Page 72 - CBA 1973 YEARBOOK

Showers for Felasco
as CBA celebrates crown
“In all the championships I’vej won, this is the first time 11 couldn’t talk myself out of get-i ting thrown into the showers,”' laughed a soaked Bob Felasco in the Christian Brothers Acad­ emy locker room Tuesday
“These kids aren't like the ones I used to coach in the Par­ ochial League,” said Felasco. “They just don’t get excited.”
But for ten minutes in the locker room yesterday, the CBA cagers departed from their r o l e s as unemotional cogs on the Purple and Gold scoring machine. They be^ haved the way a grou» of
teenagers who had jijst won a league championship would be
expected to behave. Deafen­ ing shrieks of “We’re number one!’ ’ rocked the lockers. Everybody laughed as Felas­ co was stripped of a gray sports jacket and dragged un­ der the needle sorav.
Captain Jay Sferra scored a
game-high 2A points, handed
out 13 assists and came up
with six steals yesterday as Christian Brothers Academy crushed Nottingham, 98-57, to
wrap up the CNY Cities
League basketball champion­ ship.
“Jay (Sferra) running our of-| with eight grabs wMle the 6- Jense the right way has been' foot-5 Fletcher added five re­ Ithe key to our scoring air bounds and fiVB"' blocked ■season,” said Felasco. “At the
beginning he was shooting at
the wrong times but he’s get- jting better all the time. And Hiram Sapp has come along Ireal well the past month to give Jimmy (Fletcher) some help on
shots.
Felasco’s CBA five had mol
ithe boards.” , | I “CBA won’t ’ look anythK
,The CBA sharpshooters con­ nected on 42 of 66 field goal attempts (63.6 per cent) with Sferra (9x16), Fletcher (7x9), Sapp (6x11), Stirpe (5x9) and Law (5x8) setting a hot pace.
Waters led CBA rebounders ,
'like my old Cathedral ai^^ Evangelist Parochial champions this winter.. .but we should in a couple years,” Felasco was quoted as saying in the Nov. 30, 1970 edition of the Herald-Jour- nal. He kept his promise.
ments earlier locked up its first Central New York ' Cities^ League basketball title since
1963-64 with a 98-57 romp visiting Nottingham.
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