Lowellville High School - Echo Yearbook (Lowellville, OH)

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Basketball Resume The 1952-53 season opened Coach Paul V. Johnson's 25th year with the Lowellville Rockets. During this season the Rockets won 8 games a.nd lost 9. Richard Primavera was one of the main factors for the success of the Rockets, besides the fine coaching job of Paul V. John- son and his assistant coach, Robert Burns. The Rockets opened their season at North Lima. North Lima was favored but the Rockets were all fired up and they won in an overtime period. The score was Lowellville 46, North Lima 41. Then Goshen visited Lowellville only to be downed by Coach John- son's five with a score of 68 to 58. Lowellville played host to Champion next and found that Champion was the stronger of the two. Lowellville met with their first defeat by the score of 50 to 46. The next week our old rival, Struthers, came to Lowellville and it was a nip and tuck battle with Struthers coming on top by winning 47 to 39. Our next game was with Bessemer at Bessemer. This game was also a nip and tuck battle and in the final minutes Bessemer came out on top 41 to 40, handing Lowellville their third loss. Canfield then came to Lowellville. They had beaten us twice last year so the team was full of fight. Canfield had beaten all of their rivals so far by 10 to 20 points, but when they played us, we held them to 46 points to our own 44 points. They took the victory in the last two or three minutes. Poland was our next opponent and it was a fight to the finish. The game was a battle to the last few seconds when Lowellville went ahead by one point to win the game. Jackson-Milton was our next game. It went in the Rocket's favor all the way. We won 56 to 41. Berlin Center gave the Rockets a rougher time than we thought they would and they came through in the final few minutes to win 47 to 45. We met Canfield again on their home court. This game was close until the final period of play and then Canfield went wild to beat us 59 to 48. The Columbiana Clippers were our next opponents. The Rockets unable to keep up the pace were defeated 65 to 41. We met Springfield next at home and they went home the victors by a score of 50 to 47. Greenford traveled to Lowellville next where they were met with a strong attack and lost 44 to 33 thus giving Lowellville 6 wins and 7 losses. We traveled to Springfield to meet the Tigers again and this time the Rockets tamed the Tigers to a score of 53 to 49. McDonald then came to Lowellville where they beat the Rockets by one point. The score being 43 to 42. Lowellville then traveled to the new field house in Struthers to play the Wildcats who in the last ten seconds took a hoop shot and made it to beat Lowellville 47 to 45. North Lima came to Lowellville to even up the score for the loss we handed them at the beginning of the season. But the Rockets had different ideas and the score was 53 to 50 in favor of Lowellville.

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Statistics of Senior Basketball Players RICHARD PRIMAVERA- Dick -5' 9 , Guard tCaptainj Dick was one of the best shots we had this year. He is right- handed and a. dead shot from outside the foul circle and on the sides of the floor. He averaged 12.5 points for the season and 15 points in the County Tournaments. He was the only one of the Lowellville Rockets to make the All-County Team this year. RODGER HORN-- Horny -6' Forward Horny had a deadly jump shot inside the key which he used to score most of his points. He also played as a pivot. He is a right- handed ballplayer. He averaged 4.2 points in season play and 4 points in the County Tournaments. He is also a good rebounder. VINCENT CHIRICOSTA- Vince --5' 11 , Forward Vince is a right-handed ballplayer who made most of his points on the side and inside the key . He averaged 5.5 points in season play and 4 points in County Tournaments. He also is a good rebounder. Basketball l953 LOWELLVILLE'S BASKETBALL SEASONS RECORD OF 1952-53 Lowellville ..... North Lima .. Lowellville ....... Goshen ...... Lowellville ..... Champion .... Lowellville ..... Struthers . . . Lowellville ....... Bessemer .. Lowellville ..... Canfield ..... Lowellville ..... Poland ...... Lowellville ..... Jackson-Milton Lowellville ..... Berlin Center . Lowellville ..... Canfield ..... Lowellville ..... Columbiana .. Lowellville ..... Springfield . . . Lowellville ..... Greenford .... Lowellville ..... Springfield . . . Lowellville ..... McDonald .... Lowellville ..... Struthers .... Lowellville ..... North Lima . . WON LOST 9 Basketball Tournament Lowellville High started the 1953 Mahoning County Class B Tour- nament at Struthers Memorial Field House. Their first tournament game was against Springfield, against whom the Rockets had a 1-1 record. Dick Primavera and Joe Coppola featured the attack with 23 points as the rockets won 45 to 40. The next game was with Canfield fthe future Mahoning County Champsj who got off to a good start and led all the way to win 63 to 46. Lowellville easily downed their next opponent in the consolation bracket. It was Berlin Center and we beat them by a score of 54 to 47. The attack was led by Dick Primavera who had 18 points. Next Lowellville was matched with Goshenm for the fourth game. It was a nip and tuck battle with Goshen coming out on' top 45 to 39, so ending the 1952-53 season.