Empath, 1978 February 27

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Saints have Winning Season
by Terry Shawn
(Terry Shawn is a former SMC student and was
the Sports Information Director fo r the college
1976-77. Presently he is executive secretary o f the
Saints Booster Club. —Ed.)
The St. Mary’s College Saints played
their last home game Tuesday, February,
21, against Salisbury State College. It was
a disappointing climax to the home season
appearances of the team and their
graduating senior players as the Sea Gulls
beat the Saints 98-79. High scorers for SMC
were Herb Mahone, who fired up a number
of high-arching outside shots, and along
with James “ Fleet” Sherrod’s consistent
play they finished with 18 points each.
From the start the game was not the
tempo that the Saints wanted, as the Sea
Gulls pulled to a good lead early. The
Saints were still down 39-46 at half and
came within only a few points until
Salisbury proceeded to go all out for the
century mark in the game’s last seconds.
This leaves the 12-9 Saints with two
games to play, one at Bowie State on
February 22 and the other at Stockton
State in New Jersey.
The Saints had just come off what Coach
Bryan said was “ the most disappointing
loss I have experienced this season,” as
the Saints bowed to the University of the
District of Columbia 88-93 in overtime. In
the losing effort “ Fleet” Sherrod had 22
points and 18 rebounds.
Of the last 11 contests, the Saints have
won 8, the first of which was against
Shenandoah College, who at the time
boasted an 8-1 record and were ranked
number two in Virginia’s small college
division. Behind Tom Maleski’s 16 points
the Saints won 86-69. Fromithere SMC beat
Mary Washington College with 14 points
from Michael Ayers and an outstanding
performance from Sherrod with 19
rebounds.
“ Fleet” continued his winning ways as
he contributed 16 points and 11 rebounds to
boost the Saints to a 94-86 victory over
Gallaudet. In a disappointing loss to
University of Maryland Eastern Shore,
Herb Mahone scored 24 points with Tom
Maleski’s 12 points. With the help of a very
offensively potent performance from
UMES’ “Chic” Simmons whose 52 points
set a UMES school record, they beat the
Saints 101-109.
The next night however, the Saints
returned to their winning ways as they
beat Bowie State 86-77. “ Fleet Sherrod,
with another outstanding performance,
ended with 22 points and 15 rebounds.
The Saints and Sherrod continued to
rally over Mary Washington College 103-66
with 19 points and 10 rebounds to “ Fleet’s”
credit.
Tom Brown was the man with the clutch
jumper with 2 seconds on the clock to
finish off Salisbury State 74-72. Sherrod
had 18 points and 12 rebounds, for Saints
high-scorer.
Two days later Tom Maleski’s 11
rebounds and Sherrod’s 21 points proved
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Photo by Mary Tydings
fatal once again for Shenandoah College.
The final score, 98-72.
Misdirection off-the-court could have
proven costly for the Saints as they
traveled to Anacostia High School to play
Southeastern University. While Coach
Bryan arrived with a depleted squad two
players were still trying to find the place.
With the help of Tom Brown’s 18 points and
Tom Maleski’s 11 rebounds the Saints won
64-59.
Coach Bryan has been pleased with the
performance of two freshman guards,
Michael Ayers and Bobby Hill. As of this
writing Ayers has 47 assists. 227 points,
and 57 rebounds. Hill has 35 assists, 153
points and 17 rebounds.
Transfer players Hammond Willis and
Kevin Brightful have also contributed to
this winning season. In 18 games Brightful
has 55 points and 32 rebounds. Willis has 94
points and 56 rebounds in only 11 games.
Individual one game high marks this
season include Herb Mahone with the
most points against the University of
Maryland Eastern Shore. Mahone was 12
for 16 attempts. Also against UMES Tom
Maleski had the most free throws with 10
for 10 attempts. “Fleet” Sherrod ended the
game against the University of the District
of Columbia with the most rebounds with
18.
In the season thus far Herb Mahone has
18 assists, 215 points and 116 rebounds.
“Fleet” Sherrod has 21 assists, 283 points
and 200 rebounds. Tom Maleski has 13
assists, 250 points and 183 rebounds.
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Photo by Mary Tydings
Herb Mahone (left) jumps for shot in late season game against Federal City.
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