CarbondaleCarbondale coach Jim

Miller has a big task aheadof him with only four play-ers returning from lastyear’s team that tied forfourth in the South Seven at3-7 and finished 15-14.

“We’re excited,” Millersaid. “We’re young andinexperienced, but the rea-son I’m looking forward tothe season is because we’revery athletic, so you’regoing see some differentthings from us this year.”

Miller has no returningstarters, but he has someintriguing starting candi-dates in 7-foot center FelipeRech, 6-6 forward/centerSam Strus and guard/for-ward Elijah Bidinger.

“Sam gives us some size,is one of our best jumpersand has a great mid-rangeshot,” Miller said. “Anothergood addition is Felipe. Hehas great footwork, runs thefloor extremely well andplays well with his back to

the basket. Elijah started forus at times last year as afreshman.”

Strus is returning to theteam after spending lastyear in Colorado, whileRech has come toCarbondale from Brazil.

Coach: Jim MillerSeniors: Sam Strus, 6-6, f/c.Juniors: Felipe Rech, 7-0, c; Jarron Warren, 6-

0, f/c; Jackson Bates, 6-0, g; Dion Wooley, 5-10, g;Zach O’Hagan, 5-10, g.

Sophomores: Elijah Bidinger, 5-11, g/f; MichelAndre, 5-10, g/f; Shamarc Bursey, 5-10, g/f;Devontavius Payne, 5-10, g.

Freshmen: Allen Billinger, 5-10, g; Jordan Kelly,6-5, f/c.

MarionLast year, Marion had a

rough time, finishing last inthe South Seven (2-8) withthe worst record (10-18) inthe league.

“We lost 14 of our 18games last year by two pos-sessions or less, so we wereclose in a lot of ballgames,”

said coach Aaron Mattox.“This year, our guard playhas to improve to reversethat.”

Mattox will have toreplace Aaron Adeoye andeight other players, but hehas two key starters back inpower forward Jared Ellisand shooting guard JuwanTucker.

“Aaron leaves a big holefor us, but we have a littlemore quickness and experi-ence on the perimeter thanwe’ve had in the past,”Mattox said. “We will leanheavily on Big Jared to be aforce inside offensively anddefensively. Juwan playedhis best basketball down thestretch last year as a sopho-more. They give us somethings to build upon.”

One of the new players isformer Carbondale guard,Juju Kizeart. Also back after

missing most of last seasonwith an injury is guardBrody DeMattei.

“Brody is a guy we’recounting on to give us goodleadership both inside andout,” Mattox said.

Coach: Aaron MattoxSeniors: JARED ELLIS, 6-8, f; Juju Kizeart, 6-0,

g; Brody DeMattei, 6-1, g; Jay Riley, 5-11, g.Juniors: JUWAN TUCKER, 6-0, g; Cole Winn, 6-

4, c; Gabe Murphy, 6-2, f; Logan Will, 6-0, g; MalikStuckey, 5-10, g.

Sophomores: Sean Nuernberger, 6-1, g; ColtonCarter, 5-10, g; Davontay Blye, 5-11, g; ZachBingman, 6-2, g; Carsen Cash, 6-2, f.

Mount VernonThe Rams are coming off

a 22-6 season, finishingsecond in the South Sevenat 8-2. However, this will bea rebuilding year.

“We lost a lot from lastyear,” said coach ScottGamber. “Six of our topseven players were seniors,so we are green on experi-ence, but we have a big jun-

ior class this year that got alot of experience over thesummer.”

The lone players whohave starting experience areshooting guard Ty’RilTrimble and guard/forwardClay Payne.

“We bring back Ty’Ril,who started several gamesas a sophomore and severalmore as junior, and Clay,who got to start somegames at the first of the sea-son last year,” Gamber said.“Clay is going to be asked alot of because of our lack ofsize. He is going to have toplay a little bit bigger posi-tion than he has in the past.”

Looking to earn startingjobs at guard are JarronLiddell, Travis Mitchell andTrevor Flota.

Coach: Scott GamberSeniors: TY’RIL TRIMBLE, 5-9, g; Clay Payne, 6-

3, g; Savon Cummings, 6-5, f/c; Leontae Badger, 6-2, f.

Juniors: Travis Mitchell, 6-0, g; Colton Meader,6-2, f; Jarron Liddell, 5-9, g; Michael Feezer, 6-3, f;Qwyman Cantley, 6-2, c; Clayton Reeves, 5-11, g/f;Trevor Flota, 6-0, g; Louis Grote, 5-10, g.

CentraliaLast season, Centralia

(30-5) won the South Seven(9-1) for the third time infour years, won its secondstraight regional title andthird in the last four years,its first sectional title since2002 and finished second atthe state tournament forthe fourth time.

Coach Lee Bennettachieved all of that havingto replace three starters.This year, Bennett has toreplace three starters, aswell as his top three playersoff the bench, includingMVP R. J. Kwiatkowski.

Coach: Lee BennettSeniors: BRYAN BETTS, 5-10, g; DANIEL

WESTBROOK, 5-10, g; Ivan McConnaughay, 6-0, g;Luka Stefanovic, 6-6, f; David Jackson, 6-2, f.

Juniors: Jae’lin Webster, 5-10, g; Charlie Evischi,5-11, g; Drew Shores, 5-10, f.

Sophomores: Jake Wood, 6-1, f; Chase Alcorn,6-1, g.

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ished tied for last in theSouth Seven (2-8), theWildcats finished over .500(14-13).

Coach Jeff Tarlton is opti-mistic because he has ayoung and talented teamthis year.

The Wildcats will have anew look with 1,500-pointscorer Lindsay Lenon andtwo other starters graduat-ing and another starter notreturning. The only return-ing starter is point guardIeasha Clark.

“We’re going to be prettyinexperienced, so I thinkwe’ll be as good as Ieasha(Clark) allows us to be,”Tarlton said. “The last cou-ple years, Lindsay scored alot for us, but this year isgoing to be a little more bal-anced with a handful ofgirls averaging five to 10points making it harder todefense us.”

Also returning are juniorguards Cortney and DaileyWilliams and sophomoresguard Emily Dickman andforward/center MontanaSchafer.

“Cortney and Dailey canshoot the ball and have achance to start, but regard-less they are going to play aton of minutes,” Tarltonsaid. “Emily can play pointand both her and Ieasha canplay defense. Montana canshoot the ball for a big kid.”

Coach: Jeff TarltonSeniors: IEASHA CLARK, 5-4, g; Taylor

Simmerman, 5-8, g; Savannah Howard, 5-11, f; Carly

Crabtree, 5-8, f; Taylor Booten, 5-6, f; JordanShotten, 5-7, g.

Juniors: Cortney Williams, 5-5, g; DaileyWilliams, 5-5, g; Katie Comp, 5-7, f.

Sophomores: Montana Schafer, 6-1, f; EmilyDickman, 5-4, g; Jessica Rauch, 5-6, f.

Freshmen: MarQuisha Edwards, 5-7, f; AlysonGwaltney, 5-9, g; Haley Rushing, 5-7, g.

Mount VernonLast year, in coach Jeff

Lonnon’s second season atthe helm, the Lady Rams(8-19) saw improvement,but Mount Vernon couldn’tclimb out of the cellar of theSouth Seven, finishing tiedfor last at 2-8.

This year, Lonnon returnsall five starters, includinghis only two seniors, All-South point guard CheyenePiper and honorable men-tion all-conference powerforward Jessica Green.

“I think we’re going to bepretty competitive,”Lonnon said. “My first year,we won five. Last year, wewon eight. And this year, wehave the same kids back, soI think they’re ready to stepup this year.”

One silver lining was theplaying experience gainedby juniors Hailey Lockhart,Kelby Kujawa and AaliyahPalmer.

“Piper and Green havestarted since they weresophomores and we haveLockhart, Kujawa andPalmer who all started assophomores last year, so wehave a lot of experienceback,” Lonnon said.

Lonnon’s bench is ninedeep, but it’s short on expe-rience with the exception ofjunior center NatalieWilliamson and sophomoreforwards Claire Ryan andCourtney Scarbrough.

Coach: Jeff LonnonSeniors: CHEYENE PIPER, 5-8, g; JESSICA

GREEN, 5-5, f.Juniors: HAILEY LOCKHART, 5-9, c; KELBY

KUJAWA, 5-9, f; AALIYAH PALMER, 5-7, f; NatalieWilliamson, 5-11, c.

Sophomores: Claire Ryan, 5-7, f; CourtneyScarbrough, 5-7, f; Ieisha Sanders, 5-7, c; MichaelaLamczyk, 5-7, f; Colleen Skobel, 5-5, g; VickieSkobel, 5-6, f; Charonda Barnes, 5-9, c.

Freshmen: Hannah Owens, 5-11, c.

CarbondaleThe Terriers (15-12, 3-7

South Seven) finishedfourth in the conferencelast year and return threestarters, including All-South shooting guardElaina Robinson and pointguard Sarah Goodale.

“This year we’re going tobe running in seven andeight players in a lot, so itwon’t matter who the start-ing five are,” said coachMarialice Jenkins.“Offensively we’re going tohave to get after it and thencause some trouble ondefense to get transitionbaskets.”

Also back is honorablemention All-Stateguard/forward McKenaMiller who started as afreshman. Senior LaceyArmit is the leading candi-date at center with seniorLoren Scott and junior

Zamorrow Glispie in a bat-tle for the open guard spot.

“During the off-seasonLoren and Sarah took uponthemselves to work aboveand beyond and I thinkthey’re going to see that payoff tremendously,” Jenkinssaid. “Robinson and Lorencould be pretty dangerousout on the wings when yougot kids like Goodale,Glispie and Miller who canget to the basket. Glispie’sspeed is deceptive becauseshe has some jets.”

First off the bench isKristy Scally and BryonneWilliams.

“We’re longer athleticallyand have a pretty goodarsenal of shooters, but ourbiggest concern is going tobe muscling it up in thepaint and gettingrebounds,” Jenkins said.“We can’t expect Armit toget all the rebounds, sowe’re going to have torebound by committee.”

Coach: Marialice JenkinsSeniors: ELAINA ROBINSON, 5-8, g; Lacey

Armit, 5-8, f/c; Loren Scott, 5-6, g.Juniors: SARAH GOODALE, 5-8, g/f; Zamorrow

Glispie, 5-7, g; Kristy Scally, 5-6, f; TiAnn Kee, 5-7, f.Sophomores: McKENA MILLER, 5-10, g/f;

Bryonne Williams, 5-8, f; Iesha Croft, 5-5, g.Freshmen: Samantha Goodale, 5-6, g; Paige

Bird, 5-7, g/f; Elisha Richardson, 5-8, g/f; KailiBacon, 5-10, f/c.

CentraliaLast year, the Annies

(19-12) finished in secondplace in the South Seven(8-2) and advanced to the

regional finals before losingto Salem. This year, coachRoger Stieg has the task ofreplacing his starting back-court including 1,000-point scorer HannahShores.

“The question markswe’re going to have is ourguard play and how well wecan rebound, but our jun-iors are pretty athletic whocan get up and down thefloor,” Stieg said. “We’renot a big group with my twobiggest girls being juniorShantena McClain andAbby Holtkamp.”

Coach: Roger StiegSeniors: KHADIJA BROWN-HAYWOOD, 5-8, g/f;

ASHTON DOZA, 5-7, f; Darryl Lusch, 5-8, f/c; KaitlinMurphy, 5-3, g.

Juniors: Danielle Meadows, 5-8, f; ShantenaMcClain, 5-11, f/c; Maddie Wernsman, 5-3, g; JordynLooman, 5-5, g/f; Aarion Owens, 5-3, g.

Sophomores: Abby Holtkamp, 5-10, c; RaigenSchwartz, 5-2, g; Cassie Kwiatkowski, 5-4, g; MariahPeters, 5-5, g/f; Lauren Smith, 5-8, f; Erika Starr, 5-7, f; Rachel Cavaletto, 5-7,f.

Belleville AlthoffThe Belleville Althoff

Crusaders (16-11, 9-1 SouthSeven) have dominated theSouth Seven under coachesLori and R.J. Crunk winningthe title seven years in arow, but the Crunks retired,turning the reins over toTodd Hill.

Hill was assistant coachunder the Crunks two yearsago and was the head coachat Riverview Gardens HighSchool last year.

Coach: Todd HillSeniors: ALECE SHUMPERT, 5-9, g; Heather

Dundon, 5-6, g.Juniors: JAZMINE STUBBLEFIELD, 5-6, g;

KYMBER HILL, 6-3, f/c; Mary Cardenas, 5-9, g;Whitney Harris, 6-1, f.

Sophomores: Rachel Kaltwasser, 5-7, g; KatieNagel, 5-5, g; Mackenzie Weilbacher, 5-7, f.

Freshmen: Madison Weilbacher, 5-9, g; BriannaNowak, 6-0, f.

CahokiaThe Lady Comanches fin-

ished third (6-4) in theSouth Seven and 18-11overall.

Fred Dancy returns twosenior starters in pointguard Shyniece Manuel andshooting guard DiamondSuggs, and although he losthis entire front court.Dancy has experiencedreserves ready to replacethem.

“We were putting in anew offense and defense, sothe girls were working hardthis summer,” Dancy said.“They take direction verywell and this is actually oneof the hardest workinggroups I’ve had.”

Junior Tykia Cooperreplaces first team all-con-ference forward FredrikaWalker and senior TakeshaGibson takes over for centerWhitney Henderson whilejunior Dearielle Ivy is theleading candidate to replaceCarmella Collier at wingguard.

Coach: Fred DancySeniors: DIAMOND SUGGS, 5-11, g; SHYNIECE

MANUEL, 5-1, g; Michaela Dew, 5-8, g/f; TakeshaGibson, 6-0, c; Mytanesha Moffett, 5-8, f;Demetrious Brown, 5-0, g.

Juniors: Deairelle Ivy, 5-10, g/f; Tekia Cooper, 5-11, f.

Sophomores: LaShandra Brewer, 6-2, f; KieraMinor, 5-5, g.

Freshmen: Java Brock, 5-3, g.

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Anna-JonesboroWaiting for football sea-

son to come to an end hasbecome a habit for Anna-Jonesboro basketball coachMike Chamness.

The Wildcats were with-out eight players throughthe first week of practicebecause of the footballteam’s success. But whenthey finally return, they willadd to a team considerablytaller and faster than lastseason’s squad that finished15-15.

“It’s been interesting, butwe’ve got a lot of young kidsand it’s been about teachingthem fundamentals anddefensive rotations,”Chamness said. “The guyswho were playing footballknow what’s going on.”

Brady Wright (6-4 for-ward), Travis Smith (6-1guard) and Dalton Baker(6-2 guard) are the threereturning starters forAnna-Jonesboro, which hasseven seniors, one juniorand sophomores Jay Kemp(6-3 forward) and TylerVaughn (5-11 guard) in thevarsity rotation. The junior,6-foot-8 center AndrewNixon, is a transfer fromGoreville.

