Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1922-03-27
Cony High Girls
Basketball Team
Closes Fine Season

The Cony High Girls basketball
game Saturday evening when they
won from Hallowell, completed an eX-
tremely successful season. Of 10
games which they played with some
Of the strongest teams in the State
the local girls have won seven and
with a record such as this they feel
that any school which claims the
championship of the State must
necessarily dispute it with them, be-
fore getting a. clear title.
Cony High had a total score Of 144
to SO for their opponents, which alone
shows the calibrc of the local team.
/ Ihey have won twice from the Wat
/ crVlllo High girls, and although the
Cony team has lost two games to
( Skowhegan, they still feel far from
4 beaten as the Waterville team had
trimmed the Skowhegan team twice.
I Cony has also won twice from
Morse High of Bath, twice from Hal
lowell High, and once from Portland
I high. being the first team to defeat
the Portland girls on their own floor
IN two years and also being the first
{
Years. Portland has also won once
1 from the Cony girls and the Cony
team has issued an invitation to the
Forest City Girls for a deciding game
to be played either in Portland or in
neutral place, the details of the
game to he arranged by one Of the
leading Portland papers.
captain Dorothy Giddings has been
very consistent player throughout
the season and she is working every
minute of the game. She played at
center last year, but Miss AIacWeeney
saw in her tho "makings" of a first
! class forward and her opinion has
been justified. Captain Giddings is
a leader and much of the success of
the team is due to the confidence
which the girls have in her.
Marie Simpson also played in the
center Of the floor last year, being
taken from the position of side-ccn-
Ter and placed in the shooting end
of the game with fine results. Having
worked last year with Miss Giddings.
they are able to show the finest Of
team work which in itself has been
OF much assistance in their showing
this season.
Inc two guards of the Cony team.
Joan Sturtevant and Gertrude Hon
kins nave acquired reputation in
other cities where they have PLAYED.
as the best guards. taken together, in
the state of Maine. Each seems TO
know lnstinctively where the other is
going to be and they pass without
looking which not only saves time on
thclr part. but is quite battling to
Their opponents.
In the center of the Cony team, arc
Two inc players, Lucia Kendall and
Louise Mason. Miss Kendall PLAYS
al center and although she had not
Played for three years she has been
OF great help in the game. She is tall
ana gets the jump" on the opposing
center Her assistant in this section
ot the floor, Miss Mason, is the king
f'ia around which tho work OF the
team. both in passing from one end
Of the floor to the other and in the
"ilchsiEe around the basket. as she is
usually IN an advantageous position
to take the ball if the forwards are
tied up.
TWO girls who arc especially worthy
OF mention, both with regard to their
playing ability and to the faithfulnoss
which they have shown in practice.
are Olive SOule and Helen Batchelder /
Hoth of these girls have .practised
long and hard and they are both fine
players, so that in the event that any f,
OF the first string girls were unable F,
to play the Cony team was in no dam
Ger OF weakening.