St Peters School - Mitre Yearbook (Peekskill, NY)

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the season, even though they were defeated. The first ray of hope for a good season came when the Saints rolled Oakwood by a wide margin. This game proved that the team could work as a unit, as they literally swept the floor with the opposition. Coach Schlett cleared the bench and gave everyone a chance to play in an effort to give the entire team the much needed game experience. The Hilltoppers next encountered Saint Luke's from Connecticut. The Saints had a far superior team, but were beaten by the height of the invaders from Greenwich. Then came or the biggest game of the season for the team, against their rivals, P. M. A. The Hilltoppers were full of fight and ready to make a killing, but, even though the lead see-sawed in the closing minutes, P. M.A. found some hidden strength and squeaked out victory by a narrow one- point margin. The Saints traveled across the Hudson to meet the Mountaineers of Storm King on their home court. After playing a nip-and-tuck game all the way, the Saints left the floor victorious. Returning from a weekend, the Hilltoppers next ventured to Yonkers where Halsted de- feated them by a small margin of five points. The following Saturday the revenge-seeking men from Storm King came to the Saint's home court, and were routed by twenty-three points. The Saints closed the remainder of the season with three losses to Scarborough, P. M. A., and Haldane, while winning one from Wooster. February twenty-seventh saw the Saints in- vade the County Center at White Plains for the annual Westchester County Private and Parochial School Tournament. In the first round of competition, the Saints met a much improved quintet from Storm King. Pla ing an extremely tight first half, the Saints played as a well-knit team and exchanged basket for basket with the opponents. The score at the half showed the Saints to be on top by two points. After a half time pep talk by Coach Schlett, the Saints returned to the floor to take the opponents in a fast-moving, free-scoring second half. A few days later, on March 2nd, the team returned to take on the other Hrst-round win- ner, Scarborough. By working the ball de- liberately and forcing Scarborough to shoot from the outside the Saints were able to con- trol the backboards. However, neither team could open a wide margin until the last few minutes, when Scarborough went on to win by five points. This game was typical of the way the team played all season, and although it was not aawinning team, its spirit is one to be copied. THE MITRE 39

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L. R. Front row: Sprague, Foster, Bendfelt, Barlow. Second row: Butler, Frey, Hales, fCaptainl, Pritchard. Back row: Mr. Schlett, fCoac Q, Macintyre, lManagefl. Varsity Basketball The 1955-1956 basketball season was one filled with ifs and it should haves. The record, 4 and 10, does not show the team's capabilities. Although the majority of the games were lost by close scores, the blame for these defeats cannot be placed on any one person. The Saints fought hard, but it seemed they were unable to come through with the winning drive when it was most needed. The team, under the management of rookie coach Bob Schlett, showed a willingness to fight, but often they could not overcome the complexes of the so-called big teams. Prior to the Christmas holidays, the team lost its only two scheduled games to Haldane and Hackley. The Hackley turned into a rout as the well- drilled men from Tarrytown fast-broke the to death. However, this ' was Haldane game. The score and was dead- game. In the over- baskets and went These two' served to demor- to have the men the holdidays, the took Scarborough, and quick succession. Losing to a quintet served to spark up the in their next contest against Scar- e Saints played the iinest game of l 'THE MITRE W 1 graft 9 of

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4 ' E N if ffm VARSITY BASEBALL Ny ' . F 9 row fsittingl: Gotsch, Green, Howe, Varian, Sprague fCaptainJ, Hayes, Foster, ! L Shostal, Socolof. Adecond row: Mr. McDowell fCoachl, Case fManagerl, Cimberg, Butler, Casscells, Enz, Frey Bendfelt, Pritchard, Settle, Clark, Dempsey, Batlow, Reeder 1Asst. Managerl, M E Ast C h 4 r. nnisl s. oac J. Third row: Ash, Hanson, Kelch, Oughton, Baker H., Baker E., Ferris, Jacobitti E., Ratzer, Lamble, Danner, McDowell. Varsity Baseball This year the Saints came up with a strong pitching staff and it is hopeful that this will provide the nucleus for the continuation of winning baseball sea- sons which have been present in the past years. The first game of the season saw the Saints take on the cadets of Peekskill Military Academy and in a slug-fest lost to them 13-12. Walt Green and Tippy Barlow shared the mound duties for the Saints. The second game saw the Hilltoppers nip the Oakwood crew 3-1 in Pon h- keepsiehfgippy Barlow started for the Saints and Bill Hayes came in for reief in the . Next stop for the Saints was Storm King. Behind the fine no-hit pitching of Hayes and Green, to sa nothing of the fine infield work of Shostal, Gimberg, Sprague, and Pritchard, the Saints belted the Mountaineers 20-0. After dropping a nip and tuck battle to Wooster by a 2-1 score, the Saints swamped St. Luke's 15-0. The fine hitting of the club came through in this game, and every starting man collected a hit. At Trinity Pawling the Hilltoppers dropped another squeaker 3-1. The Saints stayed with T. P. but couldn't pull through with the needed tallies in the later innings. 40 THE MITRE