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TCIL Tourney Opens Today; 2/12/1960

SAN ANTONIO (UPI) -- Defending champions Dallas Jesuit of Class AAA and Port Arthur Sacred Heart of Class AA were among the teams drawing first-round byes in the Texas Catholic Inerscholastic League basketball tournament opening here Friday.

Jesuit will not see action until 9 p.m. Friday when the Rangers will play the winner of a game between Houston St. Pius and Port Arthur Bishop Byrne.  Sacred Heart will be in action at the same time in another gym against the winner of a Fort Worth Laneri-Corpus Christi College Academy game.

In AAA, in addition to the St. Pius-Byrne game, Waco Reicher plays Galveston Kirwin, San Antonio Central Catholic plays Houston Marian and El Paso Cathedral meets Houston Mt. Carmel.  Houston St. Thomas, which also drew a bye, plays the winner of the Reicher-Kirwin game Friday night.

In Class AA in addition to the Laneri-Corpus Christi game, Laredo St. Joseph's meets Beaumont Blessed Sacrement, Brownsville St. Josep's meets San Antonio St. Anthony's and Amarillo Price College plays San Antonio St. John's.

Three other teams in addition to Sacred Heart drew AA byes.  San Antonio St. Peter Clavers plays the winner of the Laredo St. Joseph-Beaumont Blessed Sacred Heart game; San Antonio St. Gerard's meets the winner of the Brownsville St. Joseph-San Antonio St. Anthony game, and Victoria St. Joseph plays the winner of the Amarillo Price-San Antonio St. John's game.

Source:  Valley Morning Star, Harlingen, Texas, Friday, February 12, 1960, Page 10.

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