The Western Reserve Blue Devils wasted little time in taking down the Lowellville Rockets Thursday night by a score of 65-19. The Blue Devils built a 37-4 midway point advantage .
Nine different Wesrtern Reserve made the score book with Danielle Vuletich leading the way with 21 points. The victory moved the Blue Devils to 13-5 for the season.
The Rocket’s Savanah Procick led her team with 7 points.
*Contributed By YSN’s Gary Leininger
LOWELLVILLE OH- The Lowellville Rockets improved to 6-6 after dropping the Lisbon Blue Devils 45-33 in girls hoops action Wednesday night.
After a close 1st half the Rockets outscored the Blue Devils 11-3 in the 3rd period to seal up the victory. Lowellville’s Sammie Moore had a game-high 22 points and teammate Savannah Procick added 9 points to help the Rockets.
Lisbon fell to 3-10 for the year and were paced by Parker Henthrone with 14 points.
*Contributed by YSN’s Gary Leininger
LOWELLVILLE OH- A very close competitive game turned into a landslide Thursday night. Waterloo traveler to Lowellville and for the first two quarters, they got all they wanted from the Rockets. The Vikings led by just three at the half, but outscored Lowellville 16-5 in the third and rolled to a 47-34 win.
Brooke Waldeck paced the Vikings with a game-high 24 points. Kaira English contributed 9 points to the cause, while Rose Couts finished with 8.
Sammie Moore had a strong night for the Rockets gathering 15 points. Francesca Lellio was also in double figures with 11. Savannah Procick added 8 points on the night.
Waterloo and Lowellville Play again on Saturday afternoon. It will be a varsity only game starting at noon.
LOWELLVILLE OH- Springfield came into Monday night’s game with just two wins in the MVAC, and they trailed Lowellville in the standings. But on this night there was no doubt who the better team was. Springfield controlled the game from the jump, rolling to a 52-28 win over the Rockets on the road.
Jacey Mullen had a big second quarter, and ended up leading the Tigers with 17 points on the night. Kylee Kosek collected a double double with 13 points, and 11 steals on the night. Peyton Kliem added 8 for the Tigers.
The Rockets were led by Savannah Procick who finished in double figures with 10 points. Sammie Moore contributed 8.
Springfield will stay in the league as they return home on Saturday to host Liberty. Lowellville stays at home and will host Waterloo on Thursday.
Columbiana, OH- The Lowellville Rockets traveled to Columbiana high school coming off a loss looking for a bounce back win. Vinny Ballone and the Rockets pulled off a victory playing tough defense and forcing turnovers against the Clippers. Lowellville wins 61-49.
NEW MIDDLETOWN, OH- Springfield’s RJ Smith continued his push for one of the area’s top players on Friday night against MVAC opponent, Lowellville. Springfield would handle the Rockets 77-46 when the final buzzer sounded.
Smith chipped in a game-high 23 points while his supporting cast stepped up in a big way as well. Alex Rothwell posted 17 points in the victory, Lukas Yemma scorched the net for 14, and Adam Wharry also finished in double-digits with 10 of his own.
For Lowellville, the fighting force of Anthony Lucente led the Rockets with 19.
Springfield will return to action on Tuesday to faceoff on the road against non-conference rivals, Poland.
MINERAL RIDGE OH- Mineral Ridge celebrated senior night with a big victory over Lowellville on Saturday night 61-52.
The Rams were led by Austin Governor with 16 points on the night. Triston Weiss wasn’t too far behind him with 14 points. Jalen Royal Eiland was also in double figures for the Rams with 13 points.
Anthony Lucente had a huge night for the Rockets scoring a game-high 28 points on the night.
The Rams will stay at home to host Sebring on Tuesday. The Rockets will look to bounce back traveling to Western Reserve on Tuesday.
CAMPBELL OH- Even though the Campbell Memorial Red Devils had a loss last week to Western Reserve, the team got momentum especially with the early lead into the game. They were looking to build upon that Tuesday in hopes of getting their first win of the season. However, there was a team waiting for them in the Lowellville Rockets with a record of three and two as the Red Devils were looking for their first victory at home this season. However, the Rockets would blast off early on with a 4-0 lead and never look back into the game. The closest Campbell got to cutting the lead down was at ten points as they would be down at the end of one 20-10 and at the half 33-22. Even though they were down, all they had to do was eliminate the early turnover mistakes and get back on track to winning this game. Unfortunately, that did not happen as Lowellville pulled away winning by the final of 76-41.
Sophomore Anthony Lucente led the Rockets with 18 points, eight of those being inside the paint. Vinny Ballone another Sophomore finished with 17 points, getting six points on two’s and a three. Senior Johnny Michaels finished with 15 points, while senior number 23 Cole Bunofsky showed off his Michael Jordan ability inside the paint with 12 points. Kenton Peterson finished with seven points, hitting a free throw and getting three two-pointers. Brady Bunofsky, Kyle Miller, Ryan Hvisdak, and Justin Beeson combined for seven.
With Gabe Brunn out due to injury, Junior Skevos Kouros stepped up with 12 points while fellow Junior Christian James had 11. The next leading scorer was Collin Michaels shooting two for two on free throws and was good at the fast breaks scoring all his other six in the paint. Michaels finished with eight points. Zach Luciano finished with six points while both Joe Zanni and Harry Echevarria combined for four.
Campbell (0-7) will host Liberty on January 5th as the Leopards are back playing basketball. Lowellville (4-2) will host Warren JFK on the fifth as well. Both games start at 7pm on YSN Live!!
*Contributed By YSN’s Ian O’Brien
LOWELLVILLE OH- Both teams already met each other once this season and it was time again for round number two as the Lowellville Rockets were looking for their first win against the Jackson Milton Blue Jays since 2011. It looked like that would happen during the first half as the Blue Jays with foul trouble had the Lady Rockets comeback. The Rockets were only down 23-17 at halftime However, the second half would be different as the Rocket didn’t take off and the Blue Jays pulled away, from buzzer beaters to steals, they continued their winning streak against Lowellville by the final of 64-39.
For Jackson Milton, it was Kylie Wilson who finished with a team high 19 points, while Ava Darney, Camryn Mitchell and Chelsea Williams each had 14 points. Logan Grunder finished with three points.
For Lowellville, Samantha Moore finished with 15 points, Savannah Procick finished with 14 points, making five two points and one three. Francesca Lellio finished with four points and Lily Van Coppola finished with six points while she also made all free throws.
Up Next:
Lowellville (2-2) will head to Wellsville (0-2) on Monday. Jackson Milton (3-1) will face United (3-4).
*Contributed by YSN’s Ian O’Brien*
SEBRING OH- Lowellville made several clutch plays late on Thursday night to come away with a road win in Sebring 45-41. Sammi Moore drilled all four of her late free throws to help extend the Rocket lead enough to hang on.
Moore led the Rockets with a game-high 18 points. Lily Vari-Coppola also has a strong night for the Rockets with 14 points. Savannah Procick was also in double figures for Lowellville with 11.
Emma Whaley led Sebring with 14 points. Aebi D’Ostroph chipped in a nice night scoring 11.
Lowellville is scheduled to travel to Badger on Saturday. Sebring looks ahead to travel to Springfield on Monday.