Page 10 Thursday, February 6, 2014 The Westfield Leader and The Scotch Plains – Fanwood TIMES A WATCHUNG COMMUNICATIONS, INC. PUBLICATION Barmakian and John Lindros), freestyle Devil’s Den on the seventh fastest (1:38.12, with Max Shin, Lessner and Brennan Haley) and breaststroke on the eighth fastest Sharing a Parallel Universe (1:38.40, with Shin, Haley and Matt Daniel). Husch currently is the No. 5 all-time in butterfly, No. 9 in back- With One of the Greats stroke and the No. 7 breaststroker on the Top 15 List. By BRUCE JOHNSON The top two medley relays all-time Specially Written for The Westfield Leader and The Times were in 1992 (1:37.28) and ’93 (1:37.80). Darren Hertell, Dave Schwartz and Tom The late Ral Donner, who grew up They were heavy into political satire BASKETBALL UPDATE Mann were the first three legs on both, near Chicago and sounded a lot like (think Jon Stewart or Stephen Colbert Juniors Lily Scott and Jackie Knapp, with Sean Schafer the ’92 anchor and Elvis Presley, had a huge hit song back on steroids) and eventually their show the dynamic duo of the girls basketball Danny Zemsky in ’93. in 1961 titled “You Don’t Know What was pulled off the air by CBS after they team, will both become members of the The boys are top-seeded in North 2 You’ve Got (Until You Lose It).” butted heads one too many times with pretty exclusive 1,000-Point Club at Public A (and the entire state) and will How true! the power people. The show also fea- WHS very soon, maybe this week. There face Bayonne today in the opening round Pete Seeger’s influence on everyone’s tured great musical guests, like Joan are currently three WHS girls in the of the state tournament. They could life was enormous, mine included, and Baez, Harry Belafonte, Donovan, Cass Club – Erin Miller (’08) with 1,580, face SP-F in Monday’s semifinals. even if I barely realized it until Jan. 27, Elliot, Peter, Paul and Mary, the Who Krissy Jeremiah (’88) with 1,169 and Meanwhile, the girls, despite owning David B. Corbin for The Westfield Leader and The Times when he died at the age of 94. and the Buffalo Springfield among oth- current assistant coach Liz McKeon a 62-meet win streak and 67-meet un- CLOSING IN ON HIM...Raiders Quaryee Bull, No. 1, Aaron Lee, No. 25, and We sort of had a way of co-existing in ers. (’99) at 1,017. beaten streak, are the second seed in Devon Glover, No. 5, close in on Cougar Tommy Trotter. parallel universes. Despite our age dif- The Smothers Brothers pulled off a The girls team finally hit a bump in North 2 Public A, behind Hunterdon ference, we were tuned in to the same coup for their second-season premiere the road of a long season. After reach- Central. (Ironically, WHS beat Immacu- way of thinking. on Sept. 10 when signed Pete Seeger for ing the No. 18 ranking in the state with late Heart Academy 87-83 while In the first and second grade, I spent his first TV appearance since he’d been a 15-0 record, Joe Marino’s club fell to Hunterdon suffered its only loss to the Cougars Rattle Raiders, 56-41 too much time in the office of Miss blackballed by McCarthy back in 1950. Springfield, 46-39, and New Provi- Eagles, by about 20 points back in late CONTINUED FROM PAGE 9 Conrow, the principal at North Long Then, the man stepped in. The CBS dence, 47-43. WHS led going into the December.) WHS opens today against Branch grammar school; her discipline brass told Seeger he couldn’t sing a fourth quarter of both games; they were Middlesex County champion East while Jack McCaffrey and Luke initiative and scooted to a 9-4 lead of me I’m sure had something to do with particularly anti-Vietnam War, anti-LBJ outscored 11-0 by Springfield. Brunswick, and would likely face a stiff Christiano each grabbed five and midway through the first quarter with having a school named after her. Around verse of “Waste Deep in the Big Muddy.” The boys also hit a mid-season slump. semifinal test Monday against Somerset Cameron Kutzer pulled four. Poillon hitting for four, Gibbons sink- that time, Seeger was spending time Seeger refused to drop it, so his perfor- After improving to 8-5, they dropped County champ Hillsborough, who they “He gets a lot of rebounds for us, a ing a 3-pointer and Ramos hitting for appearing before the House Committee mance was canceled; the Smothers did two in a row, including Friday’s 52-42 beat 86-84 in last year’s state