Thompsonville wins, Z-R loses in second night action at Turkey Tournament

November 21, 2012 By Leave a Comment

By Jim Muir

The Egyptian Pharaohs left no doubt on Tuesday night that they are the team to beat in the 38th Annual Christopher Turkey Tournament as they defeated Zeigler-Royalton 75-41.

Zeigler-Royalton’s Brandon Stubblefield looks for an open teammate against Egyptian on Tuesday night. (Christopher Kays / Franklin County News)

Behind a combined 53 points from Justin Prewett and Devantae Price the Pharaohs raced to a 20-11 first quarter lead and then outscored Z-R 23-8 in the second quarter to take a commanding 43-19 halftime lead. The second quarter surge was keyed by the play of Prewett, a 6-feet-3-inch junior who scored 14 of his game high 33 points in the second frame. Price added seven in the quarter as the pair of Egyptian standouts combined for 21 of the 23 points scored.

Z-R was led in scoring by Nick McPhail and Brandon Jones with seven points each.

In the first game Tuesday night the Thompsonville Tigers defeated a scrappy Webber Township team by a score of 50-46. The Tigers were led in scoring by Brady Householder with 20 points – 12 coming in the first quarter. Householder hit 11-12 free throws in the win. Also scoring for Thompsonville was Ryan Darnell with eight, Jake Williams with seven, Quint Henson with six and Lance Darnell with four points.

Thompsonville led 19-12 at the end of the first quarter and 27-22 at the intermission. Thompsonville could never pull away from Webber who never led in the ballgame. The Trojans were led in scoring by Ty Henderson with 23 points.

In tonight’s action Cobden will meet Wayne City at 6:15 in a consolation bracket match up with the host Christopher Bearcats squaring off against Waltonville in the 7:45 winner’s bracket game.

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Warriors down Loggers on home hardwood, improve to 5-0

November 21, 2012 By Leave a Comment

INA, Ill. – The Rend Lake College Warriors are 5-0 overall and 2-0 against Region XXIV opponents after beating the Lincoln Land Community College Loggers, 47-36, Tuesday night at home.

Neither team found the bottom of the net very often in the first half. RLC was up 16-12 going into the locker room and came out to score 31 of its 47 in the second half. The Loggers added 24 second-half points.

Rend Lake College guard Dawson Verhines (Woodlawn) drives to the basket in the Warriors’ 47-36 win over the Lincoln Land Community College Loggers, Tuesady night, at Waugh Gym in Ina. Also pictured for RLC is Noel Allen (Guttenburg, N.J.).

The Warriors had control most of the game, but did allow the Loggers to climb back to within nine or 10 with less than five minutes to play. RLC did well shooting at the foul line, hitting five of six free throws down the stretch. Overall, the Warriors were 15-22 from the charity stripe – 63 percent. Surprisingly, the Loggers did not shoot a single free throw in this matchup. RLC committed only three first-half fould and five in the second half.

The inside game looked to be Coach Randy House’s focus for RLC in this one. The Warriors didn’t hit a single shot from long range and were led in scoring by 5-7 point guard Trice Whaley (Jeffersonville, Ind.), who had 10 points. The Loggers made two three pointers late in the game – one by Marcus Graham and the other by Reed Willenborg, who finished with seven and five points, respectively.

RLC showed off its depth with eight players arriving in the scoring column against Lincoln Land. Noel Allen (Guttenburg, N.J.) and Dawson Verhines (Woodlawn) had eight each, and Stephon Bryant and Cortez Macklin, both of Louisville, pitched in seven apiece with Macklin going 5-6 from the free throw line. Montez Buford (Louisville) had three while big men Bronson Verhines (Woodlawn) and Montez Williams (East St. Louis) each pitched in a bucket.

Rend Lake will return from the holiday break to open league play with Great Rivers Athletic Conference opponent Lake Land College at 7:30 p.m., Nov. 28, in Mattoon. The Warriors will head to Millikin University on Nov. 30 to play its junior varsity squad. The next home game is Saturday, Dec. 1, against conference foe Lincoln Trail. Tip-off for that game is set for 3 p.m.

For all things athletic at The Lake, visit RLC online at www.rlc.edu/warriors.

