The Republican from Springfield, Massachusetts (2024)

February 5, 1976

Publication:

The Republicani

Location:

Springfield, Massachusetts

Issue Date:

Thursday, February 5, 1976

Page:

31

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WMass Colleges SPRINGIELD MASS DAILY NEWS THURSDAY EBRUARY 5 1974 3 School Hockey AIC Gets Past Hartford Hockey per roll jr 310 SB See Your Independent Dealer or His Price Prices As Shown At Goodyear Service Stores GOODYEAR INDEPENDENT DEALERS CHL1TZ SCHUTZ A $25 GOODYEAR SERVICE STORES Bridgewater 3 New Haven 3 Williams 5 Connecticut 1 Brown New Hampshire 2 Middlebury 6 Boston St 1 Salem St 12 Colby I Bowdoin 9 St 4 Northeastern! Providence 3 Buifalo 13 Brockport St 2 Navy 36 Johns Hopkins 69 Carolina 91 Detroit 76 Tennessee Tech 86 Kentucky 82 Tulane 84 Richmond 79 Virginia Tech 86 Ohio 66 Wake orest 89 Dnke 87 GAMES RIDAY (at Coliseum) West Springfield vs Troy 6 Amherst vs Classical 7:30 Minnechaugvs Longmeadow 9 GAMES TONIGHT (at Coliseum) Putnam vs East Longmeadow 6 Chicopee vs Agawam 7:30 Palmer vs Commerce 9 (at Greenfield) Comp vs Greenfield 7 School Basketball RESULTS Independent St 51 Palmer 42 670 15 6PR TT With Trade plus $242 ET Hi Strong nylon cord body for bruise resistance on or off the road Deep 5 rib tread with buttressed shoulders for reliable traction Rain Check If we sell out of vour size we will issue vou a rain check assuring future delivery at the advertised price Sale Ends Saturday Night This is the tough part of our schedule we play our Catholic opponents and our traditional rivals This should give us confidence and move us up in the New England ratings Now got to do it again Saturday here against St concluded White Norm Dorsey with nine of 13 from the floor and a perfect eight of eight from the line led AIC with 26 points Harvey Dorsey connected on 12 of 17 field goal tries to finish with 24 Britan Baptiste with 16 and Darryl Bailey with 14 were other double figure men as AIC raised its record to 11 6 SATURDAYSii NOON MIDWEST Cincinnati 89 Pittsburgh 77 Kansas St 85 Missouri 81 Notre Dame 108 LaSalle 89 Syracuse 100 Bowling Green 75 Michigan 80 Loyola 73 AR WEST Denver 105 Wis Milwaukee 88 San rancisco 63 Santa Clara 49 Hartford an NCAA tourney entrant the past four years slipped to 8 6 The Hawks had balanced scoring with five men in double figures led bv Mark Noon with 19 Paul DaSilva tossed A61 By JIM REGAN American International College had a record night in shooting accuracy Wednesday night to end a hoop drought against the University of Hartford The Yellow Jackets who had dropped five straight decisions to the Hawks chalked up a 95 81 victory over Hartford at the Butova Gymnasium It marked the first time that coach Hilton White has led his eagers past Gordie team AIC set a school record in free throw percent age (for 15 or more attempts) by canning 17 of 18 But it was in field goal shooting that the Jack ets really burned the nets AIC kept within reach of Hartford the first half by connecting on 54 per cent of its attempts to trail only by one 48 47 In Holyoke Longeadow with five third period goals stunned South Hadley 8 7 and Holyoke reemed Greenfield 14 2 onson earned its eighth straight win in exciting 8 7 overtime game over Williston Easthampton defenseman Don Hemmer scored with only five seconds left to deliver the Eagles 11th win in 13 outings Gary Wuerth John Kennedy Pi Phil Lizotte and Dan Shepard bagged the other goals Gary Landry had two for Ludlow while Joe Ro drigues and Barry Almeida had singletons Mike Scyocurka and Mike Burrus had two assists each for Ludlow Hard working Jeff Sisitsky and Jack Dineen paced do Longmeadow to its fourth win Sisitsky a junior scored five goals to set a Lancer record while Dineen a freshm an had five assists John Camus also had five goals and an assist to pace the Purple Knights to their sixth win John McGillicuddy had a Jim McGillicuddy Al Huff Jim West and Brian Shea also had strong games Dick Zanetti scored with only four seconds left in regulation time and Kevin Conway tallied three minutes into the overtime to preserve undefeated streak Zanetti a defenseman