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Page 6 NAUGATUCK NEWS (Conn.) Feb. 29, 1968 Wee Five, Children Win NHS Titles By TOM HENNICK The Wee Five of the American Division and the Children of the National Division held off strong opposition from the City Boys and Hall's Ruins to win the Senior and junior League titles respectively. In the first quarter of the Junior League game began with Andy Sirica and Dave Evancha trading baskets. Larry Dominiezak and Steve Hovlck traded buckets, and the lead switched back and forth until it was 14-12 Children, with about 30 seconds left. Evancha sunk a foul shot and the Children led by one, 14-13 at the quarter.

In the second quarter some strong defensive plays were shown by both teams. Steve Hovick and Sirica scored eight points for each team In that quarter as the score was tied 24-24 at the half. The Children started to pull ahead in the third quarter, as they did in the playoff yesterday. Hall's Ruins, however, did net let them make much of a move. Behind Evancha and Hovick they stayed in the game and were down only 40-35 at the quarter.

In the fourth quarter the lead jumped up to seven then down to three. With 59 seconds left, Jerry Dingle scored to make it 50-47. Evancha stole the ball with 22 seconds left to make it 50-47. Coming down the court Kevin Cyr was fouled and con. verted 1 of 2 shots to make it 51-49.

With two seconds left a three-quarter court shot missed and the Children came out Champs 51-49. Andy Sirica had 19 and Larry Dominiezak 16 for the winners. Dave Evancha had 22 and Steve Hovick had 16 for the losers. In the Senior League contest the Wee Five behind Tim Fitzpatrick's 39 points made up an eight point deficit in the second half to win 66-58. In the first quarter the City Boys took advantage of cold shooting by the Wee Five to move out to a 15-9 lead.

The second quarter saw some hot shooting Bertothy and Edmonds.of the City Boys. Also in this quarter Dennis Churchill, the Wee Five's man, picked up his fourth personal foul and the City Boys started out-rebounding the Wee Five. It was a strong effort as the City Boys pulled out to a 36-28 halftlme lead. In the third quarter, Fltz. Patrick started to find the However, Churchill picked up his fifth foul and the City Boys behind Larry Legere kept it close.

The Wee Five went ahead on a Joe Mengaccl basket 46-45 at the third quarter break. The fourth quarter was practically allFltzpatrlckashespun and drove his way to 17 of his points. This and strong performances by Jeff Overton, Mengacci, Don Lapham, and John Letts defensively and off the boards, brought the City Boys down to a 66-58 defeat. Fltzpatrlck hit 16 times from the field and seven times from the line for his 39 points. Larry Legere led the losers with 21.

Jim Bertothy had 15 and Jim Edmonds had 12 for the City Boys, also. Senior League Wee Five (66) Fitzpatrick Overton Mengacci Churchill Lapham Letts Sequlst Palizay Totals 29 8 66 City Boys (58) Legere Bertothy Edmonds Canaperi Teeple Yackowskl Totals Junior League Children (51) Sirica 9 1 19 Dominczak 8 0 16 Cyr 226 JOHN fries to block Jimmy shot in the Leogue Intramural Championships. Fitzpatrick led the Five team to the crown, scoring 39 points. -(News photo by Hollis) Lonbofg May Not Pitch Renzoni Crelan Totals 24 3 51 Hall's Ruins Evancha Hovick i Casey Hall Dingle Moran Breton (49) 7 8 2 2 1 0 0 22 16 4 4 2 1 0 Totals 20 9 49 Hillside Wins 10th By BILL LAWLOR Hillside won its ninth straight game Saturday afternoon at Taft School defeating the Taft 3rds 45 to 40. Hillside's record Is now 10 wins and one loss and Taft dropped to five wins and five losses.

Taft's 3rds, composed of freshmen and sophomores, started quickly and led 14 to seven at the end of the first period. Hillside got rolling in the second period and had the half time lead, 24 to 19. Hillside also had the lead at the three quarter mark, 38 to 31. Bill Flynn, a six-four sophomore rebounded well and was high scorer for Taft with 15 points. He was followed by Jim Sofran with six.

Dave Kunces and Rubin Da- Silva shared the scoring honors for Hillside, each with 14 points on six field goals and two free throws. Richard Schiaroli and Roger Verbyla each chipped in with six points. Hillside (45) DaSilva Borbas Summa Verbyla Kunces Schiaroli Totals 14 1 4 6 14 6 18 9 45 Taft (40) McQuicklin Kaufman Hart Flynn Schroshun Mievzwinski Gronauer Sofran Martin 1 1 1 6 2 1 0 3 2 0 0 2 3 0 0 1 0 0 2 2 4 15 4 2 1 6 4 Totals 17 40 Pal Practice Set The Little Pal All-Star team will practice tonight at the YMCA from 5:45 to 7 p.m. The All-Stars will play tomorrow at 8:30 p.m. Hawks In NHL WINTER HAVEN, Fla.

