Sesser-Valier blows out Trico

Steve Dunford

CAMPBELL HILL-  For the second time this week,  a Franklin County school went over to play the Pioneers and went home with a big win.

On Tuesday night Christopher were 73-43 victors. The Devils went over there and won by the exact same score .

The Pioneers were picked to be a middle of the pack team in the BDC West at the first of the year, but they are really struggling. This is what Trico coach Andrew Wilson sent me about their team:

“Right now my biggest concern as a coach is our motivation.  We have to do a lot of soul searching and find something every day that ignites that competitive fire within.  We just don’t play with a passion that is needed to win ball games.”

“They are very capable of having that passion and fire but I have only seen flashes of it here and there from each player.  I am still confident in this team and believe in our potential to be a good ball team is there, but we have to find a way to overcome this lack of competitiveness in order to tap into that potential.”

Charles Farmer led Sesser-Valier with 16 last night.  Tyler Winchester had 15 and Jamie Lance added 13.  The Devils showed their depth last night putting 10 in the scoring column.

Jared Myerhoff had 11 for the Pioneers.  Gavin Thies added 10.

Sesser-Valier (6-8)(2-2) travels to Goreville on Tuesday night.  The Blackcats handed Vienna their first conference loss last night.  Trico (4-11)(0-4) plays next Saturday night in DuQuoin.

BOX SCORE:

SESSER-VALIER (73)  Farmer 8 0 4-5 20; Winchester 4 1 4-6 15; Lance 5 1 0-2 13; L. Gunter 4 0 1-2 9; Launius 2 0 0-0 4; Baxter 2 0 0-0 4; J. Gunter 0 1 0-0 3; Page 0 0 3-4 3; Boles 1 0 0-1 2; Bassp 1 0 0-0 2

TRICO (43) Myerhoff 5 0 1-1 11; Theis 0 2 4-8 10; Compton 3 0 3-4 9; Voght 2 0 1-2 5; Myers 0 0 2-4 2; Volkman 1 0 0-0 2; Heiman 0 0 2-2 2;

SCORE BY QUARTERS;

SESSER-VALIER (6-8)(2-2)    15    32  15    11   –  73

TRICO  (4-11)(0-4)                     2    11   12    12   –  43