Junior High Girls Basketball
West Lincoln Broadwell wins 2024 8th grade county tournament

 

[November 06, 2024] 

The West Lincoln Broadwell Lady Wolverines defeated Mount Pulaski 41-8 on Saturday, November 2nd to win the 2024 8th Grade Girls Logan County basketball championship in Mount Pulaski.

Sage Gilbert led WLB with 19 points and Grace Bivin tossed in 18 points.

Taylor Short and Paisley Holmes each scored a basket for the Lady Wolverines to round out the scoring.

In the semifinals of the county tournament WLB defeated CEL 59-10.

WLB improved to 16-0 on the season with the county championship win.

The rest of the season

Earlier in the season the Lady Wolverines won the Washington Central Tournament with a 3-0 tournament record.

The girls won each game in that tournament by large margins:

WLB 51
Chillicothe 11

WLB 49
Peoria St. Philo 8

WLB 40
Washington Central 12

Coming up:

On Saturday the Lady Wolverines play in the Lincoln Junior High School Shootout.

WLB will take on Carrollton St. John’s at 3:15 p.m. and Triad at 7:00 p.m.

The girls still have plenty of basketball left in the regular season, with games against Glenwood, Morton, Williamsville and Christ the King remaining on the schedule.

Regionals are set to begin Saturday, November 23, 2024.

And the wins keep coming:

WLB improved to 17-0 with Monday night’s 35-10 win over Clinton.

The girls improved to 18-0 with Wednesday night’s 56-8 win over Bloomington Cornerstone.

[Teena Lowery with photo by Whitney Clark]