Carbondale Idle Two Weeks Rams Orphans Play Friday
The Carbondale Terriers, 3-0 in the Southwest Egyptian League, chase the title as nine league games remain. A 49-44 win over Pinckneyville steadies them, with next league action at Sparta on January 2 and a return game at Pinckneyville on January 16 shaping the race.
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Southern Hlinoisan
Carbondale Terriers
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Friday and Saturday high school basketball pairings listed
Friday games feature Benton at West Frankfort Marion at Harrisburg and Centralia at Mt Vernon. Saturday matchups include Mr Vernon at Herrin West Frankfort at Marion Johnston City at Harrisburg and Vandalia at Centralia.
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West Frankfort
Marion
Harrisburg
Centralia
Mt. Vernon
Mr. Vernon
Herrin West
Frankfort
Johnston City
Vandalia
Tuesday high school basketball slate across county matchups
Effingham visits Lawrenceville while Robinson plays Bridgeport and Olney meets Flora. Lawrenceville hosts Salem as Fairfield travels to Albion. Mt. Carmel contests Bridgeport and Fairfield again faces Salem. Johnston City travels to Pinckneyville and Cairo visits Chester. Murphysboro meets Sparta and Du Quoin faces Eldorado. Pinckneyville heads to Anna-Jonesboro for another leg of the schedule.
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Johnston City
Pinckneyville
Cairo
Chester
Murphysboro
Sparta du Quoin
Eldorado
Anna-Jonesboro
TEA North Mae
Bridgeport
Fairfield
Lawrenceville
Mt. Carmel
Salem
Flora
Olney
Coal Best
Hurst-Bush
Zeigler Lesser
U. School
Elkville
Christopher D
Carterville
As Sesser
Trico
Christopher
Zeigler
Gorham
University School
Walter Sesser
Southwest
Carbondale
du Quoin
Anna Jonesboro
Sparta
Illinois Rout Lays Michigan 96 to 66 in Opener
Illinois overwhelmed Michigan 96 to 66 in Huff Gym as the Illini used a balanced attack led by Clive Follmer Irv Remoras Jimmy Bredar and Bob Peterson. Michigan struggled against Illinois aggressive defense and relentless rebounding while managing only 21 field goals on 60 attempts.
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Bert Bertine
Illinois
Loyola
Michigan
Huff Gym
Harry Combes
Illini
Combes
Wlini
Kerr
Big Red
Combesmen
Clive Follmer
Irv Remoras
Jimmy Bredar
Big Bob Peterson
Hlins
Wolverines
Wolves
Bredar
Max Hooper
Bradley Gridders Name Johnston City Player As Co-Captain
Bradley's 1952 football season ended with Bus Mertes as coach. End Leo Davis of Peoria was named most valuable player. Linebacker Ron Hall of Johnston City and guard Boo Ludars of Clinton honored as honorary co-captains after a 4 win 9 loss campaign.
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Bradley
Johnston City
Peoria
Ron Hall
Boo” Ludars
Clinton
Leo Davis
Bus Mertes
Waltonville over Royalton in close 53 50 hoops thriller
Homer King of Royalton draws a field foul under the basket to tie the Waltonville Royalton game at 19 all before halftime. Waltonville then edge Royalton 53 50 to extend their lead in the standings.
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Homer King
Royalton
Waltonville
Karnak Eyes Home Game After Seven straight wins
Karnak basketball stands at seven straight victories heading into a Jan 23 home date with Reidland Kentucky, a strong undefeated WKY unit. Coach Jim Fisher, new to his second year, chose coaching over a private business opportunity, hoping for a standout season. Reidland’s lineup features mostly underclassmen with a 6-3 junior center joining next semester and includes ex Reidland coach Conan Smith now at Equality.
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Karnak
Reidland
Western Kentucky
Jim Fisher
Jim
Jim Shaw
Grand Chain
Shaw
Fisher
Brook
Conan Smith
West ‘Frankfort
Equality
Paducah
Public Grabs Up 3500 Rose Bowl Tickets
Pasadena Calif Dec 16 AP public sale tickets for the Rose Bowl sold out quickly with 3500 available and more demand than supply. Remaining pasteboards for the New Year game between Wisconsin co champion Big Ten and Southern California PCC titleholder are offered to USC students and alumni, except for Wisconsin allotments. Rose Bowl expected to be a sellout with about 100000 spectators.
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Wisconsin
Southern California
USC
University School Lynxes beat Vergennes 76 to 46 in Carbondale
Lynxes raise season record to 4 4 with a 76 46 win over Vergennes at Carbondale. Vergennes struggled shooting seven field goals while sending 38 personal fouls and one technical to the Lynxes. Wallace Woods scored 12 and Gene Manto vani 7 as the Lynxes led 23 10 after the first period and increased each quarter.
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Bob Johnson
University School
Lynxes
Vergennes
Carbondale
Elkville
Vergennes Tigers
Tigers
Johnson
James Ebbs
Glenn Tuthill
Jim Nausley
Wallace Woods
Gene Mantovani
Marion Triumphs Over Herrin in Nail-Biter
Marion edged Herrin 47 45 in a see-saw boys basketball clash at Herrin after a late center-line shot by Jim Anderson momentarily gave Marion the lead. Herrin hit 11 of 31 free throws while Marion connected on half its 10 attempts, keying Marion's fifth win against one loss and a prelim 25 24 victory earlier.
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Vergennes
Tuthill
Woods
Linze
M’vani
Schimp
Wills
Swetland
Shoffner
Nausley
Dodds
Boucher
D. Kelley
Hea
Silk
Moll
Ebbs
Bearden Miller
Sill
IU. School
Marion
Herrin
Jim Anderson
Johnston City
Cheatham
Summers
Mar‘jon
Russell
Meracle Herrin
Herrin Marion
Tidwell
Jack Andr
Miller
Jim Andr
Finney
Spiller
Hindman
Short
Box
Poole He
Jackson
O Fuller
Feurer
Centralia and Mt Vernon Dominate South Seven All-Star Football
Centralia leads with eight of 22 first-team spots while Mt Vernon lands six. Benton and Harrisburg place three each, Herrin two, and West Frankfort none on the initial squads named by coaches at Benton. Second teams also named with players from multiple schools and 19 honorable mentions across positions.
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du Quoin
Chester
Murphysboro
Anna Jonesboro
Bob Pitts
Sparta
Pinckneyville
Centralia
Mc Vernon
Mt. Vernon
Rams
Harrisburg Bulldogs
West Frankfort
Marion
Herrin Club
Benton
Wksgiving
Hurst Bush
Christopher
Zeigler
Elkville
Hurst-Bush and Zeigler
Harrisburg
Herrin
Earl Bailor
Jim Stokes
Dale Biagi
Joe Frederick
J. M. Locke
Tom Vore
Centrlaia
Kim Driggers
Fred Wilmoth
Lowell Mendenhall
Paul Restivo
Otto Briley
Gordon Lambert
Gerald Garrett
Art Hinant
Curt Neal
Max Bigham
Freeman Schrodt
Bob Beal
Ron Mitchell
Jim McGee
Duane Kessler
Centrlia
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