Coach: Mike ChamnessSeniors: TRAVIS SMITH, 6-1, g; BRADY WRIGHT,

6-4, f; DALTON BAKER, 6-2, g; Cody Garver, 5-9, g;Caleb Mixen, 5-8, g; Jarid Veronesi, 6-0, g; JadenAyers, 6-1, g.

Juniors: Evan Hughey, 6-3, c; Andrew Nixon, 6-8, c; Josh Belford, 5-9, g.

Sophomores: Jay Kemp, 6-3, f; Ben McFarland,6-4, c; Trey Pender, 5-7, g; Tyler Vaughn, 5-11, g;Colton James, 5-11, g.

Freshmen: Caleb Franklin-Searby, 5-11, f;Marcus Taylor, 5-9, g; Noah Prater, 5-9, g; DerekHarvell, 6-2, f; Steve Wells, 6-1, c; Dallas Marks, 6-2,

c; Dustin Ryan, 6-0, f; Noah Fuller, 5-10, g; CurtisPlott, 5-11, g; Jared Rendleman, 6-2, c; BayleRobertson, 5-10, f; Zane Dewitt, 6-1, g.

CartervilleCarterville will have two

returning starters and a lotof older players in 2011-12,but the Lions do not have alot of varsity experience.

Senior Curtis Pitt (6-2center) and junior DaltonBrown (5-9 guard) will leada group of 10 upperclass-men that have paid theirdues on the junior varsityteam the last two seasons.Size is a little bit of a con-cern, with 6-4 sophomorecenter Matt Bigelow as theLions’ tallest player.

“We’re not going to be thebiggest team, but we’repretty athletic,” saidCarterville coach ScottBurzynski. “Hopefully wecan get up and down thefloor and create some easybuckets for the offense.”

The Lions will miss thecontributions of graduatedstandouts Ryan Bonifieldand Drew Bonner, who areboth suiting up for John A.Logan College in 2011-12,but the group that remainsappears hungry to provethemselves.

“We’re in a unique situa-tion in that we have a lot ofolder guys that haven’tplayed a lot of varsity min-utes,” Burzynski said.“They’ve been hungry ingetting to the varsity level

and hopefully those years ofJV have paid off.”

Coach: Scott BurzynskiSeniors: CURTIS PITT, 6-2, c; Zach Bollman, 5-

10, g; Dalton Sameul, 6-2, c.Juniors: DALTON BROWN, 5-9, g; Lucas Hunter,

6-0, g; Travis Kidd, 6-2, f; Kyle Adams, 5-10, f; TylerHorn, 6-3, c; Matt Hansen, 5-10, g; David Eaton, 6-0, g.

Sophomores: Michael Aschemann, 5-10, g;Matt Bigelow, 6-4, c; Cam Lenzini, 5-10, f; BrittonHerrin, 6-1, g.

Freshman: Blake Watson, 5-8, g.

Du QuoinIt’s a fresh start for

Du Quoin this season, afterthe Indians graduated fourstarters and five seniorsfrom a team that went 23-7in 2010-11.

Senior forward SamGossett is expected to missthe entire season after sur-gery to repair torn knee lig-aments from an injury suf-fered during football sea-son. That leaves seniors JonBoss and John Galik, both ofwhom saw limited varsitytime off the bench last sea-son, as the Indians’ mostexperienced players.

“We lost five seniors andwith Sam being out, that’stough,” said Du Quoincoach Gabe Sveda. “We’vegot to step up and faceadversity and get bettereach day.”

Du Quoin has anotherlarge senior class anchoredby 6-5 center BrandonWilliams. Junior BrendenFred, the heir to Gossett onthe football field, is expect-ed to play a lot of minutes

and defensive prowessappears to be what theIndians are striving for in2011-12.

Coach: Gabe SvedaSeniors: Brandon Williams, 6-5, c; John Galik,

6-2, g; Cayle Diggins, 6-2, g; Jon Boss, 6-3, f; DillonBeltz, 6-1, f; Sam Gossett, 6-3, f.

Juniors: Deeja Cole, 5-10, g; Brenden Fred, 6-2,g/f; Nate Boss, 5-11, g; Daulton Beltz, 6-2, c; DaultonDonoghue, 6-1, f; Austin Mapps, 6-0, g; John Erwin,5-10, g.

Sophomore: Stencer Cook, 5-11, f.

NashvilleLike several teams in the

conference, Nashville isrebuilding after the loss of alarge senior class.

The Hornets lost nineplayers to graduation after a25-5 season and will look toScott Brown for leadershipin 2011-12. Brown, a 6-1junior guard, appeared in 28games last season, averag-ing 13.8 points per game offthe bench for Nashville.

“Obviously, we’ve got alot of question marks,” saidNashville coach BradWeathers.

“We’re looking at a lot ofdifferent combinationswith nine or 10 kids fightingfor playing time.”

At 6-5, junior Devin Holleis the team’s lone playertaller than 6-1 and theteam’s athleticism looks tohave taken a small step backfrom the level it was in2010-11. Still, Nashville is aprogram with a lot of tradi-tion and could adapt quick-ly to its new challenges.

“We’re not going to be asquick or as athletic as wewere a year ago,” Weatherssaid. “We’re going to haveto play awfully, awfullyhard to compensate forsize.”

Coach: Brad WeathersSeniors: Justin Grathwohl, 6-0, f; Jessie

Krawiecki, 5-10, g; Trey Meyer, 5-10, g.Juniors: Scott Brown, 6-1, g; Chance Reuter, 5-

11, g; Devin Holle, 6-5, f/c.Sophomores: Keegan Anderson, 5-10, g; Bryce

Styninger, 6-0, f; Hunter Beetley, 6-1, f.Freshman: Daniel Thorson, 6-0, g.

PinckneyvilleThere are strong rumors

coming out of DusterThomas Gymnasium thatthis season’s PinckneyvillePanthers could be the teamto beat in the conference.

Pinckneyville boasts sev-en seniors and four return-ing starters in Bryant Shute,Hunter Queen, Payton Nip-pe and C.J. Opp.

Six of th-ose seven havevarsity exp-erience, but thePanthers lack the post play-er they have had in yearspast.

“One of the big things ishaving two returningguards,” said Pinckneyvillecoach Bob Waggoner. “Weshould be able to pressurethe ball more and do morethings in transition than wehave in the last couple ofyears.

“I expect those four toreally add a level of securityas far as being an extensionof the coach on the floor.”

Coach: Bob WaggonerSeniors: C.J. OPP, 6-3, c; BRYANT SHUTE, 5-9, g;

HUNTER QUEEN, 5-10, g; PAYTON NIPPE, 6-3, f;Keegan Kellerman, 6-2, c; Justin Bumman, 6-0, f;Devan Downard, 6-5, f.

Juniors: Chris Priebe, 6-4, f; Dylan Hardin, 6-0,g.

SpartaSparta coach Rich

Williams is banking on tworeturning starters and a lit-tle bit of better luck in 2011-12.

Second team all-confer-ence forward/center AaronRushing and guard AustinPeck will be asked to pro-vide leadership to a teamthat lost several close gamesin finishing 11-19 and 3-7 inthe conference a year ago.

“We’ve got some athletickids and we’re really youngat the guard position,”Williams said. “We are longand do have some quick-ness.”

At 6-7, Rushing is by farthe team’s tallest player,with 6-3 forward SeanLukes and 6-2 forwardTyler Morrison providingsize inside. The Bulldogshaven’t won a regional titlesince 1991 and haven’t wona conference title since the1982-83 season.

“We lost several closeballgames last year and ifwe had won those, wewould be .500,” Williamssaid.

Coach: Rich WilliamsSeniors: AUSTIN PECK, 6-1, g; Tyler Morrison,

6-2, f; Dalton Robert, 5-10, g; Orlando Oliver, 6-1, f.Juniors: AARON RUSHING, 6-7, f/c; Sharvel

Austin, 5-9, g; Sean Lukes, 6-3, f.Sophomore: Vonte Garrett, 5-10, g.Freshman: Dewayne Dodson, 5-8, g.

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have to set the tone forAnna-Jonesboro in 2011-12.

Stone, a 6-foot seniorcenter, is entering herfourth year as a starter forthe Lady Wildcats, one ofonly two players withstarter’s experience backfrom last season’s 13-14squad. The other returner,5-9 forward Valerie Pender,is the other senior on Anna-Jonesboro’s roster.

“Right now, I’ve beenvery impressed with theirwork ethic,” said second-year Anna-Jonesboro coachBryan Clark. “We’re a littleinexperienced on ourbench, but I’m very, verypleased with what I’veseen.”

Sophomore guard/for-ward Erica Friebel and jun-ior guard/forward KatieGrant figure to be heavily inthe mix for playing time andthe team has a combined 17players out for basketball inthe four classes.

“We’ve got three goodguards out of the freshmenclass that may see somevarsity time,” Clark said.“We’re a little young, butthat’s just been the case atAnna the last couple ofyears.”

Coach: Bryan ClarkSeniors: JESSIE STONE, 6-0, c; VALERIE

PENDER, 5-9, f.Juniors: Kim Mixen, 5-4, g; Brooke Chamness,

5-4, g; Katie Grant, 5-7, g/f.Sophomores: Erica Friebel, 5-8, g/f; Krista

Pender, 5-10, f; Cara Ferris, 6-1, c; Kylie Foster, 5-6,f.

Freshmen: Haleigh Lawrence, 5-7, g; NattyHepburn, 5-4, g; Sam Clary, 5-4, g; Sammy Brimm,

5-4, g; Ally Reynolds, 5-6, f; Lauren George, 5-9, f;Ashley Donoho, 5-4, g; Balyie Denny, 5-2, g.

CartervilleThe Lady Lions find

themselves in a unique sit-uation with no full-timereturning starters, but fourplayers who started at onetime or another last season.

Nina Skinner (5-6 guard),Sidney Brothers (5-7 for-ward), Lauren Sherry (5-7guard) and Andrea Kesler(5-7 guard) highlight agroup of 12 returning varsi-ty players. With 24 playersavailable program-wide,depth is a strong point forCarterville.

“It is a challenge in itselfto keep all 24 busy,” saidCarterville coach ToddRogers. “I’m very pleasedwith the kids that havecome out and it will beinteresting to make thedecisions on who can helpus at the varsity level.”

With the graduation ofMollie Thomas, Carter-ville’s offense will likelycome by committee ratherthan from specific players.

“I think it’s going to comefrom a lot of differentplaces,” Rogers said. “I’ll besurprised if it’s one personthat stands out above theothers.”

Coach: Todd RogersSeniors: SIDNEY BROTHERS, 5-7, f; LAUREN

SHERRY, 5-7, g; ANDREA KESLER, 5-7, g.Juniors: NINA SKINNER, 5-6, g; Jennifer

Skinner, 5-10, f; Cierra Charles, 5-5, g; Sydney

Michael, 5-5, g; Brigitte Gentry, 5-10, f; CourtneyLam, 5-7, f; Katherine Prusator, 5-10, f.

Sophomores: Kelli Hicks, 5-7, g; Savana Jones,5-8, g; Jordan Gaston, 5-10, f.

Du QuoinDu Quoin coach Shawn

File is looking to finally reapthe rewards of having a vet-eran team in 2011-12.

The Lady Indians havetwo returning starters insenior Jessica Hirsch (5-6guard) and junior RebekahMaddox (6-1 forward), butwelcome the return of jun-ior Kelsey Robinson (5-7forward) and the addition ofAlexis Kohrs (5-9 guard/forward) from Sparta.

“Alexis started at the var-sity level last year andbrings a lot of competitive-ness to our practices,” Filesaid. “Kelsey will be a phys-ical presence for us on theboards after not playing forthe last couple of years.”

Hirsch is nearing the1,000-point mark in hercareer while Maddox pres-ents a challenge to opposingdefenses with her height.The pair will relied uponheavily to provide leader-ship.

“Their effort is going tobe key to our success,” Filesaid. “I’ve got a nice inside-outside game with thosetwo.”

While the team finished12-17 last season, severalother players gained expe-rience. Juniors Cassidy Rice

(5-7 guard/forward) andTaylor King (5-6 guard/for-ward) also played a lot ofvarsity minutes while start-ing a handful of games.

Coach: Shawn FileSeniors: JESSICA HIRSCH, 5-6, g; Shelby

Presley, 5-9, f.Juniors: REBEKAH MADDOX, 6-1, f; Taylor King,

5-6, g/f; Alexis Kohrs, 5-9, g/f; Cassidy Rice, 5-7, g/f;Kelsey Robinson, 5-7.

Sophomores: Bailie Caldwell, 5-6, g/f; MorganDennis, 5-8, f; Abby Myers, 5-4, g; Leah Spiller, 5-4,f; Ashanti Warren, 5-8, f.

Freshmen: Amanda Atteberry, 5-6, g; CarissaGraham, 5-4, g; Jacqueline Harsy, 5-6, f; ShelbySimmons, 5-4, f; Tiana Spann, 5-1, g.

NashvilleAfter an incredible three-

year run that included twothird-place trophies andone fourth place at theIHSA state tournament,Nashville coach WayneHarre is rebuilding aroundone returning starter andtwo others with varsityexperience.

“We’re kinda startingover again, which we’vedone before,” said Harre,who is 301-58 all-time atNashville. “It will take ussome time to get used tovarsity competition eventhough Erica (Brown) hasplayed some big games,along with (Shaye) Harreand (Shawn) Rennegarbe.”

After the graduation ofsix seniors, Nashville willlook to Brown to lead theway. The 5-11 forward wasthe Hornettes’ top defenderin 2010-11 and the juniorwill be relied upon to chip in

more than her 4.8 pointsper game.

“The things that we haveto do to win games here, likeplaying every possession,takes time for the kids to getused to,” Harre said.

Coach: Wayne HarreSeniors: Mollie Borowiak, 5-6, f; Jaysie Bower,

5-4, g; Rosalie Cloo, 5-8, f; Jolie Wall, 5-2, g.Juniors: ERICA BROWN, 5-11, f; Nicole Deering,

5-1, g; Shaye Harre, 5-9, c; Callie Schwartxkopf, 5-3,f.

Sophomores: Katy Kosydor, 5-2, g; ShawnRennegarbe, 5-9, f; Hannah Yung, 5-5, f.

Freshman: Jordi Harre, 5-5, g.

PinckneyvillePinckneyville coach Alan

Engelhardt has a challengein front of him this seasonafter losing eight seniors tograduation after a 20-9season.

The Lady Panthers haveone returning starter in 5-2junior Heather McDanieland 11 varsity players.McDaniel is expected totake over the starting pointguard role from the depart-ed Maddy Keith.

“We’re going to have tofigure out how to score,”Engelhardt said. “We aver-aged 54 points per game lastseason and return 16 ofthat. Our first three days ofpractice we couldn’t hangon to the ball.”

Pinckneyville does havesome size with 5-11 centerAlexis Anderson, 5-10 for-ward Haley Simpson and 5-10 guard Katelyn Mayer.Overall, the Lady Panthers

have just two seniors inguard Lindsey Winter andcenter Emma Opp.

Coach: Alan EngelhardtSeniors: Lindsey Winter, 5-9, g; Emma Opp, 5-8,

c.Juniors: HEATHER MCDANIEL, 5-2, g; Dani

Schoenbacher, 5-6, g; Britney Thomas, 5-6, f; HaleySimpson, 5-10, f; Alexis Anderson, 5-11, c.

