto Hollaee Oshorn Arlene Newton Florence Krawczyk 89