(UPI) Dick Williams figures it will be "a nice surprise" ii Jim Lonborg pitches for the Boston Red Sox this year. The manager of the American League pennant winners said Wednesday's spring train- workout that "if back and pitches' baseball for us this year it will be a nice surprise." Williams referred to Lonborg's knee injury of last December which has left him walking about with a heavy cast. But the manager qualified his statement: "That's the way I've got to figure it. I'm not going to count on him at all. I'm put.

ting together my staff for the start of the year as if we're not going to have Mm," Williams said. Lonborg, who underwent an operation for torn knee liga. ments suffered in a skiing accident, is currently staying in Boston and trying to get as much exercise as possible. Last week the 22-game winner INDIANAPOLIS, Ind. Rookie driver tests for this year's Indianapolis 500-mile auto race will begin at 140 miles per hour Instead of the 130 MPH used in the past few years.

Speedway owner Tony Hulman also announced that Harlan Fengler of Dayton, Ohio, will serve as the race's chief steward for the llth consecutive year. NEW HAVEN, Conn. George Dlntiman has resigned as head basketball coach at Southern Connecticut State Col. lege, effective at the end of the current academic year, to accept a position at an out-of. state college which he didn't name.

6 ShU Ut Of the season scnmautz was discouraged to learn that the knee was not healing as quickly as doctors hoped. The doctors have declined to give an estimate as to when Lonborg will be able to play ball. Williams, meanwhile, contln. ues look over the rest of the team, mighty in his, praise, for George Spriggs, the 26-year-old Pittsburgh castoff. Spriggs may be well on his way to a starting spot In the lineup.

And Jose Tartabull Is working harder than ever to make sure that he isn't the one to be knocked off the roster. Tartabull became an Instant hero last Aug. 21 when he made a game-winning save in Chicago to preserve a vital Red Sox victory. But now, Spriggs is catching the eye of manager Williams. Celts Win By United Press International Sam Jones turns up sick one day, and what does John Havlicek do but break one of the veteran backcourtman's records.

Havlicek, who specializes in coming off the bench for the Boston Celtics, was forced into a starting role Wednesday night and came through with a 41. point effort in a 135.110 rout of the San Francisco Warriors. Jones, suffering from a virus and not expected to see action until Sunday, had his Celtic record of 29 points In a half broken when Havlicek poured in SO points to give Boston a 69-53 halftlme advantage. Bailey Howell contributed 20 points to the Boston attack while Jeff Mullins paced the injury-riddled Warriors with 26. In addition to Nate Thurmond, who has been out of action for six weeks, the Warriors were missing Rudy LaRusso and Joe Ellis.

Both have torn ligaments. If a playoff game Is required The between Princeton and Colum. may remember rookie Bob fee played in the St. John's University gymnasium in New Vork March 5. Columbia leads Princeton by one game with an 11-1 record, but both clubs have two games remaining, including a head-on Clash at Princeton next Satur- lay.

top scored this season by Bobby Hull. A 22-year old 150-pounder who doesn't compare in skill or strength to Hull, Schmautz scored one of the most Important goals of the NHL season Wednesday night when his first-perlod tally produced a 1-0 victory over the Toronto The St. Louis Blues rallied for three goals in the third period to tie the Montreal Canadiens 3. 3 and the Oakland Seals beat the.Minnesota North Stars 6-3 in other Wednesday night games. Dickie Moore, Red Berenson and Frank St.

Marseille scored in the third period for the Blues after the Canadiens had taken a 3.0 lead on two first-period goals by Yvan triumph over the Baltimore Bullets in the National Basketball Association's only other game. Reed scored 28 points, includ- remaining. The Knlcks blew a l4 X)lnt lead tten to in with Janada, who put together back- o.back victories in the Phoenix ind Tucson opens this month, ta he leeder of the PGA money- ing standings with earnings Tom weskopf Is second with I4.MZ, followed by Al Gelber. Kermlt zarley and Billy Casper place in the Eastern Division, six points behind the Montreal Canadiens but three ahead of the New York Rangers and four ahead of the Boston Bruins. Schmeutc, playing only his third NHL game after being called Up from Dallas of the Central League, scored at 15:48 of the first period and Denis DeJordy made It stand up for session.

Ted Hampson and Harris scored two goals each for the Seals, who still have a mathematical chance to make the Western playoffs, Mike McMahon, Parker McDonald and Andre Boudrais scored third-period goals for the North Sgars after the seals had a 6-0 who fouled 1 I BOB BRANDENBURG'S Now TIKU Tuesday "TO SIR, WITH LOVE" Sidney Peltier Suzy Kendall Technicolor 5:30 9:05 "LUV" Jack Lemmon Elaine May Technicolor 7:25 "Spriggs is faster than Tarta. bull," Williams said, "and is a better base runner." Williams watched the two of them work out under a blazing Florida sun and commented, "Spriggs would leave Jose at the starting gate if they were to race." Bits and Pieces; Jose Santiago became the first Sox casualty of the spring season when he came up lame during abase running exercise. The full squad was due for a workout today. NHSNamei For Game Naugatuck High School will be the site of the Wilby-Ell Whitney contest Tuesday night in the first round of the CIAC Class A Tournament. Wilby Is the number one ranked team with a record of 17 wins and two losses.

