Tuesday, March 19, 1963
Jim 'G' Named to
All-Star Squad
For the first time in the an
nals of Behrend's basketball his
tory, a member of the Nittany
Cub wags placed in the Region
Three All-Star Squad of the Na
tional Junior College Athletic As
sociation. To the surprise of no one
who followed the Cubs this sea
son, it was none other than their
versatile pivot man, Jim Golem
beski.
"T h e Hands," affectionately
called by some of his teammates.
Jim not only was named to the
star-studded squad but was also
placed on the first team of this
region which encompasses New
York State, Western Pennsylvania
portions of New England and New
Jersey. In order to enlighten the
students who were not aware of
the ex-Centaur, one must view the
statistics of the Cub's recent cage
season.
In Behrend's basketball lid-lift
er of November 23, the Cubs met
defeat at the hands of Jamestown
C.C. on the latter's home court.
The defeat. however, did not over
shadow the magnificent effort
turned in by the blond bomber
who canned 8-18 from the field
and 7-9 from the foul line for the
team high of the evening of 23
points. This was only a preview
of what wars to come in the Cub's
abbreviated pre-Christmas season.
In the four games, Jim led the
team in every category with 29-75
from the field, for a shooting per
centage of 39%, 28-50 from the
charity line, for a percentage of
Sam Heller, right, was the man
behind the scenes for the Cubs
all season. Although Sam rarely
wowed the crowds with fancy
under-the-basket tricks or long,
outside "swishers," his consist
ency. both offensively and de
fensively, was paramount in sev
eral especially pleasing victories.
After losing the season opener to
Jamestown, Behrend proceeded to
smash Jamestown Pitt for the
first time in our history and it
was Sam's 19 points that helped
lead the way. Also, after the
Cubs had been embarrassed by
Point Park in a game that saw
Behrend behind at halftime, 9-50.
Sam's sixteen points ,two nights
later, helped start the team back
on the comeback trail with a
'79-69 lacing of Ashtabula Kent.
Sam finished the season with 92
points.
156%, and a four-game total of 86
jpoints for an average of 21.5
ipoints a game.
If one thought Jim got off to a
Jfast start in the initial game of
the season, he got off to an
even faster start in the first game
1 after the holiday break and pour
ed in 26 points against Johnstown
which helped put the Cubs in first
place in their division. A high
light of the season for Golembeski
and the Cubs was the winning
j three out of four halfway through
the winter season. In the tenth
game of the season, the blond
bomber pumped in 38 points in a
team effort, as the Cubs went on
to establish a Behrend scoring rec
ord in shellacking Dußois 115-73
That same week Jim obtained his
personal high of the season as he
Put the fabulous hands to work in
a 43-point performance and 13 re
bounds in defeating Dyke College
of Cleveland in overtime. "As
Golembeski goes, so go the Cubs,"
was a saying that was proven the
next week at Pittsburgh Point
Park sucessfully hand-cuffed "The
Hands" and walloped the Cubs 87-
42. Not to be humiliated for long,
Golembeski and the Cubs bounced
back and avenged an earlier de
cision in handing Ashtabula Kent
State a 79-69 setback, where the
"Warsaw Whiz" canned 33 points
and 14 rebounds.
A final summary of the "gun
ner's' statistics will help to de
monstrate the validity of his se
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THE NITTANY CUE
Vage Three
Bob Cook and Joe Baser both
hit the ninety mark in total points
this year with Bob netting 96 and
Joe, 93. Cook's big game was
against Dußois Campus where he
pumped in 26 markers in contri
buting to the 115-78 stampede.
This score should stand a long
time as Behrend's loftiest offen
sive total.
This game, too, represents an
other of the highlights of the past
season as the Cubs would bounce
back time and again from hu
miliation to smashing triumph. It
wars a team that may have been
down often—but never took the
ten count.
Steady Joe, who scored in all
but one of the Cubs' 16 games,
had his biggest nights at James
town and during the home Dußois
game when he tallied 12 points
on both occasions.