St Sebastians School - Arrow Yearbook (Newton, MA)

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DEIGNAN, MCAULIFFE, EGAN marker of the day. In many ways, this contest proved to be one of the most unfortunate exhibitions ever put on by a St. Sebastian athletic team, but we were decisively beaten by a superior sextet that outskated us from the start and took advantage of every oppor- tunity that presented itself. Later events proved that it was no disgrace to lose to Mal- den Catholic for our conquerors proceeded to annex the Catholic League championship and then win the Metropolitan Tournament. We had two weeks to recuperate from the Malden defeat before we engaged another Catholic League opponent. Playing at night on january 18th, St. Sebastian's proved forcefully that it could bounce back by tak- ing St. Mary's of Waltham into camp by the one-sided margin of 9-1. Two changes in our line-up found Bob Murphy starting at defense in place of Bill Gibbons and Harold Field guarding the nets instead of Bruce Harrigan. Not wasting any time, Bob Egan was opportunist enough to cash in on a smart pass from Jack Boyle shortly after the opening face-off and Egie's tally turned on the red light at exactly 0:26. After lind- ing the combination once, the same pair saw no harm in trying it again, with the KELLY, COTTER, RYAN result that a second goal was credited to us less than three minutes later. In the mean- time, the enemy was not able to make things too uncomfortable for Harry Field, because most of their threats were easily broken up at our blue line. After one futile Waltham attack, Andy McAuliffe won possession of the disc in our zone and refused to be parted from the rubber until he had deposited it in the enemy cage at 7:20 to run our total to three. Our next marker was the work of jim Ryan and jim Cotter who collaborated nicely to fool the rival netminder, Big jim registering and Little jim making the assist. Having made such a fine start in the open- ing frame, we proceeded to duplicate it in the second. Joe Deignan blazed the way in this stanza, scoring unassisted at 3:27, and in less than two minutes Bob Egan rammed home a Murphy pass that increased our edge to 6-0. It was at that point that St. Mary's found something to cheer about when Paul johnson beat Harry Field at 5:58 to hang up his team's only point of the day. For the rest of the contest, Bob Murphy took over our offensive personally and laced in three sizzling drives that produced unassisted -I me 1-

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scores. Operating from a defense post, Murph varied his technique, denting the target from 20 feet out in the first instance and carrying in close for clever poke shots on the other two solos. Next morning the newspapers commented on the unusual circumstances of the hat trick being pulled by two team- mates, Bob Egan and Bob Murphy. To complete our first round of appearances against Catholic League teams, we took on St. Patrick's of Stoneham one week later. Entering the contest we were handicapped by the absence of Coach Vin Murphy who was confined to his home with a cold, and Fr. Flanigan had to step into the breach and handle the team. Despite the fact that our opponents had gone down to a surprising 2-1 defeat at the hands of Christopher Columbus the week before, we found them a bit of a problem at least in the opening period. Time and time again the Red and Black skaters bombarded the Stoneham cita- del, but the shots were either wide of the mark or they were turned aside by the capable guardian. Offensively also the rival icemen were bothersome for on occasion they pressed hard and forced Bruce Harrigan to turn in ,M-1411: several brilliant saves. The net result was that, at the buzzer ending the first frame, both sextets skated off deadlocked in a scoreless tie. In the middle stanza, however, the Arrows suddenly found their sharpshooting eyes and registered no less than five goals. The first came at 3:11 when Bob Murphy, who had carried practically all the way down the ice, passed very neatly to Andy McAuliffe who lost no time in turning on the red light. Less than half a minute later, Bob found himself on the receiving end of a Henry Lane feed and the 15 foot bullet he unleashed was in the strings before the goalie realized what had happened. From that point on the game broke wide open in our favor for we racked up three more tallies before the chapter ended. Andy McAuliffe sparked this continuing assault, setting up Jack Boyle for our third goal at 5:45 and then registering twice personally within 22 seconds on timely passes from Joe Deignan. With the game well in hand, the reserve lines saw action for the greater part of the final period and Bob Kelly found the range at 2:12 to bang home a Frank Hennessy set up for his first goal in Catholic League com- BURNS, HENNESSY, REGAN -I 109 CORCORAN, MCCARTY, DURNAN 1-