|  03-27-15
BY JACK BULLOCK
INA - If you happen to want one
last look at some of the top senior boy's and girl's basketball
players, several will suit up and take the floor for the annual
Lion's Club All-Star Game set for Friday night at Rend Lake
College.
Many of
the players selected in the annual ABV All-South Teams are listed
as participants in the boy's game slated for an 8 pm approximate
start following the girls game that is scheduled to open the
evening at 6 pm.
In a set
up that has been used recently by the All-Star Game, Coaches
Bob Waggoner (Pinckneyville) and Daryl Murphy (Murphysboro)
chose players for the respective sides that will play on Friday
night in a contest that traditionally has been close with a
defense-optional kind of scoring night.
For the
Gold Squad led by Coach Murphy, this mentor will get to coach
his son Daryl Murphy and his teammate DeVonte Jones, who were
part of a Murphysboro 3A club that won the SIRR Ohio Division
league title with a 22-7 record.
The Gold
Squad will feature four senior players from 1A regional champs
Sesser-Valier, including ABV First Team 1A selection Nick Marlo
and Special Mention selection Luke Thompson. Logan Barrett and
Jacob VanWey also will suit up for the Gold.
Another
standout for Coach Murphy is 6-foot-4 First Team ABV 2A selection
Bahari Amaya from Harrisburg.
Mt. Vernon,
a 3A club from the South Seven Conference has three players
on this team; Luke Wilson, Dylan Reeves and Shauntez Taylor,
were seniors on the Rams team.
West Frankfort
is represented by 6-foot-4 senior Hunter Johnson and Christopher's
Luke Saeger will also suit up for Coach Murphy.
Hamilton
County has two kids on the Gold club; Tucker Braden and Jake
Scattone while Carmi-White County (Jordan Large) and Vienna
(Quinnton Bent) have one player each.
Waltonville
has Braden Kitowski and Zeigler-Royalton will have Jeffrey Saddler
representing their schools on the Gold team.
Coach Bob
Waggoner will have some familiar faces on his team with two
of his own players, Nolan Luke and Tristen Fisher wearing Purple
after leading his Panthers (25-7) to a regional championship
and a sectional title game this past month.
Two other
players who Coach Waggoner saw a lot of the past few seasons
in SIRR Mississippi play are Nashville's Daniel Thorson and
Dylan Mueller.
Thorson
and Mueller were seniors on the Hornets' division title team
that was upset in the regional title game by Breese Mater Dei
and were starters as juniors on the 2A second place team in
2013-14.
Mounds Meridian,
fresh off of a 1A second place finish, has three players in
the game for the Purple squad.
ABV 1A “Player
of the Year” Davis Davis, along with teammates Devarae
Edmonds and Tyrone Nesby finished the season 27-8 after falling
in the title game two weeks ago.
Both made
the ABV 1A All-South Teams with Edmonds being Second Team.
Luke, an
ABV 2A Second Team pick, Fisher and Thorson, were also All-ABV
on the 2A list.
The Purple
gang will also have some additional help with ABV 1A second
team selection 6-foot-7 Chase Rednour from Trico on the club.
His Pioneer
teammates Ryan Myers and Jake Chapman were on a team that ended
up 23-9 on the season before losing to Meridian in the regional
final.
Centralia's
Ryan Obermeier along with two other Mt. Vernon players Gilwan
Nelson and Bryce Hunter will wear Purple.
The Greater
Egyptian Conference has a pair of selections on the Purple team
with Gunner Galloway of Crab Orchard and BJ Austin of Hardin
County.
Galloway
and Austin both eclipsed 1,000-points for their career's in
leading their respective teams to a combined 50-wins this season.
Hardin County won its first regional since 1986.
Caden Hight
of Century is also on the team as is Cairo's Demetrius McGee.
Hight netted over 1,700-points for his career for the Centurions
while McGee was part of back-to-back regional champs for the
Pilots.
The 3-Point
Shootout Contestants will be Rednour, Nesby, Johnson, Chapman,
VanWey, Hight, Marlo and Davis. |