Sophomores: Alyssa Hirsch, 5-7, g; KatelynMayer, 5-10, g; Haley Szczepanski, 5-8, f.

Freshman: Keelyn Stein, 5-7, f.

SpartaIt’s no secret that Sparta

will be the shortest team inthe conference with onlyone person taller than5-foot-5.

The Lady Bulldogs havetwo returning starters inJade Vaughn (5-4 guard)and Jenalee Stine (5-5guard/forward), but 5-9freshman Hailey Opolkawill have to become arebounding machine. Tocompensate, coach AprilYork is hoping her team canoutrun its opponents ingenerating scoring oppor-tunities.

“We’re focusing onquickness,” York said. “Justtrying to push the ball upthe court and get easylayups.”

Vaughn and Stine are theonly seniors in a varsityrotation that also includesfive sophomores and onejunior.

Coach: April YorkSeniors: JENALEE STINE, 5-5, g/f; JADE

VAUGHN, 5-4, g.Junior: Victoria Ward, 5-4, g.Sophomores: Las’Hae Dunn, 5-4, g; Kendra

Kessler, 5-3, g; Katie Hill, 5-5, f; Katelyn Blount, 5-4,f.

Freshman: Hailey Opolka, 5-9, g/f.

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Benton The Rangers return nearly

everyone from last year’sregional championshipteam and look to contendfor a conference crown thisseason.

The team has four posi-tions with returningstarters in the mix, and onlyCaleb Suver has to bereplaced.

Cody Smith, in his fourthyear as the starting pointguard, will lead the waywith Trey Garrett, TylerLeffler and Jared Johnstonback at the other guardspots.

“Any time you bring apoint guard back for hisfourth year that is a goodplace to start,” said Bentoncoach Ron Winemiller.“Cody has continued togrow and take leadership ofthe team. He is a student ofthe game and understandsthe nuance of being a greatpoint guard.”

Benton relied on Suver to

score quite a bit during the2010-11 campaign, butWinemiller expects a bal-anced attack this season.Leffler and Garrett are twoof the best athletes theschool has and are versatileon the basketball court.Mason Childers will berelied upon to do damage inthe paint.

Coach: Ron Winemiller.Seniors: CODY SMITH, 5-9, g; TYLER LEFFLER,

6-3, g; MASON CHILDERS, 6-2, f; TREY GARRETT, 6-1, g; JARED JOHNSTON, 6-0, g; Dylan Hartley, 5-10,g; Thomas Simpson, 5-9, g; Landon LaBuwi, 6-3, f.

Juniors: Cole Forby, 6-2, f; Dalton Ward, 6-5, f;Cameron Rock, 5-10, g; Willie Powell, 5-8, g; AustinMyers, 5-10, g; Ethan Hughes, 6-2, f.

Sophomores: Nathaniel Higgins, 6-0, g; MattBuntin, 6-1, f; Tyler Owens, 5-8, g.

HarrisburgThis could be a great year

for the Bulldogs, who arethe definite favorite to rep-resent the deep south at thesuper-sectional this sea-son.

Harrisburg has a tremen-dous core of players backthis season, and it all startswith 6-foot-2 guard/for-ward Capel Henshaw, whois one of the best players inSouthern Illinois.Henshaw’s very capablesidekick is TylerSmithpeters, who can shootthe lights out and take theball to the hole.

“I think both of themhave gotten better and havespent a lot of time in thegym,” said Harrisburgcoach Randy Smithpeters.“Both are more mature, andtheir roles won’t changemuch. They will have totake over the senior leader-ship we lost from last yeareven though they are onlyjuniors.”

Ryne Roper returns atguard as well, and he’s adeadly 3-point shooter, but

look for Eli Taborn-Scott, a6-foot-3 forward, to stepout on the floor and knockdown jump shots as well.

The team’s top four play-ers aren’t even seniors, sothe Bulldogs could do someserious damage.

Coach: Randy Smithpeters.Seniors: Caleb Goldman, 6-1, f; Brandon Gibbs,

6-2, c; Kash Barnes, 5-9, g.Juniors: CAPEL HENSHAW, 6-2, g/f; TYLER

SMITHPETERS, 6-3, g; RYNE ROPER, 6-2, g.Sophomores: Zach Smith, 5-10, g; Eli Taborn-

Scott, 6-3, f.Freshmen: Bahari Amaya, 6-3, f.

HerrinBobby Mannie had a

breakout year as a junior,and he’ll lead the Tigers thisseason along with DeMarloHarris.

That’s a darn good 1-2punch for a Herrin teamthat will move to Class 3Athis season.

“I expect great things outof Bobby Mannie,” saidHerrin coach Irv Lukens.“He has worked very hard,and he’s ready to go, andhe’ll be a force for our team.He is an outstanding play-er.”

Harris didn’t have as goodof a junior season asexpected, and Lukens pre-dicts the 6-foot-4 postplayer will bounce back andwreak havoc in the paint.

“I thought DeMarlo did-n’t have a normal seasonlast year, and I think he’ll behungry this year,” Lukenssaid. “He didn’t have as

much help last year and hadto adjust to that. He needsto be more aggressive thisseason and help us out rightaway.”

Coach: Irv Lukens.Seniors: DEMARLO HARRIS, 6-4, f; BOBBY

MANNIE, 5-11, g; Alex Davis, 6-0, g; Nathan Lukens,5-10, g; Fletcher Hoague, 6-3, c; Antuan Davis, 6-0,f.

Juniors: Justin Lukens, 6-0, g; Austin Butler, 6-1, f; Jerrel Pirtle, 6-1, g.

Massac CountyThe Patriots will feature a

bit of a different look frompast years during the 2011-12 season.

This year’s group isn’t theexplosive group from thepast, but the squad has areal good post presence togo along with its best play-er, Malcolm Amos at guard.

“I think Amos can reallyscore and he reboundsgreat, but I think we have alot of balance,” said MassacCounty coach Joe Hosman.“We have a very goodshooting team which wehaven’t had in many years.We also have a post up gamewe haven’t used in a fewyears.”

Ethan Schulte, a 6-foot-6 center, and Griffin Bazor,a 6-5 forward, are the bestinside duo in the OhioDivision. Hosman isexpecting quite a bit ofrebounding and stick backsfrom those two.

Coach: Joe Hosman.Seniors: MALCOLM AMOS, 6-1, g; GRIFFIN

BAZOR, 6-5, f; Travis Beck, 6-3, g; Shequille Moore,5-10, g.

Juniors: ETHAN SCHULTE, 6-6, c; Ryan English,6-1, g/f; Ross Devers, 6-3, f; Dalton Korte, 6-2, g/f;Caleb Nichols, 6-2, f.

Sophomores: Dalton Mitchell, 6-0, g; DanielFort, 5-9, g; Austin Kendall, 6-4, c; Alex King, 6-2, g;Kevin Welch, 5-9, g; Kyle Reinwald, 5-11, f.

MurphysboroThe Red Devils enjoyed a

fantastic run last year,which included a 35-gamewinning streak and thestate runner-up trophy inClass 2A.

Five of the six key playersare gone, but Pierre Housereturns and needs to carrythe load for the squad.

“It’s a pretty huge ques-tion mark as to what type ofteam we’ll be,” saidMurphysboro coach DarylMurphy. But I know thatPierre House is going to begreat for us. He has gotten alot better. It will depend onhow hard the other kids arewilling to work to win thoseclose games.”

Murphysboro will be ableto shoot the ball well fromoutside, and Murphy likesthe way this group executesthe offense. But someone isgoing to have to step up andhelp out House with thescoring load.

“This group had one ofour better junior varsityrecords in a long time,”Murphy said.

Coach: Daryl Murphy.Seniors: PIERRE HOUSE, 6-1, g/f; Mitchell Rose,

6-1, f; Zane Heller, 5-10, g; Drew Novara, 6-0, g; KyleMiller, 6-1, g; Mitch Maloney, 5-10, g; RogerGonzales, 6-2, f; Darion Jarrett, 6-0 g.

Juniors: Kevin Gude, 6-1, f; Kane Wilson, 6-1, f.Sophomores: Stephen Eldridge, 6-1, f; Brant

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West FrankfortIt will like be another

rebuilding year for second-year head coach DanDeWerff. The Redbirdshave fallen on hard times inrecent years and just hopeto be competitive in theOhio Division this season.

That may be tough con-sidering just how good the

league is, but DeWerff isgoing to give it his best shotafter winning just onegame last season.

“I think we’ve got somegood work ethic guys com-ing back, and they knowthe expectations I have ofthem,” DeWerff said. “Wefelt each other out lastyear. Besides Nic Koro-lenko, we don’t really haveanyone that contributedmuch offensively last year.”

Korolenko, a 6-foot-2shooting guard, will beasked to carry a bigger loadthis season.

“He is a good athlete whocan finish around the bas-ket,” DeWerff said.

Coach: Dan DeWerff.Seniors: Koty Rains, 6-2, f; Joe Burgess, 6-1, f;

Nathan Dodd, 6-1, g; Nathan Culp, 6-2, f.Juniors: NIC KOROLENKO, 6-2, g/f; Zach Ford,

6-0, g; Trenton Easley, 5-8, g; Gage Williams, 6-3,c; Evan Keller, 5-11, g.

Sophomores: Noah Drone, 5-10, g; EthanSisk, 6-0, f.

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Benton The Rangerettes are

expected to be one of thebetter teams in the SIRROhio Division, and theyreturn a lot of experience.

Morgan Corn is one of thearea’s best post players, andEvelyn Mendez can reallyscore from the guard spot.The squad will also have adeep bench.

“We’ve got experience,talent and hopefully cohe-siveness as a unit,” saidBenton coach Seth Tate. “Ifyou put those three thingstogether you are bound tohave success.”

Sara Miller returns for herfourth season of varsitybasketball at guard. MakalaCarney gives the team asolid post presence as well.

But this year will likelycome down to how far Cornand Mendez can carry team.Both players have startedsince they were freshmen.

“I think they have bothbecome household namesin Southern Illinois,” Tatesaid. “Morgan understandsthat she’ll see double teamsand people trying to bephysical with her. Shewould rather get 10 assiststhan 20 points. It’s safe tosay as those two go that’show we’ll go this year.”

Coach: Seth Tate.Seniors: SARA MILLER, 5-6, g; Kiley Wagner, 5-

6, g; Jennifer Adams, 5-6, g; Sierra Catavu, 5-10, f.Juniors: MORGAN CORN, 5-11, f; EVELYN

MENDEZ, 5-7, g; MAKALA CARNEY, 6-1, c; BrittanyPedigo, 5-6, g; Rowdee Sanders, 5-10, f.

Sophomores: SAMI MINOR, 5-7, g; Ashtyn Ward,5-10, f; Kristin Odum, 5-8, f; Kaitlyn Biddle, 5-9, f.

Freshmen: Cali Carney, 5-9, f; Katie Sandusky,5-9, g.

HarrisburgJake Stewart enters his

first season as the varsityhead coach after leadingteams at the junior highlevel.

This will be a rebuildingprocess once again becausethe team has no seniors andjust one junior, Shelby Boer.

“We have a real youngteam and a small team, butwe’ll be kind of quick too,”Stewart said. “Being soyoung could hurt us, espe-cially early in the season. Itwill be tough right now butmight pay off in the future.”

Ashley Ferrell, a 5-2sophomore guard, is theteam’s only returningstarter, and Stewart will becounting on her for quite abit of production.

“I’m expecting Ashley tohandle the ball all the timeand expecting her to score alot,” Stewart said. “She willhave to be the leader of ourteam and that’s a lot to puton a sophomore.”

Boer, a 5-9 forward, isexpected to carry the load inthe paint.

“She will always have toguard the other team’sbiggest player,” Stewartsaid.

CCooaacchh:: Jake Stewart.JJuunniioorrss:: Shelby Boer, 5-9, f.SSoopphhoommoorreess:: ASHLEY FERRELL, 5-2, g; Lindsey

Murray, 5-1, g; Malayna Douglas, 5-3, g; BrittanyReynolds, 5-3, g; Hannah Jones, 5-9, f; HayleyThompson, 5-8, f; Hannah Walker, 5-9, f; WhitneyYoungner, 5-5, g.

Herrin The Tigers return of the

best inside-outside duos inthe area this season. AbbyHorn, 6-foot forward, andTori Johnson, a 5-7 guard,will lead the team.

Those two players willhelp Herrin stay competi-tive with everybody.

“Abby knows she has tostep up and play moreaggressively this year,” saidHerrin coach Bill Green. “Ithink she will meet thechallenge. We might evenplay her on the wing somethis year.”

Johnson really came onstrong toward the end of thelast season and carried theteam at times. Whenevershe learns to handle the ballbetter under pressure shewill become a force for theTigers.

“She is a gamer and prob-ably hates losing more thananyone,” Green said ofJohnson. “I expect a lot ofbig things out of her. Shenow has to learn how to takeher game to the next level.She needs to look for theopen player on the block,and when she starts seeingthe floor better it will makeus a lot better.”

CCooaacchh:: Bill Green.SSeenniioorrss:: Olivia Caldwell, 6-0, f; Michaela

Lunsford, 5-8, f; Tessa Forquer, 6-0, f.JJuunniioorrss:: ABBY HORN, 6-0, f; Alexis Yates, 5-6, f;

Jesika Alongi, 5-4, g.SSoopphhoommoorreess:: TORI JOHNSON, 5-7, g; Whitney

Woodis, 5-10, f; Gabby Woodis, 5-8, f; Tina Black, 5-

7, g; Micaela Ceruti, 5-11, f.FFrreesshhmmeenn:: Haley Hunter, 5-10, f.

Massac CountyThe Lady Patriots are

primed to have a big season,and the team is loaded withdepth.

Kristina Henley, a 5-10forward, returns as one ofthe best scorers in the areaand has started since shewas a freshman.

“I expect her to have a bigyear, and she has more helpthan she’s ever had,” saidMassac County coach KeithShelton. “If people want totake her out of the gamethen we have other guardswho can take over.”

Becca Reames andChesley Burnham return atthe guard spots, and bothplayers were all-conferenceselections last season alongwith Henley.

“I think we have two kidsat every position that cancontribute,” Shelton said.“We are also very quick, andI’ll take quickness over justabout anything. I told thekids I was going to shut upand let them play for themost part.”

Massac County also has acouple of freshmen thatcould make an impact onthe team. Emily Hoard, a 5-9 point guard, is the quick-est player on the team,according to Shelton. JessieDouglas, a 5-10 forward,will also see action.

CCooaacchh:: Keith Shelton.SSeenniioorrss:: KRISTINA HENLEY, 5-10, f; KARSEN

SMITH, 5-11, f; BECCA REAMES, 5-9, g; CHESLEYBURNHAM, 5-8, g.

JJuunniioorrss:: LAUREN BUNTING, 5-11, c; KAYLEECHILDERS, 5-6, g; Taylor Klankey, 5-7, g.

SSoopphhoommoorreess:: Summer Clapp, 5-6, g; NatalieBailey, 5-6, g.