BOX SCORE

Men’s College Basketball
Lincoln Land Community College Loggers (LLCC)
at Rend Lake College (RLC)
11/20/2012
Waugh Gymnasium

LLCC 31 (12-24) – Graham 3 0-0 7, Wohltman 4 0-0 8, Lowe 1 0-0 2, Dean 3 0-0 6, Cunningham 4 0-0 8, Willenborg 2 0-0 5.

RLC 47 (16-31) – Whaley 3 4-4 10, Bryant 3 1-2 7, Allen 3 2-4 8, D. Verhines 3 2-4 8, Macklin 1 5-6 7, Buford 1 1-2 3, B. Verhines 1 0-0 2, Williams 1 0-0 2.

Free-throws – LLCC 0-0, RLC 15-22. 3-pointers – LLCC 2 (Graham, Willenborg), RLC 0. Fouls – LLCC 16, RLC 8. Technical fouls – none.

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Saluki Men’s Basketball runs away with 71-55 win over SIUE

November 21, 2012 By Leave a Comment

By Tom Weber
SIUSalukis.com

EDWARDSVILLE, Ill. – Southern Illinois improved to 5-0 all-time against its sister school, SIUE, with a 71-55 victory in a rare road trip to the Edwardsville branch of the University system.

Jeff Early had 16 points and 10 boards.

It was a feisty contest between two schools separated by 100 miles and one letter in their names. With 6:16 remaining in the contest, play was stopped due to a scuffle under the SIUE basket.

Officials spent 20 minutes reviewing the video and ejected three players on the floor for committing flagrant fouls, plus four Edwardsville players who left the bench to join the melee. No punches appeared to be thrown. The players involved on the floor were Jerome Jones and Ray Lester of SIUE and Antonio Bryer of SIU.

Down by 15 points at the time, SIUE head coach Lennox Forrester acknowledged his team lost its composure.

“From our standpoint, it’s a big game, maybe not so for Carbondale,” he said. “Here you are, the so-called sister school trying to make a name for yourself. Every time you hear SIU, everyone thinks of the Salukis.”

For a brief time in the second half, the Cougars (1-2) appeared poised to pull off the upset. They rallied from a seven-point halftime deficit to take a 42-40 lead on a layup by Derian Shaffer. Their zone defense rattled the Salukis (3-0).

“We told our players all week long, we’re going to score on them in our man and then they’re going to go to zone,” said Saluki head coach Barry Hinson. “It seemed like forever, but it took us about 7-8 minutes to figure it out.”

Point guard Kendal Brown-Surles, who finished with 15 points, drained a 3-point shot that started a decisive 26-5 Saluki run.

“(Kendal) stepped up and made a big shot for us and it ignited the bench,” Hinson said.

“I told our players this is good for us, this is what we need. We need to see if we can respond to this challenge. From that point on, we were pretty efficient.”

The game was a coming-out party for true freshman guard Anthony Beane, Jr., who showed off an array of offensive moves around the basket to score 15 points. Jeff Early (16 points, 10 rebounds) and Desmar Jackson (12 points, 10 rebounds, 5 steals) both posted double-doubles.

The Salukis continue to be a potent team in transition with 14 fast-break points on the night.

SIU held SIUE to 35 percent shooting from the field, including a frigid 1-for-13 from 3-point range.

“I thought we did a poor job attacking (the zone),” Forrester said. “We never got the ball inside-out like we talked about and worked on. I thought our guards were very poor tonight.”

The Salukis are 3-0 for the first time since 2007 and have their longest winning streak since a six-game win streak ended in January of 2010 — a span of 84 games.

“I’m a realist,” Hinson said. “We’re not very good, but you know what, we’re 3-0 and tricking a lot of people right now, I guess.”

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Our Universities: Research Matters, Absolutely

November 20, 2012 By Leave a Comment

First in a Series on Research

‘Learning creates ideas grounded in the past but hopeful for the future.  History is the basis for discovery, and it relentlessly repeats itself absent new ideas and insight: Forward focused investigation and research.
When the past no longer illuminates the future, the spirit walks in darkness.‘
                                                                                                                                                                                                                — Alexis de Tocqueville —

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In the rush to respond to predictions of the demise of American higher education, many suggest that addressing increased costs, lack of student ability to perform basic intellectual functions and an omnipresent push to graduate more students in shorter periods of time will solve the woes of contemporary higher education in the United States. All true in a measure.

