Creel notches 300th Rams win in OT thriller

January 31, 2018 By Leave a Comment

Doug Creel, in his second stint as Mt. Vernon head coach talks to his team during the 2015-16 season.

JERSEYVILLE – Doug Creel touched another coaching career milestone in Mt. Vernon’s win over Jerseyville.

Creels’ team beat the Panthers 70-63 Tuesday night in overtime.

The victory was Creel’s 300th as Mt. Vernon boys basketball coach.

 “I never would have thought that I’d get to where I could win 300 games at Mt. Vernon,” Creel said. “So it’s nice. There’s something to be said about longevity and just hanging in there and digging. And what a way to get it.”
Please click on the link for the full article from Paul Hines of the Mt. Vernon Register News

http://www.register-news.com/sports/creel-notches-th-rams-win-in-ot-thriller/article_d670216e-064d-11e8-ae0f-fffc6651d9ad.html

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Rangers pick up votes in the latest Class 3A AP basketball poll

January 31, 2018 By Leave a Comment

Here are the Southern Illinois teams that are ranked in the latest AP poll

CLASS 4A:  Belleville West third

CLASS 3A:   Centrailia eighth, Carbondale and Benton receiving votes

CLASS 2A:  Pinckneyville third, Eldorado 4th, Effingham St. Anthony receiving votes

CLASS 1A:  Cairo tenth, with Okawville receiving votes

Here is a link to the full poll

http://www.register-news.com/sports/boys-high-school-basketball-rankings/article_8a5634f2-0608-11e8-b72f-0b1d7eb9c13f.html

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Four Franklin County programs mentioned in ABV Jacks latest rankings

January 29, 2018 By Leave a Comment

 

 

 

 

 

 

In Jack Bullock’s latest rankings the Christopher Bearcats are ranked fourth, and the Sesser-Valier Red Devils fifth with Thompsonville knocking at the door being in the top 10 in 1A.

Even though they are 4-15 the West Frankfort Redbirds are honorable mention in 2A.  He had some kind words about the Redbirds.

Please click on the link below for his full list.

http://abaselineview.com/abvrankings.html

 

 

 

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LOOKING BACK NEARLY 16 YEARS: The birth of S-V-W-W football

January 28, 2018 By Leave a Comment

SESSER –   I came across this yesterday when I was checking the Lady Devils schedule on the website schedulestar.com

I have used the site over the years to check out schedules for the teams.  All six Franklin County High Schools have a page on the website.

They have excerpts from stories of the school’s athletic history.  This article was on the Sesser-Valier page of Schedulestar, which also goes by the name Big Teams now as well.

This story was in the Red Devil’s history page.  It was the story when the S-V school board approved the co-op.  The story was written by Jim Muir when he wrote for the Southern Illinoisan.

Stories about the history of Franklin County perform very well on the webpage.  You will see more and more content like this.  Steve

http://thesouthern.com/news/local/woodlawn-joins-sesser-valier-football/article_3a87ff47-d9b8-555b-8c10-e23e515e8617.html

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Redbirds fall in a nail biter against Harrisburg

January 27, 2018 By Leave a Comment

 

The Redbirds place four in double figures, as C.J Johnson had a game high 15,  Kyle Hammers 14, Lucas Wolfe, 12 and Bradlee Crosilin 11.

Carson Burtis led the Bulldogs with 14. Isaiah Salsbury and Dalton Lambert had 13 for the bulldogs.

The Redbirds fall to (4-14) on the season and (0-5) in the SIRR-Ohio.  They travel to Anna-Jonesboro tonight, at team they lost to 55-51 in overtime in the Midwinter Classic last week.

Harrisburg improves to (17-4) and (4-1) in the conference.  They are idle until next Friday night when Joe Hosman’s Massac County Patriots visit Davenport Gym.

Please click on the link from Michael “Spyder Mann” Dann of the Harrisburg Daily Register

http://www.dailyregister.com/sports/20180126/harrisburg-hangs-on-to-win-at-west-frankfort

 

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Hamilton Page had ice in the veins, as the Rangers escape Herrin with an OT win.

January 27, 2018 By Leave a Comment

Hamilton Page fights through a pic from Herrin’s Brandon Anthony (Thank you Cindy Page)

HERRIN -Hamilton Page scored the last five points, including the tie-breaking free throws with 7.4 seconds left Friday night, as the Rangers eked out a 43-41 decision in Memorial Gym.

“He’s one of those guys who’s been through the wars before,” Benton coach Ron Winemiller told The Southen abot Page. “Quarterback in football, shortstop in baseball … he’s been through a few pressure situations.”

“They’re a much-improved team from when we saw them earlier this year,” Winemiller said of Herrin.

