Carlinville Holiday tourney preview
The Carlinville girls tourney is run in conjunction with the boys event, which enters its 53rd year. The 8 teams are split into two pools, the green and red. The two pool winners will face off Saturday night at 6…
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Continue ReadingThe Carlinville girls tourney is run in conjunction with the boys event, which enters its 53rd year. The 8 teams are split into two pools, the green and red. The two pool winners will face off Saturday night at 6 for the championship.
Top seeded Carlinville heads the green pool. They will face 4th seeded South County along with Litchfield and Bunker Hill. Litchfield comes in at 4-8 which Bunker Hill is winless at 0-8. The red pool consists of 2 seed Staunton along with 3 seed Greenfield. Rounding out the red pool are Gillespie and Nokomis. Gillespie comes in 4-8 and Nokomis is 1-15.
It would appear most likely that the two top seeds will be able to win their pools and set up a good championship game. Carlinville is 9-1 with a narrow loss to Hillsboro and Staunton is 11-3. Staunton lost their first two games to Greenfield and Wesclin. Since then they are 11-1 with only a loss to Hillsboro in that span. It should be a clash of styles if this matchup comes to happen as Carlinville tends to like to play fast and Staunton does not. Staunton features 6’2 post player Abby Scanzoni and would like to slow the pace to keep her on the floor longer and get the ball in the post. Carlinville and their senior leader Rachel Olroyd want to speed you up and run the floor. Carlinville and Staunton both have balanced attacks with 3-4 players capable of scoring.
Top prospects to watch for include:
- Rachel Olroyd Carlinville 2019 guard
- Jill Stayton Carlinville 2022 guard
- Abby Scanzoni Staunton 2019 post
- Savannah Bruhn Staunton 2019 guard
- Rylee Jarman Gillespie 2019 forward
- McKenzy Mix Gillespie 2020 forward
- Sydney Bires Gillespie 2021 post
- Corinne Stewart Carlinville 2020 guard
- Gracie Reels Carlinville 2021 guard
- Becky Painter Litchfield 2021 wing
- Madison Diamond Litchfield 2021 guard
- Alex Pohlman Greenfield 2022 wing
- Caitlyn Braker South County 2019 guard
The pool play will likely have some one sided games. There will certainly be a few interesting matchups to see which teams finish second and third in the pools. It appears very likely that we will see Carlinville try to defend their home court against Staunton in the championship game.