FFrreesshhmmeenn:: Emily Hoard, 5-9, g; Jessie Douglas,5-10, f.

Murphysboro The Lady Red Devils fea-

ture five players that startedat one time or another lastseason and should be muchimproved for the 2011-12campaign.

Rosie Hines, ChelsiGillespie, Jasmine Gainesand Christina Smith willlead the team in the back-court.

“Our outside shooters arepretty good,” saidMurphysboro coach StaciHickam. “We will be muchmore of an up tempo teamthat runs the floor than wehave in the past couple ofyears.”

Katy Flanigan and ToriConover are also expectedto be key contributors.

“Jasmine Gaines will beour floor general and aslasher,” Hickam said.“Smith and Conover canplay both inside and outsidefor us. We feel like we have alot of balance.”

The Lady Red Devils have13 varsity players, andHickam believes they are allinterchangeable for themost part.

CCooaacchh:: Staci Hickam.

SSeenniioorrss:: ROSIE HINES, 5-5, g; JASMINE GAINES,5-3, g; CHELSI GILLESPIE, 5-5, g; KATY FLANiGAN, 5-7, g/f; CHRISTINA SMITH, 5-5, g.

JJuunniioorrss:: Tori Conover, 5-8, g/f; Jessica Stanton,5-8, f; Bobbye Harris, 5-6, g; Brynnah Hunziker, 5-10, g/f.

SSoopphhoommoorreess:: Bria Ciganovich, 5-3, g; KierraNolan, 6-1, c; Aziah McBurney, 5-5, g.

West FrankfortThe Lady Redbirds may

be a little bit down this sea-son, but Matt Hampleman’steams are always very com-petitive.

However, when he foundout his best player andleading scorer, JasmineChromchak, wasn’t goingto play this year, he knewthose would be big shoes tofill.

“We can’t replace thepeople we don’t have, sowe’ll have to do it by com-mittee,” Hampleman said.“It’s going to be interestingand a mixed bag for us.”

The squad does haveKaitlyn Glodich and NicoleFrey returning to the start-ing lineup. Glodich is a solidguard, and Frey helps shoreup the post presence for theteam.

“Glodich probably won’tcome off the floor at all,”Hampleman said. “I lostabout 50 percent of myscoring and it will take awhile for us to adjust tothat.”

CCooaacchh:: Matt Hampleman.SSeenniioorrss:: KAITLYN GLODICH, 5-5, g; NICOLE FREY,

6-0, c; Kendell Presley, 5-5, g; Briyunna Kohel, 5-9,f; Yulia Cool, 5-5, g; Katie Smith, 5-9, f; NatashaBender, 5-6, g; Rachel Edwards, 5-10, f.

JJuunniioorrss:: Rebecca Cunningham, 5-10, f; JordanCrowder, 5-7, f.

SSoopphhoommoorreess:: Melanie Stoner, 5-9, f.FFrreesshhmmeenn:: Kiarha Wilce, 5-2, g.

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Sesser-ValierSesser-Valier returns

much of its starting fivefrom last year’s team thatnarrowly lost to CrabOrchard in the regionalfinal.

The Red Devils return alot of size in the middle.Justin Kulich at 6-6 andTim Witcher at 6-5 will be apresence in the paint forSesser-Valier, continuing atrend in recent years ofgood post play at Sesser.

“We’ve always seemed tohave a nice solid post playerwe’ve been able to build andwork around,” Sesser-Valiercoach Chip Basso said.

Hopes run high for theRed Devils.

“I think we’ll be one ofthe top teams in class Abasketball in the south thisyear,” Basso said.

Coach: Chip BassoSeniors: KYLE STANLEY, 6-0, g; GREG JENKINS,

5-11, g; TIM WITCHER, 6-5, f; DREW DORRIS, 6-2, c;JOHN VERCELLINO, 6-0, f; Dylan Rock, 6-0, f

Juniors: JUSTIN KULICH, 6-6, c; ReggieEubanks, 6-0, g; Dalton Anderson, 5-10, g; Derek

Hood, 5-11, fSophomores: Jordan Gunter, 6-2, f; Tyler

Baxter, 5-11, g; Clayton Hoffard, 5-10, g;

TricoTrico finished 30-3 and

made it all the way to thesectional final last year. Butthere are only two startersleft from that team.

The Pioneers will have toreplace Jesse Smith. He wasa 1,000-point scorer andthe team’s point guard.They also will have toreplace Dennis Froemling,who helped set the tone ondefense, and 6-1 guardTyler Coleman.

But coming back is ChaseHeins, a 6-7, 245 poundcenter, who will fill up thepaint nicely.

“He’s continued tomature, and he’s stronger,”Trico coach Shane Hawkinssaid. “He’s been throughthe battles. He’s played

almost 100 games at thevarsity level.”

Trico also returns DylanWitthoft, a 6-1 seniorguard, who will become thecourt general for thePioneers.

The Pioneers don’t figureto be as athletic this yearbut what they lack in ath-leticism they will make upfor in size, both inside andoutside.

Coach: Shane HawkinsSeniors: DYLAN WITTHOFT, 6-1, g; Bradley

Goetting, 6-0, g; David Burns, 6-0, f; DaronMeyerhoff, 6-3, g; CHASE HEINS, 6-7, f; TrevorCompton, 6-3, f

Juniors: Klayton Bunselmeyer, 6-0, g; BlaineLePere, 6-4, g; Chad Bower, 6-2, f; George Kuhlman,6-5, f; Lucas Watson, 6-3, f

Sophomores: Kyle Hammel, 5-10, g; NickDobbs, 5-11, g; Jordan Jones, 5-11, g

GorevilleGoreville is getting a new

start in the Black Diamondconference, but theBlackcats hope to continue

their tradition of making itto the regional title game.The Blackcats have playedin five straight regional titlegames and this year theyhave a mix of players theythink can carry them backto the title game again.

“This year is kind ofinteresting because we havequite a few kids who have achance to play some min-utes,” Goreville coach ToddTripp said. “We have possi-bly ten kids playing forsome playing time whichmakes it nice. Practice isgoing to be pretty goodbecause they’re going to befighting for playing time.”

Goreville has had two kidsmove into its program.Junior Blake Gray startedfor Vienna last year, but thisyear will put on the blackand yellow for theBlackcats. They also haveZeke Snell, who was a forcefor Agape Christian School,join their program.

Coach: Todd TrippSeniors: NATE WEBB, 6-3; Trenton Potocki, 6-0;

Derrek Herren, 6-4; Ty Taborn, 6-2Juniors: Dayton Tripp, 6-0; Alex Andros, 6-4;

Colton Brown, 5-11; J.T. Russell, 6-3; GarrettPatterson, 6-3; Clayboy Shadowens, 6-0; BlakeGray, 5-10

Sophomores: Kyefer Cavins, 6-1; Zeke Snell, 6-3

ChristopherChristopher said goodbye

to a lot of players last sea-son. Head coach EricStallman lost seven seniorsfrom last season’s team,

including second team all-conference player StevenDial.

“We’ve got to replace alot,” Christopher coach EricStallman said. “The bulk ofthe minutes and the bulk ofthe points I’ve got to replacethis year.”

The Bearcats will dependon senior guards KoltenPedigo and Scott Marchetti,who started almost everygame last year. Junior TylerAtchison also saw a lot ofminutes last year and willneed to be an importantcontributor for Christopherthis year.

Coach: Eric StallmanSeniors: SCOTT MARCHETTI, 6-0, g; KOLTEN

PEDIGO, 5-10, g; Brandon Hale, 5-11, gJuniors: Tyler Atchison, 5-11, g; Kevin Mercks,

6-6, f; RJ Kuh, 6-0, gSophomores: Maurice Brown, 5-10, g; Jacob

Towers, 5-11, g; Eric Young, 6-1, g; Ethan Conner, 6-2, f; Austin Williams 5-9, g

ElveradoMark Riley takes over an

Elverado program that did-n’t see many wins last year.But victories are not first onRiley’s set of goals for thisseason. Doing things theright way is what Rileywants to focus on during hisfirst year.

“I’m not judging the sea-son by wins and losses,”Riley said. “There’s no wayI’ll be able to come in hereand snap my fingers andturn things around. I’mjudging it on differentthings – hustle, commit-

ment and attitude. I’d liketo change some things. Iknow it’s not going to hap-pen overnight, but I’m notgoing to judge the season bywins and losses.”

Riley, who was the JVcoach last year, does havefive key players comingback from last year’s squad.Bryce Mathis, Casey Hicks,Dalton Porter, Jake Lipe andKyle Whittington will fig-ure heavily into the Falcons’game plan this year.

Coach: Mark RileySeniors: Bryce Mathis, 5-7, g; Sklyar Roach, 5-7,

g; DALTON PORTER, 5-10, g; Kody Body, 6-0, g;CASEY HICKS, 6-2, f; JAKE LIPE, 6-2, f; Wade Bowlin,5-9, g

Juniors: KYLE WHITTINGTON, 5-10, G; KodyEllet, 5-7, g; Andrew Jeschke, 6-1, f

Zeigler-RoyaltonZeigler-Royalton plans to

play fast and furious thisyear to accentuate its speedand make up for its lack ofsize.

“We’re going to have toget out and push the ball,because we don’t havemuch size this year,”Zeigler-Royalton coachMark Morgan said. “Ourweakness is our size. Ourbiggest guy is 6-1 or 6-2.Outside of that, everyoneelse is about the sameheight.”

The Tornadoes willdepend on their tworeturning starters, seniorPayton Clark and juniorJeffrey Pedigo, to provideleadership to a team lackingin experience.

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Sesser-Valier-Waltonville

Coach Rick Metcalf isback at Sesser-Valier-Waltonville. The formerhead coach of the RedDevils’ boys basketball teamis returning — this time asthe girls coach.

He has only had the jobfor two weeks, taking overafter former coach BrianGibson had to step downbecause of a job promotion.Metcalf’s youngest daugh-ter, Katie, is a freshman onthe team and anotherdaughter, Emmalee, is avolunteer assistant.

He takes over a programthat has 16 players but onlyone senior, Tasha Doerr.

“I just wish I could haveDoerr for more than oneyear,” Metcalf said. “She’s aquality post player now.”

Even with all the youth,the Red Devils should haveno trouble putting pointson the board.

“I think our ability toshoot the basketball will beone of our strengths,”Metcalf said.

Coach: Rick MetcalfSeniors: TASHA DOERR, 5-10, f,Juniors: Rae Lappin, 5-8, f; CHELSEA MILLER, 5-

9, g; Maegan Eskew, 5-7, g; Mariah Miller, 5-10, fSophomores: Bailee Jones, 5-9, f; Maty Garner,

5-8, f; Claire Pytlinski, 5-8, f; Mikala Williams, 5-10,f; Rachel Marlo, 5-10, f; Amber Williams

Freshmen: Daisy Edminson; CheyennePitchford; Katie Metcalf; Kali Foster; MariyahBruton

ChesterFirst-year coach Pat

Knowles will have to put a

brand new starting five onthe court with no startersreturning from last year.

“It’s going to be a groupeffort,” Knowles said.“There’s no one player.They’re all equally skilled.Night to night the scoringwill probably change.”

Chester will focus on thedefensive side of the ball. Apressure defense will beemployed to try to createtransition baskets on theother end.

“I believe our defense isgoing to be our strength,”Knowles said. “We’re notreal quick but we’re prettyathletic.”

Time may be the LadyYellow Jackets’ biggest needwith a lot of new kids learn-ing Knowles’ style ofdefense.

“We’ve got some youngkids, kind of running a littlebit of a new system,”Knowles said. “It’s justgoing to take a while to getused to playing the pressurethat we want to play. We’vegot good numbers, so wecan rotate in quite a fewpeople.”

Coach: Pat KnowlesSeniors: Kellie Dillow, 5-10; Megan

Marcinkowska, 5-4; Raelyn Rosendohl, 5-9Juniors: Libby Bollmann, 5-4; Sydney Clark, 5-

11; Alison Easton, 5-7; Marah Laramore, 5-10; TaylorLaRose, 5-8; De’Na Nesbitt, 5-2; Chelsea Schroeder,5-4;

Sophomores: Sara Bindel, 5-6; AlexandriaFedderke, 6-0; Maribeth Lawrence, 5-3; KaleyLudwig, 5-5

ElveradoElverado surprised some

people last year with anupset victory in the regionaltournament. The LadyFalcons hope to build onthat this season.

They will have to do itwithout two senior startersfrom last year and with halftheir roster made up offreshmen.

“We have 13 kids out andsix of them are going to befreshman,” Elverado coachLance Bedar said. “Thebench isn’t going to be verydeep. If we get foul trouble,it’s going to get really ugly.”

Lacey Qualls is the onereturning senior and shewill be counted on heavily.

“The senior’s going to bethe leader on the team,”Bedar said. “Hopefully, thethree returning starters canplay a little better than theydid last year and we’reimproved. That’s all I canask keep improving.”

Coach: Lance BedarSeniors: LACEY QUALLSJuniors: Corine Wilson; HANNAH RAWSON;

REBECCA KORANDO; Meghann Trammel; KelseyLeland

Sophomores: Allecia CrossFreshmen: Paige Newfarmer; Kaitlin Lively;

Shelby Jatho; Cheyenne Abbadusky; Kylee Bedar;Logan Hart

GorevilleGoreville has most of the

pieces of the puzzle coming

back from its super section-al team that finished 27-3last year.

“Coming off super sec-tional last year, we havetalked about lofty expecta-tions,” Goreville coach MikeHelton said. “But right nowwe’re trying to focus onfinding some rhythm.

In addition to playersfrom last year’s squad, sen-iors Tiffani Shadowens andRhiannon Pyle are comingback to the program afternot playing last year.

The challenge forGoreville will be finding theright mix of players.

“Last year, we werealmost like a hockey line,”Helton said. “We played inshifts. We have that kind ofdepth. So early on it’s goingto be a lot about just findingthe right combination.When we get that sortedout, we can be competi-tive.”

Coach: Mike HeltonSeniors: SHELBEY MILLER, 5-3, g; Madison

Cavins, 5-6, f; Tiffani Shadowens, 5-4, g; RhiannonPyle, 5-8, g;

Juniors: JESSICA WRIGHT, 5-7, g; ALISON WEBB,5-10, c; Allison Sullivan, 5-6, g

Sophomores: Brittany Pritchett, 5-9, f; MarbiMartin, 5-10, c; Hayley Darnell, 5-5, g

Freshmen: McKenzie Schade, 5-4, g; GracieSnell, 5-6, f; Sydnee Rushing, 5-3, g

TricoTrico returns only two

starters from last year’s 7-19 season. With ten fresh-men on the roster, the LadyPioneers will rely heavily on

senior Rebekah Dilday andjunior Katelyn Thies.

“The junior and the sen-ior are going to have to do alot,” Trico coach Steve Vogtsaid.

Trico does have a fresh-man coming in who poten-tially could contribute.Hayleigh Heins stands 6-1and could be a force inside,but Vogt doesn’t want toplace too many expecta-tions on a freshman.

Vogt expects his team todo well defensively, but theoffense could be more of aproblem.

