New Utrecht High School - Comet Yearbook (Brooklyn, NY)

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TRACK, BASKETBALL, HANDBALL TEAMS

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SPQRTS NOTES BASEBALL The UTe nine, sparlced by The hiTTing and Tielding oT CapTain Dom Anile, Turned a seemingly bad season inTo a comparaTively good one. Anile, who led The Team in hiTTing and runs baTTed in, was by Tar The Team's mosT valuable player. The UTes sTarTed The season oTT wiTh Two sTraighT deTeaTs, one To Madison, 6-3, and The oTher, a ThirTeen inning aTTair, To Tilden, 3-2. Then, however, The Tearn caughT on, winning Tour games in a row. Anile, TirsT-baseman Bobby Jacobson, inTielder Guy BerTuzzi, and ouTTielder STan l'TochTeld were The hiTTing and Tielding sTaridouTs oT ThaT sTrealc. , Coach Abe Felcher's boys appeared on Their way To a playoTT spoT on The heels oT The winning sTrealc, buT Their hopes were shaTTered by a deTeaT aT The hands oT Erasmus, II-4. AlThough The UTes Tared Tairly well This year, Coach Felcher will have a big re- consTrucTion job ahead oT him nexT season. Among The graduaTes This year are ouT- Tielders Dave Torres, STan l-lochTeld, and Paul Albanese. and inTfelders Gary Camhi, Bobby Jacobson, and Guy BerTuzzi. BASKETBALL Climaxing The season wiTh a smashing 74-57 vicTory over Manual Training, The UTe hoopsTers were barely nosed ouT by Lincoln Tor The lasT playoTT berTh in Their division. The DuTchmen compiled a 7-3 record Tor The season, buT iT was in vain, since They were beaTen by Lincoln, 49-46, in a Thrilling game ThaT ulTimaTely decided The league sTanding. One oT The brighT spoTs oT The season was The deTeaT oT vaunTe: LaTayeTTe, in a game ThaT snapped The Frenchies' consecuTive winning sTrealc aTTer Tive in a row. The brighTesT sTar, as Tar as players go, was Shelly Brodsky. Shelly, whose play- malcing sparlced The Team all year, was The leagues leading scorer wiTh a ToTal oT 204 poinTs, The Third UTrechTiTe in as many years To cop ThaT honor. lVlarTy ChodroTT, The oTher bacl4courT man, was also a greaT asseT To The Team, leading Them wiTh a Tield goal percenTage oT 49.2. ln addiTion, he was among The leagues leaders in assisTs. This year's Team, which was The Tirsf under The direcTion oT Coach Jacl Gordon, was severely hampered by The TacT ThaT Tour-TiTThs oT lasT years ciTy-championship Tive were losT Through graduaTion. The real disappoinTmenT This year, aside Tram The Tailure To malce The playoTTs, is The TacT ThaT SanTo lvlorTillaro, a senior, will noT be able To play Tor The UTes nexT year aTTer his sensaTional play This season. TwenTy-Tour

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TRACK The Brownies, living up To The repuTaTion They seT lasT year as Boro Champs, again did Themselves proud, placing very high in many oT The major meeTs oT The season. Jaclc Nehama and Charley MonTalbano were The sTandouTs oT The Team. Nehama, running The IZO-yard low hurdles, scored consisTenTly and placed no worse Than second all season. Lenny Gurin was anoTher sTandouT. His TirsT place in The high- iump in The SchenecTady meeT helped The Team gain a highly respecTable sTanding. The LlTes placed Third in The Brooklyn championship meeT, wiTh Jack Nehama and Charley MonTalbano boTh coming Through wi+h TirsTs in Their respecTive evenTs. The Cardinal l-layes meeT was anoTher success Tor The Brownemen as They placed eighTh in a large Tield. Joe Barone sTarred in This meeT, gaining TirsT place in The 300-yard dash. Une oT The mosT conspicuous absences was ThaT oT Phil BarneTT, who was injured in a Track meeT early in The season and was unavailable Tor The resT oT The year. Also on The disabled lisT was Phil Tesoriero, who became ill early in The season. Mr. Jaclcson Browne, coach oT The TraclcsTers, will have a large replacemenT iob ahead OT him Tor nexT year as Twelve leTTermen will graduaTe. ForemosT among Them are Jaclc Nehama, Joe Barone, and AnThony MasTronardi. CTher graduaTes are: Warren Klein, lra LeichTer, STan Schlessinger, Marv Schrager, Gary Lawson, MarTy LipschiTz, Bob Rochlin, Joe Jascewslcy, and Al Pullman. INTRAMURAL BOWLING For The TirsT Time in The hisTory oT New UTrechT, an inTramural bowling Tourna- menT was held, under The direcTion oT Mr, Leonard Mandel. The TurnouT Tor The conTesT was much larger Than expecTed, a ToTal oT TiTTeen Teams applying Tor mem- bership, alThough only Ten Teams could be accommodaTed. The winners oT The TournamenT, who were decided aTTer a playoTT, were The San- anTones, closely Trailed by The NaTionals and The Ten Pins. The highesT individual score was Turned in by AnThony MasTronardi, who bowled a Zl I. Marshall WinsTon also came close, amassing a score oT 208. Paul STingo won The race Tor highesT aver- age wiTh a l55, Trailed by George CeTalu and Howie Krauss, wiTh I5l and I47 respecTively. if-1 u -us.