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5* 10 Newporl’ Daily.Newj, WeJrteiday, feb,.lP,.19i?*fri'TLIIE TO CELEBRATE — Spirited rooters for Dc la Salle /'Academy cheered wildly at Middletown .High. School gym as their lr*rrt completed* an undefeated season last night. The Crusaders.ran off 17 straight victories to rank as oneof.the best squads the school has produced. The team lost’ a couple of mm-league games early in the season but still sport a. 20-2 overall record1,- * -(Photo By, Daily .News)l/-! I *•I'JI I-$ikiiig$ Lose, 75-65m. iI^1PleasantDe La Salle dosed ils regular season in spectacular style, trimming Middletown 73*59 for a perfect Class B^East rating, before a packed house last uiahk on .the Islanders floor.The Crusaders dashed off 14 successive league wins. Their streak, including three lale Dc* comber non-leaguers,. now runs to 17, With a 20*2 total record* De La Salle's squad ,5s rated with the best the: Academy's history on won and Joss basis.Jim Koiiara caged 25 points. Bob De Vcnuti 22 and Don De-Cos I a 15 as* Coach Kenney Kerr's Crusaders lurncd in a fine display ut teamwork, shoot-lug and guarding, .They gradually pulled away from the second place Islanders whose final league mark was 12-2, The period scores were 19-12, 40 2G and 6242.Three Middle (owners were In twin numbers,' Steve Brown with 1G( Eddie Davis and-BiucePortsmouth Whips Past Cliariho High nrl...Humbled by lowly Mt. Pleasant .with all-state track and football .star Bob Carpenter leading the'way, Rogers backed nrilo the state tournament, de-Rogers, wi.1; play the No, 2 A-West'feam in the state championship, dales and .sites; for which will be decided at a meeting of principals, coachcs■ .■«lt;»■ I- 1 t • i. •»..i.t*. iMike -Yates .with 18.; points and. George Smith with 13, led Rogers. attack.• Don. O'NciU played a hard floor game although he did. not score.Dine points in the second half when it seemed .'Rogers might overhaul the. invaders.Four baskets • by. Jim Lewis and three by Yates.gave Rog-— — S —--* —--! — 4Vi™ I'nnnni?Portsmouth High placed second in Class C South when- it jumped second to-last place Charihc 66-51 last night on the losers1 floor. •This was an even Iful night for tba Patriot; iixi ter s. Their team is.In the Class C state championship,. paired with the third place C-North team. • ; /.Drew Eickol smashed the school scoring record of 501 points he set last winter. Blcfcel ran wild in the last period, sinking three baskets and seven frcp throws, His game total of 24 points sent his season to.tal soaring to 503,- This was a. ga'ra5 of fouls and free throws. Thirty-five of Ihe game's'56 fouls were called'a-gainst Charlho* And Portsmouth shot 50 of the game's -80 free throws.mouth, .Richard Laney on the boards also was an important man iti Portsmouth's sebemc of Ihings.None of Cliariho's 13 players touched double figures, but 11 had. a band in the scoring.Mike. Eagley’s 22 points swept Portsmouth to a. 42-32 victory in the* junior varsity game. The Patriots led, 21-13, at' half-time.Portsmouth - Metcalfe, 4-3-11; Baglay, 10-2-22; • Manning, .04-4; Lawley, 0-2*2;-Harvard, 0*3-3. Totals, 14-1442.-'Chariho -• Femtasrn, 64-16; Lewis 1-0-2; Drake,. 0*2-2; Cat-ti,’ 2 04; Brown, 3'2-S. Totals, 12*5-32;.Portsmouth 6 15 8 13—42 Chariho G i 7 14 o—32Scovillc' with 12 each.MidcUetown cut Dc La Salle’s load to five points, 21-16 early in .the second period, Dul the Crusaders met tins challenge with a scvcivpoint splurge engineered by Billy Sujlivan, Kolt; tiara and Di Vcnuti.Now the Academy's lead was a solid 2S-16, Gncc again the Middlctowners seemed lo ’Iiava De La Salle on the run. Chris Sullivan joined high . scoring Davi5, Brown and Scovillc and the league champs' lead was rcduecd to six points, 28-22.Dc La Salle regained Us shooting touch, spun .in eight points without an Islander return- for a commanding 30-22 lead.In front, 40-26, De La Salle’s lead was too big for the Islanders to overcome, They fell back six more points in the third period, Each team registered 17 points in the. final session.The backboard battle be I ween the tall loams was hot, but as was the case at De La Salle s court, the Islanders were out rebounded.Marty Kenney and De Costa matched the*carom work of Sullivan and Scovillc. Sullivan1* effective floorwo”k and Ihe uncanny sniping of Di Vcnuti and Ko-ziara .gave the Crusaders a marked Advantage.Middletown's only two league defeats were to De La Salle. The ' Crusaders as champ.? drew a bye. in the Class B state championship • tournament. '• Middletown's. opponent will be the winner of the North - Providence• Westerly game to dceldf third placc in the BAYestDE JA SAhLKw, SullknnKozlaraL)cC«»1aFro?ierKenneyUcVciiUtiWUirj(i FT FM VF Ms.4 4-4 O IS 30 6 4- a 215 7 5 3 .IS 0 10 10 2 3 2 4 S 7-11-8 ' i it 0 0 0 0 -.0ToIjIj 23 32 23 12 MIUDLKIOWXDavi.i 6 O 0 a MGrow n .722 '*.3 . !!C, SullIvaa 3 4 a 2 0Hall I 2 1 4.3Keiiiss 0 112 1ScovHli 5 3 2 :3 12Foslcr 2.404 4E1lls 1 O O .0 JDarby 0 0-0 0 0Tbtsil k 23 16 9 21 S3 De h\ Satte - 19 2t 22 ' 17-WMWdtelmvii * 12 14 16Middletown had the' satisfaction of winning the junior varsity game from Dc La Salle, 61-52. It* was ''the ^.Omsaders1first loss in the second- half.The Islanders had been:whipped by 53 points, on ; Dc :Li Salle's floor earlier. They smashed a 48*43 Academy. If ad in the last period, - John Cor* reira scored 21 points for Middletown-and* Mike Zweir \v.a $ high for Dc La Salle with J7,MIDDLETOWN'Reed, 2-3-7; Breen, 5-3-13; Liidcrsr, 0 4-4;'Gilmorei * 1-5-7; Alves, 1-0-2; Corroira', 7-7-21 ;^Stririg6r/,3-l-T. Totals, 19-23-01* ' . .DE LA SALLE — Bairos, U 0-2; Zweir, 6-5-17; • ’ Conlieeny, 4J-11; Willis, 3-0*6; Pascoe’2'0-4; • Kluth, •' 44*12;^’'Johnson, Grimes, Totals; 20-12-32.. : -Middletown • • 13 16 14 18-dl Dc La .'Salic . 7-20 21 . 4-52
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Newport Daily News
Newport, Rhode Island, US
Wed, Feb 19, 1969
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