SUNY Maritime College - Eight Bells Yearbook (Bronx, NY)

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Hampered throughout mOS'C of the season with injuries befalling such key players as Gene Swee- ney, Walt Dabberdt, TCTH Thompson, and Dick DICYSIU freshman coach Robert Vander- warker and the 1963 Soccer Team closed out a discouraging year- Discouraging seasons, however, which have dominated the Mari- time sports scene during the paS'C few years, appear to be coming to an end, at least as far as soccer is concerned. When next season rolls around, the Mariners will not be repre- sented in the Metropolitan Soc- cer Conference 5 instead they will play independent ball. The change has undoubtedly been made to avoid the repeated shellacking the team has re- ceived over past years from Pratt, C.C.N.Y., Army, Adelphi, and Lon-g Island University. All of the aforementioned clubs have been real powerhouses led by at least one All-American CL.I.U. may have two this yearj. Enrollments in all of those col- leges, with the exception of Adel- phi, which had its most success- ful season this year, are about four times greater than at the Mari- time College. Further, these teams not only have more time to practice, but the players also carry lighter aca- demic loads than the soccermen here. These factors, plus scholarship and foreign born stars, sometimes Five and six years older than the oldest Maritime player, clear- ly support the move out of the league. SANDBERG TIES BROOK- LYN, 1-1 George Sandberg headed in Dave Sheridan's perfect thirty yard pass from the right side with 5:30 remaining in the game to give the Privateers a 1-1 tie with Brooklyn College, conquerorg of the defending league cham- pions, Pratt Institute, in a Metro- politan Soccer Conference con- test on Newport Field, November 12. The tie, which sent the soccer- men into overtime for the.ii1'St time this season, left Maflflme with a 1..8-1 overall record On the year and a 6-0-1 ledger in league play- Sandberg and Tom Malanchuk knocked at the Brooklyn goal with fast breaks all game IODS: fed beautifully by John Wilkins, Sheridan, and Skip Pendzick, but never could tally. It was Brook- lyn's All-American fullback, Hel- mut Poje, that thwarted almost every attempt by Sandberg and Malanchuk with some spectacular defensive maneuver. Meanwhile, at the other end of the field, Dave VanBrunt was having his best game as a Mari- time goaltender. He, with the help of the Privateer backfield, damp- ened every scoring attempt from the field and sent the game into a O-O intermission stalemate. Brooklyn's lone goal came on a penalty shot, following a hand- ball with seven seconds left in the third period, by Henry Spadac- cini. SHERIDAN AND PETROV EXCEL Sheridan tallied with 26 sec- onds left in the City College en- counter, November 9, cutting the Beaverfs winning margin to 5-1, and preventing another shutout. Maritime, with Val Petrov showing the form that should give him graduating Captain Sweeney's fullback position next season, rallied defensively in the second half after being down 4- 0 at halftime, while the offense gathered momentum in the final chukker, indicating that its long slump was over. Sheridan, Malanchuk, Terri Th0mPS0f1, and Earl Stuart pounded the fading City defense with shot after shot in the H1131 quarter, but charging saves by the Beaver goalie left the Privateers scoreless until the final seconds. L.1.U. OVERRUNS MAR1 ERS, 9-0 N' Long Island University banged 68 SCC C tluuungg 'Hn' aff s TOP-Dave Sheridan and Earl Stuart OVCT' run the Kings Point goaltender in attemptiw score early in contest. RIGHT-John Wilkms swipes ball from startled defender and gets Sfif to pass OH. BoTToM-Rich Dr.-:yer battles two for possession of the sphere as Earl Stuart r 1 and bala- I CEI! . dan y ers.

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CER i l and Bob Behr look on. LEFT-Gary Meyer balances ball on toe while elbowing opponent. CENTER-Tom Malanchuk and Dave Sheri- dan scramble for ball with three Kings Point- ers. through four goals in the Hnal period against reserve goalies Jer- ry Hopper and John Dina, while starting Goaltender VanBrunt sat out watching the moves of the Blackbirdls All-American can- idate for that position. Maritime never had a prayer against, the powerful Long Is- landers, being without the services of defensive stalwarts Thompson, Sweeney, and Wilkins. Only Paul Mason and Sheridan's fine play kept the 9-O final score from reaching epidemic proportions. C. W. Post took advantage of the Privateers inexperienced de- fensemen three times and added another goal against the regular backfield, in defeating the Marin- ers, 4-1, October 26, on New- port Field. Wilkins, Thompson, M a s o n, and Sweeney carried the defen- sive burden for Goalie VanBrunt perfectly until with only 2:10 re- maining in the first half Stan Johnson tallied off a pileup in front of the goal. Mike Schirmacher put the game on ice for Post during the ensuing quarter, booting two home within 1:15. Schirmacher's first came on a pass from Roy Garmen at 7:52. SCHMOLOTOCA V E R S US MASON AT PRATT XValter Schmolo-toca, Pratt In- stitute's All-American linesman poured across five goals for the defending conference champions in leading them to an 8-O vic- tory over Schuyler, October 19. Maritime didnlt have a chance against the best defensive team in New York City. Despite their slim margin at the halfway mark, Pratt showed their championship play with perfectly executed defensive and offensive maneu- vers. Schmolotocals stinging penalty kicks and head goals gave Pratt the momentum to tally five times in the final period, four of those coming against Vanderwarkeris second team within ten minutes. Only Masonls fine defensive performance against Schmolotoca, 69 during the forty minute span that he guarded him, kept the brilliant booter from scoring at will from the Held. The Privateers ran aground against Kings Point for the third year in a row, 5-2, October 12, on Newport Field. Stuart, one of the few bright spots on Schyuler's squad, saved the Mariners from total ruin, tal- lying twice in the final quarter, once unassisted and the other on a pass from Halfback Pendzick. Kings Point opened fast. Tak- ing advantage of the wind, with superior skill and hustle, they crashed the net for three goals in the first period. Mike Bellomo drew first blood, then Don Swei- gart tallied, and at 14:54 Norman Weld added another. Weld and Sweigart also scored with the wind in the third period giving the Point some insurance. QUEENS ON TOP, 6-I Slamming across four goals in the final period, three within 4:15, Queens College trounced the soccermen, 6-1, October 5, on the Queens Field. The contest yielded Queens its first victory in league play, while the Privateers suffered their sec- ond consecutive conference loss, the first coming at the hands of Adelphi College, 6-1, October 2. The Mariners also threatened Adelphi for the first half. With 6:45 remaining before halftime Sandberg cut Adelphi's lead to one, 2-1, following a combina- tion pass from Malanchuk and Dreyer. Beyond that, however, it was all Adelphi. They added three in the third period and struck once in the final frame, while effectively holding the Privateers. Center Forward Wilkins and Malanchuk, playing out of the in- side position, tallied two goals apiece in leading the club to a 4-2 opening day victory over the Long Island Aggies, at German Stadium, September 28. The victory appeared to set the pace for bettering last year's 1-7 -2 mark.