“Putting points on theboard is going to be one ofmy biggest concerns,” Vogtsaid.

Finishing in the top threeof the Black DiamondConference is the LadyPioneers’ goal this season.

Coach: Steve VogtSeniors: REBEKAH DILDAY, 5-8, fJuniors: Lisa Luehr, 5-2, g; KATELYN THIES, 5-9Sophomores: Kourtney Bunselmeyer, 5-6, g;

Paige Ebers, 5-4, g; Jordan Lodge, 5-7, g; MaddiMcMillan, 5-5, f; Ashley Modglin, 5-8, f

Freshmen: Katie Bunselmeyer; Taylor Ernsting;Colleen Guy; Hayleigh Heins; Brooke Higgerson;Jenna Moore; Audrey Peterein; Jessica Prange;Makayla Stewart; Morgan Vogt

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Christopher coach JeremyMay has to find a way toreplace the Black DiamondConference MVP from lastyear. Stacy Holland was thepoint guard for theTornadoes’ run to the

regional final last year.She has graduated

and senior Chandra Weddlewill have to try fill thoseshoes.

“She’s done a good job forus in practice,” May said.“She seems to be up tospeed on everything we do.She’s done a good job ofleading so far. So she’sprobably going to step intothat role.

“She’s a senior and sheknows what to expect.”

Z-R-C does have sevenseniors and six juniorsreturning this season,including four starters fromlast years’ team.

“I think we’re going to bea very experienced team,”May said. “We’re going tobe seven or eight deep.Depth is probably going tobe one of our biggeststrengths this year.”

The Tornadoes won theBlack Diamond conferencelast year and even with theemergence of Goreville inthe conference this season,they expect to compete forthe title again.

“They want to defend theBlack Diamond conferencecrown this year, and I thinkthey have a chance to dothat,” May said.

Coach: Jeremy MaySeniors: CHELSEY GREENWOOD, 5-8, f; ALLIE

MAYER, 5-8, f; KALEIGH PERRY, 6-1, c; ChandraWeddle, 5-6, G, Racheal Grear, 5-9, f; RonnieThreewitt, 5-8, f; Kay Eisenhauer, 5-0, g

Juniors: Brandy Mifflin, 5-6, g; Maddy Caruso,5-6, f; Marrisa Battaglia, 5-6, g; Nichole Jackson, 5-4, g; BREANNA PRICE, 6-1, F; Jaylin Ramicone, 5-9,f

Freshmen: Alysha Rodgers, 5-7, g; PaigeRodgers, 5-4, g

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They also will look tosophomore Nick McPhail.He played as a freshmanlast year and this year willbecome the team’s pointguard.

Coach: Mark MorganSeniors: PAYTON CLARK, 6-2; Ryan Leposky,

6-0; Ron Kaegi, 5-7; Jamie Hargraves, 5-9Juniors: JEFFREY PEDIGO, 5-9Sophomores: Nick McPhail, 5-8; Bailey

Schimpf, 5-10; Boris Moskoff, 5-10; Brandon Jones,6-0; Gabe Jelley, 6-0; Trevor Fitch, 5-8; AndrewReece, 5-9; Jeremy Weddle, 5-9; BrandonStubblefield, 6-0

ChesterBrad Norman admits his

first year as head coach atChester will be a rebuildingone.

“Maturity will be ourbiggest challenge,”Norman said. “We’re goingto be playing a lot of juniorsand a lot of sophomores.

“So, we’re going to lookto rebuild this year and beeven stronger next year.We’ll be young. We’re

going to have a lot ofturnovers early.”

Norman does figure to beable to dip into a deepbench this season.

“We are pretty evenlybalanced,” Norman said.

Coach: Brad NormanSeniors: Matthew Heberlie, 6-2, f; James

Brockmeyer, 5-10, g; Greg Rowald, 6-4, fJuniors: Link Cushman, 5-11, g; KYLE LANDON,

6-6, f/g; Reed Koeneman, 6-7, c; Alec Weir, 6-0, g;Chris Schwartz, 6-1, f; Dalton Misuraca, 5-10, g;CALEB ARBEITER, 5-10, g

Sophomores: Jacob Lochead, 5-11, g; CodyMileur, 5-11, g; Austin Gendron, 6-1, f; AustinRedeker, 6-1, f; Kramer Eggemeyer, 5-9, g

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Carmi-White CountyComing off of a .500

record and a 7-3 record inconference play, Carmi-White County will look tostay competitive in theconference this season.

“We have some quick-ness and aggressiveness,”Bulldogs coach ScottConner said. “We wouldlike to be competitive inthe Black DiamondConference and want to tryto improve throughout theyear.”

To do this, Conner willlook to three girls with themost varsity experience onthe team to continue toimprove and help theyounger players.

Coach: Scott ConnerSeniors: BRITTANIE GARRISON, 5-9, f.Juniors: SYDNEY CLARK, 6-0, c; EMMA

BACHMAN, 5-9, g; Ryse Douthitt, 5-8, g.Sophomores: Briley Tolley, 5-6, g; Briley

Attebury, 5-8, f; Jerrica Money, 5-7, f; JoBeth Blake,5-8, f; Bailey Winters, 5-5, g; Kelsey Rogers, 5-6.

Freshman: Laura Potter, 5-7, f; Jessica Woods,5-4, f; Alexa Combs, 5-7, g; Claire Blankenberger,5-4, g.

EldoradoThe Eldorado girls bas-

ketball team is one of theyoungest in SouthernIllinois. The squad willstart junior AshtonUnthank at guard alongwith four under classmen.

The Lady Eagles didn’twin a conference game lastseason and finished just 5-24 overall. But there is hopefor the upcoming cam-paign because of the team’soutstanding freshmenclass.

“They only lost one gameover about the last threeyears through junior highand got second in the statelast year,” said Eldoradocoach Josh Bradley.

Coach: Josh BradleySeniors: Montana Creamer, 5-6, g; Kendra

Williams, 5-10, f; Lacey Boggess, 5-9, c.Juniors: Ashton Unthank, 5-5, g; Cassidy

Morris, 5-6, f; Elsie Talkington, 5-9, c.Sophomores: Kourtney Phillips, 5-6, g;

Saddie Steed, 5-5, g; Erica Graczyk, 5-10, f.Freshmen: Taylor Goodley, 5-5, g; Paige

Zertuche, 5-5, g; Riley Duckworth, 5-4, g; LacyBradley, 5-6, f; Moria Hellesvig, 5-9, f; DresdynBramlet, 5-9, c.

FairfieldWith four starters

returning from last yearsteam coach TonyaConrad and the FairfieldMules will look to improveon last years 20 win sea-son.

“We have a group ofgreat ball handlers withgood quickness,” Conradsaid. “We want to have awinning season and go asdeep into the playoffs as wecan.”

The returning startersfor the Mules are KelseySarles, Alyssa Lang, PaigeSimpson and BritniCherry, and they will lookto lead the team to a con-ference and regionalchampionship.

Coach: Tonya ConradSeniors: BRITNI CHERRY, 5-8, f/g; Nalisha

Williams, 5-6, g; Sarah Devous, 5-4, g/f; KELSEYSARLES, 5-6, g.

Juniors: PAIGE SIMPSON, 5-8, g; DrianhaHopper, 5-8, g/f; Emily mcKibben, 5-2, g; ALYSSALANG, 5-9, g/f; McKENNA McWILLIAMS, 5-10, f/c.

Sophomores: Tristian Currier, 5-7, g; KaylaCessna, 5-3, g; Madeline Richards, 5-4, g.

Hamilton CountyIn one word Hamilton

County coach ClintWinemiller described histeams strength as having“depth.”

“We have several oldergirls back from last yearand we have a nice group ofyounger players,”Winemiller said.

After finishing with a.500 conference record lastyear, Winemiller said thatthey are looking to con-tend at the top of the con-ference this year andalways would like to winthe regional.

Coach: Clint WinemillerSeniors: Alyssa Winemiller, 5-6, g; Whitney

Craddock, 5-11, f/c; Marcie Niekamp, 5-8, f;Veronica Gay, 5-8, g.

Juniors: Aeriel Wilson 5-10, f/c.Sophomores: Lucendia Adams, 5-7, g; Alicia

York, 5-10, f; Erin Bonner, 5-8, f; NicoleRubenacker, 5-7, f; Jordan Scrivner, 5-8, f.

Freshman: Megan Rubenacker, 5-8, g;Rachelle Rexing, 5-7, g; Kara Biggerstaff, 5-6, g;Dana Rubenacker, 5-9, g; Rebecca Moseley, 5-4, g;Maissie Balsover, 5-4, g; Kelsi Renn, 5-8, g; BrianaForrester, 5-6 g; MacKenzie Adams, 5-7, c/f; MaudeWheeler, 5-7, f; Hailey Scrivner, 5-4, g.

Johnston CityJohnston City coach

George Lennon is workingon building up a programthat finished 7-19, 2-8BDC, last season and willbe relatively young.

“We’re going to havesome growing painsthroughout this season, aswe do not have a lot ofexperience,” Lennon said.

Lennon points to sopho-mores Molly Price andAndrea Boyd, as well asjunior Kelsie Nagrodski, tobe key to their improve-ment this year and on tothe next couple years.

Coach: George LennonSeniors: Bre Pitchers, 5-6; Renee Roque, 5-2;

Bret South, 5-5.Juniors: Kelsie Nagrodski, 5-6; Katie

Cutsinger, 5-5.Sophomores: Kalie Barham, 5-3; Amber

Miller, 5-6; Nikki Rice, 5-3; Andrea Boyd, 5-9;Jamie Boyd, 5-9; Jamie Bantle, 5-8; Molly Price, 6-0.

Freshmen: Taylor Jones, 5-3; Jordan Meneese,5-3; Jessica Conner, 6-0; Lydia Durr, 5-4; TonyaHayes, 5-7; Tiffany Garris, 5-6; Kim Stevens, 5-8.

ViennaThe 2010-11 season for

the Vienna girls basketballteam was a historical one,and the Lady Eagles brokethe school record for winswith 28 and advanced to asectional.

The team lost three keyplayers but still brings backquite a bit of talent. It allstarts with CarleyChildress, the team’s floorgeneral.

“I wouldn’t expect any-thing less than her having abig year for us,” said Viennacoach Brannon Waters.“Each year she gets a littlemore responsible on thefloor and becomes more ofa leader. She and her sisterwork really well together.”

Coach: Brannon Waters.Seniors: KELLY FITZGERALD, 5-6, g; Marissa

Ross, 5-8, f; Kayla Elms, 5-8, f; Kassey McDonald,5-5, g; Skylynn Stevens, 5-6, g; BROOKECHILDRESS, 5-8, f; Jessica McMahon, 5-8, f; KasynMoore, 6-1, f.

Juniors: CARLEY CHILDRESS, 5-7, g; KnikkiKeeling, 5-6, g; Keeley Harper, 5-6, g.

Sophomores: MIRANDA CHANCE, 5-7, g;Assiah Mercer, 5-10, f.

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Carmi-White CountyEric Dixon will begin his

first year as coach ofCarmi-White County witha strong team looking tomake a run at the top of theconference.

“We have a little size andwe have a very good groupof strong athletes in theweight room,” Dixon said.

After a 13-15, 7-3 BDC,record last year, Dixon saidthat they want to definitelyfinish above .500, as well ascompete for a chance to beat the top of the BDC.

To do this, Dixon and theBulldogs will look toTrenton Veach and ChaseSailer, who return with themost varsity experiencefrom last year to be leaders.

Coach: Eric DixonSeniors: Isaac Hayes, 6-4, f; Patrick McKenzie,

6-5, f; TRENTON VEACH, 5-9, g; Dalton Bartley, 6-2,f.

Juniors: Lukas Matsel, 5-8, g; Colin Winter 6-0,f.

Sophomores: Brodie Brown, 5-8, g; AndyVaughan, 5-11, g; CHASE SAILER, 6-0, g; JameySteed, 6-4, f; Treyson Miracle, 5-10, g; Ryan Ashford,5-8, g; Brett Short, 5-8, g; Allen Murphy, 6-2, f;Stephen McPeek, 6-1, f.

EldoradoWith only three seniors,

Eldorado coach T.J.Zurliene will look to theleadership of his threereturning starters to set thetone for the Eagles this sea-son and to improve on their12-18 record from last sea-son.

“We want to be our bestaround regional time,”Zurliene said. “We want toimprove every day and seeprogression throughout theseason in order to get their.”

In order to do thisZurliene will lean on for-wards Lucas Weir and RyanLangley, as well as guardBrennan Unthank as theirreturning starters.

Coach: T.J. ZurlieneSeniors: LUCAS WEIR, 6-4, f; RYAN LANGLEY, 6-

3, f/c; Trey Sigler, 6-2, f.Juniors: Devin Aldridge, 5-11, g; BRENNAN

UNTHANK, 5-7, g; Joel Boulds, 5-10, g; DakotaPrather, 5-10, g/f; Derek Hargrave, 5-9, g.

Sophomores: Dylan Lawrence, 5-11, g; JustinWiseman, 6-1, c/f; Tyler Deaton, 5-8, g; DillonStreet, 5-10, g.

FairfieldAfter a 17-14 finish last

year and a conferencechampionship under theirbelts, the Fairfield Mulesand coach Scott McElravywill look for a repeat per-formance this season.

“We have almost every-one back from last year,”McElravy said. “We don’thave a lot of height, but wehave a lot of good kids.”

Among the many return-ing kids, the Mules willreturn four starters, includ-ing co-MVP of the confer-ence Tyler Hutcheson.

Coach: Scott McElravySeniors: TYLER HUTCHESON, 5-11, f; ZANE

McMEEN, 6-2, f; CODY BAILEY, 5-10, g; COLTONSLOVER, 5-9, g; EDO FERRAII, 6-4, f.

Juniors: Will Griffith, 5-9, g; Storm Kollak, 6-2,f.

Sophomores: Joe Rodgers, 5-9, g.

Hamilton CountyIn his first year as coach

of Hamilton County, KeithWelch will look to the expe-rience that the Foxes haveto put them in contentionafter an 8-21 finish last sea-son.

“We have some kids backwith a lot of experience,”Welch said. “That is goingto be a strength of ours.”

The three main seniorsWelch will look to provideleadership is point guardC.J. Lemmons, center ChadFlanigan and AdamRubenacker.

Coach: Keith WelchSeniors: Adam Rubenacker, 5-9, g; C.J.

Lemmons, 5-11, g; Chad Flannigan, 6-5, c.Juniors: Tyler Cross, 5-9, g; Levi Lueke, 6-1, f;

Garrett Biggerstaff 6-5, f/c; River Steele, 5-10, g/f.Sophomores: Justin Reyling, 5-9, g; Jake

Rubenacker, 5-7, g; Logan Billington, 5-10, f; AustinReed, 5-10, g; Nathan Anselment, 5-10, g; TravisStevens, 6-2, g; Balee Gay, 5-10, g/f.

Johnston CityJohnston City coach

Wade Thomas will look tohis three returning startersto help lead them to thesuccess that they want tosee this season.

