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HUC Hardwood
Heartbreaks
Because many students have asked
for a fuller and more comprehensive
covefage of the (Hazleton Center's
only organized representative in the
sports world—the basketball team—
and the necessary concentration of
interest on that team, we are pre
senting a short review of the entire
cage campaign to date, including
Pennsylvania Junior College Confer
ence frays and exhibition games.
The Hucksters warmed up for the
season by surprising the experts with
a mild upset of a strong alumni ag
gregation. The rather disappointing
story of HUC's court wars follows:
HUC 47 Altoona 58
The first Junior College Confer
ence game for the Rudmanites ended
in their defeat at the hands of last
year's league champs. The Hazleton
team was unable to cope with Hank
Goldberg, Altoona's star center, who
garnered 25. points for himself in the
night's outstanding individual 'per
formance. Jimmy Mulligan's fourteen
points earned him the top scoring
honors for HUC. The long trip to Al
toona on treacherous highways did
nothing to add to our team's sharp
ness.
HUC 85 Bloomsburg Jayvees 95
Bloomsburg State Teachers Col
lege sent their Junior Varsity squad
to the A. D. Thomas School gym for
an exhibition pairing with the
Hucksters, and they went home with
a victory under their figurative belts.
The Staters led 33-15 in the first
quarter; due a lot to Daly of Bloom,
who had garnered 32 points for him
self, the score was tied 66 all, by the
end of the third quarter. The Huskies
from Columbia County outscored the
Hucksters by ten points and the rest
is history.
Thus tht first home game against
organized , competition ended in the
Hazleton Center's second defeat in as
many games.
HUC 69 Pottsville Center 88
Syd Rudman took his charges to
the Schuylkill center to tangle with
the Pottsville tossers. This trip ended
disastrously also, by virtue of some
terrific point-producing by Lansa
vage, Fey, and Brocious of Pottsville
with 34, 24, and 14 points respective
ly. Lansavage's 34 counters is proba
bly an individual opponent's scoring
record. Our own Lefty Lefkowitz was
not wasting his efforts, either. He
ended up with nine field goals and
six fouls for 24 Hazleton tallies.
Woods and Mulligan also did some
fine work in the losing cause.
HUC 55 Hershey 56
The Hazleton Staters played host
to Hershey Junior College in the
first home conference game. The
Hucksters led through most of the
game and appeared to be on the way
to clinch the first victory of the year.
Such was not their fate, however, for
two long set-shots by Hershey's scor
ing star, Fred Douglas, overcame the
host's three-point lead and snatched
victory from defeat in the final min
utes. Douglas' 21 markers combined
with Resinger's and Hand's 25 made
HAZLETON COLLEGIAN
Bill Gardner, team captain, and Jimity Mulligan, scoring
ace of the Rudmanites are caught in conversation. Planning a
teriffic second semester campaign, no doubt.
up most of the Hershey total. Mulli
gan again paced HUC's attack, with
Gardner and Lefkowitz close behind.
This was certainly a tough game for
either team to lose and we did.
HUC 59 Swarthmore 61
Two heartbreakers in a row
shouldn't happen to any team; it
did! The Rudmanites were victims of
two losses in a row by a slim margin.
The situation was just reversed from
the last game, though. Swarthmore
led 22-14 at the first-quarter mark,
33-26 at half time and retained an
eight-point advantage at the three
quarter mark. Gardner, Mulligan,
and Stanek led the Hazleton rally
which tied the score at 57 all with
one minute left. Then Fine, a
Swarthmore guard, dumped in two
quick field goals, and the ice was
broken. Jimmy Mulligan got one
more basket to make the score 61-59
Swarthmore. That is the way the
game ended, leaving HUC with a
won-lost record of none for five to
date.
HUC 57 Bloomsburg Jayvees 52
I repeat....
