Story High School - Yearbook (Manchester, MA)

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Thxrd S The Basketball Stor Fxrst row T Carroll F Saco C Torrey W Burgess W Laskowskz econd row K Crane Wetterlow L Gates Floyd W James Knox D Crane Tsoutsams D Towle row Mr Nelson McAll1ster C Clapp Croft T Mercer Nakxs W Barnett Nelson W Wood The Story basketball team started off the season w1th a 55 49 overtlme w1n over St Jean's of Lynn The game was nxp and tuck all the way and txed at the end of regulat1on t1me In the overt1me St Jean's was held scoreless wh1le our boys tallxed s1x po1nts In the second meetmg Wlth St Jean s Story had thlngs much the1r own way w1th a v1ctory of eo 40 Wetterlow and Floyd were hlgh scorers Story made It three wms 1n a row by defeat1ng Perley I-hgh of Georgetown 52 35 Perley closed the gap 1n the thlrd perxod but w1th Floyd Knox and James leadmg the way Story put on the pressure and came out the vlctors Story ga1ned 1ts f1rst v1ctory ln league compet1t1on by overcommg a stubborn Essex Agg1es 38 25 However the w1n was a costly one for Story lost the servlces of the1r capta1n B111 James for the rest of the season Knox and Floyd were leadmg scorers Although Story was wlthout the servlces of three of the f1rst str1ng players the team played the best game of the season by beatxng Topsf1e1d 51 49 1n overtlme Saco produced the wlnnlng basket and Floyd racked up twenty po1nts The home team came through w1th 1ts second league v1ctory defeat1ng I-lamllton 59 54 H1gh scoreers were Knox wxth Z3 po1nts and Floyd w1th Z2 Delaney scored Z9 for the oppo s1t1on Story suffered 1ts f1rst defeat at St Ann's mn Gloucester losmg by a score of 8? 57 Henr1 Ross1 agaln proved the outstand1ng oppos1t1on player scormg a total of 78 pomts whxle Floyd was h1gh for Story w1th ZZ po1nts Story suffered 1ts most stunn1ng defeat at the hands of Rockport 91 47 Rockport Jumped to an early lead and kept addlng to lt Jack Grlmes scored 30 po1nts for the v1s1tors wh11e Knox was hlgh for Story w1th 18 po1nts Manchester lost a heartbreaker at Topsf1eld by one pomt Leadmg by 10 po1nts at the half our boys bowed to a sharp shootmg close defend1ng Topsf1e1d team that pulled through to a 56 55 v1ctory Knox scored hxgh for the local boys w1th 32 po1nts Wxth one second to go IH the Story Ipswxch game Ph11 Rob1shaw of Ipswlch shot a basket from mldcourt to defeat Story 57 56 Our boys played a wonderful game and ap peared the wlnners unt1l the last second mlracle shot Knox scored 27 po1nts Certaxnly the hlgh spot of the season was when Story ended an eleven year famme defeatmg St Ann s 74 64 Story mcreased thexr lead to a comfortable margm m the early stages of the game and led all the way As the yearbook goes to press the team st1ll has four games on 1ts schedule We all wzsh the team the best of luck 17 S : . , E. , . , W. , . , H. , . , S. ' , . . . 7 I . , W. , . , E , E. ' , . ' , , W. , . ' . . - .. ' . 1, - . . I . . - . by . . , , - . . . . .

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