St Sebastians School - Arrow Yearbook (Newton, MA)

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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

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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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QED -Qs- Sr ! V . K .faq ' THE sports cycle of 1941-1942 was com- pleted when Baseball was sponsored in early spring. The candidates who presented themselves as varsity timber hardly con- stituted an imposing array of talent, but Coach Duffy went to work on us with vigor and determination. With a cage at our dis- posal it was not necessary for us to pursue training under Southern skies, instead we repaired to the gym day after day with enthusiastic faithfulness. Here, under the critical eye of Ted we engaged in pro- tracted infield drills and spirited batting practice. After a time, however, we chafed under the batting and fielding restrictions imposed by the indoor diamond, and we welcomed the ideal weather that greeted us on our return from the Easter recess. Two weeks of outdoor work gave Mr. Duffy a very definite line on our abilities and enabled him to decide upon a tentative lineup. Bob Baker and McCarron were given the battery assignments, Charlie catching Bob. The infield cordon was composed of Kickham, Scully, Barry and Collins, while R. Donahue, Marshall and Kelly tended the garden. These regulars were hard pressed by Dailey, D. and J. O'Connell, Carroll, F. Donahue and Eastwood. The schedule sent us out on the road to open our season, and we used our uniforms for the first time against St. Clement's of Somerville. We possessed plenty of en- thusiasm in our initial appearance but that was not enough to stem the tide of hits that welcomed us, and we found ourselves on the short end of an 11-1 score. We licked our wounds on the way home and found some balm in recalling the fact that Bob and Hank had garnered two hits apiece. Defensively, hui the gem of our day was contributed by Shaun Kelly who made an almost impossible catch and thereby kept the score down to a respect- able total. We tasted the cup of victory, however, in our next two encounters, defeating Presenta- tion 11-8 and Malden Catholic Seconds 9-3. In the former contest Barry and Scully led the attack, Hank getting 4 out of 5, and jimmy connecting on three occasions. Our second win featured Frank Donahue in the hero's role for that day saw him break into the batting order and then proceed to collect two safeties. May 12th saw us forced off victory road temporarily, defeat coming to us at the hands of the Blessed Sacrament Club from Jamaica Plain. The P. boys took kindly to the combined offerings of Bob Baker and Frank Dailey, and ran up a 12-4 total. We re- venged ourselves on the district, however, by defeating another Jamaica aggregation when we faced Angel Guardian and clipped their wings by an 8-6 verdict. The sum- mary credited Don Marshall with a perfect day at bat, while McCarron, Baker, Collins and Scully came up with timely bingles. The Angel Guardian game was our swan- song, and the triumph gave us a season's record of 3 wins and 2 defeats, for a per- centage of .600-which, we optimistically recalled, had been enough in some years to crown a major league pennant winner. We were not big leaguers yet, but a foundation had been laid and there were encouraging signs to indicate that, before many springs passed, we would be able to place our share of stars in the diamond firmament. The second season in Red and Black base- ball history was rather an abbreviated One.