Eli Whitney finished with 13 wins and six losses. Whitney downed Torrington 73-65 Tuesday night at Bristol Eastern In the playoff round. The'big game on the schedule for is the Kennedy- Sacred Heart contest at the Kennedy gym. Sacred Heart Is the defending Class A State Champions. In games tonight there are four other games in addition to the Kennedy-Sacred Heart third confrontation.

Bridgeport Bassick and Cheshire play at West Haven; Lee of New Haven and Maloney at Hamden, Glastonbury and Warren Harding (Bridgeport) at Maloney (Meriden) and Southington and Windsor at Wethersfield. Double 'A' games have matched Lyman Hall and Xavier at Platt (Meriden)! New Britain and Bristol Eastern at Simsbury and Danbury and Mllford at Musuk (Monroe). Wolcott Is active, in a 'B' game tonight with Wilcox Tech of Meriden at Plainville. In other pairings it is Norwich Regional and South Windsor at E. O.

Smith, St. Bernard's and Morgan at Deep River andKUl- ingly and Plalnfleld at Norwich. SPORT BILLBOARD I received a post card on Tuesday, Feb. 80, from a Naugatuck High student questioning my write-up of the Naugy-Wllby game and Charlie Bertero's coaching ability. I could not decipher his name and therefore I will try to answer him here Instead of a personal reply; The card read! wondering why you did not report Naugy coach was called for technicals twice and It Naugy the game, we lost enough games with a poor coach without giving games away.

1 N.H. Student For those who were not at the game, I will explain what happened. Butch Vlegas was at the foul line shooting one- and-one after being fouled by Art Williams. He connected on both. It appeared to Coach Bertero that Williams smacked Roy Stiff on the back of the head In going for the possible rebound, and he protested vigorously to the referee.

Bertero was promptly called for his first technical at 5:36 In the second period. Rich Lebel took the shot for Wllby and missed. Wilby passed the ball in bounds and four seconds later Bertero, sitting on the bench, questioned what he thought was an apparent traveling violation and was nailed for his second technical. Lebel took the shot and made it. Now to answer John's card.

First, Naugy did not lose the game because of the techni- cals, on the first technical Lebel missed the shot-and Wilby did not score on the Inbounds and scored one point 16 seconds later. However, It wouldn't be fair to blame the technical for the point as it resulted from afoul. Wllby, therefore, only scored By BUI Baker one point as a result of the two technicals. The final score was Wllby 58, Naugy 56, wil- 'by winning by two. The two technicals hurt, as any foul hurts, but they certainly aren't the difference 'In the game.

Also, a coach doesn't giveaway anything when he argues for and defends his players. Second, Coach Bertero is not entirely to blame for NaugyV poor season. Many factors are Involved. The team is a young one, the starting five consisting of four juniors and one freshman. Only one player played regularly last year.

There was only one senior on the team, who saw only limited action. Injuries also a factor. I am- not trying to alibi tor Bertero. He must take some of the blame, but It would be unfair to condemn him on the basis of this, his first season. wait and see what happens next year.

Things might be different. Third, I did report the two technicals in the write-up, two times. John, if you wish to question a write-up of a game, please read the article first. I will be happy to accept and answer any questions or comments you may have about this column or a write- up of a game. They all will be read and If they warrant it, will be Included in this column.

Naugatuck High School hosted the Bloomfleld-New Canaan game in the CIAC Class A play- downs. Even though NewCanaan won by 19 points, 72 to 53, the game was well played and a pleasure to watch. Most noticeable In the game was the fine Job turned in by the two referees, Ed Mariano and Russ Hanson. They kept the game clean- and made all good, fair calls. Good officiating is typical of most post-season contests.

However, It seems that much is to be desired in regular season activity. Basketball is progressing rapidly and each year the players Improve, making for a better game. However, the same cannot be said for the officials. High school basketball is one of the largest drawing spectator sports in the state. Both the fans and the players de- 'serve better officials during the regular season, not only In the tournament.

Wilby, ranked number one In the CIAC Class A ratings, will- be playing Ell Whitney Tuesday night at the NHS gym. Wllby finished the regular season with 17 wins and two losses. Ell Whitney qualified with 13 wins and six losses, but is a strong team, and Wilby will have its hands full. In Class it looks like either Falrfleld Prep or East Catholic, with the pick here go- Ing to East catholic. Wilby is strong, but not strong enough.

They will be lucky if they can get by Eli Whitney. Smeglleski, former starter for Naugatuck High School, has helped to lead Post Junior College to a successful season in the Connecticut Small College conference. Post vent undefeated In the conference, winning 12. Overall, Post's record is 16 wins and 10 losses and 15 and 0 among state competition. Smeglleski Is averaging 11.6 points and 11.7 rebounds per game.

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