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Redbrids win – Devils drop their first of the season

January 15, 2017 By Jim Muir Leave a Comment

by Steve Dunford

WEST FRANKFORT – In game one, the Sesser-Valier-Waltonville Lady Red Devils experienced their first loss of the season falling to the Herrin Lady Tigers 54-48 in the opening game of the girls side of the West Frankfort Mid Winter Classic yesterday afternoon.

Herrin Coach Bill Green employed a 1-3-1 zone against the Devils and they handled it quite well in the first half. There were several dribble drive penetrations out of it and a lot of run outs for Jayln Haley.

Herrin getting ready to in bound the ball in the middle of the fourth quarter.

S-V-W led by double digits in the first half by several times and a late rally by Herrin at the close of the first half sent the teams to the locker room with the Devils having a five-point lead.

One of the keys to the game is when the Devils had the ball around the five minute mark of the third quarter. They had the lead by seven. They were very patient attacking the zone and missed a bunny inside. S-V-W had one of their very few turnovers the next possession.

In the meantime Emma Deaton drains back to back threes for Herrin and it was a big momentum switcher, as the Tigers cut it till one.

Herrin took the lead and slowly built it to as high as eight. S-V-W cut it to a one posession game late several times, but the gave the number eight team in the last Class 2A their first loss of the season.

Emma Deaton led Herrin with 15 points on the evening. Makayla Smothers added 14, and Maggie Connor had 12 on the evening.

Jaylin Hayley led the Red Devils with 25 on the night and Sami McCowen added nine.

The Hannah’s for both teams which are also their leading scorers Grotauge for Herrin, and Garascia for S-V-W was held to six each.

When I was talking to S-V-W coach Rick Metcalf after the game, he said two of the top teams in Southern Illinois were on the floor this afternoon, we just came up short.

Both Pinckneyville and WF battle for the boards in the nightcap…..

In Game two of the night, Pinckneyville coach Alan Engleheart ran a triangle in two defense against WF most of the night with one defender keying on Morgan Griffith and the other either on Cali Wright or Megan Beery.

Griffith had a game high 33 on the night, three points below her average for the season and Wright had 14 including two deep threes in the first quarter as West Frankfort defeated Pinckneyville 54-45.

The Panthers had the lead whittled to four with three in some change left on the clock but Griffith iced it away from the free throw line.

Megan Breslin led the Panthers in scoring with 16 on the night. Kiya Hagene added 11 in a losing cause.

The thrid game of the night was a boys game. Jackson Connor, son of Z-R standout Sean Connor had a game high 25 points and Justin Shadowens had 10 as the Marion Wildcats held on to beat the Cairo Pilots 57-53.

Dave Taylor had 12 points, Malachi Brown 11, and Damarius Taylor added ten points for the Pilots.

SCHEDULE FOR THE NEXT TWO DAYS

Monday, January 16

5:30 p.m. Anna Jonesboro vs. Herrin (boys)
7:00 p.m. Eldorado vs. Carterville (boys)
8:30 p.m. WEST FRANKFORT vs CHRISTOPHER (boys)

Tuesday, January 17

5:30 p.m. Herrin vs Pinckneyville (girls)
7:00 p.m. WEST FRANKFORT vs SESSER-VALIER-WALTONVILLE (girls)
8:30 p.m. CHRISTOPHER vs Eldorado (boys)

GIRLS BOX SCORES -SATURDAY

HERRIN (54): Deaton 0 5 0-0 15, Smothers 5 0 4-6 14, Connor 3 0 6-7 12, Groutage 2 2-6 6, Mad. Russell 2 0-0 6, Lehnhoff 0 01-2 1, Smith 0 0 0-2 0,