semifi- lot of put backs. Helps a lot through two, while McCaffrey had the Cou- on Un-American Activities witch hunt convince Seeger to perform in a show against Elizabeth St. Mary. Dave Kane nals. the course of the game,” McCaffrey gars’ four points. But McCaffrey came of Senator Joe McCarthy. later that season. had 14 and Chris Boutsikaris added 13. Steve Whittington, a first-year WHS said of Oblachinski. back with a 3-pointer and a 2-pointer When I was being drummed out of In the event, reading Seeger’s obitu- WHS has eight or nine guys who can be chemistry and physics teacher, is in his Chris Gibbons led the 8-8 Raiders and Guarriello rolled in a lay-up to the Cub Scouts, he was being indicted aries in the New York Times and Phila- the top scorers on any given night, and 17th year as the coach at Metuchen St. with seven rebounds and nine points. give Cranford an 11-9 lead with 1:40 on 10 counts of contempt of Congress delphia Inquirer – his stances on human when/if this team gets everyone click- Joseph. Last Friday night, the Falcons Leo Ramos (4 points) and Quaryee on the clock. The quarter ended, 15- for his refusal to testify during rights, the environment, his anti-war ing on the same night, look out. won their 37th straight Middlesex Bull (2 points) each had six rebounds. 13, Cranford. McCarthy-era Communist witch hunts. stance, and his love of flannel shirts – I WRESTLING UPDATE County championship, edging East Rashan Gary netted eight points, Jack The lead jostled back-and-forth in When I was in high school, I used to find myself attracted to him and his SP-F took advantage of three for- Brunswick by 13 points. They are five the second quarter but both teams play the Weaver’s “Reunion at Carnegie ideals more than ever. The guy was in feits, and wins in the last two weights, short of WHS’s record 42 straight Union Poillon sank seven and Andrew Hall” vinyl album over and over. I had Voysest added five points. added 10 points giving the Cougars a his 90s and still protesting with the including a meet-clinching major in the County titles. no idea who the Weavers were or what Occupy Wall Street gang – needing two finale, to post a 34-33 victory over the HOCKEY UPDATE “They were hurting us on the 25-23 edge at the break. The third they were all about. But they were walking canes to get around. How cool Blue Devils in “Pin Cancer” night at the quarter and the 13-3 run began with The hockey team defeated Scotch boards. They are strong kids. Foot- “folksingers” and that was the time of is that? Roost. WHS leads the series 32-22-3. Plains and Cranford, 7-0 and 4-3, on ball, even the baseball kids are strong McCaffrey hitting a two and the “Folk Scare” around the country. So SCARANO TO BE HONORED WHS got pins by Chris Hoerle, Kevin back-to-back days last week. Senior kids. We got to get in the weight room Oblachinski sinking a pair of free anything that upset “the squares” was Elena Scarano, who earned all-state Miller and Jarek Gozdieski, a tech-fall Dane Huber had a natural hat trick, to play against kids like that,” Coach throws. With a Raider timeout at 2:34 cool. And one of the original Weavers honors last fall for her play on the 19-3 from Nick Kalimtzis, a major from Nick scoring the first three goals against SPF, Doherty said. on the clock, the Cougars led, 38-26. was Pete Seeger. volleyball team at WHS, will be honored Velez, and wins by John Fuller and Matt while Luke Swedlund turned away eight “We tried to stay focused and box Gary rolled in a pair of lay-ups and While Seeger was helping found an Sunday for her softball play at the Union Barber, who beat Brian Lapham at 145 shots for the shutout. Against Cranford, out. That’s one of our main things, Gibbons sank a two, while McCaffrey organization to clean up the Hudson County Hot Stove League’s 78th dinner in a rematch of the UCT final. sophomore Matt Macik’s goal with four because most of the games that we banged a three to make the score, 41- River and restoring the sloop Clearwater, at L’Affaire Banquet Center in It was poetic justice that senior Matt minutes left was the difference. Dan don’t win, we end up not being able to 32, entering the fourth quarter. I was barely avoiding a court martial Mountainside. The dinner starts at 1 p.m. Ridge won the decisive match for SPF. DoCampo made 19 saves. box out. That always seems to be an The