Consistent with teams destined for greatness is that one athletic superstar who inspires, leads, and accomplishes.\u00a0 2001 Branford Sports Hall of Fame inductee John Sobolewski Jr., was that person in the basketball and softball community.<\/p>\n
A lifelong Branford resident, John attended Branford High School from 1963 to 1966 and was a member of the Hornets basketball squad, which listed fellow inductees Jerry Schmitz (\u201996), Dave Maloney (\u201997), Ted Kaczynski (\u201999), Joe Roberti (\u201999) , Bruce Johnson (\u201900, and played for 1989 Hall of Fame inductee Stan Petela).\u00a0\u00a0 During his senior year, \u201cSobe\u201d as he was known, was a member of the Hornets basketball squad which placed 2nd in the Housatonic League with a 15-3 win\/loss\u00a0 regular season record (16-4 overall) and advanced to the quarterfinals of the Class A Tournament.<\/p>\n
Following high school, John was the co-founder of the current Branford Recreation Department\u2019s men\u2019s basketball\u00a0 league in the early 1970\u2019s.\u00a0\u00a0 His biggest claim to fame came in the realm of softball.\u00a0 \u201cSobe\u201d played A.S.A. slo-pitch softball from 1967 to 1996.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"featured_media":839,"template":"","acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/branfordsportshalloffame.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/inductee\/838"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/branfordsportshalloffame.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/inductee"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/branfordsportshalloffame.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/inductee"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/branfordsportshalloffame.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/839"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/branfordsportshalloffame.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=838"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}