St Sebastians School - Arrow Yearbook (Newton, MA)

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it for one period at any rate. It was in this tilt that we had to cope with a six-man defense that refused to be lured out from behind its own blue line. Obie broke up this strategy, however, by caging a long shot, while the Mul and the Murph later ran the string to three. All this time Malden Catholic had held the undefeated tenor of its way, while St. Sebastian's league record had been smirched only by the 4-1 defeat that the Fellsway icemen had dealt us earlier in the season. As a result, our rivals had a two point edge on us in the league standing when we faced them in a return game on February 24th, although in the goals for and goals against columns we had an impressive ad- vantage. From start to finish the struggle waxed more and more thrilling as it brought players and spectators alike to the point of exhaustion. Malden registered first at 2:04 of the opening period when Pete McQuaid beat Mul on a face-off, weaved through the defense and then passed Paul McGrath to dent the strings. Two minutes later Hank equalized it when he collected one of Mul's rebounds and snapped it past Roche, the Malden Gibraltar. From that point the deadlock continued until 1:41 of the third period when Freshman Bob Murphy stole a cleared puck from in front of the Malden net and flipped it home to give us a 2-l victory. The remainder of the contest saw our forwards threatening to add to the margin time and time again, but Roche's superb net-minding nullified this every bid. With the Catholic League schedule thus officially ended, it was decided that, inas- much as the written rules of the circuit had failed to provide for the dissolution of a tie on a goals for and goals against basis, Malden should enjoy co-championship with St. Sebastian's. lt must be noted too that five of our stalwarts made berths on the All-Catholic team that crossed sticks un- successfully with the G.B.l. All-Star Sec- onds. Our representatives were Captain Mulhern, O'Brien, Barry, McGrath, and Murphy, and, since the best deserve the best, our coach was selected to pilot the group. In addition to the league contests already reported, our icemen showed to advantage in outside competition, chalking up im- pressive wins over St. Marks, Rivers, Bel- mont, Brookline, Waltham, and Malden, and bowing only to Middlesex on a 4-3 count. In the eyes of the statisticians, our 1944-45 record stands as 17 wins against 2 losses, and the grand total of our two years of hockey competition as 34 wins, 5 losses and 2 ties. Rather an imposing record, we must admit, and one that serves to indicate the potentialities of Red and Black dominance in all fields of athletic endeavor.

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1944 TEAM Seated: Baker, O'Conncll, Barry, McCarron, Sullivan, Collins Standing: Coach Murphy, Mulhcrn, O'BflCH, McGrath, Bullock, Wilcs, Courtney, Glashccn