SESSER-VALIER-WALTONVILLE (48): Haley 6 3 4-7 25, S. McCowen 0 3 0-0 9, Tucker 3 0 0-0 6, Garascia 3 0 0-0 6; Frank 1 0 0-0 2; Wilderman 0 0 0-0 0; Genesio 0 0 0 0-0; Hale 0 0 0-0 0; Breese 0 0 0-0 0; Page 0 0 0-0 0

HERRIN (14-6)(1-0) 11 8 15 20 – 54

S-V-W(18-1)(0-1) 16 8 6 18 -`48

PINCKNEYVILLE (45): M. Breslin 4 1 4-4 16, Hagene 4 1 0-0 11 Anderson 1 1 5-5 9; Bartnicki 2 0 0-0 4; Doerflein 1-0 1-2 3, Yates 1 0-0 2, Kling 0 0 0-0 0

WEST FRANFKORT (54): Griffith 9 1 12-14 33; Wright 3 2 2-2 14, Beery 1 1 0-0 5, Prather 1 0-1 2, Peavey 0 0 0-0 0; Carpenter 0 0 0-0 0; Turner 0 0 0-0 0; Britton 0 0 0-0 0

PINCKNEYVILLE (11-11)(0-1) 11 12 9 13 45

WEST FRANKFORT (10-5)(1-0) 14 16 12 12 – 54

This government office is trying to shut down nasty and naughty names

January 15, 2017 By Jim Muir Leave a Comment

The Asian rock band “The Slants” that is mentioned in the editorial (Washington Post photo)

In 1929, Chief Justice William Howard Taft persuaded Congress to finance construction of “a building of dignity and importance” for the Supreme Court. He could not have imagined what the court will ponder during oral arguments this Wednesday. The case concerns the name of an Asian American rock band: The Slants. And surely Taft never read a friend-of-the-court brief as amusing as one filed in this case. It is titled “Brief of the Cato Institute and a Basket of Deplorable People and Organizations.” The U.S. Patent and Trademark Office is empowered, by the “disparagement clause” of a 1946 law, to protect American sensitivities by denying trademark protection to “immoral, deceptive or scandalous” trademarks. These have included those that a substantial portion of a particular group perceives as disparaging that group — an ethnic, religious, national or other cohort. The office has canceled the trademark registrations of entities named Mormon Whiskey, Abort the Republicans, Democrats Shouldn’t Breed, Marriage Is For Fags, and many more. Please click to read George Will’s weekly editorial in the Washington Post

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What If China’s Money Stream Stops Flowing to Hollywood?

January 15, 2017 By Jim Muir Leave a Comment

Beijing begins monitoring “irrational” investments in entertainment companies (even while Alibaba pledges $7.2 billion) as one deal falls apart and all eyes focus on Trump. Chinese companies poured record amounts of capital into Hollywood in 2016 — a trend eagerly embraced by the U.S. film industry. Among the deals: Dalian Wanda Group acquired Legendary Entertainment for $3.5 billion and Dick Clark Productions for $1 billion; Alibaba made a major investment in Steven Spielberg’s Amblin Entertainment; and Beijing-based Perfect World Pictures put $500 million into 50 films from Universal. But tighter regulatory scrutiny and rising protectionism in the U.S. and China now have the industry questioning whether the deal flow could dry up in 2017. Already, there have been casualties. Please click on the link to read the rest of the story from the Hollywood Reporter magazine.

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Only two more days left of yuck

January 15, 2017 By Jim Muir Leave a Comment

Going to bed last night, it looked like there might have been a small chance of ice. Those chances passed went northwest of us. The rain will be hanging around off and on until Tuesday morning.

The rest of the week, temperatures will be in the mid 50’s, with it warming up into the 60’s by Friday.

If you read this on social media, hit like for today’s weather story being short and sweet for a change.

