St Sebastians School - Arrow Yearbook (Newton, MA)

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For the return match with Middlesex on the Concord court, we were stronger than we had been for the first contest because our invalids were now ready for duty once again. Playing on the newly installed macadam court under a glass roof, we put on one of our most consistent exhibitions of the season and, even though we trailed the home team 1 1-9 at the end of the first quarter, a big second period gave us a lead of 24-22 at the half. Two quick goals by Stodghill erased that, however, as soon as play was resumed and it was only Charlie Hearn's capture of his own rebound that permitted us to go out in front again on the last play of the third stanza. From there in we were never headed and in the last frame We doubled the Middlesex tallies to emerge a 42-35 victor. Although he did not start the game, Bob Kelly made good use of his op- portunities to garner 13 points and surpass Bill Brooks' 10. Frank Kett and Charlie Hearn contributed 6 each to top Hugh Bradshaw's 4 and Hilt Collupy's 5. 1 souTH QNGS OWN 1N QONTROL fl 123 lf BATTLE FOR POSSESSION

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straight game Brooks was our chief basketeer with 14 points, Kett rated second with ll, Carey dropped in 4, Charlie Hearn was good for 3, while Bradshaw, McAuliffe and Shea accounted for 2 each. Two more games were played before we notched another victory, the defeats being administered by South Kingstown High and Newman Preparatory School. The South Kingstown affair was a Garden contest played on the afternoon of the Holy Cross-Rhode Island State classic and the whole student body was allowed to witness the game on the feast of St. Sebastian. On the whole it proved to be a rather colorless engagement even though we led with an anaemic 10-6 edge at the half, for we could garner only 5 meager points during the last two periods while the Rhode Island boys went on a mild spree, racking up 17 to pull out a 23-15 win. Charlie Hearn and Bill Brooks shared the top billing with 4 points, Hilt Collupy had credit for 3, while Hugh Bradshaw and Frank Kett each had 2 markers beside their names. Facing Newman Prep we were the decided underdog, for the Boston school had a galaxy of former high school stars and had been making plenty of trouble for college Freshman teams. The game in our cage was not many minutes old when the visitors had given suliicient display of their talents to hang up a comfortable lead and to convince spectators that they were an un- usually fine prep school quintet. In the second half they were magnanimous enough to use their second string players and against them we held our own fairly well. At the final whistle, the scoreboard showed a 55-26 triumph for Newman, but it was no disgrace to be beaten by such a talented five. Our scoring was divided in this fashion: Brooks 9, Collupy and Bradshaw 6, Kett 4 and Hearn 1. Bottom: TIE JUMP TODI KEL UP Cenlre: HUGH LEAPS

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Our first attempt to visit Lawrence Acad- emy in Groton was frustrated when the bus that was to convey us bogged down in a snowbank, so we kept our appointment on February 6th, two days later than planned. Upon our arrival, the improvised court re- minded us of the Rivers contest and when our tall opponents went into a zone defense we knew that we would have our difiiculties in finding the range under such conditions. Slow in getting under way, we could only point to goals by Kett and Bradshaw while the home team was scoring 10 points in the first period, although a last minute flurry of four baskets in the second brought us up to a 20-13 deficit by half time. That we could do better than that was not only mentioned by Bob Hogarty during the rest period but also proven as soon as we returned to the court. Sparked by a quick score that was Brooksie's contribution, we edged our way back onto almost even terms with the L. A. team, Frank Kett's basket from the side leaving us just one point down, 25-24. That accomplishment seemed to nettle the home team and, when they put on full steam, our close covering drew fouls against us, the combination result- ing in a gradual lengthening of the Lawrence lead until it climbed to 54-34 by the final whistle. Despite the height of his opponents, Kel found the basket for 10 tallies, Hugh was next with 6, Hearn, Brooks and Shea tied with 4, Kett came up with 3, Fish was good for 2 and Carey sank 1. The setting of our next game was more to our liking, for it was the spacious court in the magnificent St. Mark's gym. Having watched our j.V.'s turn in their superlative performance of the year, only to lose in a second overtime period, the Varsity took the floor to win eulogistic comment from the St. Mark's coach. Handling well and working the ball in close before shooting, the Arrows took the lead in the first few minutes of the contest and were never headed thereafter. Although they established only a 1 point margin in the first frame, it gradually in- creased to 9 by the half and climbed to 16 by game's end. Besides their eagle-eyed -l 124 sharpshooting, the Red and Black also gave their best exhibition of foul shooting to date, cashing in 581k of their free tries. When the points were tallied, the results bore witness to the balance of our team play because Bill Brooks with 10 credits had stiff competition from Collupy, Kelly and Brad- shaw, all of whom registered 8. The remain- ing 7 were distributed among Hearn, Kett and Carey, Frank topping his two team mates with a 3-2 margin. On the long bus ride home the outstanding features of our 41-25 victory were rehearsed and we were back at St. Sebastian's before we knew it. The next opponent to visit our cage was Walpole High and that quintet had not enjoyed too much success in the early stages of the season. When they arrived, however, we learned that they had recently been bol- stered by the return of a star, Turco, who had been sidelined due to injuries. Although Brooksie hung up an early lead for us with two quick baskets, Walpole's Turco dissi- pated it by capturing his own rebound and scoring to put his team ahead, 9-8, just before the end of the first period. Once again Bill Brooks wrested back superiority with a goal immediately after the rest period and, even though we trailed for a second later on, the half time totals favored us, 19-15. As events turned out, we needed that edge for Turco gathered momentum in the second half to rack up four baskets and his substitute, Swanson, accounted for three more in the final chapter. In the meantime we maintained a rather steady pace, but it was not enough to prevent Walpole from forging into a surprising three point lead in the fourth quarter. At that point, Frank Kett captured one of his own rebounds to tie the score at 33-33 and followed Brooksie's good example to get another to make our total 37. Within the last minute of play, a foul was called against us and Walpole elected to take the ball out, a decision that proved sound when Turco broke through to score and cut our edge to 37-36. On the following play with the Arrows freezing to kill the clock, the whistle blew as Bradshaw and Turco 1-