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Show BINGHAM CYO TEAM CAPTURES TITLESUNDAY Bingham's hustling CYO basketball bas-ketball team walked away with the 1949 state championship trophy tro-phy Sunday in the Judge Memorial Mem-orial gym by defeating the tourney tour-ney favorite, St. Patrick's, in a 37-34 battle. While Bingham led through most of the struggle it was a late rally that almost gave the St. Pat's crew another trophy in its long hne of CYO championships. However, the new victors, after losing two of their starters via the foul route, settled down to squelch a fourth quarter rally and win the crown. In the championship game there were a tremendous number num-ber of fouls called as two players from each team left via the foul route. Bingham lost Mickey Cul-1 leton soon after the second half and Muhar was just one step behind. be-hind. "Blackie" Kallen was easily the offensive star for the winners win-ners as he tanked 19 points, while Pagnanelli, playing brilliantly bril-liantly for St. Pat's, led the losers los-ers with 17. Bingham held a 16-12 16-12 margin at half time but St. Pat's took over a slight 24-23 advantage ad-vantage at the end of the third uarter. Guadalupe was awarded the sportsmanship trophy, which is a yearly presentation of the CYO group. Members of the team are: Phil Montoya, Joe Herrera, Mickey Culleton, Amadeo Pino, Abel Oseguera, John Bolic, John Muhar, Mu-har, John Kallen, Ross Pino and Matt Blockovich, trainer and Herb Babcock, coach. " |