Here is a link to the seven day forecast for Franklin county. It will be updated in real time when you click on it.

http://forecast.weather.gov/MapClick.php?x=183&y=91&site=pah&zmx=&zmy=&map_x=183&map_y=91#.WHt2hdQrJxA

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Wave 2 of icy conditions passes through, but wave 3 could be most dangerous

January 14, 2017 By Jim Muir Leave a Comment

Note: Here is the bullet we dodged around here: ST. LOUIS • Periodic light rain glazed sidewalks and roads as a much-anticipated ice storm moved through the metro area. Slippery conditions contributed to one fatal crash. So far, ice amounts were less than advertised, although more is to come. “Overnight is the best chance for accumulation,” said Charley Kelly, a National Weather Service forecaster. “There are more waves of precipitation coming through.” A second wave of sleet and icy rain was expected to pass through the St. Louis region on Saturday morning, ending by about 10 a.m. Once that wave pushes through, temperatures should warm above freezing as conditions remain cloudy and drizzly.

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Freezing Rain Advisory to our West -rain but warmer

January 14, 2017 By Jim Muir Leave a Comment

It is going to be a wet one with highs in the 30’s today and tomorrow moderating up to the 50’s by mid-week. A strange bright ball in the sky is forecasted for Wednesday, when it will finally clear off. The high for Friday is supposed to be in the 60’s with a chance of storms.

A freezing rain advisory is in effect until noon for Jackson, Perry and Jefferson counties. Please look at the graphic below:

Here are the advisories from the NWS in Paducah including the Freezing Rain Advisory:

…FREEZING RAIN ADVISORY NOW IN EFFECT UNTIL NOON CST TODAY… THE FREEZING RAIN ADVISORY IS NOW IN EFFECT UNTIL NOON CST TODAY.

* TIMING: LIGHT ICING WILL CONTINUE TO BE POSSIBLE THROUGH THE MORNING HOURS.

* ICE ACCUMULATIONS: MOST ACCUMULATIONS WILL BE ON ELEVATED SURFACES. THE ICE WILL CONTINUE TO HAVE A MUCH MORE DIFFICULT TIME ACCUMULATING ON ROADS DUE TO SLIGHTLY WARMER SURFACE TEMPERATURES AND THE EXISTING ROAD TREATMENT IN SOME AREAS. AMOUNTS ON ELEVATED SURFACES WILL GENERALLY RANGE FROM A TRACE TO TWO TENTHS OF AN INCH WITH THE GREATEST AMOUNTS ALONG AND WEST OF A LINE FROM FROM GREENVILLE TO MARBLE HILL TO PERRYVILLE MISSOURI…AND FROM CARBONDALE TO MOUNT VERNON ILLINOIS.

IMPACTS: A FEW BACK ROADS…SIDE WALKS AND PARKING LOTS UNTREATED MAY BE SLICK AND HAZARDOUS.

HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK

ICE ACCUMULATIONS ARE POSSIBLE THROUGH MID MORNING GENERALLY ALONG AND WEST OF A LINE FROM GREENVILLE MISSOURI TO MOUNT VERNON ILLINOIS. SEE THE FREEZING RAIN ADVISORY FOR ADDITIONAL DETAILS. AREAS OF DENSE FOG HAVE DEVELOPED OVER PARTS OF THE OUTLOOK AREA THIS MORNING. SEE THE DENSE FOG ADVISORY FOR ADDITIONAL DETAILS. .

DAYS TWO THROUGH SEVEN…SUNDAY THROUGH FRIDAY SMALL CHANCES OF THUNDERSTORMS ARE POSSIBLE OVER ALL OR PART OF THE OUTLOOK AREA FROM MONDAY AFTERNOON THROUGH TUESDAY AFTERNOON. NO WIDESPREAD SEVERE IS EXPECTED. LIGHTNING AND LOCALLY HEAVY DOWNPOURS WILL BE THE PRIMARY HAZARDS. .

Here is the seven day forecast for Franklin County:

http://forecast.weather.gov/MapClick.php?map.x=176&map.y=89&site=pah&zmx=1&zmy=1#.WHpH9tQrJxB

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