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[DEC. 11, 2000]  Mount Pulaski and Carroll Catholic’s junior high girls basketball teams competed in the Class 8A state tournament in Jacksonville this weekend. Mount Pulaski played Washington Central and lost 29-25. Carroll Catholic beat St. Matthew’s of Champaign, 29-28.

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[DEC. 11, 2000]  Lincoln Community High School hosted Quincy’s girls basketball team on Friday afternoon. Lincoln was down in the first quarter and just slightly behind Quincy in the second and third quarters, but the Lady Railspitters rallied in the fourth quarter to win 42-37.

All four 3-pointers in the game went to Lincoln. Ingram scored three 3-pointers and Bunch scored one. Oller made over a quarter of the team’s points, with one field goal and 10 free throws. The next highest scorer was Ingram, with her three 3-pointers. The rest of the individual scores were as follows: Humbert 3-1-7, Bunch 1-3-6, Cook 2-0-4, Dawson 1-0-2 and Johnson 0-2-2. The team made 11 field goals and 16 free throws for their 42-point total.

Quincy made 14 field goals and nine free throws to make 37 points.

The Lincoln and Quincy junior varsity teams also faced off. Lincoln doubled Quincy’s score: 52-24.

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[DEC. 11, 2000]  Lincoln Community High School’s boys basketball team competed in Peoria this past weekend against Peoria Manual. Peoria won 74-67.

Lincoln had a total of eight 3-pointers: two by Tungate, two by Williams and four by Alexander. Alexander led Lincoln with four 3-pointers, five 2-point field goals, six free throws and 28 points. Tungate made three 2-point field goals in addition to his 3-pointers, three free throws and 15 points. Williams made two 3-pointers, two 2-point field goals, three free throws and 13 points. Schrader made four field goals, or eight points. Schonauer made two points. Altogether, Lincoln made 23 field goals, 12 free throws and 67 points.

Peoria Manual had four 3-pointers, 20 2-point field goals, 22 free throws and 74 points.

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[DEC. 11, 2000]  Illini Central invited Buffalo Tri-City to Mason City this past weekend to compete in a high school boys basketball game. Illini Central creamed Tri-City 78-48.

Fletcher scored two of Illini’s three 3-pointers. Mulford scored the other one. Arnold scored almost a third of the team’s points, with 24. He had nine field goals and six free throws. The other individual statistics were as follows: Miller 7-0-14, Grimsley 4-4-12, Fletcher 3-2-10, Deters 3-0-6, Hankins 1-3-5, Mulford 1-0-3, Cunningham 1-0-2 and Scott 1-0-2. The team’s total statistics were 30 field goals, 15 free throws and 78 points.

Tri-City made two 3-pointers, 16 field goals, 10 free throws and 48 points.

In the junior varsity match, Illini Central also beat Tri-City, 64-49.

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[DEC. 11, 2000]  Lincoln Christian College traveled to Upland, Ind., this past weekend to beat Indiana University East. The Preachers "started off the game in a lackadaisical manner, especially defense," says coach Randy Kirk. At halftime, the score was 47-38, Lincoln. Kirk added, "The good news is that we got some other scoring opportunities from people like Donnie Bowman and Toni Okusami." In the second half, Lincoln scored 55 points, and Indiana East scored 48 points. The final score of the game was 102-86.

Coach Kirk noted Matt Clark for his scoring and all-around play, including four steals, five assists and one turnover. He also made three 3-pointers, 10 2-point field goals and seven free throws, yielding 36 points for his team. Lincoln had four more 3-pointers: two by Jake Raymer and one each by Josh Weber and Donnie Bowman. Donnie Bowman made 18 points for his team with his one 3-pointer, four field goals and seven free throws. Dante Watson almost matched Bowman with 17 points. Watson made eight field goals and one free throw. Antoni Okusami had five field goals, two free throws and 12 points. The rest of the individual scores were as follows: Jake Raymer, 3-0-8, Zach Below 3-0-6, Josh Weber 1-0-3 and Aaron Johnson 1-0-2. Altogether the team made 37 field goals, 17 free throws and 102 points.

Indiana University East scored 14 3-pointers, 16 2-point field goals and 12 free throws to reach its 86 points.

The Preachers travel to central Wisconsin Saturday to play Northland Baptist.

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[DEC. 11, 2000]  Balanced scoring led the Lincoln College men's basketball team to the championship of the Shawnee Classic tournament Saturday and Sunday. The victories give the Lynx a 10-2 record for the season. Lincoln defeated the host Shawnee squad, 83-70, Sunday afternoon. Lincoln handed Rend Lake a 79-60 setback in a Saturday night contest.

