Junior High Boys Basketball -- Dec. 4

SIGEL -- St. Elmo/Brownstown and North Clay (Louisville) claimed victories in consolation round action at the National Trail Conference Seventh-Grade Boys Basketball Tournament Monday evening.

St. Elmo/Brownstown downed Effingham Sacred Heart 34-23. The Shamrocks held a 6-2 opening quarter lead and led 11-10 at halftime. SEB came back with a 13-7 third period and otuscored the Shamrocks 11-5 in the final quarter.

SEB was led by Campbell with 15 points. Sacred Heart was led by Tegeler with eight.

In the second contest, North Clay (Louisville) won over Cowden-Herrick/Beecher City, 40-33.

CHBC led 8-7 after the opening quarter and 17-12 at halftime. North Clay had an 11-4 third period run and didn't look back.

Logan Fleener scored 12 and Levi Smith 11 for the winners. Trevor Theis scored 12 for CHBC.

St. Elmo/Brownstown will now face North Clay at 5:30 p.m. Thursday for the consolation championship.

Tonight's winner bracket games feature Stewardson-Strasburg against Dieterich at 6:15 followed by South Central taking on Altamont at 7:30.

NTC Seventh-Grade Tournament

Game 8

St. Elmo/Brownstown              2    8    13    11    --    34

Sacred Heart                             6    5     7      5    --    23

St. Elmo/Brownstown -- Dagan 4, Behl 2, Pasley 5, Poe 4, Reynolds 2, Campbell 15, Tohill 2

Sacred Heart -- Wiedman 6, Lohman 6, McDevitt 3, Tegeler 8

Game 9

North Clay              7     5    11    17    --    40

CHBC                      8     9     4    12    --    33

North Clay -- Boose 7, Dawkins 4, Fleener 12, Griffy 2, Smith 11, Byers 2, Walker 2

Cowden-Herrick/Beecher City -- Bain 2, Watson 6, Robbins 6, Theis 12, Doty 3, Corley 4

At Centralia

Effingham split with Centralia in seventh and eighth grade action Monday evening.

In seventh-grade play, the Mustangs were 46-34 winners. Effingham took a 25-17 halftime lead and then had a slight 21-17 second half.

Donaldson tallied 12 for the winners while Wolfe and Estrada added 10 each. EJHS is now 9-1 on the season.

In eighth-grade action, Centralia picked up a 51-22 victory. Centralia held a 35-12 hafltime lead.

Joe Matteson led the Mustangs with 12 points.

At Centralia

Seventh-Grade Game

Effingham             14    11    11    10    --    46

Centralia                 6    11    10      7    --    34

Effingham -- Donaldson 12, Wolfe 10, Westendorf 8, Pontious 2, Dillow 2, Rinkel 2, Estrada 10

Centralia -- Myers 3, Webster 10, Newcomb 9, Frost 2, Johnston 10

Eighth-Grade Game

Effingham           4      8      6    4    --    22

Centralia           19    16    16    0    --    51

Effingham -- Matteson 12, Fox 4, Volpi 2, Pemberton 2, Eaton 2

Centralia -- Burns 25, Tabor 14, Such 7, Johnson 2, Wright 3

At Newton

Jasper County bounced Red Hill (Bridgeport) in both seventh and eighth grade contests Monday.

In the seventh-grade game, Jasper County won 43-15. Mahaffey tallied 10 poitns for the winners who iprove to 3-7.

In the eighth-grade contest, Jasper County was a 52-8 winner, taking a 24-2 opening quarter lead. Schafer scored 18 and Koebele tallied 11. Jasper County is 6-6.

At Newton

Seventh-Grade Game

Red Hill                        3      4    6      2    --    15

Jasper County            10    12    9    12    --    43

Red Hill -- Walker 2, PIchan 4, Powden 4, Penhall 5

Jasper County -- Gosnell 2, Baltzell 2, Haarman 3, Shamhart 6, Reynolds 6, Jansen 6,  Einhorn 2, Streat 6, Mahaffey 10

Eighth-Grade Game

Red Hill                         2    5      1    0    --       8

Jasper County            24    9    13    6    --    52

Red Hill -- Stinler 1, Bright 3,  Green 4

Jasper County -- Schmidt 2, Meinhart 4,  Mulvey 5, Tharp 6, Spiker 6, Koebele 11, Schafer 18