The Indians sufferedthrough a winless confer-

ence season last year andhad just nine wins total, butthe energy is high forimprovement this season.

Austin McPheron, TylerJohnson and Hunter Zeiglerall return as starters fromlast year, and AngeloHightower also receivedgood varsity minutes lastyear.

Thomas said that in orderfor them to play their bestbasketball at the end of theyear, they are really going tohave to work on being agood defensive team.

Coach: Wade ThomasSeniors: Grant Montgomery, 5-11, g; Cody

Watkins 5-10, g; ANGELO HIGHTOWER 6-0, g; IzzyGarrison, 6-0, g; Dalton Husch, 6-2, f.

Juniors: Jory Kee, 5-10, g/f; Sheldon Stallings,6-0, f; AUSTIN McPHERON, 6-3, f; Zach Murphy, 5-9,g; TYLER JOHNSON, 6-0, f.

Sophomores: Levi Tanner, 6-1, g; HUNTERZEIGLER, 5-9, g; Colson Myers, 5-7, g; LukeMcCormick, 5-10, g; Derek Smith, 6-2, f; JakeDavison, 6-3, f.

ViennaAfter a 10-win season last

year and a second to lastplace finish in the BlackDiamond Conference EastDivision, Vienna will lookto continue to improve asthe year goes on.

“We have a team full ofhard-nosed kids with greatwork ethic,” coach CoryWaters said.

Waters said that theywant get better on the wintotal from last year thatmeans that they will need tosee continual improvementthroughout the season,despite graduating a lot ofseniors from last yearsteam.

“Our seniors set the toneand led the execution lastyear,” Waters said. “We willbe looking for more overallexecution and disciplinefrom this years group.”

Coach: Cory WatersSeniors: Cain Taylor, 5-8, g; Brandon Futch, 6-

3, g/f; Pat Gray, 6-1, f; Jacob McGill, 6-0, f; Will Cook,6-3, f; Ethan Haney, 6-3, g/f; Chase Taylor, 5-9, g;Clayton Wright, 6-5, c

Juniors: Richard Kindhart, 5-11, g/f; DominickTedeschi, 6-0, g; Lake Norris, 6-1, g

Sophomores: Blake Crain, 5-7, g; Dylan Graves,5-9, g; Lucas Wright, 5-10, g; Trenton Mowery, 6-4,f/c

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CobdenThere will be a new face

patrolling the sidelines thisyear for the Cobden LadyAppleknockers as KeriJones takes over for TravisFoster, who is now the boys’basketball coach and ath-letic director at Century.

Cobden returns threestarters from last year’steam that finished at .500,Bekah Russell, Krysti Davis,and Katie Mowell.

“Communication is goingto be the biggest key,” Jonessaid. “They communicatewith each other on and offthe court.”

Coach: Keri JonesSeniors: BEKAH RUSSELL, 5-4, g; KRYSTI DAVIS,

f; KATIE MOWELL, g.Juniors: Devyn Inman, f; Marisa Howe, f.Sophomores: Laurelin Pitts, g; Ashley Millis, g;

Brenda Carmona, g; Brooklyn Yancey, f; HaleyTomazzoli, g; Aurdrey Sirles, c.

Freshmen: Sandra Hartline, g; TempestVandergraph, c;.

EgyptianCoach Erin Jackson

returns three starters, sen-ior Samantha Hale, juniorMorgan Busby, and juniorKatie Lipe, from last year’steam that went 3-12.

“Rebounding is a bigissue as well as defense.”said Jackson.

Hale is a key componentof this year’s squad.

“She’s going to help moldus together,” Jackson said.“When she’s out thereeveryone’s calm andrelaxed.”

Coach: Erin JacksonSeniors: SAMANTHA HALE, 5-7, f.Juniors: MORGAN BUSBY, 5-6, g; April Blaney,

5-7, f; Jessica Brooks, 5-9, f; KATIE LIPE, 5-8, f;Jimberlea Bledsoe, 5-4, g;

Sophomores: Ashlee Green, 5-3, g; KaydeWood, 5-8, f; Adina Green, 5-4, g.

Freshmen: Cambria Bigham, 5-6, g; AshantiWade, 5-8, f; Breanna Butler, 5-6, g; Shay Allen, 5-8, f.

MeridianThe Lady Bobcats return

four starters, seniors TashaDickson, Jane Busby, SkylarBlake, and sophomoreMarie Johnson from a teamthat was just under .500

last season. Coach DawnTurner looks to her return-ing starters to make animpact this season.

“Returning Skylar Blake,who is coming off theinjured list, is going to add alot of speed as well as JaneBusby,” said Turner.

Coach: Dawn TurnerSeniors: SKYLAR BLAKE, 5-4, g; Latara

Slaughter, 5-3, g; Jamilla Valentine, 5-5, g; JANEBUSBY, 5-5, g; TASHA DICKSON, 5-4, g.

Juniors: Qwtasia Sawyer, 5-6, f.Sophomores: Cierra Ballard, 5-7, f; MARIE

JOHNSON, 5-8, f.Freshmen: Shanice Wiggins, 5-0, g; Sierra

Covington, 5-0, g; De’Ja Johnson, 5-8, f; JacyJohnson, 5-6, g; Keandra Knighten, 5-6, g; AmariAcree, 5-9, f; Ariel Beard, 5-3. g.

CenturyThe Lady Centurions

only lost one starter butthat starter, KaylaEddington, averaged 22points a game.

“We’re going to be betterdefensively hopefully and Ihave some freshmen thatare really aggressive and getafter it on defense.” saidCentury coach DavidDexter.

Morgan Atherton, whoaveraged 19 points a gameand averaged 10.5 reboundsper game as a freshman forthe Lady Centurions,returns as well as AmandaCheek, who averaged 7points and 7 rebounds.

Coach: David Dexter Seniors: KAYLA REAGAN, 5-8, g; CHELSEA

RUFFO, 5-3, g; LAUREN TAAKE, 5-7, g.Juniors: Natalie Hubbard, 5-3, g; Jade Yates, 5-

7, g. Sophomores: MORGAN ATHERTON, 5-10, f;

AMANDA CHEEK, 5-7, g; Amber Davis, 5-11, f. Freshmen: Jordan Clark Holcomb, 5-6, g; Dina

Hoenig, 5-8, g; Hannah Miller, 5-5, g; Hannah Oliver,5-4, g; Makayla Sickling, 5-1, g; Hailey Wilhelm, 5-4,g.

DongolaRob Shepard enters his

first season as coach for theLady Demons with a lot ofenthusiasm. Three seniorstarters, Emily Terbrak,Raven Merriman, andMichaela Penrod, returnfrom last year’s squad.

Lindsey Smith, a transferstudent from Missouri who

is playing her first year ofbasketball, should help out.

“The biggest thing for usis showing up and playingas a team.” said Shepard.

Coach: Rob Shepard Seniors: RAVEN MERRIMAN, 5-5, g; MICHAELA

PENROD, 5-5, g; Lindsey Smith, 5-2, g; EMILYTERBRAK, 6-1, c.

Juniors: Haley Fuller, 5-5, g; Brittney Hinkle, 5-8, f.

Sophomores: Reba Robinson, 5-9, g; AshlynSchultz, 5-9, c; Stephanie Shepard, 5-7, f; VictoriaShirkey, 5-8, g.

Freshmen: Cossandra Gorst, 5-1, g; Kyeli Flores,5-3, g; Brenna Murphy, 5-5, g.

JoppaThe Lady Rangers return

to the hardwood after ayear’s absence and first-year coach Molly Stephensand her team are excitedabout making a go of it.

“The biggest thing for usis that we’re a name teamand that we’re startingfresh,” said Stephens.

The Lady Rangers have abig freshman class comingin.

Coach: Molly Stephens Seniors: Charlee Gilbert, 5-6, f; Brittny Turner,

5-5, g.Juniors: Kendra Calvin, 5-11, f; Sonja

Robertson, 5-4, g. Sophomores: Tasha Brown, 5-4, g.Freshmen: Katie Bennett, 5-5, g; Sarah

Burnett, 5-10, f; Samantha Fasolo, 5-6, f; MollieMcCarver, 5-10, f; Alyssa Stubblefield, 5-7, f.

ShawneeCoach Chad Pitts returns

three starters from a teamthat finished 19-6 andmade it to the regionalfinals before losing toMarissa.

“We are gaining a starter,Jessie Reynolds, who waslost last year with aninjury.” said Pitts.

The Lady Reds lost animportant part of the puz-zle from last year as KayleeBoston graduated but Pittsfeels that the girls that arereturning will help fill thathole.

Coach: Chad PittsSeniors: Haley Murphy, 5-6, g; Jessie Reynolds,

5-6, gJuniors: Sanni Ahokas, 5-9, g; REAGAN BROWN,

5-7, g; TAYLOR ELLIS, 5-9, g; JORDAN JOHNSON, 5-9,f; Gwen Kuehne, 5-9, f; Taylor Loveless, 5-6, g.

— Chuck Highland

CobdenCoach Rhett Barke

returns three starters froma team that went 14-16 andfinished fourth in the SEClast season. The Apple-knockers should benefitfrom a year of experience.

“The biggest thing for usis maturity,” Barke said.“We had three freshmenlast year who played sig-nificant minutes at thevarsity level.”

Juniors Josh Aspen andJ.C. Chapman as well assenior R.J. Millis return forthe Appleknockers.

Coach: Rhett BarkeSeniors: Joseph Eck, 6-4. f; R.J. MILLIS, 5-11, g.Juniors: JOSH ASPEN, 6-2, f; J.C. CHAPMAN, 5-

11, g; Garrett Marks, 6-3, f; Thomas Murillo, 6-0, f;Nathan Sweitzer, 6-0, g/f; Jordan Waldrop, 6-0, g.

Sophomores: Elijah Duckworth, 6-0; g\f;Austin Flamm, 6-0, f; Tyler Lewey, 6-2, g-f; ZachMoore, 5-11, g; Luis Vicente, 6-0, f.

Freshmen: Sam Cohen, 5-9, g; Parker Flamm,6-1, f; Alex Inman, 5-10, g; Guillermo Palmerin, 5-7, g.

CenturyFormer Cobden girls

head coach Travis Fostertakes over the reins fromTyson Bormann atCentury this season. Fosteris a former assistant boyscoach at Cobden underJosh Franklin.

“I’ve got more experi-ence coaching boys thangirls,” he said. “The pace ofthe game is different forboys than girls.”

Chance Butler, a 6-5senior, Cordon Hight, 5-11a junior, and Javel Scott 5-11, senior, return this yearfor Century.

Coach: Travis FosterSeniors: Quaetonio Bell, 6-2, g-f; Jaron Brust,

6-0, f; CHANCE BUTLER, 6-5, f-c; Joseph Everett, 5-10, g; Anthony Kimmins, 6-1, f; JAVEL SCOTT, 5-11,g; Austin Warton, 6-2, g\f.

Juniors: CORDON HIGHT, 5-10, g.Sophomores: Milik Hughes, 5-5, g; Aaron

Jones, 5-10, g; Devontay Pullett, 6-4, c; ZachSauerbrunn, 5-10, g.

Freshmen: Tivon Clemons, 5-9, f; Blake Crane,5-8, g; Jarred Davis, 5-6, g; Devarae Edmonds, 6-2, g\f; Caden Hight, 5-8, g; Colin Jones, 5-7, g;Austin Wethington, 5-5, g.

Dongola

There is a lot of excite-

ment in Dongola this sea-son as the Demons returnfour starters from a teamthat finished at 5-19.

“Speed, quickness andshooting are going to bemajor assets.” said Dongolacoach Russ Marsh.

Coach: Russ MarshSeniors: JORDAN EADS, 6-0, g; Austin Hinkle,

6-2, f; TYLER THOMPSON, 6-0, g.Juniors: TYLER EDDLEMAN, 6-5, c; CLAY

HARRIS, 6-1, g; Brock Patterson, 5-11, g; BradleyRalls, 6-2, f; Darius Schaure, 6-0, g; Justin Simms,6-1, f.

Sophomores: Donnie Gibson, 5-11, f.Freshmen: A.J. Casper, 6-0, g; Dakota

Easterly, 6-0, g; Uriah Holmes, 6-2, c; TimmyKissiar, 6-1, f.

Egyptian

The Pharaohs return fourstarters from last year’steam that went 22-7 and 6-1, good for second in theSEC.

“Last year we kind ofsnuck up on people andpeople didn’t expect muchout of us last year (lostpeople the year before.Everyone pretty muchknows that we’re competi-tive and we’re not going tosurprise people.” saidcoach Matt Mandrell.

Darmez Nelson, a 6-0guard, as well as MarcusMarable, a 6-1 junior for-ward, returns for thePharaohs.

Coach: Matt MandrellSeniors: Tyler Bendick, 5-11, g; DARMEZ

NELSON, 6-0, g; Steven Salzman, 5-10, g;KEYONTAE WOODSON, 6-3, f.

Juniors: Reggie Davis, 6-0, g; AlexSantamaria, 5-10, g; Brandon Woodson, 6-0, g;MARCUS MARABLE, 6-1, f; DEVANTAE PRICE, 6-1,g; Austin Murphy, 6-1, f; Bryce Bigham, 6-3, f.

Sophomores: Cameron Grueninger, 5-9, g;Justin Prewitt, 6-2, f; Ovell Pollard, 6-0, g.

Joppa

The Rangers return onlyone starter (Alex Copley)from a team that went 7-19last season and 2-5 in theSEC. Eliminating mistakesand better rebounding willbe the keys to success.

“We can’t makeunforced turnovers andrebounding has alwaysbeen one of our weakness-es,” said coach Trebor Hill.

“We need to focus on that.”

Coach: Trebor HillSeniors: Wyatt Aviles, 5-10, g; Dalton Godfrey,

6-3, c; Dalton Stoner, 6-0, g-f.Juniors: Austin Arrison, 5-10, f; ALEX COPLEY,

5-10, g-f.Sophomores: Joey Bennett, 5-9, g; Tyler

Castleman, 5-10, g; Justin Harvill, 5-9, g; TreySharp, 6-1, g-f; Andy Walquist, 6-5, c.

Freshmen: Marky Marlatt, 5-10, g; MichaelSparks, 6-2, g-f; Blake Wright, 5-8, g.

Meridian

The Bobcats look to bethe team to beat once againin the SEC and look toduplicate last year’s suc-cess, where they lost in thesuper-sectional.

“We would like to be asgood,” said coach JeffMandrell. “We’re puttingthat out as a goal, advancefurther, talent, luck, and alot of other things need tofall into place.”

They are starting off onthe right foot, returningthree starters.

Coach: Jeff MandrellSeniors: CAMERON BALLARD, 5-10; David

Edwards, 6-1; JERRY JOHNSON, 6-4; JustinMcClellan, 6-4; Alonzo Madison, 5-10; DaMarkoRansom, 5-9; Erik Vasser, 5-11.

Juniors: Greg Hopkins, 5-11; JOSH JONES, 6-3;Jammerio Moore, 6-0.

Sophomores: Michael Schoffner, 6-0; MeekialSteele, 6-4.

Freshman: David Davis, 5-10.

