Page 56 - CBA 1977 YEARBOOK

BACK ROW: B. Sable, J. Weinheimer, Bro. J. Lippert, D. Mount, S. Magee, M. Headd. FRONT ROW: T. Sacco, B. Gualtieri, E.
Blake, E. Sammis, J. Coolican.
By KURT DOSSIN
Quick, is there a doctor in the house? On second thought, make it a witch doctor. When you find the voodoo king, hand him a tennis racket and let him do bis thing on the Liverpool and Christian Brothers Academy tennis teams. The rest of the Central New York Cities and Onondaga High School Leagues will thank you for it. But don’t expect miracles.
Liverpool’s Warriors are like a common cold that just won’t quit. The Brothers of CBA have created a new disease that threatens to spread to epidemic proportions if CNYCL opponents don’t find a vaccine before next spring.
CBA’s Brothers were hardly the pre­ season pick to take it all in the CNYCL. Brother Jerome Lip- pert had to make do with a team composed completely of underclassmen. It was a tough assignment, but the young­
CBA’s first doubles pair of sophomores Ed Sammis and Ed Blake survived the Oties League season without a defeat. The first doubles unit of freshmen Tom Saeco and Bob Gual­ tieri netted a 5-2 mark.
With junior Dave Mount at first singles and sophomore Joe Weinheimer and juniors Steve Magee and Bob Sable splitting the second and third singles spots, the Brothers sported 5-0 triumphs over Fowler, Henninger and Bishop Ludden, and four, nail-biting 3-2 victories over pre-season favorite Cor­ coran, Nottingham. Watertown and perennial CIYYCL champ Auburn.
How far had the Brothers come? Well, before their 3-2 win over the Maroon, CBA had been able to salvage just one point from Auburn (out of a possible 15) in the past three seasons. Auburn, CNYCL champs the four years previous, had lost just once in its last 48 matches. That’s how far the Brothers had come. Now they were the champs and undefeated to boot!
Mount, Weinheimer, Sable and Blake were all honored ac­ cordingly by being named to the coachds’ 1976 CNYCL All- Star team. The remainder of the star-studded cast included, Auburn’s Bob Connor and Mike Burke; Watertown’s Tim La Rose and Judd Resold; Corcoran’s Jamie Heath and Kevin Topp; Nottingham’s Corky Friedman; and Ludden’s Bill Bright.
With truckloads of talent returning next spring for CBA, it wouldn’t surprise many to see the Brothers continue on their winning ways. Blake will be the only casualty as he’ll be flailing his racket in Chicago.
You can start drinking the orange juice and popping the vitamin C. After all, there’s got to be some cure for the com­ mon cold. But CBA fever might be a cancer that will take years to get rid of.
sters came through.
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CBA Upsets
Corcoran
In Tennis
Christian Brothers Academy spotted Corcoran the first two singles victories and roared back for a 3-2 Central New York Cities League tennis tri­ umph yesterday.
CBA Tennis Kings