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IHt SAN ANTONIO LIGHTButtonsPeter ClaverGrab Titles With ‘EaseBy NED SWEET (four of its five starters and St.[and a promising sonhomnre Central Catholic and St. Peter Peter Claver nine of the 10 named Burt Mack, who didn’tplay with the varsity at all this season.The extent of those losses best can be determined by checkingClaver have repeated as state players on its varsity roster to Catholic basketball champions, graduation.each school has retired its Arch- For Centra, CaMc coach Joe bishop Lucey Trophy, and each Cortez, the future calls forSI 1 faCe 3 Slve re‘ findinS replacements for Rogerbuilding program before next basketball season.The Buttons of Central Catholic won their third straight Texas Catholic Interscholastic League Class AAA championship Sunday by drubbing FortWorth Nolan 80-53 and the Trojans of St. Peter Claver capBowden, Chuck Henckel, Leonard Conrad and Jim Bischoffber-ger. Only Mike Erspamer among the regulars and front-line reserve Carlos Nunez will remain after graduation night.the makeup of the TCIL’s two all - tournament teams. Both J ohnson boys, C1 a r e n c e and Charles, and King from St. Peter Claver made the Class AA team along with Terry Clarke of Laredo St. Joseph's and A1And Lonnie Popham at stJ-Brewerton Tyler Catholic. Peter Claver will be hit even!T^ree Central Catholic playersharder. Gone will be the seem-third Sttte Class AA - irreplaceable Clarence title in four years by smashing ~ -Laredo St. Joseph’s Mary’s Alumni Gym.But for the rest of the state’s hopelessly outclassed schools—Bowden, Conrad and Henckel —were named to the Class AAAJohnson, along with other start- afi'sfar sTualt;i along with Rich-ers Gdis King, Charles Johnson ICarrasco of El Paso Ca-and Ronald Lewis and every spare Trojan on the bench. Popham will have to rebuild wdhthere was a ray of hope for the starter Cornell Anderson, who __________owlcu utfuture. Central Catholic will lose I will be a senior next season, the final five seconds to edse’Houston St, Thomas 57-56 for thethedral and Mike Thompson of Fort Worth Nolan.CATHEDRAL WINSEl Paso Cathedral scored inconsolation prize in the Class AAA division.Sunday’s championship finals scarcely could be called contests. They were too one-sided for that. But they proved excellent showcases for the varied, but outstanding, qualities o? the two centers on the winning teams.Bowden, powerful, 6-foot-S, 230-pounder, was Central Catholic’s key performer. The big fellow controlled the backboards, along with Erspamer, and crammed in 34 points to pace the Buttons to a ridiculously easy win.Clarence Johnson, 6-foot-7, springy and remarkably quick for a big man, filled a similar role for St. Peter Claver. The rangy Johnson scored 29 points, controlled both backboards, handling 18 retrieves, and personally blocked 10 shots by exasperated Laredo St. Joseph’s players.DESPERATE SHOTS_ So thoroughly did Johnson intimidate the smaller Antlers that | the Laredo shooters were taking^ quick, desperate shots in their hurry to get the ball awayDESPITE THE FACTGardner Dickinson stillAtlantaGet Lei
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San Antonio Light
San Antonio, Texas, US
Mon, Feb 14, 1966
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