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SHORT PASS McNabb fakes a shot and passes to Kelly FACE-OFF Collupy jumps to get the B. C. High game underway. fens. Cremmen and Collupy were next with 5 each and Frank Kett contributed 3. To break into the scoring column, john Ellard and Freshman Bill Carey threw in a basket apiece, while Bill Harwood racked up a free try. Courageously enough, we ventured a sec- ond contest at the Boston Garden to match talents with a well-known Rhode Island team that had adopted the fireball type of play characteristic of Frank Keaney coached clubs. South Kingstown entered the fray highly publicized in the Boston papers and St. Sebastian's was expected to be in for a bad afternoon. XVith nothing to lose, how- ever, we refused to be impressed by the visitors' reputation and proceeded to play them to a stand-still in the first half. With McNabb still out, Collupy carried the brunt of the burden and caged four baskets, al- though he was assisted by individual two- pointers by Harwood, Kelly and Shea. On the defense, Cremmen and Harwood put an effective end to the Rhode Islanders' fire- ball tactics by intercepting their long passes and forcing them to adopt a much more cautious type of play. The net result was that, when our student cheering section arrived after school was dismissed, they were amazed to see the scoreboard reading St. Sebastian's 16, South Kingstown 15. In the second half, however, we quickly lost our slim margin as well as our offensive power and the out-of-staters capitalized on our loose ball-handling to forge into a com- fortable lead. Fish found himself covered pretty effectively and, with him confined to one goal from the floor, only Kelly and Har- wood were able to sink single baskets. In the course of the afternoon, Jack Cremmen was credited with three successful conver- sions, but our total reached only to 24 while South Kingstown pieced together ll and 8 points in the last half to achieve a game grist of 34. We knew that the result could have been different, but we had to settle for a creditable showing instead of a victory. TWO POINTS Collupy drops one in against the in towners.
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21, while McNabb pressed on his heels with 18. The other assets of the day were -f by both Cremmen and Kelly, and 2 each by Harwood and Kett. Naturally, the type of play shown by our hoopsters was a refresh- ing delight to the coach and student body, and now we may say in retrospect that in that contest the St. Sebastian team reached its zenith of the 1946-47 season. We maintained the best Indian traditions of Nonantum Hill by scalping the next in- vaders, Immaculate Conception of Revere, although our margin was only a 20-19 hair. In contrast to the whirlwind finish that we put on against Belmont Hill, our play was lethargic-so much so that Collupy was the only Arrow able to hit the mark in the first quarter. The second and third frames yielded only 1 and 5 points respectively, and, with 75fXp of the game over, we trailed by a miserable 15-ll. At that point it sud- denly dawned on us that we could lose the contest, so we put on a brief scoring flurry that gave us 9 points in the last period to the visitors' 6. On the strength of our last session showing, we just barely eked out a 20-19 win that was not much to boast about. Once again, Hilton topped our scorers with 12 credits, but Kelly's -i, Cremmen's 5 and McNabb's l came in handy. In the foul de- SET SHOT Gold. l partment we had 18 chances and cashed in only on 6--a not too satisfactory perform- ance. Our next call to action was against Sacred Heart of Newton on the floor of the Weeks junior High School gym. All season long we had been receiving reports of this quintet's prowess and high scoring talent, and the fact that we numbered many for- mer Sacred Heart boys in our student body lent greater interest to the meeting. It was unfortunate that we were not at full strength for the evening battle, but we were without the services of Bob McNabb, whose cold had developed into pneumonia. Early in the game the height advantage that Sacred Heart had on our forwards, Kelly and Kett, began to tell and their rangy Nangle and Steffens were scoring over our heads. At the half we trailed 25-15, but the last two periods were a different story. Close covering of Nangle and Steffens reduced their damage to a minimum, while we took and sank long shots, matching our rivals point for point. This was not enough, how- ever, to offset their early lead and we were forced to accept a 58-27 verdict against us. For the first time in his cage career, Bob Kelly set the pace for the Red and Black with 9 points to match his Hoof rival, Stef- McNabb gets one off to worry the Maroon and 109
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On the 24th of january, the local St. Columbkille quintet paid an agreeable visit to our cage, only to be rewarded by their second defeat of the year at our hands. At the outset, the battle was a nip and tuck affair, with the lead changing hands regu- larly as first one, and then the other, team scored. The midway gong left us on the wrong end of a 13-12 count, but we more than made up the deficit in the last half. To begin with, Hilt Collupy suddenly found his eye in a fashion that was reminiscent of the Belmont Hill game and dropped in six beauties from the floor. Not to be outdone, Kelly, Kett and Shea were of material assist- ance on the offense, while our guard play was so effective that Clancy's three loopers were all that the visitors could gleam in the third and fourth chapters. All in all we looked the part of victors in our 54-19 tri- umph and Fish's 16 gave him top honors for the day. As runner-up, Kel climbed to a new personal high of 10 to surpass Shea's 4 and 2 each by Cremmen and Kett. Cathedral's visit to us in the closing days of january could not help but recall memo- ries of our thrilling victory of the year be- fore when jack Cremmen swished home a basket from mid-court with only seconds to play. This year they turned the tables on us in decisive style because we got off to a very poor start. Almost from the opening whistle the visitors dominated the play and their aggressive, heads-up play netted 18 points to our negligible 4 in the first half. Whatever pep talk Vin used between the periods, it proved effective for the Red and Black came back to take the initiative and outscore the Boston lads 17-14 in the home stretch. We started too late, however, and the final check-up showed a Cathedral 32-21 victory. For the first time in his young career, joe Shea led the way for the Arrows, his 8 points nosing out Collupy's 7 and Kel- ly'S 6. In years past we had visited St. Mark's of Southborough in various sports, but Febru- ary lst marked the occasion of the first visit of one of their athletic teams to St. Sebas- tian's. The Saturday contest proved to be an extremely close-matched affair that kept the result in doubt until the final whistle. In the opening stanza, Hilt Collupy's two con- secutive conversions were just enough to give us an 8-7 advantage, but the second chapter tipped the scales 15-14 in favor of the visitors when DeCoen, their jump man, came through in similar fashion. After the half-way rest period, we came back to wrest a 20-19 lead by the end of the third quar- FOUL TRY The eagle eyed Captain adds a tally against St. Marks.
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