Alexis de Tocqueville, in The Old Regime and the Revolution, pondered the negative impact of the monarchy on many things, but paramount among them was the detrimental effect of diminished intellectual liberty on a free society.  While nearly impossible to sum up his seminal work, Democracy in America, I will try:  Liberty for free-thought fused to free-will is the foundation of a free society. Nothing else works.
Likewise, in universities without free expression fueling discovery, trade-schooling follows inexorably.

Research, scholarship and creative activities, fussily discussed and differentiated on university campuses for a multitude of reasons, are essentially the same thing: new ideas and fresh perspectives representing the exercise of free-thought and free-will.  Developing new chemical compounds, explicating the value of history to society, or crafting a painting stimulating individuals to be situated in the world, differ only in degree and application. And most importantly, all demonstrate evolving thought that provides instructional value to citizen-students.

The best way for students to learn the transformative power of free-thought and free-inquiry is to work with an engaged mentor.  Ideas, and the people that generate them, create an ever stronger society. Dogma of any kind is anti-democratic and works against the true purpose of the university.
Many, inside and outside the academy, disdain the growth of degree mills. Institutions that deliver techniques, abilities and even ideas don’t certify a student “educated,” but certify the student “exposed.” Education cannot occur without exposure to be sure, but short of enlightened action, training has occurred. Training has value but is not to be confused with education.  This is not chicken and egg tautology, but the essence of a university.

When considering the establishment of a university in Vietnam, benefactors and investors saw the benefits of a western-style research university.  A U.S. technology giant was planning an enterprise that would become the largest of its kind in the world.  But corporate and government leadership was plagued by the nagging fear that existing national universities in Ho Chi Min City and Hanoi would not produce scientists and engineers to lead with their minds.
The perceived shortage of free-thinking, innovative individuals created a dramatic deficit for the future of Vietnam:  Research universities are the antidote to uninspired training.

A good dose of de Tocqueville: The recognition that what was good for the individual, i.e. study and investigation that produces new ideas, was good for the social order. Likewise, any force, whether the monarchy or an overbearing single party governing order, was doomed to failure. Vietnam had long ago given up on universities and settled for trade schools adopting the colonizer’s mindset. The impact went beyond the university as a basis for spawning new industry and infected the nature of the social order as well.
Intellectual vibrancy and social progress are welded together.

Research in universities is congenital. A good liberal arts college impacts people teaching a form of inquisitiveness that emulates the depth of what goes on at a research university. Likewise trade schools produce valuable results, but neither should be confused with a research university.
Universities cannot divorce themselves from workforce education and the preparation of skilled people to assume valuable roles in society. However if the research universities stop at employment expediency, they fall short of purpose.

Blind pragmatism creates a downward spiral evidenced in the slipping contribution of the European states to the global economy. Economically vibrant societies grow from new ideas, and good universities are hot houses that propagate them.
Social benefit is knitted into the cloth of the culture.

Research is not a luxury, but the foundation of intellectual life for faculty and students. If our universities respond only to pedestrian measures of progress — how many, how fast, how much — we might sacrifice the gold ring of new ideas, for the brass ring of measurable output, on the altar of ignorance.

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Christopher Bearcats open Turkey Tournament with a win

November 20, 2012 By Leave a Comment

Staff Report

The  Christopher Bearcats opened their 38th Turkey Tournament defeating the Wayne City Indians 59-22 Monday night.

This was the 36th time the host had won their opening contest only losing in 2004 and in 1975 the first year of the tournament when current CES coach Russ Hobbs’ Thompsonville  Tigers upset the host Cats 51-48.

The Cats were led in scoring by 6-feet-6-inch Keven Mercks with 21 points, including a perfect 7-7 at the free throw line. All conference defensive back Tyler Atchison was also in double figures with 10 points including three treys.

The Cats jumped to a 15-6 first quarter lead, which was increased to 33-12 at half and then held the Indians to only 10 second half points

Also scoring for the Bearcats was Jake Towers, 5 points, RJ. Kuh 7 points and Eric Young with  6 point. s Young, last year’s leading scorer was hampered with foul trouble, enabling  Christopher’s sixth man freshman Hunter Wheeler a baptism  to varsity basketball

Other Cats scoring was Maurice Brown with 3, Luke Saeger with 3 and freshman Josh Calloni and Ethan Conner with 2 points each. Also seeing action was Tony Hodge, Lane Gibbens, and Austin Williams.

