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[DEC. 21, 2000]  Carroll Catholic junior high girls basketball team continues steamrolling their way to an 8A state title. Carroll Catholic girls fought hard against Warsaw at Jacksonville, winning by two points in overtime. Their 53-51 win makes them the top-seeded team and allowed them to maintain their perfect season record (23-0).

Teams compete tonight for positions as follows:

For third place: Ransom (21-1) vs. Warsaw (23-2) at 6 p.m.

For championship and second place: Lincoln Carroll Catholic (23-0) vs. Carrolton (23-2) at 7:15 p.m.

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[DEC. 20, 2000]  Both Lincoln Community High School basketball teams played and won yesterday afternoon. The girls team traveled to Stanford to compete against Olympia High School. Lincoln narrowly won, 43-41. The boys team hosted Springfield here in Lincoln, but the scores were not as close as the girls game. The final score was 67-41.

Ingram scored the Lady Railers’ two 3-pointers. She also scored three free throws, for a total of nine points. Bunch scored seven points with two field goals and three free throws. Humbert, Johnson and Froschauer each scored six points. They each made two field goals and two free throws. Oller made five points, and Cook made four points for Lincoln. As a team, Lincoln’s girls basketball team made 13 field goals, 15 free throws and 43 points.

Gaither led Olympia’s team with a lot of help from Doornbos and Fraher. Gaither made four field goals, eight free throws and 16 points. Doornbos also earned four field goals, but made only three free throws, to equal 11 points. Fraher made nine free throws. Bachman had two field goals, one free throw and five points. Altogether, the team made 10 field goals, 21 free throws and 41 points.

The junior varsity girls team also played in Olympia. The final score of the game was 61-46, Olympia.

The Railsplitters made seven 3-pointers in their game: three by Alexander, two by Tungate, one by Williams and one by Schrader. Alexander and Tungate led Lincoln’s charge. Alexander had six field goals and two free throws to equal 17 points. Tungate also made six field goals, but only one free throw, to equal 15 points. The rest of the players’ statistics were as follows: Williams 3-0-7, Schonauer 3-0-6, Farmer 1-4-6, Knopp 1-3-5, Schrader 2-0-5, Welch 2-0-4 and Komnick 1-0-2, for a total of 25 field goals, 10 free throws and 67 points.

Wingert made all of Springfield’s four 3-pointers. As a team, Springfield made 14 field goals, nine free throws and 41 points.

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[DEC. 20, 2000]  St. Teresa of Decatur traveled up to Hartsburg yesterday afternoon to play a game against Hartsburg-Emden High School’s boys basketball team. Unfortunately, Hartsburg-Emden lost, 86-57.

Hartsburg made four 3-pointers: three by Aper and one by Fletcher. Aper scored the most points for Hartsburg, 17, with his three 3-pointers, three 2-point field goals and two free throws. Ke. Leesman and Gleason each scored 10 points for their team. Ke. Leesman made three field goals and four free throws. Gleason made two field goals and six free throws. The rest of the individual statistics were as follows: Fletcher 1-0-3, Anderson 2-2-6, Behrends 3-0-6 and Wrage 2-1-5. Altogether the team scored 19 field goals and 15 free throws to make 57 points.

As a team, St. Teresa scored eight 3-pointers, 23 2-point field goals, 16 free throws and 86 points.

In the junior varsity game, Hartsburg-Emden beat St. Teresa 63-52.

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[DEC. 20, 2000]  Illini Central’s varsity and junior varsity boys teams hosted Midwest Central in Mason City last night for two basketball games. At the halftime of the varsity game, Midwest was leading 26-24. Illini overcame Midwest’s lead to win 62-47.

Arnold and Fletcher each made a 3-pointer for Illini Central. They led Mason City’s team. Arnold made seven additional 2-point field goals and two free throws, to make 19 points. Fletcher had five 2-point field goals in addition to his 3-pointer, four free throws and 17 points. Deters had the next highest number of points, 13. He made three field goals and seven free throws. The rest of the individual statistics were as follows: Miller 1-1-3, Hankins 2-0-4 and Grimsley 0-6-6, to total 20 field goals, 20 free throws and 62 points for Illini Central’s varsity team.

Lovell made Midwest Central’s one 3-pointer in the game. Altogether, their team scored 20 field goals, six free throws and 47 points.

The junior varsity game was very close. Midwest won 55-51.

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[DEC. 19, 2000]  Heyworth braved the bitter winds and blowing snow last night to come and compete against Mount Pulaski’s high school girls basketball team. Heyworth beat Mount Pulaski 61-32.

Mount Pulaski made three 3-pointers, one each by Faith, Clevenger and Jason. Sanders scored exactly one-fourth of the team’s points with her four field goals. Clevenger, Jason and Rucks each scored five points. Clevenger made one field goal in addition to her 3-pointer. Jason made two free throws in addition to her 3-pointer. Rucks scored two field goals and one free throw. The rest of the individual statistics were as follows: Faith 1-0-3, Reeley 1-0-3, Beckers 1-1-3 and Howe 1-0-2, for 12 field goals, four free throws and 32 points.

Wright scored four 3-pointers for Heyworth and scored almost half of the team’s points. Altogether the team scored 23 field goals, 11 free throws and 61 points.

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[DEC. 18, 2000]  Lincoln Christian College’s men’s basketball team traveled to Dunbar, Wis., to play Northland Baptist Bible College on Saturday, Dec. 16. At the end of the first half, Lincoln was leading Northland by one point. In the second half, Northland scored 10 more points than Lincoln to win 80-71.

Matt Clark and Dante Watson together scored over half of the team’s points in the game. Clark made five 2-point field goals, three 3-point goals and one free throw, totaling 20 points. Watson scored nine field goals, or 18 points. Donnie Bowman made 10 points with two 2-point field goals, one 3-pointer and three free throws. Jake Raymer and David Simmons each made seven points with two 2-point field goals and one 3-pointer. Zach Below made five points for Lincoln, and Jim Turney made four points.

Northland Baptist had eight 3-pointers total. Altogether, their team made 19 2-point field goals, eight 3-pointers and 18 free throws, or 80 points.

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