In a season full of signature wins, the St. Joseph-Ogden High School girls’ basketball team delivered another one on Monday night.
And it was a historic one, too.
The Spartans defeated Chicago Christian 58-35 to win the Class 2A Pontiac Super-Sectional, clinching the program’s second-ever trip to the state tournament, but also securing the program’s first-ever state trophy in the process.
The 2006-07 team advanced to the state quarterfinals in Class A during the last year of the two-class
The 2018-19 team will come home with no worse than a fourth-place trophy once the season concludes on Saturday night.
SJO (28-4) faces Teutopolis (31-4) in a state semifinal game at 7:15 p.m. on Friday night at Redbird Arena in Normal. Chicago Marshall (26-8) plays Hillsboro (30-5) in the first state semifinal game at 5:30 p.m. on Friday. The third-place game is set for 5:30 p.m. on Saturday, with the state championship game at 7:15 p.m. on Saturday.
SJO rode the efforts of seniors Bree Trimble and Peyton Crowe on Monday night in Pontiac to seal the historic win.
Trimble dropped in a game-high 26 points, while Crowe tallied 12 points to complement Trimble’s big night. SJO led 12-10 at the end of the first quarter and 25-18 at halftime before expanding its lead to 42-27 to start the fourth quarter.
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SJO will face Teutopolis for the second time this season after the Wooden Shoes handed the Spartans their first defeat of the season, with Teutopolis winning 72-39 on its home court on Dec. 6. But since the Spartans lost 50-46 to Kankakee Bishop McNamara on Dec. 29 in the third-place game of the small-school State Farm Holiday Classic, second-year coach Kevin Taylor’s program has won 15 straight games.
On Friday, they’ll get another chance to not only add to that win
*Photo credit to Julie Trimble.
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