Three players, Jay Bates, Brian Moffitt and Eric Crockrell, all scored 18 points to pace the Lynx Sunday against Shawnee.  Also contributing double figures for coach B. J. McCullum was Marlon Brooks with 13 points.  

Lincoln held a 47-30 lead at halftime, thanks to 61 percent shooting from the floor (19 of 31).  Shawnee was limited to 40 percent shooting in the first half (12 of 30).  The Lynx held a 40-29 rebounding advantage with Crockrell leading the way with 10 boards. Jay Bates and Crockrell were both credited with four assists. Lincoln finished the game with 53 percent shooting (31 of 58) and Shawnee was 43 percent (26 of 60).

Against Rend Lake, Lincoln made 15 of 23 first-half shots for 65 percent; however, they led only 37-29 at halftime. Lincoln cooled off in the second half (18-34); however, the Lynx netted 42 points to pull away from Rend Lake. The losers made 11of 28 second-half shots for 39 percent. Lincoln again dominated the boards, 42-32, with Crockrell pulling down 11 to lead the way.  Bates once again had four assists for the Lynx.

Lincoln College (83) — Jerron Hobson 2-8-1-2-6; Michael Whrle 0-0-4-4-4; Terry Reed 0-0-0-2-0; Gene Reed 0-0-0-0-0; Jay Bates 6-8-6-9-18; Ryan Brinker 1-3-0-0-2; Marlon Brooks 6-14-0-0-13; Andrew Kehr 0-0-0-1-0; Michael Sams 2-3-0-0-4; Brian Moffitt 9-15-0-0-18; Eric Crockrell 5-6-8-10-18; Brian Thorsen 0-1-0-0-0.  Totals: 31-58-19-28-83.  Three-point goals: Hobson, Brooks.

Shawnee College (70) — Steve Payne 0-1-0-0-0; Chad King 2-5-1-2-6; Mylon Betts 0-4-0-0-0; Shaun Moore 4-6-2-3-10; Caleb Swansey 1-2-3-7-5; Ricky Green 7-11-2-4-22; Cedric Lowery 1-7-2-2-4; Riko Nelson 0-5-0-0-0; Bo Hargott 5-8-1-1-11; Scott Mattingly 3-4-0-0-6; Ronald Watson 2-6-0-0-4; Tommy King 1-1-0-0-2.  Totals: 26-60-11-19-70.  Three-point goals: King, Green 6.

Lincoln College (79) — Hobson 2-7-0-0-4; G. Reed 2-2-1-2-5; Bates 5-8-3-4-13; Brinker 4-6-0-0-10; Brooks 6-14-2-4-15; Sams 0-2-0-1-0; Moffitt 4-6-0-0-8; Crockrell 9-11-4-5-22; Thorsen 1-4-0-2-2.  Totals: 33-57-10-18-79.  Three-point goals: Brinker 2, Brooks.  

Rend Lake (60) — O'Connor 0-1-0-0-0; Goughenour 0-2-2-2-2; Smith 2-8-3-5-8; Willett 2-8-3-5-7; Burkett 2-4-3-4-8; Taylor 3-6-1-2-8; Heinzmann 1-3-0-0-3; Hearn 1-6-0-0-2; Smith 3-7-2-4-8; Matthews 2-3-0-0-4; Tucker 2-6-0-0-4; Kirkpatrick 2-4-2-2-6.  Totals: 20-58-16-24-60.  Three-point goals: Smith, Burkett, Taylor, Heinzmann.

[Bill Martinie, Lincoln College sports information director]

[DEC. 11, 2000]  Alex Blanch and Ramiro Palmar were named co-MVPs of the Lincoln College invitational swimming meet at Lincoln over the weekend. Blanch and Palmar led the Lynx swimmers to the title in the men's division with 737 team points. Millikin University of Decatur finished second with 344 points in the five-team event.

Millikin won the women's title with a total of 479 points, edging Genesee Community College with 416 points. The Lady Lynx swimmers had 355 points to place fourth.  Pola Schadendorf of Genesee was the MVP in the women's division.

Placings for the Lincoln College men were:

200-yard medley relay — First (Zach Welch, Jacob Sexton, Nick Colberg, Herman Wilcher), 1:44.89

200 IM — 1. Ramiro Palmar, 2:02.49; 2. Alex Blanch, 2:07.38; 4, Jacob Sexton, 2:11.90; 5. Doug Zimmer, 2:14.38.

500 freestyle — 2. Keith Tobin, 5:05.19; 3. Nick Colberg, 5:13.71; 5. Ryan Flanagan, 5:33.75

100 breast stroke — 1. Palmar, 1:00.88; 2. Welch, 1:03.66; 3. Doug Garofalo, 1:05.97.