ShawneeFirst-year coach

LaDonna Bachmann, whowas hired three weeksbefore the season, entersthis season with a lot ofdepth, as the Redskinshave 17 kids in the pro-gram.

“This is the beginningand I believe in workingthem on everything,”Bachmann said. “Defensewill win games andrebounds win champi-onships.”

Coach: LaDonna BachmannSeniors: Tyler Dillon, 5-11, f; ANDREW LIVESAY,

6-2, f; Gary Pind, 5-7, g; GAGE SHELTON, 5-5, g.Juniors: GAVYN ELLET, 5-9, f; Chris Jordan, 6-

0, f; Dalton Myers, 6-6, f; BRANDON PIND, 5-9, g;Logan Sissom, 5-7, g.

Sophomores: AIDEN MCMAHAN, 5-9, g;AUSTIN TREECE, 6-3, c.

Freshman: Jesse Ballance, 5-10, f; ElijahBoren, 5-6, f; Michael Crane, 5-6, g; Braden Mezo,5-10, f; Jayson Rose, 5-8, g; Jacob Sims, 5-9, f.

— Chuck Highland

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Boys: South Egyptian Girls: South Egyptian

GalatiaAfter struggling last sea-

son, Josh Summers is hop-ing his Galatia squad cancome around to a confer-ence championship.

“It’s going to be tough,”Summers said. “It’s a smallconference, though, so wehave a chance.”

Summers said the teammay see some early seasonstruggles, but he expects tosee improvement through-out the season.

“I’m expecting to losesome early and hopefullywin later in the year,”Summers said. “I have awhole bunch of girls thathave never played on theteam before.”

Coach: Josh SummersSeniors: Skai Tso, 5-8, c/f; Amber Stevens, 5-

6, g/f.Juniors: Tayler Sweet, 5-1, g.Sophomores: Emily Reed, 5-4, g; Kasey

Bowlin, 5-6, g/f; Madison Fletcher, 5-2 g; Seneca

Tso, 5-7, c/f; Evan Patterson 5-3, g.Freshmen: Christina Standridge, 5-5, c/f;

Brooke Sweet, 5-2, g; Elizabeth Sloan, 5-6, g/f.

Gallatin CountyGallatin County hopes to

stay on top this seasonafter going 15-15 last sea-son and winning a confer-ence and regional champi-onship.

Coach Chuck Ingramsaid right now the team’sbiggest goal is to play asone unit.

“Our biggest goal rightnow is to play together andreally work on the littlethings of the game likepick-and-roll and trying toanticipate where the ballis,” Ingram said. “The littletechnique things theydon’t understand yet.”

Returning to the startinglineup for Gallatin Countyis Casey Crissup, who isjust 36 points away from

joining the 1,000-pointclub.

Coach: Chuck IngramSeniors: CASEY CRISSUP, 5-3, g; Lanna

Walters.Juniors: Emily Logsdon, 5-7, f; Makenzie

Prince, Lexi Prince, 5-2, g; Kasey Speer, 5-3, g;Carrie Abell, 5-11, f.

Sophomores: Lacey Williford, Jessica Cox.Freshmen: Sydney Ahrens, Shay Wood,

Brooke Van, Kristin Jester, Hannah Logsdon.

Hardin CountyHardin County’s girls

basketball program returnsthis season after beingabsent last year.

Coach Drew Boehler saidit has not been easy gettingthe program going again.

“It’s been a rough startgetting everything organ-ized since they didn’t havea program in place,”Boehler said.

The team is trying to setrealistic goals for itselfearly in the year.

Carrier MillsAfter finishing third in

the Greater EgyptianConference last season,Carrier Mills has had trou-ble getting the necessaryearly season reps to preparefor a shot at a conferencechampionship this season.

Coach Mark Motsingersaid the Wildcats have beenwithout a practice facilityas repairs have been madeto the high school gym.

“We’ve been kind ofsplitting time with the vol-leyball and grade schoolbasketball team at the gradeschool,” Motsinger said.“We’re looking like weshould look in September.”

Coach: Mark MotsingerSeniors: GABE MORGAN, 6-5, f; Dathan Taborn,

5-7, g; Jordan Walker, 6-4, c\f; Colin Crim, 5-10, g;Clayton Stucker, 6-1, f; Eric Wolf, 5-8, g.

Juniors: Cameron Taborn, 6-2, f; Josh Bailey, 5-9, g.

Sophomores: Dalton Summers, 5-6, g.Freshmen: Gabriel Motsinger, 6-0, f;, Sladen

Figg, 5-9, g; Darrin Betz, 5-10, g.

Crab OrchardCrab Orchard comes into

the season as one of the twoheavy favorites in the con-ference.

Returning two of the con-ference’s best players, sen-ior point guard DrewJohnson and senior forwardBen Kissing, the Trojans arehoping to repeat as confer-ence champions after a 29-4 (14-0) season in 2010-11.

“We have good balance,”said coach Jon Brown. “Wehave perimeter players,we’ve got inside players. Wecan get up and down thefloor.”

Coach: Jon BrownSeniors: DREW JOHNSON, 5-10, g; COTY WECE,

5-8, g; BEN KISSING, 6-5, c, Hunter Arnold, 6-3, f.Juniors: Clint Emery, 5-9, f; Ty Bailey, 6-2, c;

Cody Marks, 5-11, f; Chase Craig, 6-3, f.Sophomores: Caleb Perry, 5-9, f; Tyler Deaton,

5-9, f; Josh Emery, 5-8, g; Zach Ray, 5-8, g.Freshmen: Colton McCree, 6-1, f; Gunnar

Galloway, 5-11, f; Travis Tarlton, 5-9, f; JonathanStephens, 5-10, f.

GalatiaEntering his first season

at Galatia, head coach

Kendall Hankins is fieldinga team that returns onestarter, Josh Moore, fromlast season’s 18-13 squad.

Despite the return of justone starter, six seniors willstep on the court to givesome veteran leadership toGalatia.

“I’m really hoping for theteam to really establish anunselfish style of basket-ball,” Hankins said.“They’re a very hardwork-ing group of boys that playthe right way.”

Coach: Kendall HankinsSeniors: JOSH MOORE, 6-3, f; Ben Genet, 6-0, f;

Nathan Teal, 5-10, g; Shay Flowers, 6-0, c; TravisBond, 6-10, g; Shannon Sanders, 6-3, f.

Sophomores: Adam Brothers, 5-6, g; BodieBeckman, 5-8, g; Brian Benham, 5-7, g; MichaelMondino, 5-11, f; Tyler Slone, 6-0, c; Zane Stanley, 5-7, g.

Freshman: John Simpson, 5-6, g.

Gallatin CountyGallatin County, return-

ing all five starters from lastseason, looks to be thebiggest threat to CrabOrchard repeating as con-ference champions.

Led by 6-foot-11 juniorcenter Andrew Drone, whoaveraged 18 points per gamelast season and is just 36points away from joiningthe 1,000 point club, and 6-foot-5 junior Patrick Lowe,who averaged 13 points pergame last season, theHawks are hoping to knockCrab Orchard off the top ofthe conference.

“We had a good summer,went to some camps andplayed well,” said coachRobert “Radar” Patton.

Coach: Robert PattonSeniors: Bryant Aud, 5-9, g; ANDREW COX, 6-2,

f; Drake Patton, 5-10, g.Juniors: DAINE HISH, 5-10, g; PATRICK LOWE, 6-

5, f; ANDREW DRONE, 6-11, c; Anthony Sorto, 5-10,g; Wes McGuire, 6-4, f.

Sophomores: Mitch Ramsey, 5-9, g; ZachMcGuire, 5-11, g; Austin Russell, 5-6, g; JaredJackson, 5-11, g.

Hardin CountyHardin County returns

four starters and six seniorsfrom a team that went 14-15last season and lost to

Gallatin County in theregional championship.

Coach Rodney Lane saidthe experience the teamgained last year should givethem a big boost this sea-son.

“They know the programmore this year,” Lane said.“These kids have workedreally hard over the summerand those four startersgained a lot of experiencebecause they started everygame last year.”

Coach: Rodney LaneSeniors: TONY PARKINSON, 5-9, f; Garrett Hays,

5-11, c; KYLE HOLLOMAN, 5-10, f; JOEMCCLENAHAN, 6-2, f; GARRETT FLEMMINGS, 5-10,g; Brandon Flemmings, 6-1, f.

Juniors: Dalton Vaughn, 5-10, g; SkylerWilliams, 5-11-f.

Sophomores: Garrett Walker, 5-7, g; JeremyHicks, 6-2, c.

Freshmen: Darrien Robinson, 5-8, g; B.J.Austin, 5-10, f; Tanner Dutton, 5-10, f; Logan Conn,5-4, g; Colton Winters, 5-8, f; Aaron Winters, 5-10, f.

NCOENorris City-Omaha-

Enfield, coming off an 11-15year, will be fielding ayoung team this season.

Coach Doug Miller saidthere are 27 kids in the pro-gram, but no seniors.

“We’ve been going two-a-days with just funda-mentals,” Miller said.“We’ve hit a lot of defenseand all the fundamentals.We’re just trying to figureout who we are right nowand what we have.”

Miller said Crab Orchardand Gallatin County wouldlikely be the frontrunners towin the conference.

Coach: Doug MillerJuniors: Colton Steyck, 5-10, f; Dylan Martin, 6-

0, g; Caleb Brown, 5-9, g; Luke Marsh, 5-10, g; JustinKnight, 6-1, f; Seth Halfacre, 6-6, c; Matt Frymire, 5-10, f.

Sophomores; Briar Short, 5-6, g; Jacob Taylor,5-10, g; Tyler Lamb, 6-0, g; Cole Tucker, 5-9, g;Dakota Wheeler, 5-11, f.

Freshmen: Blake Karnes, 5-11, g.

Pope CountyJim Simmons enters his

first year as head coach atPope County, hoping toturn around a team thatwent 2-22 last season.

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CairoKelly Shepard returns for

her third stint as coach ofthe Cairo Co-Pilots.

She takes over for JimDrew, who replacedShepard.

“We’re just trying to geta team that can be compet-itive,” she said. “We don’thave any size. We’ll have tobe more quick than any-thing.”

Two starters return inseniors Chalice Gardnerand Ortres Bridges.Inexperience will be anissue.

Coach: Kelly ShepardSeniors: ORTRES BRIDGES, 5-8, g; CHALICE

GARDNER, 5-4, g; Sara Moore, Portia Bondurant,Shaniqua Williams.

Juniors: Jaala Terry.Sophomores: Antwonishia Maborn, Alexus

Murden.Freshmen: Joyce Nelson, Korce Simelton,

Takeem Taylor, Heavonee Wells, Tyana Williams.

CarlyleA young and inexperi-

enced Lady Indians teamstruggled in a 4-21 cam-paign last year.

“We started four sopho-mores last year, and some-times five sophomores,”said coach Randy Voss.“We were real young. Wehad a great summer. Webuilt a little confidence. Itwill be nice to see us comeout and compete withsome of the teams we did-n’t have a chance with lastyear.”

Although still young,Carlyle does have someexperience.

Jessie Beckmann, a 5-10center, and SedreyanaHarris, a 5-9 forward, willbe third-year year startersthis year.

In addition, PaigeRakers, a 5-10 guard, isclosing in on 1,000 points.

Coach: Randy VossSeniors: Jenna Huels, 5-6, g; Cati Funderberk,

5-5, g; Courtney Kern, 5-8, g\f.Juniors: PAIGE RAKERS, 5-10, g; JESSIE

BECKMANN, 5-10, c; SEDREYANA HARRIS, 5-9, f;SARAH HAAKE, 5-10, g\f; Shaelyn Tate, 5-5, g.

Sophomores: Kylee Ledbetter, 5-5, g; BritlynTyberent, 5-9, f; Brianna Smith, 5-8, g\f; LoriWhisenand, 5-9, f; McKenzie Magnus, 5-11, c.

OkawvilleOkawville coach

Michelle Borianek hasthree starters returningfrom last year’s 12-15squad.

Returnees are seniorguard-forward HannaBergkoetter, a 5-10 seniorand junior guards MeganWienstroer and Jolyn Lake.

“I’m looking for a goodyear,” Borianek said.“We’re finally starting tocome together a little bit.Our schedule is tough.Hopefully, we can put on apressure defense and getthe ball down the floor.”

Two players likely to stepinto the starting lineup areJanel Lake, a 5-10 juniorforward, and AshleyGarlich, a 5-6 junior guard.Borianek said Bergkoetter,Wienstroer and Lake willbe counted on to do thebulk of the scoring.

Coach: Michelle BorianekSeniors: HANNA BERGKOETTER, 5-10, g/f.Juniors: MEGAN WIENSTROER, 5-7, g; JOLYN

LAKE, 5-5, g; Janel Lake, 5-10, f; Ashley Garlich, 5-6, g.

SteelevilleThe Lady Warriors fin-

ished 11-11 last year in justtheir second year of varsitycompetition.

Coach DarrylWinkelman has fourstarters returning fromthat squad.

Returnees include sen-iors Natalie Ruebke, a 5-7guard, and MorganLindner, a 5-7 forward, andjuniors Alex Gale, a 5-9forward and KasseeTheobald, a 5-5, g.However, Theobald is stillrecovering from off-sea-son hip surgery and will beout until January.

Sarah Potter, a 5-9,sophomore guard, isexpected to start.

“These girls have beenwith the program from thestart,” Winkelman said.“They’re got some experi-ence.

Coach: Darryl WinkelmanSeniors: NATALIE RUEBKE, 5-7, g; MORGAN

LINDNER, 5-7, f.Juniors: ALEX GALE, 5-9, f; KASSEE

THEOBALD, 5-5, g.Sophomores: Sarah Potter, 5-9, g.

WoodlawnThe Lady Cardinals fin-

ished 20-7 last year, bow-ing out of the state tourna-ment in first round sec-tional play.

Coach Eric Helbigreturns three experiencedplayers in Leah Sutton, a 5-8 senior guard, KinzieVerhines, a 5-7 senior for-ward, and Alexa Capps, a5-5 junior guard. However,no one else on the squadplayed minutes.

“Leah and Alexa wereboth All-South performerslast year,” Helbig said.“They’re two of the topguards in the area. We’regoing to depend on themfor the bulk of the scoringthis year. Kinzie is one ofthe best defenders in thearea. “

Other players likely tosee action are Megan Isaac,a 5-10 sophomore,Tiffanry Smith, a 5-7 sen-ior, Elesa Hefner, a 5-6junior, and AllisonEngland, a 5-6 sophomore.

“Isaac will do anadmirable job inside,”Helbig said. “We’ll counton her for a lot of boards.She’ll need some helpagainst some of the strongpost players we’ll see thisyear.

“Depth is really going tobe an issue with us thisyear. Some of the freshmencoming in are going to bethrown to the wolvesearly.”

Woodlawn competes inthe Midland TrailConference.

Coach: Eric HelbigSeniors: LEAH SUTTON, 5-8, g; KINZIE

VERHINES, 5-7, f; Tiffany Smith, 5-7, f.Juniors: ALEXA CAPPS, 5-5, g; Elesa Hefner, 5-

6, g.Sophomores: Allison England, 5-6, g; Megan

Isaac, 5-10, f.Freshman: Makaila Ballard, 5-8, c.