Jimmy Mayberry led the Indians with 7 points.

The Cats now play Waltonville in the winners bracket at 7;45 Wednesday night as the Spartans knocked off Cobden 58-34 Monday night.

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Tom’s Turkey Tournament Trivia

November 16, 2012 By Leave a Comment

By Tom Wheeler

The 38th Christopher Thanksgiving Tournament starts Monday and it sure brings back memories for this ol’ Coach. So I thought, since I’ve seen every tournament. Here is some trivia that you may or may not remember.

I’ll just ramble so try to stay with me.

Three teams have been in the tourney all 38 years: Christopher, Zeigler-Royalton and Webber Township … Galatia coached by Benton’s Don Smith won the inaugural tournament and two years later his brother Ron Smith won the tournament with Coulterville … Christopher defeated Coulterville in 84,85,and 86 in the Championship game, in 86 current Sparta athletic director Richie Williams was the Eagles coach, his starting point guard was Gary Gischer who later coached at Christopher, Williams also coached in the tournament at Elverado where  he got so excited one night he ripped the seat out of his pants … the St. Louis Cardinals Corey Bailey played in the tournament with Crab Orchard before moving to Marion for his senior year … Rodney Seips of Egyptian also played minor league baseball … the biggest star to ever attend the tournament was tennis great Jennifer Capriati, who came to see Shane Boner play (she dated Shane’s brother in California) … Logan athletic director and baseball coach Jerry Halstead played in the first tournament with Carterville when he started as a freshman … Z-R’s Matt Swalls was MVP in 1981 and teammate Sean Connor in 1983, Matts group won the tournament but Sean was the first player to win from a team that wasn’t champions (they finished fourth) … their best tourney team may have been in 1982 but the Tornadoes were busy winning the IHSA Class A state championship in football in Bloomington as  all five basketball starters played football … Bruce Weber, coach at Kansas State, came to the tourney to scout Egyptian’s Dana Ford when he was at SIU … Current CCHS freshman coach Rick Cook was 12-0 as varsity coach in his four tournaments … my wife Lynda sure loves Turkey week as there are NO suppers prepared that week, I’m usually found in the great hospitality room along with many ‘regulars’ … CCHS revealed a beautiful new portable floor for the 77-78 season but this year’s floor won’t take a back door to that one …

Looking back I can’t believe how many of my ex-teammates coached in the tournament like John Kretz, Rick Cook,(fast pitch) Ed Belva,Steve Strickland, Wendell Wheeler, Russ Hobbs, Mike Henson, Wes Choate, Nick Laur(slow pitch) Cliff Davis, Ken Dillingham,  (McKendree basketball) Roger Yates (Coal Belt baseball) and Don Gines (McLeansboro Jr. High basketball) … Mt. Vernon legend Doug Creel coached in the tournament at Thompsonville and his best player was current West Frankfort Lady Red Birds coach Matt Hampelman … ZR’S superintendent George Wilkerson played in the tournament as did CCHS’s super Rich Towers (MVP in 86) … Varsity coaches who played in the tournament include CCHS coaches Eric Stallman, Jeff Minor, Jeff Gossett, and Gary Gischer, ZR’S Quinn Laird, Matt Morgan, Jamie Moyers and Brent Kreid, Thompsonville’s Brandon Chapman and Brock Harris … now it’s time for more trivia from the 2012 tournament and with six members of the all-tournament team returning, including 2011 MVP Devantae Price of defending champion Egyptian, it should bring more great basketball to kick off the 2012-23 season.

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BMS Rangerettes move to 8-0 with win over Harrisburg

November 16, 2012 By Leave a Comment

By Shane Dyel

The Benton Middle School Rangerettes moved to 8-0 with a convincing 20-point win over Harrisburg Wednesday night on Benton’s home floor.
The Rangerettes put together a strong second and third quarter run to put the Lady Bulldogs away.

Benton started sluggishly to open a 13-5 first quarter lead. The Rangerettes put the defensive pressure on Harrisburg to open a 22 point halftime lead.

