Manhattan College - Manhattanite Yearbook (Riverdale, NY)

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Norton's outfit led throughout, at times by as much as 11 points but the persistant Seahawks narrowed that lead down to nothing in the last four minutes. Ed Peterson's four points in the final 45 seconds of play iced the game for Wagner. Ang Lomdardo, dispite fouling out with seven minutes left, still managed to score 23 points. In their next tilt the Jaspers pulled a surprise upset over a favored Connecticut University club, 85-82, in the Ucon field house. The heavily favored Ucons held a 70-61 lead with only four minutes to go. A last minute spurt by the Green and White, who used only six men in the whole game, turned the tide. Lombardots 32 points, his high for the season and Power's 2i paced the victory. The second Garden game had the Jaspers pulling another upset. This time the victim was the nationallly ranked George Washington, 71-63. Gerry Paulson showed some of his classy shooting in netting 24 points for the Jasper cause. Traveling out to New Jersey, the quintet defeated a scrappy but completely outclassed St. Peter's team. Lombardo, who was leading the nation in shooting percentages with 65.7 percent led the scorers with 29. John O'Connor rebounds. Ill Come and get it I've got it. Coach Norton . . . as the wrestling season gets underway.

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Kaskd 16W In their opening game of the season the Jaspers scored vic- tory over Bridgeport, 98-81 at the Alumni Gym. Angelo Lom- bardo started off the season in grand style by dumping in 30 points, the highest point production of his career at Mon- hattan. Allan Weiss paced the visitors with 20 points, enabling the Bridgeport quintet to gain a 46-39 halftime margin. But Lombardo, aided by John O'Connor's 22 markers mode the second half and the final outcome 0 rout. The Jaspers rolled to their second victory of the season by defeating Farleigh Dickinson, 83-64, on the Victor's court. Angelo Lombardo again paced the winners with 24 points. Two other Jaspers hit double figures, Jerry Paulson connected for 20 and John Powers scored 16. Making their initial Garden appearance of the season, the Kelly Green foiled the experts by upsetting a strong Lafayette College of Penn., 81-76. Lombardo made his second entry into the thirty-point circle, netting 31. The lead changed completely when the visitors were held scoreless from the fioor for the first seven minutes of the second half. In shooting for the fourth win of the year the Jaspers come out second best to a highly underrated Wagner quintet. Coach

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216 O'Connor saves another rebound. The third Garden game was also Manhattan's third upset victory in the gigantic arena. This one finally stimulated the sports writers to recognize the Green and White as one of the East's top teams. In their win the club completely outscrapped the Mules to win in on overtime thriller, 85-79. Four Jaspers hit double figures. They were: Lombardo with 27, Powers 22, Brown 17 and Paulson 12. Let's do push-u ps. J Joseph, O'Connor and Lombardo pin the battle. The impressive seven and one record was debited with two losses on the Philadelphia trip. The St. Joseph club edged the Jaspers in a double overtime which is still being remembered by the Follow the Five members who made the trip. The final score was St. Joseph's 75, Manhattan 74. The other villain was the Temple Owl , which humiliated the Kelly Green 91-78. It took a national ranked club to run up the score, but it still was the team's third loss of the season. The old saying, there is no place like home was certainly true as the team got back to winning ways when they faced