Deacons Win Over Puritans In Basketball

A dozen syringes of ephedrine couldn't have produced any closer games than the three which started off House A League basketball today in the Blockhouse. Kirkland boat Winthrop by three points, 30 to 27; Eliot won by two points over Adams, 38 to 36; and Dunster was extended into overtime to boat Dudley, 49 to 45.

Although Kirkland led all the way, the margin was never great enough for either team to relax and the starting lineups played practically all the game. Two factors gave Kirkland the win: effective coverage of Winthrop's 6'7" pivot, Ted Nelson by John Lombard, and the Deacon fast breaks which frequently shot into the clear. Lombard at center and John Pankey at forward did most of the Kirkland damage on the offensive.

Revise Score

A last minute correction of the score in the Dunster-Dudley game brought departing players back to play a three-minute overtime, after a successful ten-seconds-to-go shot by John Woods had apparently lifted the Commuters to within one futile point of a tie. A reconsideration of the tally sheet, however, revealed that the shot had actually tied up the game at 43 to 43. Dunster, brought back from victory for overtime, wasted no time and no shots, popping in six quick and decisive points to settle the issue.

Control of the backboards in a typical early-season game was the magic lamp for Eliot, as the score see-sawed never more than four points either way. The Adams squad was more coordinated and shot better, but center Bob Crichton and guards Charlie Hugo and Joe Walsh of Eliot kept them to one shot at a time.

Results of the B League games were: Adams 21, Eliot 14; Dudley 32, Dunster 30; and Kirkland 34, Winthrop 19.

Today Lowell plays Leverett in both A and B Leagues.