Westglen High School - Review Yearbook (Edmonton, Alberta Canada)

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' H ' SENIOR AND JUNIOR HOCKEY Page Forty-five

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Outstanding Team... SEMOR BOYS’ BASKETBALL This year, more than ever before, Westglen students have a right to express pride in their Senior Basketball team. This fine team went into the high school league in Edmonton, won the honors, and thus automa¬ tically became champions of Northern Alberta. They carried on into the provincial finals, but were defeated by the Southern titlists from Barnwell. Our boys proved to be consistently good throughout the season. They played a long schedule, containing several exhibition games with teams outside the high schools. For example, they played against Edmonton Grads on one or two encounters, and set back the Y.M.C.A. Alberta Junior Champions, on other occasions. Action in the high school league began near the middle of January. Westglen served notice that they would be hard to stop, by taking their first engagement 30-19. In the succeeding games of the series West¬ glen won one game and lost two. Both these defeats were suffered on floors less than the regulation size (to which the boys were accustomed), and in each case the margin of victory was a single basket. As a result of these losses, each of the three schools emerged from the race equal, and sudden-death playoffs were necessitated. Vic¬ toria drew a bye into the finals, while Westglen tangled with Scona for the right to meet them. In the first game, our grey-clad quintet ran roughshod over the Southsiders, to take a 33-11 verdict. The next game was one of the best of the season. Vic. started fast and maintained their lead until after half-time. Then Westglen began to move, caught their opponents, and passed them. In the final game, the lead see¬ sawed back and forth, but when the final whistle blew our boys were on the long end of the 25-23 score. The Alberta finals were played at Barnwell almost a month later. This was a two-game total point sereies. The first game was fairly even, but our boys were out shot and went down 24-20. In the final form, the Southern team showed great form to deefeat us by 42-25. Naturally the Westglen team was disappointed by the results, but every player profited by the experience. Mr. Hunter was able to obtain Tommy McClochlin, well-known city player and referee, as coach. Tommy took the comparatively raw group of players and moulded them into a fast moving, smooth-working team. Captain Jim Fleming led the team on both the offense and de¬ fense all year. His great competitive spirit was felt in every game. Bob Fleming and Alex Fallow were the other two high scorers on the squad, while Ken McLeod and Rowan Ragan shone for their defensive work. Jack Brown, Gerry Finn, Bill Treloar, and Eric MacDonald rounded out the team. Prospects for the future are good too, for over half the senior team will be back next fall. We feel sure that next year will be a good one, perhaps our best. Page Forty-seven