St. Anthony Basketball still going on

Everyone thinks that the basketball season is over--that is not the case. While the varsity's team ended when they lost a thriller to T-Town last Friday, the sophomore's season is still going on. When I tell people this, I usually get the response, "What? Why? That's stupid." I think I finally figured out why, too.

To my best knowledge, the sophomore team has never gone later in the season than the varsity team; but, this year that changed when Coach Palmer (KP) scheduled the team a tournament down in Murphysboro (just outside of Carbondale). Which brings out another question, "why so far away?" Well, this is the only sophomore tournament going on right now. The team currently has one win and one loss in the tournament and, since the 16-team tournament is double-elimination, we play again on Saturday at 11:30 against Breese Central. If we win then, we play for the consolation championship.

Last Saturday, we played Du Quion and lost to them by 9 despite having to leave by 7:15 in the morning and they even had their varsity center playing for them. On Monday (yes on Casmir Pulaski Day), we beat Nashville thanks to an 18-point game by Mitchell Dust and Stellar D in the first half (they scored only 2 points for the first 14 minutes of the game).

Since I mentioned the good parts of that game I must also admit that we let up 45 points in the second half and committed 10 turnovers that half too. So, if you have nothing better to do on Saturday and want to drive 2 hours to watch a basketball game, then come cheer on your sophomore basketball team down in Murphysboro.