HUC 57 Bloomsburg Jayvees 52
The Hazleton Penn State Center
won this one! The HUC cagers jour
neyed to the home court of the
Bloomsburg State Teachers College
Jayvees and wreaked vengeance
upon the Huskies for the defeat they
had suffered earlier in the season at
Weatherly. The entire squad, led by
Zack Taylor, Jack Sipple, Jimmy
Mulligan; and Lefty Lefkowitz, went
to town in workmanlike fashion and
piled up a commanding lead which
CAPTAI NS CORAGEOUS
they never lost. The victory was all
the more sweet to win-starved Hazle
ton because a capacity crowd of
Bloomsburg rooters was on hand to
witness their team being humbled.
Perhaps this victory will provide the
spark of that little extra something
it takes to win games.
The spark seemed to come in this
game just about three quarters too
late. A fine well-coached aggregation
from the Keystone Junior College in
Scranton came to the A. D. Thomas
gym and handed Hazleton their sixth
loss. The Scrantonians hopped off to
a big lead in the first quarter, and
our Center basketeers never came
close enough to scare them. When
the teams walked off the floor at half
time the score read 48-33. The
HUCsters came near to rallying in
the final quarter but each time they
piled up a few points in a row Key
stone did the same thing. Kreiger of
the visitors topped the scoring efforts
with 26 tallies; for Hazleton, Billy
Gardner netted 22 markers on nine
field goals and four fouls, Taylor had
18, .and Lefkowitz 14. Jimmy Mulli
gan, hampered by a thumb injury,
nevertheless chipped in with 8 more.
The Staters' record now reads six
losses for seven starts.
Penn State Center in Hazleton
racked up victory number two of the
season. HUC's victims now include
the same strong Altoona team which
had humbled the Rudmanites earlier
in the season at Altoona. Despite the
lack of support in the form of home-
HUC 69 Keystone 80
HUC 78 Altoona 61
January 27, 1950
club rooters the Hazleton team went
to town from. the beginning whistle
and piled up a substantial lead. At
the first-quarter mark, they had
scored eleven more points than the
invaders, leading 17-6. The lead in
creased continually on a (display of
accurate shooting and fine ball han
dling by the home •club. George
Woods, whose previous scoring rec
ords seldom were high, • caught fire
in this fray and ended , up with 25
points of his very own to top all
scoring efforts for the night. In addi
tion to his •point-making spree Woods
excelled on defense, holding Altoo
na's big gun, Hank Goldberg, in
check. •Taylor, Lefkowitz, an•d Mulli
gan all -scored in the double figures
to pile up Hazleton's , total, and Cap
tain Bill Gardner was the playmaker.
HUC proved they can beat a strong
opponent by this victory over the
league's defending champs.
HUC 56 York 39
Hopes of two victories on two con
secutive nights went a-glimmerin' as
HUC's "York hosts piled twenty
points through the hoops in the first
quarter. That point-producing per
formance was especially effectibe in
view of the fact that our Hazleton
Center team was unable to score a
single point in that same first
quarter. HUC, who flashed a fine of-'
fense against Altoona, couldn't seem
to find the holes in the baskets. Cort
ney, York forward, was high man
with eighteen points. Billy Gardner
was most of the Hazleton attack and
grabbed thirteen tallies. Mulligan
and Knyrim chipped in with eight
more apiece, all in vain.
With nine games behind them and
one more to go this semester, that is
the picture—let's hope the Old Mas
ter Painter will create a more cheer
ful canbas next semester.
BENNY
(Continued From Page Three)
the country
benny why dont we reorganize
what i cried
and lose my only
source of amusement id go
crazy if i couldnt watch
humanity mess up the world
be patient at the
rate theyre going it
wont be long before theyll
be glad to get the earth
off their hands so
he left appeased
but not convinced
benny
*Those readers who enjoy this
style and would like to see justice
done to it are referred to Don Mar
quis' "Archy and Mehitabel".
Cage Calculations
The Collegian has compilea unof
ficial statistics of the besketball cam
paign and we present them here:
F.G. Fls. Pts.
Mulligan 50 12 112
Lefkowitz 35 32 102
Gardner 36 22 94
Taylor 36 11 83
Woods 17 14 48
Stanek 9 23 41
Sippel 15 7 37
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