had two goals Billy Ellis broke his streak scoring two while Bill Quinn and Phil had one each Conway had three assist to go with his game winner Goaltender Danny Ryan was outstanding in he overtime for Picks Due committee can round out the field at its discretion Springfield Dixie Walker will direct the boys event while Charlie Casser ly will run the girls event Now over to football top notch quarterback Steve Hiorns received the annual John McCormick Award from the Cornell Club of Western Mass at a dinner in West Springfield Wednesday night The award is given to the outstanding senior football player in the Connecticut Valley INSULATION 3'2 15 Lea man Wins or irst Time At Eagles' Nest Boston Roberts Center has been a hex for coach Jack basketball teams But the University of Massachusetts ended any jinx Wednesday night by presenting coach Lea man with his first victory at BC with a torrid sec ond half 77 68 The Eagles figured to be No 1 in New Eng land conttinue to have their problems BC despite a dozen turnovers led at halftime by six However UMass took control the final 20 minutes to chalk up its 11th victory in 15 games The UMass front line which had performed poorly in losses to Holy Cross and UConn redeemed itself against BC The big men accounted for the first 20 points in the second half when the Minute men made their move Mark Donoghue led UMass with 22 points while Mike Pyatt and Jim Town each tossed 14 Derick Claiborne who had 10 points was singled out for defensive praise by coach Leaman though Derick gives away some height we felt he was the man to play Bob Carrington He did a great job in holding Carrington to 17 I really think that was the turning said Leaman Carrington was high scorer for the Eagles now a dismal 8 12 while Will Morrison had 16 and Bill Collins 13 UMass has another big game Saturday night when it visits UConn in a Yankee Conference show down The Huskies won at Amherst this past Satur day to keep their YC hopes alive UMass has lost only once in the YC compared to a pair of losses by UConn Jim Rehnquist went on a scoring rampage last night to break the Amherst College individual scor ing record Although he sat out four minutes Rehn quist scored 50 points erasing Dave mark of 43 Rehnquist had a perfect 18 of 18 from the line also a record and 16 of 24 from the floor to lead the Jeffs to a 92 85 victory over MIT Springfield gave Bridgeport New England's top Div ision Division II team a real battle before bowing 82 77 Mike Gambardella led the Chiefs with 21 SC was within two in the closing minutes but a three point play by the Phil Nastu provided the clinching markers Williams dropped a 91 66 decision to Middlebury Amherst will be back in action tonight at Trini ty while Western New England visits Roger Wil liams 7 Easy Ways to Buy Cash Our Own Customer Credit Plan Master Charge American Express Money Card Diners Club Carte Blanche BankAmericard ItwM farm ovoilobU of oil Goodywr Sorvic Storm Chock indapondont daol ar for Im farm HOLYOKE RUCKI'S 2 Cabot St MLiazz STUDS 2 3 7 2x3x8 60 2x4x8 Haluhan: i 2 BIRNIE AVi SffJLD I' Save On Heavy Duty Tires or Campers Vans and 85 Plain White Other Patterns Available CHICOPEE 152 Center St 598 8321 LONGM 3 rs 197 Shaker Rd 525 4104 SPRINGIELD 1514 BOSTON RO 543 2605 LEARN TO RELAX come back to ife Qf HOUSE OXES HEALTH CENTER WHIRLPOOL SUNROOM SAUNA REE with any massage Tel 528 8489 Open 9 11 Monday Saturday 1227 Burnside Ave Hartford (opposite Marco Polo) NORTHAMPTON 182 KING ST 586 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INSULATION ROLL But in the second half AIC hit on 19 of 25 at tempts for a record 76 per cent Hartford also over 500 the first half finished with 31 out of 67 for 46 per cent The Hawks a solid 16 of 20 from the line before intermission had 19 of 24 for the night have to admit that I was disappointed with our commented coach White did do a better job when we switched to a zone They had been killing our man to White added owe a lot to Mike Sturgis He gave us a lift off the bench Harvey Dorsey had his best shooting night in his AIC career when we needed it And Norman Dorsey was outstanding