St Bonaventure High School - Bona Venture Yearbook (Columbus, NE)

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The game was nip and tuck all the way with the lead changing several times. Clarkson took the game with 5 straight free throws in the overtime. Final score: St. Bon's 49, Clarkson 52. Showing a leaky defense and missing numerous easy shots, Bonnies had to hustle all the way to come out on the long end of a 57-47 verdict over St. Joseph of Omaha. Regarding this as a big one, St. joe fought hard, but couldnt keep up with the speed and scoring punch of the Irish. St. Bonaventures final performance of the season was the defeat of Guradian Angel of West Point 74-49. The 74 points was a single game high score record. ...l. '7aack Track, one of the big sports here at St. Bon's will find this year's competition as tough as ever. Last year's losses will weaken the Irish in certain spots but Coach Fischer is placing his hopes in some new material. The bright spots are in the return of Larry Sanders, Dave Bowe, Ken Cielocha and jim Hoshor. These four boys qualifed for the State Track Meet last year at the class B district meet at David City. Sanders qualified for the State in the high jump with a jump of 5-SVZ and set a new school record. Bowe, Cielocha, and Hoshor were on the 880 relay team and qualified with a winning time of 1:38 on a slow track. This same team set a new school record at the Norfolk Invitational copping the relay trophy in a 1:37.6, beating such relay teams as Fremont, Norfolk, Columbus High and the mect winner, Yankton, South' Dakota. Bonnies Shamrocks also took first place in the two St. Bonaventure Intitationals, tied for fifth place in the Nor- folk Invitational, 10th in the Columbus Invitational and finished third in the District Meet at David City. Lettermen from last year were Sanders, Bowe, Cielocha, Hoshor, Blahak, Baumert, Miller. Dunn and Soulliere.

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St. Bon's rolled up 227 points in the campaign, while holding the opposition to 53. In the scoring column were: TD E.P T.P DOH Sdlmid ..,... ........ 1 1 4 70 Butch Bowe ....,, ..... 2 0 12 ,lim HOShOr ....... ..... 9 4 58 Ken Cielocha ,Aw... ..... 1 0 6 Keith Speicher ...... 5 0 30 Paul Siemek ,.,.., ,,,,. 1 0 6 Dean Soulliere ,...., .,...,..,.. 5 0 30 Jon Robb ,,,, ,AA,, 0 2 2 Larry Sanders ....... ,,,,..,,,,,,,, 2 13 '7fze 3 St. Bonaventure opened its 1952-53 basketball season with a convincing 56-35 win over Sacred Heart of Nor- folk. Despite the usual early season raggedness, the Shamrocks looked good in their opener. Vlfe closed the pre-holiday season with a 45-35 victory over Lincoln Cathedral. january 6 saw the Irish open the new year rolling over Schuyler, 55-42. The Catholic State Tournament was held at the Holy Name Gym, Omaha, over the 8-9-10 of january. St. Bon's took the first round with a 41-33 margin over favored Holy Name. This marked the first defeat thc Ramblers had tasted on their home court. The Sham- rocks lost a heart breaker to previously beaten Lincoln Cathedral in the finals, 36-40g but walked off with the run- ner up trophy. The Irish met St. Pat's of Fremont next and had little trouble in annexing a 49-36 win. Top ranking Lincoln Teachers, the big one of our schedule was next. The battle took place on the Nebraska Coliseum floor and was a close one until the final minutes when the defensive play of Teachers' 6'7 center and offensive spark of their sharp shooting guard proved too much for the Irish defense. The Shamrocks went down to a 37-53 defeat. The next evening St. Bonaventure played Seward Concordia and took a 65-55 verdict from them. Humphrey, St. Francis went down before the high scoring St. Bon's offense 73-44. Leigh was next and they, too, fell before the fightin' Irish 60-48. Newman Grove followed suit as the Shamrocks clippgd the Blue jay 66-48. St. Bonaventure clashed with a highlyregarded Brainard team and came out on the short end of a 41-50 decis ion. Osceola stayed wihtin range of the Irish for three periods but melted under a heavy fourth quarter barrage 68-45. Spalding Academy invaded Columbus to try their luck against the Shamrocks and went home smarting from a 59-42 whipping. Trouble was on top for Cletus Fischer's five in their next contest as they met a highly touted Clarkson quintet. fTop Rowj Coach' Cletus Fischer, D. Soulliere, Gladfelter, D. Schmid, Robb, D. Bowe, Hoshor, fKneel- lingj T. Pensick, E. Kavanaugh, K. Cielocha, Tooley, L. Moschenross, M. Tooley, QL. Sanders and E. Savage not presentj. 1

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