Lordstown High School - Highlights Yearbook (Lordstown, OH)

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iff Q- fs -aa SUM ARY X X The NRed Devilsn officially opened their l9h8-A9 basket A ball season, November l2,' by playing Paris High, there. we .1 ,made a smashing victory of A8-28. Our second game, on November l6, our boys dumped Vernon with a score of 38-29. ' Cortland was defeated by Lordstown 33-27 on Nov. 19. For our fourth straight victory we came home from B ist- ol with a total score of 50-21. On December 3, the Devils were handed their first defeat, by Vienna, the score being 1.6-38. '- V Braceville Bees gave us our second defeat, A7-23. 5 Our players got back into the groove, dumping Fowler ' I . 56-35 on Dec. lk. 5, December 17, we played Southington at West Junior, Q' N Lordstown in the lead with a score of 39-29. On December 21, the Devils journeyed to North Jackson, the final score was 50-Lb. 1 The first game of l9L9 was played with Cortland at W. 5 J' Junior. They came out on top with a score of L7-2h. Q5 VAQQf Our Devils met with the Bszetta Eagles on January lk. XQQK ffge We came out victorious 50-37. fci 'Za Lordstown crippled the Bristol Panthers 55-23 on Jan.l8. lgf Q At W. Jr. on January 21 the Devils again met Vienna and ! lost 37-33. we continued to be defeated when Lordstown played Brace- ? ville and lost 37-30. , However in the next game with Greene on Jan. 28, which ,Q was their Homecoming game, we chalked up a final score of .N 61-27. a On Feb. 1 in a close game with Mecca we finally came 9 through with L5 points over their Ll points. The last scheduled game, we were againvictorious over Southington, when the last whistle blew, the score was 57-26. A crowd of about l,OOO fans watched Lordstown blank Johnston in our first game of the tournament at Leasvittsburg. 'he Devils trailed 22-19 at halftime, but we gotta 29-22 lead as Johnston was unable to score in the 3rd period. With good playing from all the boys, we ended the game with a victory. In the quarter finals, our team bowed out to Howland Tigers. We had a good start, but they managed to gain the N final lead. f Lordstown bowed out of the T. I. A. tournament by losing X is a consolation game to Champion's Golden Flashes. I X' x ' if X ,X HIGHLIGHTS -XF X f --IVV i tt'