Vergennes Union High School - Blue and White Yearbook (Vergennes, VT)

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1945 HOYS’ BASKETBALL TEAM YERGEXXES HIGH SCHOOL

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BLUE AND WHITE oo N GIRLS’ SPORTS We opened our ’44-’45 Basketball season with Biagio Palermo as our new coach. Practices were held every night in order to get the team in shape for the tough season ahead. Now we can thank the coach for having so many practices as this practice helped us to win 16 out of 19 games. The Headmasters’ Club organized the Champlain Valley League of which we were a member along with Shelburne. Hinesburg, Bristol. Shoreham, Weeks School and Essex Junction. We won every game in this league; thus we were presented with the trophy. At the close of the season a Boys and Girls’ Banquet was held at the Ver-gennes Inn. The coach had somewhere found a deer which was enjoyed by almost everyone. At this time the coach was presented with money as a gift from the teams. Speeches were made by Prin. Berry, Coach Palermo, Manager’s Audrey Tucker and Hugh Clark, Ray Nelson and Kay Panton. The guest was to be John Acropolis, but at that time he was unable to attend. This was our last gathering of the season. It was the last of Basketball for soim. Co-Captain Martha Partch, Kav Ev-arts. Grace Sears. Manager Audrey Tucker and Captain Kav Panton express regrets in leaving the team by graduation. But we all hope to come back as Alumni next year and give the team a good game. The team, manager and the coach were presented with gold basket balls. Letters are also to be presented. I he lineup for the year was: First String Second String R. F. Capt. Kay Panton Jean Myers L. F. Esther Bristol Jackie Myers, Jean LeBeau C. F. Grace Sears Molly Burnham R. G. Kay Evarts Betty Jordan L. G. Kay Looby Lorraine Poquette C. G. Co-Capt. Martha Partch Nancy Partch The games played and the as follows: scores are We They Shelburne 41 15 Burlington Business College 49 51 Bristol 39 29 Hinesburg 59 12 Weeks School 38 17 Essex Junction 40 30 Brandon 39 lb- Middlebury 28 21 Shoreham 84 70 Shelburne 52 29 Brandon 51 31 Hinesburg 49 21 Burlington 29 44 Middlebury 38 16 Weeks School 39 22 Bristol 42 30 Burlington 39 53 Essex Junction 62 14 Shoreham 61 15 At this time we wish to thank the students and the townspeople porting us during the season. : for sup-

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 BLUE AND WHITE 3r BOYS’ SPORTS The highlight of this year’s sports was Basketball with our boys playing a sixteen game schedule. The V. H. S. boys finished third in the Champlain Valley League with a record of 6 won and 4 lost. The season s record was 9 wins against 7 losses. The boys did better than was expected ol them considering that last year’s whole first five graduated. One of the games that cannot be foi -gotten was the last game of the season, the one against Middlebury. At the final whistle, the score was tied, 36 to 36. Then, in the first seconds of tne overtime period, on a play from center jump, Blakely smashed one through the hoop. Shortly after, Nelson scored, and holding Middlebury scoreless, we won, 40 to 36. A list of players and their individual scores follow: C. Yandow—165 points R. Nelson—134 points W. Wood—-111 points J. Sheehan—56 points R. LeBeau—42 points G. Bibeau— J. McEvila—2 points Marvin Blakely—20 points Marlin Blakely—4 points B. Dyke—4 points A. Mack V. H. S. 28 Brandon 36 V. H. S. 36 Middlebury 20 V. H. S. 43 Shoreham 11 V. H. S. 24 Bristol Weeks 48 V. H. S. 20 School Essex 42 V. H. S. 47 Junction 30 V. H. S. 47 Shoreham 33 V. H. S. 36 Shelburne 29 V. H. S. 36 Hinesburg 19 V. H. S. 40 Middlebury 36 Total 542 Total 501 The baseball season started the second week in April with about 20 boys out for the squad. Despite continuous rainy weather, the boys got several practices in. Coach Palermo had two veterans back, John Sheehan and Ray Nelson. Nelson. Sheehan and Art Taylor, a newcomer from New York city, composed the pitching staff, and the two not pitching played first and third base. Rookie Fred Bull was behind the plate, and Ernie Chapman, a short but fast little lad played shortstop. Clovis Yandow or Walt Wood held down second base and the fielders were Bernard Dike, Les Fleming and Howie Danyow. Also out ffor the team were Glenn Purcell, Olin Flynn, James McEvila and Francis Burroughs. E. Chapman Below is a list of the games played and their scores : V. H. S. 25 Shelburne 32 V. H. S. 22 Brandon 40 V. H. S. 36 Bristol 32 V. II. S. 53 Hinesburg Weeks 12 V. H. S. 23 School Essex 55 V. H. S. 25 Junction 26 The schedule for the season was as follows: April 29 Vergennes Town Team, here May 1 Hinesburg, there May 4 Shelburne, here May 8 Hinesburg, here May 11 Middlebury, there May 15 Shelburne, there May 18 Pending May 22 Bristol, there May 25 Middlebury, here May 30 Bristol, here