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Front Row-McFodden, Sgoriglio, Allfeld, Vite, DMny. Sock Row-Mgr. Conley, Feldmon, ,Croil, Copt. Orten.i, Coulter, Corle!n Improving as the season progressed, the Western Maryland boxers hit their high point of the campaign when they took fourth place in the twenty-faurth annual Eastern Intercollegiate Boxing Association Tournament despite the fact that they entered only three fighters! Captain Carlo Ortenzi, 165 pound champion in 1942 and acting coach 'after Sig Jensen withdrew Trom college in February, won the 175 pound championship in the tournament at Penn State. Ortenzi, the pre-tournament favorite on the basis of his crown in 1942, plus the fact that he carried a winning streak of eleven fights into the tournament, fought masterfully in defeating Nick Ranieri of Penn State in the semi-finals and decisioning previously unbeaten Rolf Shoaf of Virginia in the finals. In addi- tion to the championship, Ortenzi was voted by the tournament offklols as the tournament's outstanding boxer-"the boxer whose skill, sportsmanship, and conduct perpetuates the finest in collegiate boxing." Joe Corieto, who compiled a regular season's record of three wins against two losses in his first year of boxing battled his 175 Pound Champion Carlo Orten.i way to the flncls of the tournament by knocking out Walt ilgen- fritz of the Coast Guard. In the finals Corleto was pitted against defending champion John McArdle of Syracuse and the Opponent W.M.Opp. height and reach of the Orangeman was too much for Corleto. PennStote Stot" College, Po 2 6 Rico Vito, who entered Western Maryland at the start of the Co",t Guard New london, Cann. second semester and had only one fight prior to the tournament, Buc~nell Lewi.burg, Po. lost to Willie Barnett of Virginia in the semi-finals. Barnett went Army West Point, N. Y Bucknell Gal Gymnasium on to win the championship. 140