St Sebastians School - Arrow Yearbook (Newton, MA)

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after Maguire's register, jim Cotter made our second goal and, a quarter of a minute afterwards, Henry Lane added the third, After that scoring spree, things quieted down until the Middlesex left wing, Bancroft, whittled our lead to 3-1 temporarily, but, once again, Bill Maguire had his sharpshooting eye and laced home a Murphy assist to close the period at 4-1. Despite many threats during the second period, we were not able to score in that chapter, but we blanked the home team at the same time to maintain our 4-1 edge. just by way of no harm, we added two points in the final stanza, Gibby regis- tering on a feed from Cotter just before jimmy went all the way to score unassisted and make the final figures read 6-1 in our favor, Once again, the Red and Black used frequent substitutions and every player on the squad saw service. In the second period the Middlesex goalie was injured during a scrimmage and the host school was grateful for the prompt ministrations of Billy Gibbons' dad. At long last we were able to play our first game on the St. Sebastian rink when the weather man was co-operative enough to favor us with ice on Friday, February 4th, St. Mary's of Walthain was our guest for the dedication contest and proved an obliging enough victim by the score of 5-1. The honor of scoring first was earned by Bill Maguire just two minutes after Doc Gautreau had dropped the first puck, and credit for the assist went to Brookline jim Cotter, After that initial achievement, Captain Henry Lane pro- ceeded to put on a scoring rarity by tallying three times in succession to achieve the hat trick. During this rampage, Henry had assistance from Maguire twice and Gibby once with the result that by the time Henry relaxed his efforts, we had a comfortable 4-0 lead. To close out the day's offensive for us, Freshman Ed Carroll registered on a solo flight before the visitors' Dion found the range and the 5-1 verdict in our favor was highly satisfactory, Witli the Annual Retreat just concluded that afternoon, most of the student body found it possible to be on hand for this first contest on our own ice, but, from time to time, they found it convenient to dash into the gym to watch our quintet match baskets with Huntington. The following night we went into action again, this time indoors at the Boston Arena, where we battled a surprise sleeper, New Prep of Cambridge, with no better result than a 2-2 tie. Time and time again, our puck chasers were in on the rival net- minder for unimpeded chances, but their bombsights failed them and their shots caromed SECOND LINE Corcoran, Doherty, Carroll. 1-I 138 I-

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off the pads or the pipes without doing any damage. Only Henry Lane was able to find the range and his two tallies were just enough to save us from defeat and earn a 2-2 tie. With ice so scarce, we thought we were fortunate to have a skating surface on our home rink for a final game on Saturday, February 12th, with 'Roxbury Latin, Like ourselves, the West Roxbury sextet had not played many games and the first period saw us taking an early lead and adding to it almost at will , Captain Henry Lane hung up the first marker, while Billy Gibbons and Ed Carroll were right on his heels with tallies of their own, Before the first period ended, Billy Maguire and Jimmy Cotter had also dented the strings, and we had a 5-1 edge as we skated off for the rest period. Realizing that this was a splendid opportunity to give the reserves a chance to demonstrate their wares, Coach Murphy kept the first team out of action for the rest of the day and he was more than rewarded by the fine showing of the Red and Black replacements. Althovgh they did not score very often, they exhibited some fine defensive covering and held the visitors scoreless in the two final periodsf To add to our lead, john Doherty and Paul Carey found loopholes in our opponents' defense and their tallies made the 5' nal score read, 7-1, in favor of St, Sebastian's. The traditional Red-Blue game was played on indoor ice at the Boston Arena and, as usual, it developed into one of the hardest fought and most exciting contests of the year. Deservedly, Bob Murphy and Bruce Harrigan were named rival captains. When the squad lists were posted, each team maintained that the other had the stronger roster, but, to an impartial observer, it was evident that any offensive edge possessed by the Reds would be offset by the presence of Brucie in the Blue nets. The hrst period of the game bore out that contention, for neither side was able to score, although Harrigan was pressed considerably more than Dave O'Connor, In the second stanza, Murphy struck a blow for his own cause when he rammed home a Gibbons' pass that beat Bruce at 1:45. Battling back bravely, the Blues pressed hard and were rewarded at 5:15 of the same period by Billy Maguire's successful conversion of a Cotter rebound to even mat'ers at 1-1. That stalemate endured until 8:35 when Murph again entered the picture, stealing a rival pass at mid-ice and carrying in on the Blue captain to feint him out of position and set up a 2-1 lead, Halfway through the final period, poetic justice asserted itself, however, for Billy Maguire stole a pass from Murph deep in Blue territory and then outraced the Red captain all the way to the goal where he poked it by O'Connor to tie up the contest at 2-2. As the minutes ticked by, an overtime contest seemed to be in the making until, in the final minute of play, Paul Corcoran established possession of the disc during a scramble at the boards and passed up to Bill Gibbons who whistled it into the strings to decide the struggle in favor of Bob Murphy's Reds by a 3-2 hair. As a result, Murph hung his plaque at the Hockey-Basketball banquet, while Bruce received the commiserations of his fellow Blues for his gallant, though fruitless, battle. Thus the ice season of 1948-49 passed into history with St. Sebastian's Hockey team turning in an undefeated record. Truth to tell, the Red and Black skaters themselves would gladly have traded a few defeats for the chance to meet some of the top-flight sextets that appeared on the School schedule. However, the over mild Winter was alone responsible for the few contests played, and it is to be hoped that future seasons will r-'ore than make up for the dearth of action this year on the St, Sebastian rink. . t u g, '90 , , 1 6' Mnsswl .-I mo 1-1