Ally Gischer lead the Rangerettes scoring with 14 points. Joining her in double figures was Makayla Abney with 11. Chipping in with 4 points each were Alexis Abney, Cristen Shaw, and Kaylee Pedigo

‘’Harrisburg is down a little this year, but their kids played hard’’ observed coach Mark Dyel. ‘’I thought we played hard enough to win but there are still a lot of areas we can improve in. Next week our schedule gets a lot tougher with road games at Carbondale and at unbeaten Herrin.’’

While Gischer  led the Rangerettes in scoring, she also played tough defense recording seven steals. Benton’s 2-1-2 zone defense forced Harrisburg into several turnovers.

Benton’s seventh grade team lost their first conference game to drop to 2-3 on the year.
In a low scoring first half Benton trailed 9-5 at the break. The Rangerettes were never able to close the gap in the second half eventually falling 24-15.

The seventh grade squad is still playing without leading scorer Kenedee Kendrick, who suffered a concussion in a game last week., said coach Daniel Clyden.

“We are still without Kenedee and that hurts us both offensively and defensively,” Clyden said. “But, we had way to many turnovers  in this game.”
Brittany Johnson had scoring honors with 5 points followed by Lindsey Seidel and Haylie Schelsky  with 4 a piece and Ebby Casey scoring two.

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Rangerettes move to 2-0 heading into weekend play at Marion Lady Wildcats Invitational

November 16, 2012 By Leave a Comment

By Jim Muir

The Benton Rangerettes defeated the Herrin Lady Tigers 48-43 in Thursday night action at the Marion Lady Wildcats Invitational.

The hard fought victory moved the Rangerettes to 2-0 on the season and also leaves Benton as the only team in the five-team, round-robin tournament without a loss heading into weekend play.

“It was a tough, hard fought victory,” said first-year coach Andy Sloan. “It wasn’t always pretty and we still need to do a much better job taking care of the basketball but we played hard and competed. Herrin is a well-coached team so it is a nice win for us.”

The Rangerettes jumped out to a 9-8 first quarter lead only to see Herrin go on an 11-3 run to open up a 19-12 lead with five minutes remaining in the second stanza. Keyed by six points from senior Morgan Corn the Rangerettes went on 12-3 run to end the quarter and take a 24-22 halftime lead.

“I thought we closed the second quarter strong and I also thought we had more energy in the second half,” said Sloan. “It was a very physical game.”

With the victory Benton is 2-0 and Herrin drops to 1-1 heading into games on Friday and Saturday. Benton will face Carterville (1-2) tonight at 6 p.m. while Herrin will meet Marion (1-1) at 7:30 p.m. Vienna has a bye on Friday and will meet Herrin at 11 a.m and Benton will face Marion in the tournament finale at 12:30 on Saturday.

Corn led the Rangers with 17 points followed by Makala Carney with 13. Rounding out the Benton scoring was Rowdee Sanders with six, Evelyn Mendez with five, Cali Carney with four and Katie Sandusky and Marcela Mendez with two each. Sami Minor played but did not score. Leading Herrin was Gabby Woodis and Tori Johnson with 13 each and also in double figures was Abby Horn with 12.

In the early game on Thursday Vienna, led by 26 points from Carley Childress, defeated Carterville 53-41.

Benton 9 15 14 11 — 49

Herrin 8 14 13 19 — 44

BENTON (49): E. Mendez 1 2-2 5, M. Carney 5 3-4 13, M. Mendez 0 2-4 2, Sandusky 1 0-0 2, Sanders 1 4-6 6, Corn 4 9-11 17, C. Carney 2 0-2 4,. Totals: 14 20-29 49.

HERRIN (44): Horn 5 0-0 12, W. Woodis 1 1-1 3, Johnson 4 5-8 13, G. Woodis 5 0-0 13, Hunter 1 0-1 2, Yates 0 1-2 1. Totals: 16 9-12 44.

 

 

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Fundraiser planned for David Tedrow

November 14, 2012 By Leave a Comment

A well-known Benton family needs your help.

David Tedrow was recently diagnosed with a rare form of thyroid cancer and is receiving aggressive treatment in St. Louis five days per week.

On Saturday, Dec. 1 friends of David and April Tedrow are sponsoring a fundraiser to help defray the costs of the ongoing medical treatment and travel.  A rummage sale, auction, raffle and fish fry will be held at the Benton Kiwanis Hall located on Hudelson Street, adjacent to the Benton Civic Center.  All proceeds from the event will go to the Tedrow family.

