by Steve Dunford

This came up in my news feed on Facebook in the memories.  There is a website that I will try to find again that has a lot of old post season scores.  I hope to find it and post things from time to time.

What is impressive about the West Frankfort Regional of 1945 is it was a Franklin County tournament except for Johnston City.

The FCHS auditorium, the most likely site of the 1945 regional tournament. The FCHS wrestling team uses the auditorium for matches. (Hudl photo)

This was before Max Morris gym, which was built in 1949.   The site was most likely the auditorium, or the gym at Central Junior high, which was located behind the post office.

Valier, Royalton and Thompsonville were definitely district schools.  You had to win your district to play in the regionals.  Sesser and Christopher might have been also.

Zeigler was not a district school because of their success in athletics during that time.

It looks like my Tigers hung around with the Benton Rangers in the first round.

Here are the scores from the regional below:

West Frankfort 109-42 Christopher…

by Steve Dunford

Like in basketball, I am only look at the games that are in front of us, taking one round at at time.

Thompsonville will be taking on Crab Orchard today in the Carrier Mills-Stonefort Class 1A Baseball regional at 4:30 p.m.  This is the only 1A regional game in the state today, as the game was moved up to accommodate Thompsonville’s graduation on Wednesday night.  I put this at the top because of the schedule change.

Rewinding to yesterday, the West Frankfort Lady Redbirds defeated the Eldorado Eagles 15-0.  Z-R-C fell to Sparta 8-6.

This afternoon in softball action, West Frankfort will play Nashville at 5:00 p.m. and Benton will play Harrisburg at 7:00 p.m at the West Frankfort Class 2A regional.

The WF- Nashville game will be broadcast on WNSV 104.7 in Nasvhville.  The Benton-Harrisburg game will be broadcast on WEBQ 1240 AM from Harrisburg.  Both stations will have the game streamed on their website.

I will be covering both games this afternoon.  I will be interviewing Kelly Mason, who does play-by-play for WEBQ.

Waltonville-Sesser-Valier will be facing the Farifield Lady Mules this afternoon at the Carmi Class 2A Softball regional.  Game time is 4:30 p.m.

The Galatia-Thompsonville Lady Cats will be facing the Gallatin County Lady Hawks this afternoon at 3:30 at the Carrier Mills Class 1A girls softball regional.

It is a beautiful day to see some action on the area diamonds.

The Benton Rangers took the long trip to Clay County Saturday morning and swept a double header from the Flora Wolves.

The Rangers won game one 8-7 with Parker Williams picking up the win in relief. Derek Oxford homered for the Rangers.   In game two, Tyson Houghland pitched a complete game in a 13-3 win.  Bryden Picklesmeyer homered for Benton.

The Rangers host the Mt. Vernon Rams this afternoon at 4:30 at Evaoldi Field.

Four hurlers combined as the West Frankfort Redbirds defeated the Eldorado Eagles 8-3 on Saturday.

The Redbirds will face the Vienna Eagles this afternoon at 4:30 p.m. at Bill McKee Field.

The Z-R-C Tornadoes host the Hamilton County Foxes at 4:30 as it is Senior Day.  The Thompsonville Tigers make the long trip to Golconda, to take on the Pope County Pirates this afternoon at 4:30.

Waltonville-Sesser-Valier will be playing in the Midland Trail Conference Tournament this week.

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