200 backstroke — 1. Zimmer, 2:16.12; 2. Bobby Richardson, 2:18.51.

100 freestyle — 1. Sexton, :50.64.

400 IM — 1. Welch, 4:28.47; 3. Garofalo, 4:49.95.

200 butterfly — 1. Colberg, 2:12.06; 3. Richardson, 2:29.12.

800 freestyle relay — 1. (Welch, Blanch, Tobin, Palmar), 7:37.82.

One-meter diving — 1. Justin Thompson, 394.10; 2. Sean Calhoun, 377.25.

Three-meter diving — 1. Calhoun, 382.35.

400 medley relay — 1. (Palmar, Welch, Blanch, Sexton) 3:47.80; 3. (Garofalo, Zimmer, Richardson, Wilcher), 4:05.39.

1,650 freestyle — 1. Federico Gentry, 17:52.12; 2. Colberg, 18:02.02; 3. Ryan Flanagan, 19:36.98.

200 freestyle relay — 1. (Sexton, Wilcher, Blanch, Palmar), 1:30.88; 3. (Zimmer, Richardson, Garofalo, Gentry), 1:38.33.

50 freestyle — 2. Wilcher, :22.95; 3. Sexton, :23.17.

100 backstroke — 1. Blanch, :58.32; 2. Zimmer, 1:03.43; 3. Richardson, 1:04.47.

200 freestyle — 2. Gentry, 1:56.23.

200 breast stroke — 1. Garofalo, 2:24.95; 2. Tobin, 2:26.11.

100 butterfly — 1. Blanch, :54.82; 2. Palmar, :55.16; 3. Welch, :56.58; 5. Wilcher, 1:01.18.

400 freestyle relay — 1. (Sexton, Wilcher, Blanch, Palmar), 3:23.19; 2. (Welch, Colberg, Tobin, Gentry), 3:32.14; 3. (Richardson, Flanagan, Zimmer, Garofalo), 3:39.79.

Placings for the Lincoln College women were:

200 medley relay — 3. (Emily Sansale, Kristen Jones, Liz Wilson, Kristen Holtane), 2:07.73.

200 IM — 3. Jones, 2:31.68.

500 freestyle — 3. Sansale, 5:53.06.

100 breast stroke — 2. Holtane, 1:22.14; 6. Wilson, 1:27.44.

200 backstroke — 2. Jones, 2:22.46.

100 Ffeestyle — 2. Holtane, 1:01.48; 3. Bonnie DiFoggio, 1:03.90.

400 IM — 1. Wilson, 5:40.97.

800 freestyle relay — 2. (Wilson, DiFoggio, Sansale, Jones), 9:07.30.

400 medley relay — 3. (Sansale, Jones, Wilson, Holtane), 4:47.34.

1,650 freestyle — 1. Sansale, 20:14.36.

200 freestyle relay — 2. (Lindsey Luhtala, Tamara Campion, DiFoggio, Holtane), 1:59.34.

50 freestyle — 2. Holtane, :27.99; 4. Luhtala, :29.87; 5. DiFoggio, :29:95.

100 backstroke — 2. Jones, 1:06.82.

200 freestyle — 2. DiFoggio, 2:25.72; 3. Luhtala, 2:28.88.

200 breast stroke — 3. Sansale, 2:59.37.

100 butterfly — 4. Wilson, 1:15.40.

400 freestyle relay — 1. (Holtane, Wilson, Sansale, Jones), 4:07.05.

[Bill Martinie, Lincoln College sports information director]

[DEC. 11, 2000]  Dave Tackett, wrestling for coach Dave Klemm of Lincoln College, finished second in the Triton tournament this past weekend. Matt Veach, Lincoln, finished third in the competition. No team scores were kept in the tourney.

Tackett, wrestling at 149 pounds, lost the title match to Dan Hawley of Niagra, N.Y., 9-4, to place second overall. Veach defeated Brian Jones, also of Niagra, N.Y., 7-3, to earn his third-place finish. Fifteen schools competed in the two-day tournament at Triton College.

[Bill Martinie, Lincoln College sports information director]

[DEC. 9, 2000]  Olympia lost the battle to University High in Friday night’s game at Normal.  The game ended in a score of 55-42. 

