St. Michael, BSE, T-town Headed To Girls Eighth-Grade State Basketball Tourneys

Sigel St. Michael, Brownstown/St. Elmo and Teutopolis are headed to eighth-grade girls state basketball tournaments after winning sectionals Wednesday evening.

Class 8-1A St. Michael Sectional

Sigel St. Michael is on its way to the Class 8-1A State Tournament at Clinton Junior High School Saturday.

The Sharpshooters pounded Mount Olive to win their own sectional, 31-8. St. Michael improves to a 16-6 on the season.

St. Michael will now face Lexington (19-1) at 1 p.m. Saturday.

Class 8-2A Effingham St. Anthony Sectional

Brownstown/St. Elmo handed host St. Anthony a 33-26 loss to win the sectional championship.

BSE improves to a perfect 24-0 and will now take on Bismarck-Henning (20-4) at 1 p.m. Saturday at the Class 8-2A State Tournament at Lewistown Central High School.

Class 8-3A Cumberland Sectional

Teutopolis improved to 24-0 and is headed to the Class 8-3A State Tournament after beating Jasper County, 25-16.

T-town stepped out to a 12-4 opening quarter lead. From that point on, the two teams played pretty even. Olivia Niemerg led the Shoes with 10 points.

Jasper County was led by Abby Stone with six.

T-town will face Peotone (20-1) at 2:30 p.m. Satudray at Germantown Hills Middle School in the Class 8-3A State Tournament.

At Toledo

Teutopolis              12    3    2    8    --    25

Jasper County          4    3    4    5    --    16

Teutopolis -- Niemerg 10, Bushur 2, Brumleve 2, Bloemer 2, Roepke 4, Mette 1, Michels 4

Jasper County -- Carr 2, Jansen 2, Bierman 1, Grunloh 4, Stone 6, Russell 1