Christopher Z-R box…around the BDC West

CHRISTOPHER- The Christopher Bearcats Race out to a 39-17 lead, and goes on to defeat Zeigler-Royalton 77-41.

Gabe Schimpf led the Bearcats with 18 points on the night, Kaeleb Pedigo had 15, Bradley Young added 15 and Jared Curry was the fourth from Christopher in double figures with 14.  The Bearcats sank 11 threes on the night.

Austin Bollinger and Brendan Whiting led the Tornadoes on the night with nine points each.

Christopher improves to (10-4) on the season and (3-0) in the Black Diamond West.  Z-R falls to (1-9) on the season and (0-4) in the BDC West.

Both teams will be on the road Friday night as the Tornadoes go to Sesser-Valier to take on the Red Devils.  The Bearcats will head to Johnson County to take on Coach Todd Tripp’s Goreville Blackcats.  (The Southern Illinoisan story from the game will be posted on franklincounty-news.com shortly)

Around the conference, Jordan Myerhoff scored 19 points as Trico pulled a big upset over Vienna 59-42.  Brandon Casey led the Eagles with 16 points in a losing cause.  Chester beat New Athens 59-42 last night in the opening round of the Chester Invitational.  Savion Smith led the Yellow Jackets with 17 points.

The undefeated Sesser-Valier-Waltonville Lady Red Devils cracked the class 2A Statewide poll at number 8 this week. -sd

BOX SCORE:

CHRISTOPHER:  (77)  Schimpf 4 3 1-1 18; Pedigo 1 4 2-2 16; Young 7 0 1-4 15; Curry 4 2 0-0 14; Snell 1 1 0-0 5; Dunford 0 1 0-0 3; Motsinger 1 0 0-0 2; Sanders 1 0 0-0 2

ZEIGLER-ROYALTON (41)  Whiting 1 1 4-5 9; Bollinger 4 0 1-2 9; Domenick 2 1 0-0 7; Anderson 1 1 3-3 7; Imhoff 1 0 0-0 3; Newton 1 0 0-0 2

SCORE BY QUARTERS:

CHRISTOPHER (10-4)(3-0)               22    17    15    23 – 77

ZEIGLER-ROYALTON (1-9)(0-4)      2     15     6    18 – 41