Troy High School - Trojan Yearbook (Troy, NH)

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s THE 1944-1945 BASKETBALL SCHEDULE v 1 , 27 November Ashby Home Boys and girls December Wilton Away Boys and girls December Orange Away BOYS December St. Michael's Away Boys December Appleton Home Boys and girls January Alstead Home Boys January Keene J.V. Away BOYS January Ashby Away Boys and girls January Marlboro Away Boys and girls January Appleton Away Boys and girls January Walpole Home Boys January Winchester Home Boys and girls February Antrim Away Boys and girls ,February Wilton Home Boys and girls February Vilas Home Boys ' February Walpole Away Boys February Marlboro Home Boys and girls March Acton Townsend Boys March Townsend Townsend Boys March Barre Orange Boys March ' St. Michael's Orange Boys BOY'S SPORTS Stephen Follett 145 . William Matson '45 Due to the circumstances which prevailed in school this last year the basketball team was greatly by the shortage of male studen But with the keen interest of our coach and of our boys we were able to put a team on the floor. ts. Troy High effected hard work Troy worked hard in the opening months of practice but was handi- capped by the insufficient court with which they had to contend. But taking things in their stride they plunged into a schedule of 20 games. TOURNAMENT Troy played their opening game in the tournament ' with Acton at Townsend and won by a score of 38-25. Troy then opposed the Townsend nBombersu in the semi- finals and were defeated 49-43, tryinf to overcome a 20 point lead which Townsend held at the half. Troy started the Orange Tournament the same week and the tired team barely managed to beat Barre by two points in the opening game. A Troy again succeeded in entering the semi-finals to lose out 38-54, after leading St. Michael's of Brattleboro for the first three periods.

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f , I aa GIRL'S spoms Geralda Desmarais '45 Q Girls basketball practice began in the month of November. Beverly Parker started the year off as our coach. She later had to leave us but the team gives her their thanks for the start she gave us. ' 7 - After Beverly left us Mr. Leskowitz took over the job. Without his help we would not have had any kind of a team. It is very easy to coach a team of girls and we want to show our apprecia- for the grand job of coaching he did. we had scarcely begun practice when a game was scheduled with Ashby High. Lacking practice our hopes of victory were not high and we were defeated with a score of 27-15, although we did try hard. During the third quarter of this game nDotn Koski, one of our valuable forwards, received a bad knee injury. we want to give a great big hand for our high scorer Bev Nelson. Lillian Nelson and Lucille Atkins scored highest after Bev. The captains chosen for the year were Connie Lagrenade and Geralda Desmarais. The line-up was as follows: Connie Lagrenade Left guard Geralda Desmarais Center guard Lillian Nelson Right forward Lucille Atkins Center forward Beverly Nelson Left forward Lorraine Trombly Right guard Faith Lang Right guard Beverly Brown Guard Geraldine Howe Forward and Guard Many of the Junior High students were present at every practice. Without them we would not have been able to have a team and Troy is sure of a good girls basketball team in the future. Our next game was in Milton where we were lost on their big floor and were defeated once more by a score of 48-27. Appleton was our next opponent, with whom we played an exciting game although we lost by the score of 56-20. The next game was with Ashby. The game was tough and we lost by a score of 51-18. we put all of our best players into the game with Marlboro After four periods of fast playing we were defeated. Our next defeat came when Appleton returned our visit. We fought hard and did our best. At last we really played an exciting game. Winchester came to Troy and we were determined to win. For the first time we really did, defeat them with the final score of 31-20. After this victory we were determined to win more games. Antrim was our next opponent. The game was very close all the way through but with out scoring forwards and our guards on the alert every minute we scored another victory. The score being 29-27. Wilton, our powerful opponent was next on the list. Trying our best we were again defeated. A 4 The last game of the season was with Marlboro.l We were again defeated in this hard fo1ght game. Our forwards did a fine job this year and with the guards