Evening star., 1955-02-14
Priory Coach Fayors
Carroll After Losing
To All Of Big Three
CATHOLIC LEAGUE STANDING!
By Dick SIdy

py LICK Siuy
Bob Cilento, the Priory coach,
likes Carroll's chances to take 1t
all in the Catholic League this
season.
Priory was beaten by St. Johns
yesterday. 64-45. which meant
that Cilento's boys became the
first team to lose to all of the
"big three''-which also includes
Gonzaga and Carroll. On the
heels of Cilento's comments. Car
roll had one of its bad days,
shooting-wise, but still beat De-
Matha. 54-39. in the second game
of the league double-header at
Carroll.
The Lions lost to Gonzaga by
two points and defeated st.
Johns by the same margin only
a week ago yesterday. Cilento
feels that Carroll has shown i'm
provement since its loss to Con-
zaga a month ago and that the
Lions now have the best-balanced
team in the league.
"St. Johns is good" he had to
admit, land Gonzaga is fight
ing bunch, but Carroll has two
good big men and three boys
outside"
Rates Carroll Best Defensively.
Cilento meant Dan OLeary
and Frank Wightman as the
tall ones and Bill Hessler, Larry
Smith and Dick Petrillo or Pat
Cribbin as the others. It is hard
to figure a weak spot.
ALSO, Carroll is the best de-
fensive club" Cilento added. "Of
course I'd have to say that after
they held us to 20 points,
Bob Dwyer, Carroll coach.
followed his usual pattern against
team with a single big scorer
yesterday by putting Smith on
DeMatha's John McDonough
and using a four-man zone de-
Tense elsewhere. But this time
it didn't work as planned. Smith
quickly committed -four fouls
and McDonough had IL points
by halftime.
1t wasn't a desperate situation,
since Carroll owned a 1921 lead
at the half, but Hessler and
Cribbin tried their hands at
guarding McDonough and they
shut him out in the third
quarter when the Lions broke the
game open with a 14-4 edge in
points.
In the meantime, OLeary and
Wightman weren't getting much
argument for the rebounds and
that probably was the difference.
McDonough finished with l3
points before fouling out mid
way in the fourth quarter. Hess
Ter made 16 points, eight of them
from the foul line, and O'Leary
dunked 13, although neither
scored in the fourth quarter
when Dwyer used the rest of the
squad.
Cadets Control Blackboard.
Priory gave st. Johns battle
for the first half and Jim
Mandes made a set shot that
gave the Cadets their first lead,
1914. at the end of the first
quarter. 1t was 1927, st. Johns
leading, at intermission. There
after, the Cadets literally hexed
their muscles, using big boys
like Jim Collins, John Frazier
and Bubba Healy to wrestle for
the ball, and increased their
margin steadily.
II put OKeefe and Clark
(Tony OKeefe and Bob Clark
in front of (John) Moore. figur-
ing he was half of st. Johns Of
fense," Cilento explained later.
1--WE stopped Moore "A points,
but we couldn't stop those other
big guys from taking the ball
off the blackboard and putting it
back up."
Collins and Frazier were the
main culprits in that respect and
finished with 19 and 16 points.
respectively. Damian Crane kept
Priory close in the first half by
scoring Is points, but ended the
game with just 20. Nick Gala
han had poor luck but sank II
points for Priory. Bob Talbot
made IA for the Johnnies, mostly
from outside.