in offensive re observed White everybody played well when he had to Even Pete Novak who get much playing time had a big three point play at the end of the first half so we were only down by said the AIC coach GREENLD ENIELD Mu fi I JlntvLn'tn Hopt St SS 733 3641 I 741 2204 College Basketball Roundup EAST American I nt 95 Hartford 81 Amherst 92 MIT 85 Army 78 Rochester 49 Bates 91 Bowdoin 84 Brandeis 82 Worcester Tech 79 Bridgeport 82 Springfield 77 Bullalo 86 LeMoyne 75 Cent Connecticut 90 New Haven 85 Connecticut 78 Boston 70 Georgetown 74 St 73 Hofstra 76 airfield 61 Lehigh 64 Rider 62 Massachusetts 77 Boston Col 70 Middlebury 91 Williams 66 New Hampshire Col 100 Windham 67 St 61 American 57 St Peter's 85 Holy Cross 73 Seton Hall 85 ordham 74 Carolina 99 Villanova 84 Temple 77 Penn St 76 Vermont 102 St Michaels 99 SOUTH Louisville 90 Morehead 68 Maryland 69 Virginia 66 School Hockey RESULTS Easthampton 5 Ludlow 4 Holyoke 14 Greenfield 2 Longmeadow 8 South Hadley 7 Wilbraham Monson 8 Williston 7 (OT) WESTIELD 330 MAIN ST 562 2356 One third fewer calories than our regular beer but all the taste expect from Schlitz It took Schlitz to bring the taste to light SHEETROCK At Everyday Prices 48 $84 48 Illi 1 11111111110 4 Mf Schlitz Light Beer coodMe4 or more good years in your car By TOM SHEA After a week full of spinach the Western Mass High School Hockey League is serving schoolboy hockey fans dessert tonight in the form of a deli cious three game card at the Eastern States Coliseum The feature has Commerce (0 10 2) facing Palmer (0 12 1) at 9 pm The juicy warm ups have Putnam (7 5 1) meeting East Longmeadow (7 5) for third place in the Wright Division at 6 while the Berry spoilers Agawam (2 8 3) and Chicopee (1 9 2) will be squaring off at 7:30 A sidelight to the Palmer game will be if the Panthers Bobby Lee scores his 50th ca reer schoolboy goal Lee has 19 for the 1975 76 season Two of the better goalies in the Wright Division Don Carney and East Long Gary will be facing two of the best offensive teams in Western Mass in game one Both teams have scored over five goals a game on eight occasions Opening night East Longmead ow earned a 9 7 win over Putnam in an offensively orientated affair The Spartans have three scorers in the top ten Tony Trase on top with 35 Paul (31) and Mark Lorenzi (23) while the Beavers have top guns Brian LaPorte (27) and Al Devino and Keith Har ringtonwith20 (20) only win came (4 3) over and the two teams battled to a 44 tie in the other meeting Both are in contention for a no luck nf the year award In Wednesday night action Easthamp ton with a late goal nipped Ludlow 5 4 at Williston Hoop Tourney By KEVIN McGURK Tournament time is quickly approaching in high school basketball and the Western Mass tour nament committees for both the boys and girls events have already begun their work Selection day for the boys tournament has been set for Wednesday eb 25 while the girls touma ment panel will pick teams on eb 21 The girls tourney will start eb 26 or 28 depending on the number of teams involved The boys will get under way on Mar 1 Agawam High principal Dave Theodorowicz is heading up the boys committee He said that Mar 2 4 and 6 are the other dates for the boys event with American International College Cathedral and the Pittsfield Boys Club being the probable sites for games through the semifinals inals for the three divisions of the boys event will be held as part of a tripleheader at the Civic Center on Mar 6 The girls will also be in action on Mar 1 3 and 5 with Cathedral being the primary site of action This year there will be two divisions in girls play To automatically qualify a boys team must have a 59 per cent winning percentage while a girls team must win 65 per cent of its game The tourney 1975J0S SCHLITZ BREWING CO MILWAUKEE WIS AND OTHER CITIES I SUSPENDED CEILING PANELS A I 'f 4 i I rr'' JO iiw 5 xyrT' aL A ll'' 11' 1 i 1U 5' 7 ft SIZE PLY PRICE RATING With Trade 700 15 6PRTT $3100 750 16 6PRTT $3600 670 15 6PRTL $2800 800 165 6PRTL $3400 Plus $242 to $335 ET depending on size NV 8 i 1.

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