St Sebastians School - Arrow Yearbook (Newton, MA)

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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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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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ter, and by dint of heroic efforts we still held a 25-24 edge with little more than two min- utes to play. At that point the visitors' Baker dropped in a lay-up to chill our hopes, but in our next attack Collupy offset that ef- fort by dropping a basket from the key-hole that made it 27-26 in our favor. Not yet counted out, St. Mark's came back again on a Baker solo and, one point behind, we brought it down in desperate fashion. A pass from Cremmen found joe Shea free in the right hand corner and from thatdilficult angle he swished a two-pointer that revived our spirits. Seconds later, after a last St. Mark's threat had been rebuffed, the same joe collected a shot from the enemy back- board and found the range again to make our victory certain. Although Shea's two baskets gave us the verdict, Collupy with 9 and Cremmen with 8 were our big guns. The rest of our power was supplied by Kel's 5, Harwood's 5 and Andy McAuliffe's hrst floor goal of the season. During the in- formal get-together in the refectory after the game, the sportsmanlike visitors were highly complimentary of our team play and spent the rest of the time discussing mutual opponents. SHOOTING FROM MID-COURT STRUGGLE OUTSIDE McNabb gets off a long one h- h- early in the B. C. High game. UP FROM UNDER Collupy takes it away with a ig yump. To continue a pleasant relationship be- gun last Fall in Football, we paid a visit to Cambridge High and Latin on the follow- ing Friday and the school we defeated on the gridiron gained ample revenge on the Rindge Tech court. It did not take long for us to realize that we had a powerhouse to contend with. for the Cantabs piled up a l-i-S lead in the first frame and continued to lengthen it as the game progressed. In the final quarter, however, when the home team had made frequent substitutions, we man- aged to outpoint them 9-5 but this in no way affected the ultimate verdict, 49-28 in their favor. For the second time this sea- son, joe Shea was our scoring threat with 11, although Bill Harwood surprisingly gave him a close run from a guard post with 9, while Cremmen's 6 and Collupy's 2 com- pleted the story. McNabb draws a foul in the B. c. High tilt.