St Sebastians School - Arrow Yearbook (Newton, MA)

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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.

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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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On February 11th, St. Charles of Wal- tham climbed our Hill and caught us with another slow start that caused our down- fall. No matter what we tried in the first two periods, the ball refused to drop through for us and we were reduced to reg- istering via the foul route, chalking up 8 points in this fashion and racking up only 4 on baskets. The foe, meanwhile, had set up a 17-12 lead to which they added 19 more in the third session, while we were getting 4. Finally, with the last chapter underway, we flared up with 19 of our own, but once again it was too belated to be effective. One memorable feature of the contest was Col- lupy's first period foul shooting which netted him 7 points out of a possible 10, en- abling him to register a game total of 11. Next in order came Shea's 8, young Bill Carey's 5, 4 each by Kelly and Kett, Crem- men's 2, and Harwood's singleton. During the February vacation we made a memorable trip to Taunton to make an- other new athletic friendship for St. Sebas- tian's. journey's end was Coyle High School and the game was scheduled to initiate a competitive relationship in sports between the two schools. The fact that they had taken Sacred Heart of Newton into camp rather easily was an indication of their strength and we were not too optimistic about the outcome. Although Coyle fielded a medium sized quintet, they showed from the start that they were an aggressive, smooth-working unit that would take ad- vantage of every break. Getting away to a fast start, the home team came up with 10 baskets in the first half, while we were able to penetrate their zone defense for scores only on 3 occasions. Foul tries saved face for us, however, for we managed to rack up 6 more points via the free route. In the third and fourth quarters their superiority was not as marked, for the final total on the electric scoreboard was 54-30. The game marked the first occasion on which we de- rived more profit from the foul line than we did from the floor, for 16 of our 30 points Bill Harwood takes it down. were of the unopposed variety. Red and Black eagle-eye honors went to Joe Shea for his 11 markers, and Andy McAuliffe was a surprise second man with 6. Our remaining 13 were attributable to Kel's 5, Fish's 4 and 2 each by Cremmen and Bradshaw. The re- turn trip to Boston was a hazardous one be- cause we had to drive into the very teeth of a northeast snow storm, and the group with Fr. Flanigan was stranded in Raynham when motor trouble developed. Forced to seek refuge in the Town Club, the only illu- minated establishment on the road, they were rescued by Tom Hartnett's father's Good Samaritan act that cost him a long trip from Cambridge. Our next appearance was in a Sunday aft- ernoon contest on the floor of the Boston Arena in which we drew Our Lady's of Newton for an opponent, and once again they outpointed us 39-26. Things started auspiciously enough for us when our op- ponents' Small, on a quick-breaking play, raced half the length of the court to deposit the ball in his own hoop and give us a 2-0 lead. Unfortunately, we were not able to stay out in front, for at half time we trailed 16-12, and the parochial quintet used the last two chapters to lengthen their lead to 39-26. At the jump post, Hilt Collupy had a fair day that netted him 15 points, 10 of which came in the third and fourth periods.