Currently, items for the rummage sale and auction are being collected and can be dropped off at the Whittington Water Department or at Martin’s Restaurant & Catering, located on East Main Street in Benton.  Anybody wanting to purchase or help sell tickets for the fish fry or needing more information can contact Dale and Penny Brookins at 927-1960 or Bob and Linda Martin at 927-2627.

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Benton Rangerettes notch season-opening win

November 14, 2012 By Leave a Comment

 By Jim Muir

The Benton Rangerettes picked up a hard-fought 58-53 victory over Vienna Tuesday night in second round play at the Marion Lady Wildcats Invitational.

First year coach Andy Sloan said he was pleased with the overall performance in the season opener.

“I think there was a lot of nerves out there tonight from the girls and myself,” said Sloan following his first win. “At times it wasn’t pretty but I thought we worked hard and showed some character to come back and get the win after we gave up the lead.”

The game was also a typical early season match up with turnovers and fouls at a premium for both squads. In all both teams combined to shoot 72 free throws in the game with Benton hitting 32-43 (74 percent) and Vienna connecting on 18-29 (62 percent).

The game was a virtual roller-coaster with Vienna, the defending champ in the tournament, jumping out to a an early lead only to have Benton roar back and take a 16-14 lead at the first quarter break. The first quarter Benton surge was keyed by junior Sami Minor who came off the bench with five points in the initial stanza.

Benton upped the lead to nine points in the second quarter and took a 26-19 lead into the halftime intermission. But it was all Vienna in the third quarter as they outscored Benton 22-14 to erase the halftime deficit and take a 41-40 lead into the fourth quarter. The Vienna rally was orchestrated by the play of junior Miranda Chance and senior Carley Childress who combined to score 20 of the 22 third quarter points.

“Vienna is a good team and they are well coached,” said Sloan. “We told the girls at halftime that they would come back and they did. But, we kept our composure down the stretch and it was a nice win for us.”

While Childress and Chance combined for 44 of the 53 Vienna points the Rangerettes had a balanced attack led by Morgan Corn with 12 points and Makala Carney with 10. Also near double figures for the Rangerettes was Rowdee Sanders and Evelyn Mendez with nine points each and Sami Minor and Cali Carney with eight each. Freshmen Marcela Mendez added two points in her first varsity game.

“We’ve got to have balanced scoring if we are going to be successful,” said Sloan. “We don’t have that one girl that can come out and get 25 every night so I’m happy with the scoring attack we had tonight.”

The Marion girl’s tournament has been a six-team affair for many years but Eldorado dropped out this year and a replacement couldn’t be found so this year’s event is a five-team round-robin with each team getting one night off. In action on Monday Marion defeated Vienna 52-46 and knocked off Carterville by a scored of 60-55. The Rangerettes had the bye on Monday night. Following the Benton win on Tuesday Carterville pulled off the win against the host Lady Wildcats in the nightcap with a 41-31 victory. After two nights of play Benton and Herrin are both 1-0 with Marion and Carterville at 1-1 and Vienna is 0-2.

The tournament will be idle on Wednesday night with action resuming on Thursday with Vienna and Carterville meeting in the 6 p.m contest and Benton and Herrin facing off in the 7:30 p.m match up.  With Benton and Herrin both at 1-0 the winner of that game on Thursday will be the only team left in the tournament with an unblemished record heading into weekend play.  On Friday night it will be Carterville and Benton meeting at 6 p.m followed by Herrin and Marion at 7:30 p.m.

The tournament will conclude on Saturday with Vienna and Herrin meeting at 11 a.m and Benton meeting Marion in the finale at 12:30 p.m.

All the Benton games will be broadcast on WQRL.

Benton 16 10 14 18 — 58

Vienna 14 5 22 12 — 53

BENTON (58): C. Carney 2 6-10 10, Minor 3 2-4 8, Sanders 1 7-8 9, M. Carney 3 2-4 8, Corn 1 10-12 12,, E. Mendez 2 5-5 9, M. Mendez 1 0-0 2. Totals: 13 32-43 58.

VIENNA (53): Ross 1 2-2 4, Keeling 1 0-2 2, Chance 5 9-10 20, Edwards 1 0-0 2, Childress 8 6-11 24, McKibben 0 1-4 1,. Totals: 16 18-29 53.

 

 

 

 

 

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