The Waterbury Democrat., 1942-03-12
BOROUGH LADS READY FOR TOP
 SCORING EFFORT
Crosby Considered Much Better AII-ArOund Team
 Than Meriden
BY JOHN A. CLUNEY


 Haven Arena with the winners not only assured of chance to play for the. championship Saturday night and both assured berths in the New England tournament op- ening on the same court next week.
 Crosby, off It's present form, and a regular season win over Meriden should defeat the Silver City club, while Naugatuck is in great spot to turn in another giant killing" act against Warren Harding, twice winner over the borough squad dur ing the regular season. though the game in Naugatuck required an overtime period.
 Chance for Naugy
 Naugatuck's chances of winning depend entirely upon two things concerning two players of the Hard- ing team = its defense must be strong aind continuous enough to hold Bill Hugya and Al Napoli rea- sonably in check--or Naugy's Furs Dunn and Reilly must outscore the Harding hotshots more than lit tie
 From the odds-laying depart. ment, comes game quotations oi 2 l-2 to 1 for Crosby over Meriden; and 2 to for Harding over Nauga. tuck. Harding would be at least Z to before Naugys great win over top-seeded Central, game won by the margin of q technical foul of free -throw, but 1t is expected thai Naugatuck's speed will give Hard. ing all 1t can handle during sht game. A good tight defense against Hugya could win the game as there is no faster team in the tournament than the Jackrabbit, coached by P. J. Foley.
 Another interesting angle is thai Naugatuck scored TAI points durint the regular season to Harding's 538 though, of course, the Harding op' position was tougher; but there wat 679 points scored against Nauga. utck to 467 against the Park City Presidents, the indication there be. ing that the Park City club has defense that is better than fair
 Ready to Go
 Crosby has been kept on edge with a light workout for, having met Meriden twice, Coach Will Schofeld, after a slight glance al the war maps. society news anc market quotations came up with defense that is expected to take care of Meriden's Mouse Gostyla whose last minute hook shot and l6 points kept his team in the tour nament against New Britain.
 Tn the opinion of the writer, Allie Kelly is certain to cutplay the 6 foot 4 inch Jack French Of Meriden, offensively and defensively, while Reynolds, Belanger and DAgostino should be able to handle Gostyla. D'Annibile appeared to be the best Meriden defensive player in the New Britain game, while Zagorski may go better than rated for he is fast and goo ddribbler. However, after figuring all the angles, Crosby should win by 10 to 30 points de- pending upon how good the passing of the Waterbury entry is
 Reserved tickets for the game are on sale until D. m. today at Bieners Sport Shop. Naugy- Hard ing is set for 8 D. m. with Crosby and Meriden to go on at 9:15.
 LINEUPS
 Warren Harding Naugatuck 2 Hugya .. l. r. . r Furs IS 10 Napoli ..... R. F. :. L. Dunn g KovacS ..., c. s W. Reilly 4 Allesevich . L. c, F. Mariana II Huges ~ R. c. D. Thurston 2l
 Warren Harding sut,etitutes-12 Buccino, Hackett. -9 Ladyko, Maty, Il Pjura, ' Poceluiko, 6 Frisco, Davis Kandratayich, Fertile.
 Naugatuck substltutes--14 Frank Ru:cio, l9 Charles Fogarty, Frank Ryan. 3 John Kissane, Charles Matuszewski, 22 Donald Zehnder, 13 Matthew Kloc.
 Merlden Crosby w. Gosztyla L. F. A. Fisaer 4 ' c. Erazmus R. F. N. Feitelson 3 10 J. French .. c. w. Kelly y il D'Annibale L. c. H. Belanger Is zagorski . R. c. Reynolds 6
 Meriden substitutes-9 Karsmarsi 12 Baldwin, Kllroy, 1 Sokel, Wnek, Orrili.
 Crosby substitutes-77 U. DAgog- tho 12 K. Betts, IA r. Fasarelli. ' R Conlon 5 R Boucher, 13 KarVelis, 6 T Kobrin
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