Railers cruise past Cahokia 53-30
Froebe's 24 points leads all scorers

[November 26, 2019]  The Lincoln Railers opened their season at home Monday night by taking on Cahokia in the 2019 Lincoln/Eaton Thanksgiving Tournament.

Coach Neil Alexander showed fans a starting lineup similar to last season with Kaden Froebe, Kameron Whiteman, Will Ewald and Dylan Singleton getting announced as starters. Landon Hullinger joined the group and jumped center for Lincoln. Lincoln won the tip but committed a turnover right away and Cahokia took advantage by scoring the first points of the game.

The Railers were quick to retaliate and tossed in 17 straight points to take a 17-2 lead.

Ten of those first quarter points came courtesy of Kaden Froebe, who would finish the night with 24 points in just over 20 minutes on the court.

Lincoln would end the first quarter with a 19-5 lead.

The second quarter was just as fast-paced as the first, with the Railers tough defense forcing turnovers and getting steals left and right. On offense the Railers moved the ball unselfishly at speeds as fast as lightening.

Kameron Whiteman’s quick pass from the lane out to Froebe deep in the corner for a three extended the Lincoln lead to 23-7 at the 6:04 mark.

Brody Whiteman came off the bench for Lincoln to hit a soft short jumper over his Cahokia defender and as the ball passed through nothing but net the Railers lead grew to 25-8.

Will Ewald connected for a three shortly thereafter to give the Railers their biggest lead at this point, 28-8 now the score. A couple more baskets by Froebe and Ewald in the quarter gave Lincoln a comfortable 33-10 lead at halftime.

The Railers were quick out of the break at halftime and immediately put up nine unanswered points. Dylan Singleton was responsible for five of those points.

The Cahokia starters just couldn’t get anything going against the Railers and a 50-15 hole was dug after Singleton left his man in blue standing and went baseline on him for two more points. The Railers were just flat out faster than Cahokia.

Seth Tungate would finish the third quarter scoring for Lincoln with a nice drive in the lane and draw the foul. His free throw put Lincoln up 53-15 and as the third quarter ended, the starters for Lincoln would all take a final seat on the bench.

The fourth quarter turned out to be the quickest of them all with a running clock to speed things up. Coach Alexander subbed his bench players in and out the entire quarter and while the Railers were outscored 15-0 by Cahokia in the final quarter, Lincoln still cruised to a 53-30 win.

Froebe led all scorers with 24 points and led Lincoln with 6 rebounds.

In the earlier game, Springfield defeated Belleville Althoff 74-63.

Shane Miller led Springfield with 30 points. Bennie Slater and Kobe Slater each had 19 points for the Senators.

Daulton Burgner led Belleville Althoff with 26 points and Jack Bruening tossed in 10 points.

Lincoln versus Cahokia scoring

Lincoln 53

Froebe 24
Ewald 9
Hullinger 7
Singleton 7
B. Whiteman 3
Tungate 3

Cahokia 30

Harvey 9
Bradley 6
Binford 4
Baker 3
Sanders 3
Neal 2
Raymond 2
Washington 1

[Teena Lowery]