— Les Winkeler

CairoLarry Baldwin is back for

his second term as Cairocoach. He succeeds RichMcBride

Baldwin has two startersback in Jalen Childs, a 6-3senior forward and AllenCruthird, a 6-4 senior cen-ter. However, seven otherplayers saw action for thePilots last year. That groupincludes, Cori Williams, a5-8 senior, DevonteJohnson, a 5-10 junior,Darrell Jackson, a 5-5 sen-ior, Stevieon Houston, a 6-0, senior, Cordell Johnson, a6-4 junior, NekumaJohnson, a 6-2 senior andTerion Taylor, a 5-11 junior.

Two newcomers, Dour-njor McIntosh, a 6-4 sen-ior, and Floyd Johnson, a 5-8 junior, could also seeplaying time.

“I’m pretty upbeat aboutthem,” Baldwin said. “A lotof these kids can potentiallyplay.”

Coach: Larry BaldwinSeniors: JALEN CHILDS, 6-3, f; Allen Cruthird,

6-4, c; Cori Williams, 5-8, g; Darrell Jackson, 5-5, g;Stevieon Houston, 6-0, g; Cordell Johnson, 6-4, f;NeKuma Johnson, 6-2, f; Dournjor McIntosh, 6-4, f.

Juniors: Floyd Johnson, 5-8, g; DevonteJohnson, 5-10, g.

CarlyleThe Indians have virtual-

ly everyone back from ateam that finished 13-16last year.

Four starters return inJordan Smith, a 6-0 senior,Hunter Hartung, a 6-2 sen-ior, Cody Huels, a 6-0 jun-ior and 6-3 sophomoreMatt Hilmes.

However, coach AndyPalmer has more weaponsat his disposal. NathanMiller, a 6-4 junior,Karnealous Walker, a 6-0junior, Logan Zachry, a 5-11sophomore, and JohnBecker, a 6-2 sophomore,will also see plenty ofaction.

“I think we can run aneight-man rotation thatwill be solid,” Palmer said.“We don’t have great size,

but I think we’ll competepretty hard. We have somedecent quickness and Ithink we’ll shoot it prettywell too. All our so-calledbigs can step out on theperimeter.”

Coach: Andy PalmerSeniors: JORDAN SMITH, 6-0, g; HUNTER

HARTUNG, 6-2, f.Juniors: CODY HUELS, 6-0, g; Nathan Miller, 6-

4, f; Karnealous Walker, 6-0, g.Sophomores: MATT HILMES, 6-3, f; Logan

Zachry, 5-11, g; John Becker, 6-2, f.

OkawvilleJon Kraus’ Rockets will be

deep and experienced thisyear.

The Rockets finished 19-12 last year and return allfive starters, and a bevy ofplayers that have receivedextensive playing time.

Last year’s starters wereJeremy Weeke, a 6-2 junior,Taylor Walton, a 6-4 senior,Jacob Brammeier, a 5-9sophomore, RyanHoltgrave, a 6-2 senior andBrandon Buss, a 6-2 senior.However, Kraus said severalothers players could moveinto the starting lineup.

“We’ll play probably 12-13 kids,” Kraus said. “Wecould have a different start-ing lineup every night.”

Coach: Jon KrausSeniors: TAYLOR WALTON, 6-4, f; RYAN

HOLTGRAVE, 6-2, f; BRANDON BUSS, 6-2, f; AustinSchwankhaus, 5-9, g, Bryce Kolweier, 6-2, f; JaredBlumhorst, 6-2, f.

Juniors: JEREMY WEEKE, 6-2, g; ConnorObermeier, 5-10, g; Ryan Burrough, 6-0, g; JakeHensler, 6-2, f.

Sophomores: JACOB BRAMMEIER, 5-9, g; AlexRossel, 6-1, f.

SteelevilleCoach Gerald Mumbower

is starting from scratch thisseason. The Warriors lostthe top seven players fromlast year’s 21-11 team.

“For a school of 135 kids,you lose nine seniors, that’snot a good sign,” Mum-bower said. “We’re defi-nitely rebuilding.”

There are eight playersvying for playing time,including seniors JacobCombs, 5-10, and JeffWilson, 6-5; juniors Darin

Winkelman, 6-5, ReidWilson, 6-3, DylanWesbecher, 6-1; sopho-mores Steve Uchtman, 6-1,Kyle Smith, 5-9, and A.J.Jeffers, 5-10.

Coach: Gerald MumbowerSeniors: Jacob Combs, 5-10, g; Jeff Wilson, 6-5,

f.Juniors: Darin Winkelman, 6-5, f; Reid Wilson,

6-3, g\f; Dylan Wesbecher, 6-1, g.Sophomores: Steve Uchtman, 6-1, g; Kyle

Smith, 5-9, g; A.J. Jeffers, 5-10, g.

WaltonvilleSecond-year coach Chad

Harper has two playersreturning from last year’s9-18 squad.

Juniors Trey Witges, a 6-2guard and Jordan Hale, a 6-5 forward, both started lastyear.

“It was a growth experi-ence,” he said. “We hadsome of these young guyshaving to move into varsityroles.”

Coach: Chad HarperSeniors: Levi Rapp, 5-10, f; Jake Phillips, 5-8, g;

Dan Halleran, 6-1, c.Juniors: TREY WITGES, 6-2, g; JORDAN HALE, 6-

5, f; Derrick Whisenant, 6-1, g; Matt Rogers, 6-1, f.Sophomores: Hunter Coggins, 5-9, g; Austin

Zahn, 6-3, c.

WoodlawnShane Witzel has three

starters returning from lastseason’s Class A third placesquad. The Cardinals com-piled a 30-4 mark last year.

The returnees include 6-4 senior ChristianHollenkamp, 6-5 juniorGabe Owens and 5-11 seniorA.J. Webb. Logan Isaak, a6-1, junior, saw consider-able action off the benchlast year.

“The three starters andIsaak had a lot of experiencein big games last year in ourrun to the state finals,”Witzel said. “We lost tworeally good players, but it’s agood base to build on.”

Coach: Shane WitzelSeniors: CHRISTIAN HOLLENKAMP, 6-4, f; A.J.

WEBB, 5-11, g.Juniors: GABE OWENS, 6-5, g; Logan Isaak, 6-1,

f; Matt Kennedy, 6-0, g.Sophomores: Jason Hapeman, 5-11, g; Jake

Robinson, 6-2, g.

— Les Winkeler

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Simmons said he is try-ing to figure out what styleof basketball fits his team.

“I’m going to do what-ever it takes to win,”Simmons said. “Whetherit’s an up-tempo type ofgame or if it’s to control theclock and get the selectedshot you want. I’ve playedboth ways. I’m just tryingto pick that way right now.”

Simmons said he has twoseniors returning this sea-son, along with a group ofjuniors to fill out the squad.

He said his biggest goal thisseason is to see improve-ment from the team.

Coach: Jim SimmonsSeniors: Timmy Broadway, 5-10, g/f; Tevis

Sandefur, 6-0, fJuniors: Adam Schuchardt, 5-9, g; Austin

Ferrell, 5-10, g; Bruce Dunlap, 5-10, g; Kyle Wise, 5-8, g; Corey Rison, 6-2, f; Tyler Thompson, 5-10, g;Dallas Cockrum, 6-0, f/c; Deandre Barnes, 6-3, c

Sophomores: J.D. Ward, 5-11, g;Freshmen: Jordan Worthen, 5-11, f; Douglas

Ferguson, 6-3, c; Steve Buxton, 5-9, g; Zach Hicks,5-8, g; Seth Simmons, 6-0, f

ThompsonvilleAfter winning just six

games last season, NealMezo will lead aThompsonville team heavy

on youth.He said his starting line-

up would likely consist ofBrady Householder, a jun-ior, with four sophomores.

“We’re young, veryyoung,” Mezo said.“They’re actually prettyintelligent basketball wise,so they pick up on thingsquite a bit.”

Coach: Neal MezoJuniors: Brady Householder; Shane McRoy;

Derek Harrison; Zach Baker; Travis Parkhill;Brendan Clark.

Sophomores: Jake Williams; Lance Darnell;Ryan Darnell; Quentin Henson; Keifer Payne; TylerParkhill; Tate Kerley.

Freshmen: Jarret Murphy; Kodey Costello.

— Stile Smith

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“We’re trying not to setour hopes too high becausewe realize we’re coming upagainst a lot,” Boehler said.“Our biggest goals are tocompete in every game andnot give up. We want to becompetitive.”

Boehler said the team has11 girls out this year, someof who have never playedbefore.

“It’s been a lot of shakingthe dust off,” Boehler said.

Coach: Drew Boehler

Seniors: Leah Patton; Lauryn Patton.Juniors: Kylie Jones; Danielle Davis; Breuna

KumorekSophomores: Brenda Roberts; Amy Winters;

Teri WintersFreshmen: Jasie Owen; Jayci Vaughn; Carley

Hall.

Pope CountyLast season, Pope

County went 12-14, win-ning the regular seasonGEC title and finishingsecond in the conferencetournament.

Head coach Jessi Hall haseveryone returning fromthat squad

“We’re looking pretty

good,” Hall said. “I didn’tlose anyone from last yearand I got a pretty goodfreshman group.

The team is trying to geteverything organized andshe is trying to get her teamto play together. Hall saidthe biggest thing she wantsto see from her team is foreach girl to give her all.

Coach: Jessi HallSeniors: Ashley Morris, f; Sarah Ferguson, c;

Jaclyn Kingsley, g.Juniors: Sammie Valestin, f; Sarah Maynor, g.Sophomores: Tori Vaughn, g; Jessica Morris,

f; MacKenzie Schutt, g, Brittany Noel, g.Freshman: Emily Powles, g.

— Stile Smith

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Belleville AlthoffAfter winning its first

South Seven title two yearsago, the Belleville AlthoffCrusaders took a step backlast year, falling to a tie forfourth at 3-7 and 11-18overall.

“We’ve only had a coupleof losing seasons in the last14 years and last year wasone of them,” said coachGreg Leib. “This year, I feelwe’re going to be verycompetitive.”

Leib has only one starterback in point guard Eldin

Salmond and two reserves,Caleb Harms and ErikFurmanek, with any sig-nificant experience.

Coach: Greg LeibSeniors: ELDON SALMOND, 5-10, g; Caleb

Harms,6-3, f; Austin Von Alst, 5-10, g; AlexSandheinrich, 5-9, g; Nesh Quarles, 6-3, f; CaylinRaftopolis, 5-8, g.

Juniors: Erik Furmanek, 6-4, f; Ryan Marcum,6-3, f.

Sophomores: Jabari Taylor, 6-1, g; KevinRenner, 5-10, g.

CahokiaWith most of last year’s

lineup in tact, the Com-anches (17-15) are in a posi-tion to make a run at theSouth Seven after finishingthird.

“We’re still young, butwe’re not young,” saidcoach Darian Nash. “I’vegot a lot of good playerscoming back and, I’m notkidding, all 11 could starton somebody’s team.”

Nash returns honorablemention All-State juniorKeenan Minor, DerenzoJennings, Carleton Riversand Traveyon Smoot.

Coach: Darian NashSeniors: TRAVEYON SMOOT, 6-8, c/f; Andrew

Tucker, 6-1, g; Tyrone Golliday, 6-5, c/f; DevontaeGines, 6-6, f/c; Devon Hayes, 6-2, g.

Juniors: KEENAN MINOR, 6-2, g; DERENZOJENNINGS, 5-10, g; Vincent Jackson, 6-6, f/c.

Sophomores: CARLETON RIVERS, 6-3, g;Darius Austin, 6-6, g/f; Gary Hickman, 6-4, g/f.

— Geary Deniston

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SOUTH SEVEN: Boys basketball preview

GEC GIRLS: A look at the conference

GEC BOYS: Check out what’s in store this year

BY SCOTT MEESTHE SOUTHERN

The Illinois High School Association’snew classification and multiplier waiverpolicies went into effect for the 2011-12school year. And, those changes will havea pronounced affect on two programs.

The organization thought the imbal-anced number of schools in each classcalled for a change. The IHSA also waivedthe multiplier for non-boundary schoolsthat haven’t had success in the past.

Trico would have been a heavy favoriteto advance to the boys state tournamentin Class 1A, but the Pioneers have beenbumped up to 2A.

The cutoff for Class 1A is now 275 stu-dents. Trico comes in at 283 for thisschool year, which makes it one of thesmallest Class 2A schools in the state.

“We haven’t looked it that way as farwas what would’ve happened in 1A, andour approach is still the same,” said Tricocoach Shane Hawkins. “We’ll prepare allseason and hopefully we’ll be playing ourbest basketball in February. It doesn’treally matter who is on the other side ofthe court.”

Hawkins is obviously being diplomaticand trying not to complain. But having tobeat the likes of Harrisburg and BreeseCentral in a deep 2A postseason run isquite a bit different than trying to knockoff Woodlawn or Crab Orchard in 1A.

“I never envisioned the smallest classbeing down to 275 students,” Hawkinssaid. “I’ve been watching high school ath-letics all my life and I couldn’t believe it. Inever saw this coming.”

The Herrin Tigers are in the same boat.The team will move up from Class 2A to3A this season in basketball. Irv Lukens,who coaches the Herrin boys, dealt withthe issue as Herrin’s volleyball coach.

Lukens’ volleyball team won its Class3A regional, and his basketball squadfaces the same challenge.

“We were very surprised that this hap-pened, and I didn’t even know it was in

the works,” Lukens said. “If this is going tocontinue we’ll have to modify our sched-ule a little bit.”

Herrin, which has an enrollment of694, now could face schools with up to1,580 in the postseason. The Tigers, whoplay in the SIRR Ohio, will basically entera South Seven Conference tournament inthe regional with the likes of Carbondale,Marion and Mount Vernon.

“I don’t plan on going to the Bellevillearea or anything like that for regular sea-son games, but who knows,” Lukens said.“We already play Marion and MountVernon in the Pyramid Tournament, andwe may have to try and add Carbondale toour regular season schedule in the future.”

Lukens does think his basketball teamcan compete at the 3A level, but hebelieves it could be really difficult.

“It will be exciting for sure, and we’lljust have to try to beat the team they putin front of us,” Lukens said. “It mightbecome hard to win year in and year out.When you have to play schools withpotentially 1,000 more students yourchances go down.”

However, both Herrin and especiallyTrico are close to dropping back down aclass. So things could turn out differentlyfrom year to year depending on the size ofeach school’s incoming freshmen class.

“There are all the 3A private schoolsthat have not had success and now theydon’t have to use the multiplier,” Hawkinssaid. “That will throw a wrinkle in it everyyear based on how they do. You get a cou-ple 3A or even 2A private schools that winand they can adjust it every year.”

scott.mees@thesouthern.com / 618-351-5086

THE SOUTHERN FILE PHOTOTrico’s Chase Heins looks for the basketwhile being guarded by Carbondale’sArtemus Burnett at the SIOC/CarbondaleHoliday Tournament in SIU Arena.

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