Quarter scores were as follows, with University High in the lead all the way through: 16-9, 27-22, 42-32, 55-42.

Scoring for Oly were Hollinger 1-0-3, Wise 4-0-8, Bode 1-0-2, Brand 3-0-7, Dillenburg 2-0-6; totaling 16-4-42.

Three-point field goals were scored by Lee 2, Dillenburg 2, Hollinger 1 and Brand 1.

[DEC. 9, 2000]  Central State Eight league teams playing in Lincoln, Lincoln smeared Taylorville 77-44 in an easy win from the start. 

First quarter saw Lincoln with a slight lead, 18-12.  Second quarter they bumped it up 20 more points to Taylorville's 10 points, bringing the halftime score to 38-22.  Third quarter they swept the courts, making a 26-point increase to Taylorville's 8 points.  In the final quarter Lincoln added 13 more points as Taylorville edged them in their points gained for one quarter, adding 14 points.

High scorers for Lincoln were Alexander 19 and Tungate 17. Scoring for Lincoln: Williams 4-0-8, Alexander 8-1-19, Tungate 6-4-17, Knopp 1-0-3, Aper 2-1-6, Gallagher 2-0-6, Farmer 3-0-8, Schrader 1-2-4, Welch 2-0-4, Werner 0-2-2; totaling 29-10-77.

Three-point field goals were scored by Alexander 2, Gallagher 2, Farmer 2, with Tungate, Knopp, and Aper scoring 1 each.

[DEC. 9, 2000]  Sangamo teams playing in Athens, Illini Central edged out Athens 66-51. Illini Central led the game start to finish with quarter scores as follows: 18-6, 33-19, 45-34, 66-51. 

High scorers for IC were Arnold 22, and Fletcher 16.

Team stats: Hankins 1-2-4, Fletcher 5-2-16, Mulford 0-2-2, Grimsley 3-4-10, Arnold 6-10-22, Deters 6-0-12; totaling 21-20-66.

Scoring 3-point field goals: Fletcher 4.

[DEC. 9, 2000]  Mount Pulaski Hilltoppers took the lead over Riverton in the first quarter and kept it for the whole game for a final score of 51-39.

Quarter scorers were as follows: 12-4, 28-11, 43-28, 51-39.

High scorer for the game was Brown 20 points. 

Scoring for Mount Pulaski were Brown 8-4-20, Davis 1-1-3, Schlitt 1-0-2, Anderson 6-0-12, Clark 2-2-6, Schilling 1-0-2, Gieske 3-0-6; totaling 22-7-51.

There were no 3-point field goals by Mount Pulaski.

[DEC. 8, 2000]  Two second-half spurts carried the Lincoln College women's basketball team to a 75-63 victory over Carl Sandburg of Galesburg at the Lynx gym Thursday night. The victory runs the LC record to 8-1 for the season.

After trailing the visiting Carl Sandburg squad by a point at halftime, 32-31, Lincoln College came out smoking in the second half, and a 13-2 run in the first four minutes gave the Lynx a 44-34 lead. Carl Sandburg battled back and actually took a 61-58 lead with 5:52 remaining in the game. Sarah McLaughlin scored a goal and added a pair of free throws to give the Lynx the lead with 4:04 left. The Lynx finished the game on a 17-2 run to close out the visitors. Lincoln connected on 19 of 32 shots in the second half while the visitors made 12 of 41 attempts.

Coach Carol Wilson said, "Sarah (McLaughlin) picked us up at the end. She was very instrumental in our stretch run. We got off to a quick start in the second half, and that was probably the difference in the game (13-2 run). Our bench played a key role. When we made the two second-half runs, we had different players on the court. Our depth helped change the complexion of the game. I felt we handled adversity well, especially when we fell behind in the second half."

Lincoln College (75) — Tameeka Dawson 7-0-14; Candace Sheley 0-2-2; Christine Lott 3-3-9; Jessica Trainer 3-0-8; Chanel Roebuck 5-2-12; Tammy Bausley 1-0-2; Jenny Story 1-0-2; Ronni Beebe 4-0-8; Katie Skaggs 3-0-7; Sarah McLaughlin 2-3-7; Jesse Dullard 2-0-4. Totals: 31-10-75. Three-point goals: Trainer 2, Skaggs.

Carl Sandburg (63) — Boettcher 3-0-7; Huls 2-2-6; Pendergrass 4-5-14; Sinnett 1-1-3; Peck 4-0-9; Harris 1-4-7; Schmidt 6-5-17. Totals: 21-17-63. Three-point goals: Boettcher, Pendergrass, Peck, Harris.

