Smith Academy - Echo Yearbook (Hatfield, MA)

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Boys ' Varsity Basketball This year the Smith Academy basketball team had a successful season on the polished surface. The team ended up in a two way tie with Am- herst for fifth place. In Hampshire League play the team won seven and lost nine games, but the teams record for the season was eleven wins against thirteen losses. The team this year was piloted by Captain Chet Foster. A bright and shining star ap- peared on the Smith Academy team this year. This outstanding player was Giles Kellogg, who was third highest scorer in Western Mass. Giles tossed 422 points this season, and he was also voted most valuable player in the Western Mass. Small Schools Tourney. The team will lose Chet Foster, Bob Hojnoski, and Don JandJr.ski by graduation but nine of the first twelve will re turn next year. The nine players that will re- turn next year are Dutch Kellogg, Bill Korza, Mitch Backiel, Tom Romanowski, Tom Prucnal, George Klocko, Len Bajesky, Connie Pelis, and Don Bryant. The School is looking forward to a very good season next year. SCORES S. A. 40 St. Mary ' s 45 S. A. 44 Greenfield 57 S. A. 60 Clarke School 38 S.A. 57 Westfield Trade 51 S. A. 37 Hopkins 48 S.A. 44 Orange 42 S.A. 32 Deerfield 49 S.A. 49 So. Hadley 55 S.A. 79 Arms 55 S.A. 53 Amherst 57 S.A. 53 Smith ' s School 54 S.A. 42 St. Michael ' s 2nd Half 46 S.A. 46 Hopkins 49 S.A. 53 Orange 37 S.A. 52 Deerfield 44 S.A. 53 So. Hadley 83 S.A. 66 Arms 74 S.A. 61 Amherst 45 S.A. 68 Smith ' s School 49 S.A. 52 St. Michael ' s 51 S.A. 67 Greenfield 69 If r n u

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Tournament This year the Smith Academy basketball team was invited to attend the Special Small Schools Tournament in Amherst. The games were played in the University of Massachusetts Cage. On March 5 the Smith Academy boys met the Belchertown High School team on the polished court and took their measure to the tune of forty-nine to forty-one. Although the team as a whole played a wonderful game, Dutch Kellogg and Buckwheat Korza did more than their share by scoring twenty and ten points respectively. By winning this first game the Smith Academy team went into the Semi- finals. In the Semi-finals the boys from Smith Acad- emy were up against the team from Chester High School, and this game was a hard-fought one, because the team that won this one would be in the finals against Lenox. At the end of the first half, the Smith Academy team was ahead by only two points. The play was close near the end of the game; with only eighteen seconds to go, the Chester team had the ball and were coming down the floor. The score was thirty-nine to thirty-seven; if they scored, the game would be all tied up; but Buckwheat Korza came out of nowhere, stole the ball, and scored. That was the last basket — and Smith Academy won forty-one to thirty-seven. When the last night of the tournament came, the whole Hampshire League was hoping that Smith Academy would win, because Smith Academy was the last Hampshire League team in the tournament. When Smith Academy met Lenox in the finals, the boys fought just as hard as they always had in the other games of the tournament, but they had one of their off nights, and couldn ' t score. At the end of the first half, Smith Academy was ahead by a score of twenty to eighteen. As the second half began, the Lenox team started to creep up on the S. A. boys and at the end of the third quarter Lenox went ahead and kept ahead till the end of the game. Although the final score was forty-seven to thirty-six, the team didn ' t really lose, because they gained in experience and confidence which we hope will aid them on the basketball court next season.