Raiders were unable to gain and dishonorable discharge for not obey- Scarano will receive the Banyasz In the previous three WHS-SPF CRYSTAL BALL-GAZING important factor,” McCaffrey said. ground and trailed, 51-41, with 1:52 ing the Master at Arms – Boomer Reeves Brothers Memorial Award as the 2013 matchups, he had been 0-3 – but those It’s always nice to have an idea of McCaffrey was a major recipient remaining, setting the stage for some … think Willie Robertson with a third- Most Valuable Scholastic Softball losses were to Colin Barber (pin) in what the future holds for WHS’s sports of the assists and cashed in on them to necessary fouling. McCaffrey sank a grade education – aboard the USS Wasp. Player. She had a 15-6 pitching record 2011 and Brian Bulger the last two teams. With the delivery last week of lead all scorers with 22 points, half of pair of free throws, Oblachinski sank Through the ’70s and ’80s and ’90s – and batted .314 as the Blue Devils won years (decision and fall), two pretty the Fall End-of-Season Report, let’s them in the first quarter alone. He was one then Guarriello finished it off as I was being fired from one job after the Union County Tournament for the tough guys. The 4-0 loss to Bulger in check out how the junior varsity and also the “Chief Thief” with five steals. with a smooth lay-up after another, seven times all told – Seeger first time since 1998. 2012 also came in the night’s final bout freshmen teams did. Christiano’s assist. continued to be an “us against the man” The Banyasz brothers, John and of WHS’s 33-27 win. Football: Jayvee 2-4-2; freshmen 9-1. “My team was finding the open inspiration. He was a poster boy for the looks for me. We were really looking “No one is really too worried about Steve, grew up in Garwood and gradu- SWIMMING UPDATE Boys soccer: Jayvee 16-2-1, Union “doesn’t play well with authority fig- ated from WHS. Steve was a three-sport Stephen Husch has swum on four of County Tournament champs; freshmen to get the ball to the hoop on the zone, who scores the most. I’m usually not ures” in some of us. standout from 1929-30-31 at WHS: a the eight fastest medley relays in WHS the leading scorer, and that’s fine by 12-1-1. because they were really spread out Some of my favorite songs of the left halfback in football coach Bob history. What makes that even more Girls soccer: Jayvee 14-0-2, Union and we could find a lot of gaps. My me as long as we keep winning. That’s mid-1960s, it turns out, were written or Duncan’s single-wing attack, the lead- impressive is that he’s swum a different County Tournament co-champs; fresh- team used it well and found a lot of all that really matters,” McCaffrey said. co-written by Seeger – “Where Have ing scorer two years in basketball and a stroke on all four relays. men 6-11-3. passs to give me easy looks,” said “We are trying to find the right All the Flowers Gone,” “If I Had a star pitcher in baseball. Both Banyasz The junior swam butterfly on the Field hockey: Jayvee 7-4-4; fresh- McCaffrey, who also had two assists. combination. Young kids, trying to Hammer,” “Turn, Turn, Turn,” and the boys played in the old semipro Union third fastest (1:37.90, with Dave men 8-9-4; eighth grade 3-3-2. Trotter finished with nine points work them in, don’t want to work classic “Waist Deep in the Big Muddy.” County Baseball League. Lindros, Tyler Lessner and Aram Girls tennis: Jayvee 16-1. and four assists, while Christiano (5 them too much, just trying to see But I didn’t really know about him Guest speaker is Jake Wood, a Tho- Barmakian), backstroke on the fourth Volleyball: Jayvee 19-0, Union points) and Kutzer each had four as- come tournament time,” Coach until “The Smothers Brothers Comedy mas Jefferson (Elizabeth) graduate and fastest (1:37.94, with Lessner, County Tournament champions; fresh- sists. Guarriello finished with eight Doherty said. Hour” in 1967. The Smothers Brothers former big leaguer. Tickets are still avail- men 5-13. points. Sc. Pl.-Fanwood 13 10 9 9 41 show was quite radical, and only the able at www.ucba-nj.org or call 908- Probitas Verus Honos That’s a combined junior varsity record The Raiders seized the offensive Cranford 15 10 16 15 56 really cool people were their guests. 917-2523. of 74-9-9, and three UCT jayvee titles. View Thousands of Homes Online

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