Wooden Shoes Move Into Sectional Final

The Teutopolis Wooden Shoes advanced to the championship game of the Greenville 2A Sectional with a win Tuesday night over the Roxana Shells, 58-42.  The game was heard on 979XFM and www.979xfm.com.

The Shoes methodically put away the Shells, leading 15-10 after one quarter, 25-18 at halftime and 44-32 after three quarters before outscoring Roxana 14-10 in the final stanza.

T-Town won despite shooting 37% from the field, making 19 of 51 including eight of 20 from three-point range.  The Shoes made 12 of 20 from the line, turned the ball over just nine times and grabbed 28 rebounds.

Roxana made 49% of its shots, 18 of 37, but made just three of nine foul shots, turned the ball over a whopping 24 times and pulled down 25 rebounds while making three of seven three-point shots.

The Wooden Shoes featured a balanced attack.  Derek Smith led the way with 14 points, Devin Falbe scored 12 points, and Jared Waldhoff and Kyle Pruemer each scored 10 points.  Also for T-Town: Reed Hardiek five, Cody Will three, and Brett Mette and Rourke Schultz two points each.

Hunter Reine with 12 points and Matt Hartnett with 10 points led Roxana, who closes the season with a 24-8 mark.

Teutopolis improved to 27-3 on the season and will face the winner of Wednesday night's Breese Central vs. Robinson game on Friday night at 7:30pm for the sectional championship and a trip to the Carbondale Super-Sectional next Tuesday night.

Here's ticket information for Wooden Shoes fans for Friday night's game:

All tickets will be sold on Thursday, February 28 at Teutopolis High School.  All tickets are $5 each.

Here's the schedule --

2nd -- Sales to tournament players and managers, other boy basketball players, cheerleaders, pomerettes and girl basketball players

Lunch Hour -- Students will be sold tickets, one per student; seniors, then juniors, sophomores and then freshmen

1-3 p.m. -- Qualified staff may purchase tickets

4-5 p.m. -- Reserved gold seat holders, immediately followed by the general public on a first come, first served basis.  Each individual will be allowed to purchase five tickets once the gold seaoson ticket holders have received their tickets.

There will be no admittance to the high school building to start forming lines until 3:30 p.m. Thursday.

Class 2A Greenville Sectional

TEUTOPOLIS (58)

Smith 4-5 -- 14,Waldhoff 4-0 -- 10, Will 1-0 -- 3, Mette 1-0 -- 2, Pruemer 4-2 -- 10, Ungrund 0-0 -- 0, Windell 0-0 -- 0, Hardiek 1-2 -- 5, Falbe 3-3 -- 12, Schutlz 1-0 -- 2. TOTALS 19 FG, 12 FT.

ROXANA (42)

McCalley 1-0 -- 3, Sheets 2-2 -- 6, Hartnett 4-0 -- 10, Briggs 3-1 -- 7, Reine 6-0 -- 12, Brown 2-0 -- 4, Foss 0-0 -- 0, Skiff 0-0 -- 0, Kunz 0-0 -- 0, Porter 0-0 -- 0, Twisdale 0-0 -- 0, Vandiver 0-0 -- 0, Hulmes 0-0 -- 0. TOTALS 18 FG, 3  FT.

Teutopolis          15    10    19    14    --    58

Roxana               10      8    14    10    --    42

3-point FG -- Teuotpolis 8 (Falbe 3, Waldhoff 2), Smith 1, Will 1, Hardiek 1), Roxana 3 (Hartnett 2, McCalley 1).