LHS Junior Tourney Team, 1922-3

Top Row -- Mr. Lansford (coach), Keith Gordon, LaVerne McNay.

Second Row -- Elmo Sprague, Geroge Clark, Abbott Dinnwiddie.

Third Row -- Sherill Hayden, Walter Childress, Kenneth Gordon, Gerald Dickinson

JUNIOR TOURNEY

Lowell High School's Junior Tourney team showed that it had the makings of a real team when it fought its way into the finals and all but won the final game at Brook in the Junior Tourney held on Saturday, February 3.

This team was composed of men too light for the regular squad. No man could weigh more than 120 pounds and the team must average 110 pounds. Lowell's heaviest man weighted 116 pounds and the lightest was 84 pounds.

In the first game that Lowell played, we had Fowler as our opponent. Neither team displayed much basketball, owing to the fact that the floor was large and the hall somewhat cold. At the end of the first half the score stood 5 to 3 in Lowell's favor. In the second half Lowell showed a little more signs of life and ran the score 13 to 6. The game was slow and uninteresting. Few fouls were called on either side.

In the second game in the afternoon, Lowell played Goodland, the winner of the Goodland-Remington game in the morning. The Goodland team was fast and made Lowell "speed up" a little to keep in touch with the game. Goodland missed practically all of her short shots but was able to score on her long ones. The first half ended 8 top 6 in favor of Goodland. In the second half Lowell came back stronger and watched Logan and Tucker more closely and stopped their long scoring, while Dickinson and Gordon were able to score long ones and Hayden counted on the close shots. In a spurt at the end of the game Lowell got four points to the good and held the lead. The game ended 15 to 11 in favor of Lowell.

These two victories entitled Lowell to go into the final game of the evening. Oxford had fought her way to the finals by beating Foresman, Brook and Morocco. Oxford had one of the smoothest working teams on the floor. Her floor work and long shooting were excellent but her short shots were poor. In her Brook game she "blew" short shots after short shots.

In the finals some of the best basket ball of the day was displayed. It seemed as though both teams had saved the best of their basket ball knowledge for the final game. It was well they did, for it took all that both teams knew and all they were able to do to score on one another. Good guarding on short pass work featured the playing of both sides. Lowell scored on short shots while Oxford counted on long ones. The first half Lowell came back strong and passed Oxford, making it 10 to 8. In a play or two, Oxford tied it, with some neat floor work and a short one, 12 to 10. Here Lowell's guarding tightened and Oxford was forced to shoot entirely from long shots. Dickinson scored a long one with two minutes left. Oxford came back with two long ones, and the time was up. The score stood 14 to 14. The game was to go on for five minutes more and the endurance of both teams was nearing the end. As quickly as Dickinson and Gordon could get a hold of the ball, they each made a basket. It seemed as if the game was Lowell's but with 10 seconds to go, Oxford had tied the score and Gordon had committed a foul in the 15 foot zone. Oxford missed the first one and then Gordon came off the floor and his younger brother went in for him and failed to report, another foul. Oxford then threw their second time and missed but the fatal third one went through and the gun ended the game.