Wilmington High School - Hourglass Yearbook (Wilmington, MA)

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AA' lip sedan GIRLS' BASKETBALL First row--left to right: Elizabeth Martino, Patrice Reagan, Eileen Porter, Dorothy Weatherbee, Maria Tessicini, Geraldine Porter. Second row: Miss Greenwood fcoachj, Roberta Ware, Helen Bedell, Elizabeth Melzar, Phyllis O'br1en, Elizabeth Cavanaugh, Dorothy Oman. Third row: ladeline Lyons, Alice Rooney, Muriel Martin, Barbara Gammons, and Alice Haley. An enthusiastic and hardworking group of girls were those who were seen practicing basketball in the gym practically every after noon. The team started off well by defeating Howe and continued on being victorious in their next three consecutive games which were Johnson, Tewksbury and Burlington. Having won their first four games, two of which, Tewksbury and Burlington, were considered tough opposition, they went to Chelmsford with their hopes high and with much spirit. However, in spite of hard playing, the Wil- mington girls were defeated. Dracut and John son were quite easily defeated. Although three ga es were lost the girls felt as though they had accomplished something in de- feating Tewksbury, their top rival in both games. . Under the excellent coaching of Miss Greenwood and with the cooperative spirit of the girls, the team enjoyed a good season in spite of inadequate gym facilities, chalking up seven wins to three losses.

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I gy I B 1 ya! .... , -a -' .un ,. Q -e n , 9 , ., , .f '- .1 4- 4 '-Zia. if ., 9 5, 4 I ! BOYS' BASKETBALL Front row: Joseph Gilligan, Richard Montgomery, Robert Mullarky, Wilbur Sheldon, Theodore Wicks, Rufus Stevens. Second row: Harold Driscoll fcoachl, Daniel Wandell, Robert Swain, Edson McKens1e, John Hourihan, Arthur Spear, Burtt Holmes, William Chisholm. Third row: Edward Sadowski, Robert Taylor, Edward Welling, Karl Woodman, and Norman Stewart. For the first time Since the war, the close scores and they went on to beat John- Lowell Suburban Basketball League was in Son' Howe. and Tewksbury, OUT tTadiUi0H8l operation. Altogether there were seven rivals in the Years Past- THPOUQUOUU the teams in the league. These included: remainder of the season we were a constant Chelmsford, Howe of Billerica, Dracut, Bur- threat to Such teams HS Chelmefefd, and lington, Tewksbury, Johnson of North And- Dfeeutv who were first and Seeend Teepee' over and Wilmington. tively in the league standings. Due to the inadequate facilities in Through the time and efforts of John wilmington' we played all of our games on Ritchie a returned servicemen, our Junior i foreign courts' Owing to the generosity Varsity was taught the fundamentals of basket of our arch rival' Tewksbury' We were al- ball, which enabled Coach Driscoll to spend lowed to practice on their court. Although his time with the varsity. all games were played on unfamiliar courts, Although all the games were played on the boys did very well, ending fourth in rival courts, they were largely attended by the league standings. . spirited citizens, who were a great help in The spirit of our boys was not broken building up the spirit of the entire team. after losing the first three games by very

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a..a.o6-all BASEBALL Our baseball team did a fine job and if you will notice in our schedule only two teams were able to beat us twice in our series and of these two, Reading really was a stronger team. Reading, Punchard and Chelmsford were a little out of our class in these contests. Pitching was our big problem. Dick Gearty, who came along so well last season was scholastically ineligible the first half of the schedule and was not up to his old form when he finally came out. Wilbur Sheldon, who had some experience last year, showed some improvement, but was not ready for top flight competition. We were on the lookout for someone with a good arm and Gus Blaisdell got the call for Ser- vice. Gus, incidently, was doing a fine job in center field. After two heartbreaking losses, which 'never should have beenn against Punchard and Chelmsford, both by a 3-2 score, we got started and gave a pretty good account from there on. In both Reading games Blaisdell was unable to pitch so we were not as strong as we might have been. The old jinx that caught up with Ted Nichols last fall in the Tewksbury game where he broke his wrist, side tracked him in the Chelmsford game where he broke his leg slid- ing into home plate. We had a rained-out game with Dracut. Thus we bring to a close another year of athletics in which we were able to win our share of the victories. We accepted our losses with good sportsmanship and congratu- lated our opponents on their better playing. To our Seniors we say 'good luck' for a successful future. We know we will miss you when the next season rolls around.