We got a lot of basketball in in the summer."ĭespite his newfound height, Candela continued playing guard as a junior and senior. We'd play games at night from Monday to Friday. "Our parents would drop us off," he said. By the time it was over, he was 6-4.Ĭandela recalls attending summer basketball camps sponsored by NBA star Pete Maravich at California College in Indiana with several other St. The scoring load for the Heralds of that year was taken on by the seniors - Bill Boroski, Jack Manyo and Steve Abraham.īetween his sophomore and junior years Candela had a growth spurt. "A few games into the season, coach Denny Berrier moved me up to the varsity," Candela recalls. John freshman team, then moved up to the junior varsity to start his sophomore season. In basketball, he began as a guard, since he was a good ball handler.Ĭandela spent his ninth-grade year on the St. In addition to basketball, Candela also played baseball in Ashtabula's Little League system, along with football in grades six through eight. "Billy Johnston, the sheriff, and Ken Petrocello, were coaches too," Candela said. Joseph players to compete against squads from parochial schools like Mount Carmel, Mother of Sorrows, Assumption and Cabrini. "We played against Ashtabula and Harbor, which had players like Osborne, Bradley and Henton, much bigger schools than us, and hung with all those team," he said.Ĭandela got his start in baskeball in the fifth and sixth grade, when a group of coaches that included Al Goodwin, organized a team of St. John, which had a total enrollment of between 400 and 500 students (and that was a goodly number considering the school's history), was so much smaller than its Northeastern Conference rivals. To Candela that was a pretty good accomplishment since St. "We were in every game and won or lost by three points or less." "We ended up my junior and senior years at about. Though the Cleveland Browns of 1980 became known as the "Kardiac Kids" for their penchant of winning or losing heart-wrenching games, Pete Candela thinks that term could just as well to the St.
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