April 5, 1979
“I’m sorry that he’s not here. We lose a lot of scoring potential, but it’s coming along all right. We miss him, but we’re not dying without him.” Sounds like Joe Morgan giving Pete Rose the old see-if-I-care treatment, but it’s not. It’s Greg Arnold explaining why the Archbishop Carroll hockey team failed to don sackcloth and ashes the day star winger Scott Chamness separated his shoulder. Mainly, the reason is Arnold himself. The quick, strong all-area center helped put Carroll in position to wrap up the Inter-County League title with a victory last night over Radnor. In three previous playoff games without linemate Chamness, he banged in nine goals, including five in one game.
The 6-foot, 1-inch junior managed pretty well even when he was sharing the spotlight. The amazing Chamness led the league in scoring with 134 points in 19 games, an average of seven a game. But Arnold finished second with 107 points in just 14 games, an average of eight a game. Carroll also boasted the Nos. 3, 4 and 5 scorers in Jim Bolger, Kim Vasys and Carmen D’Giandomenico. “Sometimes our games get a little out of hand,” laughed Arnold, recalling a 20-0 bombardment of Downingtown back in February. “We call them Point Nights.” As it is, he’d settle for a few more Off Nights. When you skate for two teams at once like Greg does, you feel like you’re about to go through meltdown.
Mondays and Thursdays he plays for Carroll, Saturdays and Sundays for the Little Flyers in Junior League competition. Tuesdays, he grunts through Little Flyers practice, and Wednesdays it’s Carroll practice. On Fridays, he lies back and wonders if a separated shoulder really hurts all that much.
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