Major Edwards High School - Mesa Yearbook (West Boylston, MA)

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JAYVEES Top row, left to right: Mr. Kelly, Coach; Orton Downer, William Solitro, Louis Geneva, Richard Barakian, Richard Chapman, Kenneth Lindberg, Mario Latuga, Robert Leonard, Robert Stewart, Manager. Bottom row, left to right: Donald Bacon, Manager; Ronald Carson. Harold Phelps. Clinton Hubbard, Russell Phelps, Rudolph Sostmann. JAYVEE SPORTS The Edwards High Jayvee’s can really boast a great season. They took ten straight in league competition and ended up in a triple tie for first place league honors. This 51” quintet has lost only to Leicester in the Western Worcester County Jayvee competition. Soon you will see such stars at ' Kent Lindburg, Ronnie ' Carson, Bee Bee’ Solitro, Ortie Downer, ' Dicky ' Chapman, Rich Barakian, Russ” Phelps, Harold Phelps, Bob’ Leonard, Pistal” Latuga, Louie” Geneva, Tony” Hubbard, Tony” Smith, battling the different league quintets instead of our present Varsity Squad. Rudy Sostmann, a new member of our Jayvee Squad, will be bringing our interpretation of basketball back to Germany with him Oh! yes. Orchids to Mr. Kelly for the swell job he has done in turning out such a scrappy squad. The league, drawing to a dose with only five more games to go, made every game look bigger and bigger. Leicester, whom we had beaten earlier in the season, was our next game. This time the game was on our home floor; so to our advantage. With this on our side we managed to go home that night and sleep easy. The score, Edwards 55, Leicester 29. Next game was also a home game, with Brookfield. This team was a young club with not much floor experience. It was also a club that was rapidly improving. We were improving too, and were a little ahead of them when the buzzer rang. The score 65 to 44. Oxford — who can forget that game? We won by one point in an overtime period. Never again do we want to come so close. But we did a little later in the season. The score of this clash between the Blue and White of Edwards and The Black and Orange of Oxford was 42 to 41 Sutton. This time on our own court. So to take advantage of Old Sam Sutton- — and we did. The score was 78 to 51. Charlton, a better team than when we first met, did a good job. Next year they ought to pull a few sneaky upsets in this league. The score 79 to 31 Now we have a chance to make it a clean sweep as far as our league is concerned. North Brook- field standing between an undefeated league season or just the league championship. The score 60 to 45 in our favor and an undefeated league season. Remember I said that we didn ' t want to come so close to losing again, well we almost did in the Lunenburg game. This was a thriller and went into an overtime period. The funny thing about this game is we were ahead by 5 points with 15 seconds to go and we had to go into an overtime period to clinch this game. The score of this game 60 to 57.