McQuaid Jesuit High School - Accolade Yearbook (Rochester, NY)

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“i Its yours, Geiss. Hickey on the jump against Penfield. | always go bowling on a Sunday afternoon. Tom Nientimp in the second Look before you leap . . . Meyer pushes for two against Mt, Carmel game. Penfield.

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For the first of six straight road games, the Knights went to Penfield on January 17. Penfield had spent the entire week on an antiMeyer defense which held him to only three free throws. But while they were con- centrating on Artie, Jack Button hit for 17 and George Vacca for 12. Another v ictory was assured. The next weekend the varsity blew off the steam it had stored up during midyears as 163 points were poured through the hoop. Spencerport fell first. Meyer, Hickey, and Locklin hit double figures as the Knights scored an all-time high of 83 points. It was 80 points the next night, as Mt. Carmel fell. The footballers turned basketball players were happy. During the week of January 26, many eyebrows were raised to inquire about some 200 feet of tape on the gym floor. With the tape the floor had been transformed into the shape of things to be seen that Friday night at Brockport. What was probably the b iggest crowd to witness a high school game in Brockport in years saw that the home team didn't appreciate their one loss. Before McQuaid had even a shot at the basket, Brockport hit on four of their first five shots from the field. The next 29 minutes of basketball were played on even terms as the two teams traded basket after basket. And those first four baskets were the big difference at the final buzzer as the Blue Devils defeated the Knights 53-42, On Feburary 7, a happy-go-lucky Jefferson five took on the Knights expecting nothing worse than what happend a few weeks earlier at McQuaid. Play- ing loosely, Jefferson took a quick lead and then held on to it for all they were worth. Hold on they did, and McQuaid fell. All through these first twelve games a junior by the name of Jack Walsh was playing one of the for- ward spots. He was then the team's leading rebounder with 10 per game. His scoring was spotty: 45 points in 12 games. The next three games would see him score 55 points and pad his rebound total, too. A good number of people didn't expect McQuaid to show its face at East Rochester only four days after Jefferson, But the Knights did show, and Jack Walsh showed East Rochester how to score 27 points and collect 15 rebounds. Snow gave the Knights exactly two and a half hours practice in the nine days before the Spencerport game. But the varsity showed that the fast break wasn't cold as they opened a 20 point lead at the end of the first period, Before it was over, Walsh and Meyer had each hit for 13 points. The beginning of the end was now in sight, as the first of the final four games saw Webster come Two minutes to go... ey , “% FE. . and @ 4 point lead.

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VARSITY SQUAD 1957-1958 Standing: Douglas Bufano, Assistant Manager, Mr. George Monagan, Coach, Arthur Meyer, Vincent Prestianni, John Walsh, Kenneth Morrel p, Gerald Locklin, Co-captain, Jeremiah Hickey, Co-captain. Kneeling: James Clapp, Peter Geiss, Timothy Scharf, George Vacca, Gordon Ide, John Button, James McCarthy, William Waldert, Manager. Absent: John Clapp. on February 28, The Knight's ten point edge at half time quickly vanished as Webster found the range and took a four point lead at the start of the fourth period. The varsity, however, came back to outscore the visitors 17-9 for another victory. Walsh again led the scoring with 15, Two days later Mt. Carmel came to pay their annual visit. Tom Nientimp, playing in place of the injured Gerry Locklin, proved to be the difference as his rebounding set up the Knight scoring, which again was led by Meyer with 18. In the middle of the week it was off to Charlotte to watch the forward line of Nientimp, Hickey, and Walsh gather in 33 rebounds and to watch 34 field goals by the Knights bombard the home team. And now there was only one game left, A win would better last year's mark. For nine, it was their last game in a McQuaid uniform. In four years they had coma.a long: way from that first’ game!tn'the:CYO, And many thought of that first game since the starters for this game were tha same as the first. Hickey, Locklin, Clapp, Button, and Geiss were in there at the beginning. And before it was over, all had seen action as Penfield fell before the Knights. to Button... As the pattern develops . . a pass to Meyer... a drive underneath . . for a score! » Walsh