Please read the full story by clicking on the link from Bucky Dent of The Southern.

http://thesouthern.com/sports/high-school/basketball/boys/boys-basketball-page-helps-rangers-escape-tigers-in-ot/article_35ce27a6-b6b7-5d76-a199-c8d06f70de40.html

Filed Under: Benton High School Sports, High School Sports, Sports

All South Football team released

January 25, 2018 By Leave a Comment

The All South Football team was released this afternoon.  There are seven from Franklin County that are listed.   They are the following:

BENTON 

Hamilton Page – QB

Blaine Pankey RB/LB

Cade Thomas – WR/DB

WEST FRANKFORT 

Madison Allen – RB/LB

Greg Cooper – OL/LB

S-V-W-W

Lukas Gunter – WR

Bryce Jones

HERE IS THE FULL LIST BELOW 

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Rangers pick up huge SIRR-Ohio win at Murphy last night

January 25, 2018 By Leave a Comment

Benton coaches Wade Thomas and Ron Winemiller drawing up a play during a time out at last night’s win at Murphysboro. (Thank you Cindy Page.)

MURPHYSBORO –  The Benton Rangers, coming off of a split of the BIT crown with Pinckneyville, take command of the SIRR-Ohio race last night picking up a huge 41-37 road win against the Murphysboro Red Devils.

Parker Williams and Carson Lewis were the two Rangers in double figures with eleven points.

Benton coach Ron Winemiller said this to Geary Dentison of the Southern Illinoisan after last night’s win.  “We traded blow for blow, we’d make a play and they would make a play, but luckily we were able to make our free throws down the stretch and hold them off.  Gehrig Wynn was able to make the last two to get it to a two-possession game after we forced them into taking a tough shot and rebounding the miss.”

The Rangers improve to (18-3) on the season and (5-0) in the River-to-River.  The travel to Herrin tomorrow night.

The Red Devils fall to (15-5) on the year and (3-2) in the conference.   They travel to Massac County tomorrow night.

Link to the full story from The Southern

http://thesouthern.com/sports/high-school/basketball/boys/boys-basketball-benton-downs-murphysboro-in-defensive-battle/article_b4300b72-0cb2-5ea3-81de-3f2ef81a4741.html

Link to the conference standings

http://abaselineview.com/abvstandingssirr.html

 

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Lady Devils win their fifth straight BDC West title

January 25, 2018 By Leave a Comment

By Jim Muir

The Sesser-Valier-Waltonville Lady Devils won their 61st straight Black Diamond Conference game Wednesday night and won their fifth consecutive conference title with a 75-29 victory on the road at Chester.

S-V-W made short work of the Lady Yellowjackets, jumping out to a 20-8 first quarter lead and extended the advantage to 35-16 at the intermission.

“Our defense was outstanding again tonight,” said SVW Coach Rick Metcalf, who has guided the incredible run during the ‘five-peat.’ “Tucker (Paige) had a huge game for us on the offensive end.”

Tucker took game scoring honors with 30 points, including 12 in the opening stanza.

The victory moved the Lady Devils to 21-2 overall and 10-0 in BDC West play. The Lady Devils have two conference games remaining – January 29 at Goreville and Feb. 1 at home versus Zeigler-Royalton.

Along with Tucker’s 30-point performance the Lady Devils also got double figure scoring from Sami McCowen who tallied 14 points. Rounding out the scoring Jada Hale had seven points, Ella Zahm scored six points, Carlie Page had four points and Paolina Marlo, Rylee Breeze and Adrianna Fedderke all scored two points each.

SVW will jump out of conference action on Saturday (Jan. 27) hosting Anna-Jonesboro. Game time is at 11 a.m.

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GEC TOURNAMENT UPDATED PARINGS

January 25, 2018 By Leave a Comment

FIRST ROUND

(5)  THOMPSONVILLE  48  (4)  Pope County 40

(1)  Gallatin County  61  (8)  Carrier  Milla 36

(3)  Crab Orchard 69  (6)  Galatia 63

(2)  Hardin County 58  (7)  Norris City 47

CONSONLATION BRACKET, THURSDAY, JAUNUARY 25th

NCOE (3-12)(1-4)  vs. Galatia (4-3)(7-11)  6:30 p.m.

Carrier Mills (1-15)(0-6) vs. Pope County  (10-8)(3-3)  8:00 p.m.

FRIDAY, JANUARY  26th  7th PLACE/SEMI FINALS

7th Place Game  5:30 p.m.

SEMI-FINALS

7:00 p.m.  Hardin County (6-8)(3-1)  vs. Crab Orchard (12-5)(3-3)

8:30 p.m.  Gallatin County (10-7)(4-0) vs. THOMPSONVILLE  (12-7)(4-2)

CHAMPIONSHIP ROUND, SATURDAY, JANUARY 27th

5:30 p.m.  Consolation Championship

7:00 p.m.  Third Place

8:30 p.m.  CHAMPIONSHIP

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