[Bill Martinie, Lincoln College sports information director]

[DEC. 8, 2000]  Lincoln College handed Carl Sandburg a 77-70 defeat in men's basketball at the Lincoln College gymnasium Thursday night to run the season record to 8-2. The Lynx displayed a balanced scoring attack with five players reaching double figures.

Coach B. J. McCullum said, "I was pleased with the first half, but the second half was a different story. We weren't very patient in the second half, and as a result they (Carl Sandburg) got some easy baskets off the break and some open 3-point shots. We have been preaching that we need to go inside more, and maybe this will help them realize it a little more. We didn't take a lot of good shots in the second half."

Lincoln bolted to a comfortable 45-27 halftime lead and was on top 56-31 with 14:10 left in the second half. Carl Sandburg went on an 18-5 run to cut the Lynx lead to 61-49 with 6:38 left. Lincoln scored nine of the next 11 points to again go on top, by a 70-52 margin, before the Chargers made one more surge. However, they never got any closer than the seven-point margin at the end of the contest.

Lincoln finished the game with 45 percent shooting (27 of 60) while the visitors hit 43 percent (25 of 53). The Lynx forced the Chargers into 25 turnovers in the contest. Rebounding was about even with the visitors having a 36-35 edge. Eric Crockrell and Brian Thorsen both pulled down eight boards to lead Lincoln. Jerron Hobson contributed eight assists for the Lynx.

Jay Bates, Marlon Brooks and Crockrell all scored 14 points for Lincoln, with Thorsen adding 13 and Brian Moffitt 12. Zeph Jones led all scorers with 22 points for Carl Sandburg.

Lincoln College (77) — Jerron Hobson 3-9-0-0-8; Michael Whrle 0-1-0-0-0; Gene Reed 0-0-0-0-0; Jay Bates 5-9-4-10-14; Ryan Brinker 0-2-0-0-0; Marlon Brooks 5-14-4-5-14; Michael Sams 0-4-2-3-2; Brian Moffitt 5-7-2-4-12; Eric Crockrell 6-7-2-5-14; Brian Thorsen 3-7-7-9-13. Totals: 27-60-21-36-77. Three-point goals: Hobson 2.

Carl Sandburg (70) — James Allen 4-8-2-2-10; Corey Neely 6-13-3-3-19; Jeramee Newberry 0-2-0-0-0; Mike Headbloom 1-1-0-0-3; Nick Rodsater 1-4-0-0-3; Travis Nesy 2-5-2-2-6; Zeph Jones 7-16-4-6-22; Isaac Bonds 2-4-3-4-7. Totals: 23-53-14-17-70. Three-point goals: Neely 4, Headbloom, Rodsater, Jones 4.

[Bill Martinie, Lincoln College sports information director]

[DEC. 8, 2000]  Illini Central hosted Deer Creek-Mackinaw High School’s girls varsity and junior varsity teams yesterday afternoon. Illini Central won 52-42.

Oney and Damm led Illini Central to victory. Oney scored two 3-pointers, seven 2-point field goals and two free throws to earn 22 points. Damm made one 3-pointer, four 2-point field goals, five free throws and 16 points for Illini Central. Francis and Winkelman each scored three field goals, or six points. Harvey made two points for her team.

Deer Creek-Mackinaw made three 3-pointers: two by Gibson and one by Stark. The team made 18 field goals, three free throws and 42 points.

Illini Central’s junior varsity team beat Deer Creek-Mackinaw 48-17.

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[DEC. 8, 2000]  Olympia High School’s girls varsity and junior varsity basketball teams hosted University High yesterday. Olympia’s varsity team lost 76-45.

Cubbert made Olympia’s one 3-pointer. The individual statistics were as follows: Cubbert 1-0-3, Prager 1-0-2, Coit 3-2-8, Short 0-3-3, Fraher 0-1-1, Bachman 1-3-5, Gaither 0-6-6, Gale 3-0-6, Mendonica 1-0-2, Litwiller 1-0-2, Doornbos 1-5-7. The team made 12 field goals and 20 free throws to earn 45 points.

University High also had one 3-pointer, made by Farnsworth. In total, their team had 31 field goals, 13 free throws and 76 points.

Olympia’s junior varsity team beat University High 52-42.

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[DEC. 8, 2000]  Olympia High School’s wrestling team competed against Bloomington in Stanford yesterday afternoon. Bloomington won 44-24, to make its record 5-1. Olympia’s record is now 3-2.

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