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SPORTS
First Blood
January 19, the V. E. S. Bishops got off to a fast start to beat Bed- ford Iligh School 37 to 19, in their first game of the season, using the second team for half the game.
"AI" \Villiams was high point man for the Bishops with a total of 13 points, while Chryssikos was high for Bedford with 12 points.
Rolling the score up to a 13 to 2 lead in the first quarter, the Bishops starting five rela-xed while the sec-
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the remainder of the hal f. T he first ' team started t h e second half and ; went ahead again. The second team 1played the last quarter.
1 Bishops Whip Hargrave
t Virginia Episcopal School de- l feated Hargrave Academy by a 1score of 43 to 24, the Bishops tak-
: ing the initiative early in the game and refusing to relinquish it until the final whistle.
At the end of the first half the Cadets were on the short end of a 24 to 4 score but managed a short- lived rally in the second half led by Hudson. Pritchard, Bishop forward, was the high scorer of the game with 12 points while Koch and Sprague each accounted for nine
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V\o'codberry Defeats V. E. S.
The T.;gers of Woodberry Forest handed the ~hops their first loss of the season by--...,'\ lop-sided score of 65-18.
The game was played on fairly e v e n t e r m s d u r i n g t h e f i r s t 9 - _ U a r - ter. the score being 12 to 8 in favor of the Tigers at the end of the period. But later on the experience and height proved their worth, and the Tigers ran wild.
Captain Robbie Lee was high point man for the Bishops, with seven points. while Peterson took honors for Woodberry with four- teen.
Robbie Lee Leads
A scoring spree in the second half
by Captain Hobbie Lee sparked Vir- ginia Episcopal School to a 47-42 victory over Fork Union Mil itary School in Barksdale Gymnasium. Lee, who was held to five points in the first half, broke loose in the second and tallied 18 points. Three minutes of the game had elapsed before Kyne of Fork Union managed to sink a foul shot for the first point of the game. Uallou then made good a free throw and Pritch-
ard made a field goal to give the Bishops a lead that was never re- linq uished.
Bishops Drub Baby Tigers
In a rough contest played in Barksdale Gymnasium, the Bishops downed the Hampden-Sydney Jun- ior Varsity by a score of 45 to 23.
Leading by a narrow score of 13-11 at the end of the first quar- ter, they went ahead to score ten points in the second frame and hold the Cubs to three points.
Midway in the last quarter, with the Bishops on the big end of a 43-18 score, the famous "Fouling Five" ( the Bishop second string) went in to liven things up with a ball-grabbing and elbowing contest.
Captain Robbie Lee and Jack Sprague led the Bishops with twelve points apiece, with Livesay and Kastel grabbing six apiece for the Tigers.
Bishops 40, Fishburne 32
The Bishops racked up their fourth win of the season by defeat- ing the Cadets of Fishburne Mili- tary school 40 to 32 on their home floor.
After a slow start, the Bishops managed to keep ahead of the Cadets throughout the game, al- though they were missing a number of their shots after working the ball in under the basket. In the third quarter, the Cadets staged a rally that brought them within four points of the Bishops, but were un- able to keep the rally going.
"AI" Williams and Captain Rob- bie Lee led the way for the Bishops with twelve points apiece; while
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