Junior High Girls Basketball -- Oct. 27

Effingham Junior High School picked up a victory and suffered a loss in girls basketball competition Monday evening.

Olney won the seventh-grade game 36-21. Krouse led Effingham with nine points. The Mustangs drop to 4-6.

In eighth-grade action, Effingham picked up a 45-19 win to improve to 9-1. Fearday tallied 21 and Weis 10.

At Effingham

Seventh-Grade Game

Olney                  6    12     9    9    --    36

Effingham          4      3    10    4    --    21

Olney -- Hires 2, Inskeep 2, Mowrer 4, Wood 2, Hughes 6, Blackford 2, Black 18

Effingham -- Krouse 9, Crowell 4, Kull 2, Allie 4, Collier 2

Eighth-Grade Game

Olney                     6      5     0     8    --    19

Effingham          13    16    13    3    --    45

Olney -- Kauble 6, Hough 2, Lecrone 5, Cummins 2, Inyart 4

Effingham -- Kuhlman 4, Weis 10, Fearday 21, Buscher 4, Fox 6

At Dieterich

Beecher City/Cowden-Herrick defeated Dieterich in both seventh and eighth grade games Monday.

BCCH won the seventh-grade game 31-15. Dieterich took an 11-8 opening quarter lead but did not score in the second period to fall behind 16-11. BCCH then had a 15-4 second half run. Wojcik had 14 and Bertin 11 for the winners. Niemerg led Dieterich with six.

At Dieterich

Seventh-Grade Game

BCCH                   8    8    8    7    --    31

Dieterich          11    0    2    2    --    15

Beecher City/Cowden-Herrick -- Bertin 11, Blaine 2, Rauch 4, Wojcik 14

Dieterich -- Bloemer 4, Niemerg 6, Bierman 3, Mahnke 2

Eighth-Grade Game

BCCH                 3    12    11    6    --    32

Dieterich          8       6      4    5    --    23

Beecher City/Cowden-Herrick -- Bertin 6, Persinger 1, Endsley 6, Smith 2, Wojcik 14, Miller 2, Cherry 1

Dieterich -- Britton 3, Robards 16, Bloemer 2, Vahling 2

At Robinson

Jasper County claimed a 43-10 victory over Marshall in the Seventh-Grade Conference Tournament Monday evening.

Jasper County held a 27-9 halftime lead. Abby Stone tallied 10 points and Eliza Bierman nine for the winners. The next game will be Wednesday vs. Paris Mayo at 7:20.

At Robinson

Jasper County          11    16    10    6    --    43

Marshall                       2      7       0    1    --    10

Jasper County -- Stone 10,  Bierman 9, Geltz 6, Russell 6, Grunloh 4, Carr 2, Jansen 2, Harris 2, Higgs 2

Marshall -- no statistics listed